Romulan Theme | Star Trek TNG | Ron Jones
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- Music composed by Ron Jones.
Original artwork is by Paul Mahler (www.deviantart...)
Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "The Neutral Zone" and "The Defector"
0:00 Trouble Zone
0:51 Clare's Last Hope/No Party Romulans
1:17 No Outposts
2:10 Romulan Encounter
4:59 Scout Ship
5:18 Rescue
5:50 The Stand-Off
Commander Berman: "You see, Picard, after I fire Ron Jones I intend to play generic elevator music every week as a symbol of my victory. It will inspire meddling network executives for generations to come, and serve as a warning to any other artist who would create ripples of creativity"
"All the episodes, all the days spent composing, all the scoring sessions: they were all for nothing, set up for my benefit as a test, a test of my compliance. And you used me: to set back Star Trek scores (and their composers) for the rest of The Next Generation."
Hilarious. And quite, quite brilliant! 😂
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Hearty Kek
“If the cause for great music is honorable and just, we are prepared to give our opinions. Are you prepared to die today sci-fi?”
Really makes you feel like there's someone out there. Someone who does not want you here
Your presence is not wanted. Do you take my meaning? WE are back.
Get off my lawn you lousy kids!
In other words. P E R F E C T
If I lived the Star Trek universe I’d be a Romulan.
@@jhallam2011 scary😮
The Romulans were just never the same without this glorious theme from Ron Jones.
Imagine "Balance of Terror" with this....
Goldsmith I think did well in Nemesis. The movie has its problems, and one of them is we didn't get to see enough of the Romulans which were at their peak aesthetic design, in my opinion.
@@StsFiveOneLima I wish they had used this for the Strange New
Worlds remix of balance of terror
@@StsFiveOneLima Then again, that episode had a very good Romulan leitmotif of its own
@@GreekRoyalty Problem is the only character that acted like a Romulan was Commander Donatra, and guess what, the actress literally watched all episodes with Romulans to learn and understand the way they think and behave, and it shows.
Rick Berman was a fool. Ron Jones' music added so much quality to the show and really made it memorable.
"Rick Berman was a fool" is one of those rare universal truths. Not only a fool but an arrogant, petty, and homophobic tool.
He was a standard studio exec all money no creativity
"I expected more than idle threats from you, Picard."
Then you shall have it, Mr. Worf....
G'KAR!!!!!!!!
@@rockmanx00777 every time I see Tomalak, I think of G'Kar and his beautiful performances. Andreas, you are truely missed 😢
@@frakmaster69master11 "Aye, sir..."
"Shall we die together?"
Can only imagine how amazing TNG would have been is Jones was the composer for the entire run of the show
We even rank it higher would've blown our minds.
"Once we realized the level of destruction we knew it could not have been you"
"My opinion of Starfleet officers is so low that you'd have to work very hard indeed to disappoint me!"
Section 31:Challange accepted!
@@CaptainSovereign no
Season 1's "Neutral Zone" episode when the D'deridex de-cloaks to make its first appearance ever while that theme played still gives me chills. The ship design was amazing and has aged very well after all these years.
Definitely. One of the best Star Trek ship designs ever. Top 10 for sure.
The D'Deridex warbird is honestly one of my favourite ST ship designs. It's a silent predator, but also an absolute monster when it decloaks.
I love this music... As much as I love the Big D'deridex star ships !!!! You get that feeling of awesome, and danger 😊
Honestly, I feel almost all the ship designs of the era have aged really well. I loved how the Romulans we’re a great threat in early TNG. A little more complex than most other villain species, kind of proto-Cardassians (which kind of became my favorite villain species for its layered complexity and of course because Marc Alaimo just knocked it out of the Park hardcore playing by far the best villain in Star Trek‘s 55+ year history).
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Sneaky. Deceptive. Cunning.
The perfect theme.
This and the Borg theme were amazingly different, but both had that bone chilling sensation to them
Thats what i missed about TNG. Seasons 1 to 4 were my fav. After that it was just crap till DS9 showed up.
Yes, this music has a very "ice and spiders" feel to it...
@@randallsherman1309Well said!
Just as I start this video, I got goosebumps hearing that tense 8-note theme. Ron Jones was the best composer TNG ever had.
"For I have visited over a hundred different worlds, and none possessed the awesome beauty of Romulus." -- Adm. Alidar Jarok
The worst mistake in TNG was scrubbing the music from season 4 onwards.
You have to thank Rick Berman for that.
He wanted a more generic, less musical approach that would not distract from the story/dialogue etc..
Hence why lots of the scores afterwards (except for the films) were so subdued quite often.
Sometimes the composers were able to break out of these constrictions (especially DS9 and Voyager), but yeah, the compositional quality of the music suffered greatly after that change...
The Romulan Theme was used in Data's Day in season 4.
@@bpe-music Berman was also the one who told the actors playing humans to act more flat so that the alien characters would stand out more. It’s as if he wanted to make Star Trek boring.
@@BigNoseDog Wow. He did that?! Berman just seems worse and worse the more I read about him.
@@bpe-music Had no idea he did this to the music.
Firing Ron Jones was a detriment to TNG music
Oooooh yes.
Blame Berman, like with so many other things...
5:30 I cannot express into words how much I love this part
Totally agree!!!
I just realized why this is so menacing. It has a definite The Exorcist vibe.
I really miss the days when the writing and storyboarding and suspense and tension all built up to the crescendo of one, singular Romulan warbird decloaking - striking complete and utter fear and terror into everyone watching. Genuine "Oh sh!t" moments. Now they copypasta 100 warbirds warping in at the same time for shock and awe and it just feels like comedic overkill.
I agree. Same goes for the Borg. In TNG a single cube was an alien terror and an unbelievable threat. By the time we got through Voyager, that danger became way too watered down from overuse and attempts to one-up what came before.
@@Don-ol8ze I honestly blame First Contact for that. They introduced the Borg Queen and made the Borg a much more personal threat, which reduced the creepy alien factor they had in TNG.
I really liked Ron Jones' music. It gave TNG a somewhat mystical quality.
4:35 Worf :Captain they're back ! Romulan Warbird uncloaks
"Silence your dog, Captain!"
In the German episode: "Bringen Sie Ihren Wachhund zum Schweigen, Captain!"
A song from a time I was a Romulan fanboy. Btw. 30 years ago - still epic
Very good theme
When the seemingly "empty" "space" starts speaking Romulan.
one of the best race themes HANDS DOWN
I think Goldsmith's Klingon theme was up there.
@@Big_Joe570 I love the TMP Klingon theme, but I actually like Tacking Into The Wind from DS9 better. It shows up in Voyager as well.
@@Big_Joe570 The klingon theme was Ron Jones inspiration to create a romulan theme, he liked the klingon one, and thought the Romulans needed their own distinct theme too, and the simple two note alternation hints at their duality, and is a good base to add variations on.
Make D'Deridex Warbirds Scary Again!
This is how the Romulans should be, menacing from the shadows making you jump scared that they will appear hiding behind every asteroid, comet, or moon.
I expected to hear a voice when hearing that theme song ...captain...
The Romulan theme was a bit similar to the Borg theme in "Best of Both Worlds", and maybe that was already a hint to a possible connection between the Romulans and the Borg (as seen in Star Trek Online). :)
The canon behind the borg without STO is that they are older then romulan civilization
@@twilightparanormalresearch186 Yeah, I heard of that. :)
The romulan theme plays an alternation between 2 tones, sort of signifies their duality. The borg theme has a machine like chorus vocal in it, the many voices of the collective. This is the genius that is Ron Jones.
Always felt the Romulans got shortchanged in the TNG > Nemesis era.
Yeah, I wish they had been involved more late in the Dominion War. A golden opportunity would have been to keep T'Rul as a recurring character on the Defiant. By war's end, we hear that they're doing a lot but we never really see it; most of the attention is on the Federation and the Klingons, and later, the Cardassian Rebellion.
The Romulans were originally meant to be killed off as a means of introducing the Borg. A change in writers and their civilization got a reprieve.
@@darthplagueis66 Or Senator Cretak (the one who proposed the Romulan facility on Bajor's moon); have her set up and run an embassy on DS9 and coordinate the Romulan activities with the other alliance members... Hell, a joint Fed/Rom mission, sent out from that office (with approval- or maybe DISapproval- from Starfleet Command) into Cardassian territory, would've been great.
@@darthplagueis66Oh, I loved T'Rul! I had hoped that she would become a series regular, the first Romulan character in the opening credits of a Star Trek series.
Darth Plagueis
48 subscribers I was really glad they brought back the iconic Romulan Bird of Prey as well as the massive, fearsome, extremely beautiful, and symbolic Romulan D'Deridex class Warbird (My Number 1# favorite Romulan ship) back in "Star Trek: Lower Decks". I would be really happy if they brought back Ron Jones version of the Romulan Theme in new Star Trek shows such as "Star Trek: Lower Decks".
The D´Deridex Warbird has got to be the coolest ship in all ST history !! Also check this awesome soundtrack from "The Defector" th-cam.com/video/cXSJ0rz1FIo/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1
@@blackmondayy1 I strongly agree.
Dispatch a subspace message to admiral Hansen. We have engaged the Romulans.
FANTASTIC SCORE! the best of TNG. And its consistent on all the 7 seasons! Waiting for more @DarthPlagueis. Thanks!
Thanks! The two episodes are from Season 1 and 3, respectively.
@@darthplagueis66 I love both the Romulan Theme (Star Trek), the Klingon Theme (Star Trek), as well as the Dalek Theme (Doctor Who) even more than the Galactic Empire's theme from "Star Wars".
when star trek cared about the music 🙂
This sounds very Umbrella-like, especially the first 2 to 3 seconds
00:50
That was an unexpected cutoff. Bruh.
However simple this one seems, it really works, you do feel some kind of menacing presence. It's chilling and unnerving
It has a Tubular Bells sound to it.
Yeah because remember they see you and you don’t see them
Everybody gangsta till a D'deridex uncloaks after 53 years of isolation.
The mighty Empire that forgot to have a bomb squad in their Capitol.
NotaBannedAccount
1 month ago So true.
@@jamieolberding7731 Jolan tru!
@@notabannedaccount8362 Live long and Prosper!
In the final TNG movie?
@@ShamrockParticle Yes.
Tal Shiar vs Obsidian Order: Who wins? For that matter, who is more brutal?
The Dominion.
@@DkSchadow this is correct
Tal Shiar have an ethical base, even if we would disagree with it. the obsidian order has no ethics.
There's also big cultural and operational differences, the Order was basically in competition with central command, and neither had much sway over the other. The Tal Shiar could literally on a whim order the military to undertake whatever task they wanted, this is also why the Order was decimated by the attack in the Oomarion nebula, all the ships were manned by their agents fully, the Tal Shiar could just use a minimal number of agents, and the military would suffer the losses, thus they didn't fall apart after the fiasco, it was a loss for sure, but in the grand scheme insignificant.
Didn't realize Mike Oldfield was a Romulan.
Makes me think these folk had a winged goddess-mother. It was she who was supplanted by Surak.
Espionage will not be tolerated!!!
A dark lord of the Sith broadcasting a star trek track?? make sure the emperor never is aware of that!
I didn’t expect to see you again so soon
I'm picking up SCANNING!
These people really like birds.
@pabloandresarayamunoz4490 Maybe warbirds, too.
They seem to dislike most of the birds of pray though
Also appeared in the score for "Where Silence Has Lease"
Romulans and their damn cloaking habits
"We will destroy the star creature"
Romulans and Cardassians I despise them more than Klingons, but I appreciate them more than Borg
@Vlačko it's only my opinion
Picard - "Stay calm everyone" :D
That emblem is about to be a video on Romulanhub
Sounds a bit like tubular bells
Yea. This reminds me basically of The Exorcist, indeed.
Imagine getting fired because your employer thinks you're too good at your job.
"If the point has not yet been made clearly Commander, let me make it again! Romulan warships do not enter Federation space unless they are prepared to do battle!" sooooo "Get to it, Tomalak! 😂
If I have this in the my dream I would wake up screaming.😮
Dang, this is so similar to the soundtrack from BEST OF BOTH WORLDS ... definitely the same composer
Darth Plagueis
48 subscribers Can you one day do the Klingon Theme as well as the Xindi and the Borg Theme?
Possibly. Klingon theme would be difficult due to sporadic use across a large amount of media. I don’t believe much of the Enterprise scores have been released. The Borg are more certain, with three different motifs: TNG, First Contact and Voyager.
@@darthplagueis66 What about the
Dalek Theme from "Doctor Who", as well as the Shadow them from "Babylon 5" TV Series?
@@jamieolberding7731 I haven't seen either series completely. Additionally, this channel takes second fiddle to my main channel Star Wars Opinion: th-cam.com/channels/Qc02Qh5IHnIzCH5Cn7ClZQ.html
@@darthplagueis66 You should definitely check out "Babylon 5" as my family and I both agreed that it's a very great and widely popular TV series from start to finish. Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. After the successful airing of a test pilot movie on February 22, 1993, Babylon 5: The Gathering, Warner Bros. commissioned the series for production in May 1993 as part of its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN). The show premiered in the US on January 26, 1994, and ran for five 22-episode seasons.
The series follows the human military staff and alien diplomats stationed on a space station, Babylon 5, built in the aftermath of several major inter-species wars as a neutral ground for galactic diplomacy and trade. Major plotlines included Babylon 5's embroilment in a millennial cyclic conflict between ancient races (such as the series Main Antagonists, the Shadows), inter-race wars and their aftermaths, and intra-race intrigue and upheaval. The human characters, in particular, become pivotal to the resistance against Earth's descent into totalitarianism.
Many episodes focused on the effect of wider events on individual characters, with episodes containing themes such as personal change, loss, oppression, corruption and redemption.
Unusually for the time, Babylon 5 was conceived as a "novel for television" with a pre-planned five-year story arc, each episode envisioned as a "chapter". Whereas contemporary television shows tended to maintain the overall status quo, confining conflicts to individual episodes, Babylon 5 featured story arcs which spanned multiple episodes and even seasons, effecting permanent changes to the series universe. Tie-in novels, comic books, and short stories were also developed to play a significant canonical part in the overall story.
@@darthplagueis66 The Borg got some pretty good music in Enterprise.
Honestly, I think the Romulan theme from TOS was better. More iconic and memorable.
TOS has the best music overall
Red alert, shields up, charge phasers, load forward torpedo bays!!
He really should have ordered either both or aft torpedo bays loaded, as they zoom past the cube the forwards are only good for an opening salvo.
Wrong universe, but....
"Intensify the forward batteries, I don't want anything to get through! Intensify forward firepower!!"
"Too late!!"
Rick Berman you fool...
This, this theme I remember from when I was 5. I'm 41 now. This era was peak Star Trek soundtracking. The shit they come up with now is a joke.
This by itselfe is already epic - but is there any chance there will be an epic/orchestral version of this? Like from Two steps from Hell or else?
Warbirds discussing what they're bringing to the annual potluck.
IRS Khazara: I'll bring the vineriine.
0:00
.........where are they hiding
Feran
gi theme
After season 4 the music for TNG took a dump in quality. Way too generic
if Rick Berman wasn't such a fool and kept Ron Jones on instead of firing him then who knows what glorious music we would have had
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No boring. Like low grade rap music of the 1980s, a 3 bar phrase repeated over and over.