I did this arrangement the day after visiting some friends at ILM who were working on Abrams’ Star Trek. I wondered how they were going to incorporate the original theme into the movie; turns out they didn’t. But I had no idea what the movie was going to be like at the time, so I just decided to do something energetic and heroic, which still felt like part of the Main Title legacy of the films. This one made the rounds a ton on the internet back then…
