Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage
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Back in January, a production group called CineConcerts launched a commemoration to science fiction’s greatest 50-year-old franchise, Star Trek. CineConcerts has been around for a while, pairing visual media from film and TV with a live symphony orchestra to allow concert goers to experience well-known scenes from their favorite shows with a more music-forward approach. With the Star Trek franchise, CineConcerts will play some of the series’ best-known musical themes. And the group will project montages from well-known parts of Star Trek movies and TV shows or individual scenes from the TV shows on a big-screen timed precisely to specific musical cues.
The tour has a little over a month left in its run and a couple dozen more cities to hit, including Los Angeles, Rapid City, South Dakota, and Paris, France. Before the commemoration draws to a close, Ars caught up with Brady Beaubien, a producer and writer for the Star Trek concert tour (called "The Ultimate Voyage"). Beaubien is also a co-founder of the CineConcerts group, which has produced similar live symphony orchestra concerts focusing on films like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Gladiator, The Godfather, It’s A Wonderful Life, and A Christmas Dream.
Beaubien said he was attracted to the Star Trek project because he grew up watching The Next Generation. "I’ve always been a huge Star Trek fan. It’s had a profound affect on my intellectual development and enhanced my traditional education,” he told Ars. “When we started talking to Paramount about creating a special experience [to celebrate Star Trek’s 50th anniversary], this seemed like a wonderful way to give people a new way to experience it. It seemed like the model that we had developed with CineConcerts was uniquely suited [to the franchise].”
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