James Horner, composer for The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock, declined to return for The Voyage Home. Nimoy turned to his friend Leonard Rosenman, who had written the music to Fantastic Voyage, Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings, and two Planet of the Apes sequels. Rosenman wrote an arrangement of Alexander Courage’s Star Trek television theme as the title music for The Voyage Home, but Nimoy requested an original composition. Music critic Jeff Bond writes, “The final result was one of the most unusual Star Trek movie themes,” consisting of a six-note theme and variations set against a repetitious four-note brass motif; the theme’s bridge borrows content from Rosenman’s “Frodo March” for The Lord of the Rings. The melody is played in the beginning of the film on Vulcan and the scenes of Taylor’s search for Kirk to help find her whales.

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