Music cues in Star Trek episode The Omega Glory

As part of some comments on an Onion AV Club column, here are some notes on the music cues in the Star Trek episode The Omega Glory. I just did this by ear, so there are bound to be mistakes, plus some I missed.

Teaser

• The intro is a flyby from the Doomsday Machine. It's either the one played on the return from commercial after Decker is killed (the original cue goes on a little after the fanfare, to Sulu discovering the power drain); or it's the one played just after Decker steals the shuttlecraft.

• Then into some "zaps" from the Charlie X score; even a zap as Sulu's Viewmaster deploys. Why do we need a dramatic sting there? Charlie X was a season one episode, so there shouldn't be any music from it in a season two episode. But several cues were re-arranged as library cues for use thruout the series, and the zaps were among them.
(see pgs 54-5 of the Jeff Bond book)

• Then a high-drama cue from the Corbomite Maneuver as Kirk says "magnification 3" and we see the Exeter. Another season 1 episode, and this is not listed as a library cue. However, I think Steiner may have re-used this in the Who Mourns For Adonais score, so it would qualify as season 2 music

• No music for most of the scenes on the Exeter, then the teaser closes with a high-drama blast that I've heard a thousand times, but can't place.


Body of episode

• When McCoy gives the revelation on the Exeter about the crystals, the music playing is the styrofoam effect from By Any Other Name.

• Tracy's first appearance is to a fanfare from Amok Time. It's a clip just a second or two long, from the famous battle music. Does this hint that Kirk is going to fight Tracy later on? The battle music will reappear then.

• When Tracy says "Lock up the savages" and talks about the hordes of Yangs, the music is from the Mirror Mirror score. That theme is itself adapted from Steiner's theme for the Romulans from Balance of Terror, so it's originally music from season 1.

• Under Kirk's voice over about the Prime Directive, the music is from Doomsday Machine, from the sequence of Kirk & McCoy & Decker talking on board the Constellation.

• When Spock busts thru the door with the wounded crewman, the music is Rok's theme from What Are Little Girls Made of, a season 1 episode. The cue is listed as a library cue ("Ruk Attacks"), so I guess it can be used thruout the series.

• Mirror Mirror when Tracy phasers the crew, and thru the Coms stripping the communicators and phasers. Remember the MM theme is originally from season 1's Balance of Terror.

• Charlie X zaps when Kirk lunges for communicator, all the way thru Kirk's tripping the guard and Tracy coming in to break it up.

• Under the line "Wu is 462 years old", I think that's from Amok Time.

• Kirk's fight with Tracy: this music is "Fight On Captain's Theme", which is a library cue by Alexander Courage. Jeff Bond writes that it's adapted from two cues "Power Mad" and "Situation Grave" which make the music under Kirk's fight with Gary Mitchell in Where No Man Has Gone Before; and that the cue first appears in Wolf In The Fold, not sure where. You can also hear this cue in Journey To Babel, when Kirk fights the Andorian with the knife.

• Definitely the Amok Time battle music in the jail cell, Kirk vs Cloud William. After Spock nerve pinches the girl, there's another cue that plays under "Shame you can't reach me that / I have tried Captain" which I don't recognize.

• When the girl serves McCoy food, I think that cue is from Friday's Child.

• "Freedom? It is our worship word. You will not speak it." The music under is from Doomsday Machine, scenes on Constellation with Kirk & McCoy & Decker. Various Doomsday Machine cues all thru here, until they wrench out the cell window bars. A different cue after Cloud William knocks out Kirk, I don't recognize it.

• When Kirk & Spock spot the keys on the floor of the jail, I think that cue is from Catspaw.

• When Tracy phasers the computer Spock is working on, with the line "No messages", that's a Charlie X zap. Then one of my favorite Star Trek cues of all time, also a 'zap' from the Charlie X score, under Tracy's monologue "They came, and they came. We killed thousands and they still came." This cue is a piece of music that sort of sits quietly, and then there's a skirling up the scale from woodwinds or something, and back down the scale. Then a quiet chord, and then the skirling repeats. I'm not describing this well; but I love this cue. It originally appears in the Charlie X score, in the scene in Yeoman Rand's cabin, after Charlie has disappeared her, and he's knocked down Kirk and Spock. (Kirk tells Charlie, "You need me and I need him.")

• Tracy chases Kirk thru the village, phasers the barrell etc, to music from Friday's Child.

• When Cloud William looks up the devil in his book, that's Doomsday Machine again, from the scene where Decker takes command. Fades directly into music from Mirror Mirror, then a Charlie X zap for the line "Spock has no heart" stuff. The sequence ends with another cue that I can't place.

• More Doomsday Machine as Cloud William reads out the greatest of holies, for Kirk to pick up and finish. "E plegnista" etc. Cuts to another cue as they say "It is written, good shall always destroy evil", that I can't place.

• Amok Time battle music again, for Kirk vs Tracy. One neat thing they do here is they overdub an additional cue from Amok Time, as Spock makes his mental suggestion and the girl opens the communicator. So they are mixing 2 Amok Time cues at once. Seriously, whoever mixed the music for this episode, they may have gone a little crazy about what music to use, but they had skillz.

• Sulu beams down to the Doomsday Machine transporter theme, I think the end one where Kirk returns to the Enterprise.