A bit of trivia: Star Trek: First Contact is the only Star Trek movie or TV episode where a character actually says the term "star trek". Zephram Cochrane is the one who said it.

Thank you, Jerry Goldsmith, for giving us one of the most iconic musical pieces in all of cinema.

Rip Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner the Men who gave Us Incredible Movie and Television Theme Songs you will be missed 🖖

My mother truly believed that a day will come when we travel the stars and go on such amazing adventures. Unfortunately she suffered Demetia and advanced Alzheimer's disease in the last two years of her life. She died in '97 after First Contact came out but never got to see it as she was too sick. I hope some day her vision comes true and we travel the stars as I am sure she does now.

My favourite Star Trek film of all times and loved the music. Can't believe it was 25 years ago I first saw this at the cinema . Where has it gone.😊

So happy they used parts of this on the first episode of Picard's final season!!!

If there were a hall of fame for movie and tv composers, Jerry Goldsmith would absolutely have to be in it.

The central slow section is definitely one of the best Star Trek theme ever composed : simple (melody and harmonic progression), fragile, nostalgic, powerful and majestic at the same time ! Goldsmith at its finest

No one quite wrote themes like Jerry Goldsmith.

Allow me a moment to explain why this is my favourite Trek movie. I think that, out of all the movies, all the shows, this one best represents the franchise as a whole. Look at the movie and examine it. It can be dark, it can be funny, it can be scary, it can be emotional and thought provoking, it can be thrilling and exciting. And that's why this is my favourite Trek movie - it encapsulates everything I love about Star Trek into one neat little package, serving as a microcosm of the franchise as a whole. And that's why I love First Contact!

When they pan out from the Vulcans and the humans listening to Roy Oberson and the theme plays... It always gives me goosebumps

What a fantastic piece of music.

Brought tears to my eyes when hearing this at the end of S3E1 of ST:PICARD. Saw this in cinema when it came out. 25 years ago. Damn, how time flies by...

Jerry Goldsmith doing the score for First Contact really felt like it had come full-circle, from his original The Motion Picture theme being used as the theme for the Next Generation. I am so happy he stayed right up to Nemesis.

Ive always loved classical music, and love how the film score keeps it alive!

I got to shake Goldsmith's hand backstage in Nov, 1983. A happy memory.

always brings me to tears

Jerry Goldsmith was a musical genius.

Best of the star trek themes

I hope humanity can embark on a real star trek soon.

Modern composers take note - THIS is how you do it.

...bet PICARD brought you all here in 2023. One of the best Star Trek themes ever is getting a well deserved encore, encore!!! For Annie

What I probably love most about this theme is that it was originally associated with the original series crew. I see it as truly a theme representing ALL of Star Trek-all that humanity, all that consciousness and sentience is capable of achieving.

Jerry Goldsmith's music scores are the best

There is only one way to describe this music.....HOPE.

I love that this has just become the primary leitmotif of Picard. Is it because of the relevant subject matter? Who knows, but of all the movie themes, they picked the best one.

Jerry Goldsmith is surely a gifted composer. The theme beginning at 1:40 is especially beautiful.

Just a brilliant piece of music

A film as great as this needed a soundtrack to match it...and trust the late great Jerry Goldsmith to come up with the goods. One of his finest Star Trek scores.

I remember hoping they’d use the TNG theme when I saw this in the theater. They didn’t use it in Generations at all. I thought, “NextGen hit a home run of a movie. They deserve their theme song.” Then this started and not only was it THEIR theme, but the best version of it ever recorded. :)

Happy FIRST CONTACT DAY ! Today is April 5, 2021 countdown to 2063 still 42 years off and we're getting close. Live Long and Prosper! 🖖

I hope we get to see our own "First Contact" in this century before 2063, finally paving the way for Human Stellar Exploration and beyond using a fully equipped hyper drive starship. 😀

This is the best End Credits I've heard from Star Trek movie, which gives me hope for a brighter and STELLAR future, where one day Mankind will finally explore the stars. Space: the Final Frontier. 😂

The really soft slow part before it kicks back into high gear should be used in the Picard Finale

One of the few movies where I actually stayed to see the end credits, all because of the music :)

I look at life as a journey, each day as an adventure/situation, exploring life, meeting other people, places. My own "Trek" through life.

Star Trek fans in tears 😥 after listening to the theme in Season 3 of Star Trek Picard episode 1.

Without a doubt in my mind, the greatest theme and soundtrack from the greatest of all Star Trek movies. The music fits the comparison of Cap. Picard to Cap. Ahab, both seeking revenge for being hurt, despite the former claiming he is not seeking revenge, but trying to defeat the enemy. Also, that achieving warp speed would start a new era of peace and exploration.

0:00 This is where the fun begins...

1:40 just gets me every damn time.

What a beautiful melody, glad it's back

Here's my interpretation of each movement of this piece of Star Trek music by Jerry Goldsmith: 1. 0:00-1:18. In the 23rd Century A.D., interstellar space travel is a bold and exciting reality--owing to the beloved starship Enterprise--producing unending benefits from the exchange of products and ideas with alien civilizations. 2. 1:19-1:40. However, life wasn't always like this. 3. 1:41-2:38. Think back to the dawn of the warp-engine era, after the devastation of World III, when all of humanity faced starvation, disease, and possible extinction. 4. 1:41-2:38. Nevertheless, a handful of poverty-stricken but courageous survivors labored at a former missile silo, to create history's first warp-capable engine, and free humanity to travel among the stars. 5. 2:39-3:10. We hear, "Six hundred million dead," in some of the melody's mournful notes--emphasizing that the warp-engine project was not guaranteed to succeed, and that humanity itself was not guaranteed to survive. 6. 3:11-4:10. But the first warp-engine test succeeds, attracting the notice of an alien survey-ship. The aliens land at the test-site and make First Contact, commencing a new era of peace and prosperity. 7. 4:11-4:38. Fast-forward to the future, where that early First Contact has led to the eradication of hunger, poverty, and war, all replaced by education, health, wealth, and incredible adventures. 8. 4:39-5:23. And note that humanity is not finished--greater endeavors, greater achievements, greater triumphs await us, because of our invincible intelligence, empathy, sensitivity, power, and courage.

At the end of Picard Season 3 all things come together and this music matched perfect.

This Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack in my opinion is the crowning musical theme of the Star Trek franchise!!

Always liked this version of the theme - all the extra in between, how much more orchestrated First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis brings the TNG theme updated to sound!

"As we look out into the future, filled with possibilities, and back at our past, we must always acknowledge those who have been by our sides, through thick and thin, peril and peace... Not a thing, or a place, but an idea, that we can live together, and explore the vastness that is space, not only out here among the stars, but inside ourselves, seeking the meaning to questions yet unasked, finding peace in the answers not yet given. " Live long and prosper.

Love the TNG theme but @1:20 onwards really hits you in the feels

Picard Season 3 was the best season, and including this score certainly helped.

4:10 I love the Drum re-intro.

1:40 We taking the first to the last small steps into the New Frontier

I can actually smell the movie theatre popcorn. Oh what a rush of nostalgia this piece of music brings. Captain John Luke Picard was a BOSS, and I miss DATA :****)

Say what you will about First Contact. That it is action schlock or doesnt fit the tone of the TNG show, but the last shot of the film with the Vulcans and Zephram Cochrane that pans up towards the stars always gives me chills.

I still love listening to the Star Trek Next Generation Theme. The new movie series doesn't even compare.

Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Ennio Morriconne, John Barry, Vangelis... The great composers of cinema, unfortunately, are all leaving.😔

Sci-fi at the pops. This song will be played in concert at the Arlene Schnitzer concert hall on 4-27-2019 and 4-28

Trombone player gets really excited at 4:20.

On April 4, 2022, I gave my like to this video that belongs to the most extraordinary and inspiring music track created by Jerry Goldsmith.

Never forget star Trek 👍👍👍👍👍

One of the 100 best movies of all time.

end credits - 3.00 goosebumps!

Those were the beautiful days when film music had melodies....

this version and tng version are my favorites like the original in the motion picture and also gotta love the wrath of kahn soundtrack too

My first star trek movie i actively looked in a cinema. Every time i hear this wonderful piece of music, i feel like the 12 year old boy i was there, amazed by this absolutely outstanding soundtrack. Only the themes of star trek II or VI are nearly so genius composed and performed.

This is the best End Credits I've heard from Star Trek movie, which gives me hope for a brighter and STELLAR future, where one day Mankind will finally deep explore the stars. Looking forward be a part of that Journey. Space: the Final Frontier. 😂

The times the credits where short and compact because they didn’t need to include 10 different CGI studios. Trek today feels like ferengi took over the production.

It was lovely hearing this track in the Lower Decks season 3 premier.

Worf steals the show in this movie.

Data is my favorite character on TNG, Spock on TOS, Sisko on DS9, Seven on Voyager, Archer on Enterprise.

1:40 onward is the nostalgic part.

Jerry Goldsmith defined the movie music to Star Trek. In my opinion, the short list of the best end credits music by Jerry Goldsmith to a Star Trek movie: 1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture 2. Star Trek: First Contact 3. Star Trek: Nemesis 4. Star Trek: Insurrection 5. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier To be totally honest, all five of Jerry Goldsmith's music to the end credits of the five Star Trek movies are ranked #1 in my mind.

amazing movie and the music is just wow

Picard is back!

Aun hoy silbo esta cancion 1:40....saludos desde Argentina

Ich liebe Star Trek Filmen

Jerry Goldsmith was an Icon a true music genius! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thank you for this masterpiece Mr. Goldsmith. Live long and prosper 🖖🏻

space the final frontier... These are the voyages of the starship enterprise its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds seek out new life and to boldly go where no one has gon before TNG theme plays in the background

I can still picture either a Constitution class refit or Sovereign class.

The 3:12 mark gets me every time.

This music says star trek to me. The new stuff doesn't touch the genuine article. I could listen this all day, the feeling and emotion never wanes

Yes...next generation is classic..bueatyful music...

Makes me so sad how much Star Trek changed from this movie, the last great trek.

Amazing, JG you are missed

They should have some of the TNG writers come back and help finish the story. Send off the characters. All Ive wanted to know since Picard came back is what is up with his old crew.

4:16 Boimler: "IT'S THE TITAN!!!" Pakled: "Oh no, it's another Enterprise!" Waited 18 years to see the USS Titan, and she did not disappoint. :)

been listening to the soundtracks of all the trek movies recently and I have somehow found a new appreciation of them due to this. It's been kind of like an epiphany but not. I just see them differently now. Loved them before love them even more now

The song makes me tear up for some reason

"An explosive space adventure!" When cast member Jonathan Frakes directed this, No one expected it to be a big success! With "State of the art" special effects, Amazing strong performances, Receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Makeup, And by reworking his classic theme into a more romantic and patriotic ballad, Jerry Goldsmith's score for "First Contact" might be the best thing he's ever done! And that's saying something! The goosebump inducing theme swells during all the best moments, and remains my favourite work from the late film composer! And, extra points to his son Joel Goldsmith who helped him create some new themes! This is Star Trek at it's best, a thrilling and rewatchable film all Trekkie fans need to see! 9.5/10

The greatest Star Trek show only managed to produce one good movie out of four, this one. Yet the other 3 films are still miles better than the crappy ones that have been produced recently, shows you how far the brand has devolved in the new millenium :(

Would be nice to hear a reorganized version to match the scene of the Titan rescuing the Cerritos

This is some of the best music to exist

Hearing this in Lower Decks was a treat.

Musical speach intro speechless language

Room-shaking musical thunder!

The greatest Star Trek Soundtrack of all time

Can't beat that!

Best star trek first contact theme of all time

We all meet at April 5th 2063 in Bozeman, Montana 🙂

This is the Star Trek theme. To me, its just as recognizable and powerful as the Star Wars theme. You cant make a reboot like JJ Abrams and company tried to do without the Star Trek theme.

That French horn 4:13