''Enterprise'' is the soundtrack for the first season of ''

Star Trek: Enterprise ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', titled simply ''Enterprise'' for its first two seasons, is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. It originally aired from September 26, 2001, to May 13, 2005 on Uni ...

''. It features the opening title song, " Where My Heart Will Take Me", as sung by

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, alongside instrumental compositions by Dennis McCarthy.

Background

McCarthy first became involved in composing music for ''Star Trek'' with the first episode of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', "

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". He went on to work on several more ''Star Trek'' series, along with the film ''

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''. He won an

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for his composition of the theme tune for '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. He recorded the score for the pilot episode, " Broken Bow", with an orchestra on September 10 and 11, 2001. Despite an offer to postpone the recording on the second day because of the

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, they decided to continue recording the music. McCarthy described this as "the hardest recording session of my entire career". It was rumoured that

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would compose the theme tune for ''Enterprise'', having previously created the themes for both ''The Next Generation'' and '' Star Trek: Voyager''. This was later denied on his official website, and series executive producer

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explained that they would be seeking to use "a little bit more contemporary kind of music".

Release

The album was released in the United States on May 14, 2002 on the

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label. The release was an

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featuring the

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of " Where My Heart Will Take Me". It included two versions of the title song of ''Enterprise'', entitled "Where My Heart Will Take Me", which had been previously called "Faith of the Heart". The song was written by

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and sung by

. A version of the song that had been re-recorded for Watson's album ''

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'' appeared alongside the version that accompanied the opening credits of the television series. The remaining tracks on the album were instrumental music composed by McCarthy for the pilot episode of ''Enterprise'', " Broken Bow".

Reception

In his review for

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, Neil Shurley said that "Where My Heart Will Take Me" sounded better on the album than it did on the television show, but didn't tie in with McCarthy's work, whose work he described as an "orchestral tapestry". Overall he said that "There's nothing spectacular here, but ''Enterprise'' does make a representative and worthy addition to the Star Trek musical canon".

Track listing

# Where My Heart Will Take Me (Album Version) # New Enterprise # Klingon Chase - Shotgunned # Enterprise First Flight # Klang-Napped # Morph-O-Mama-Suli-Nabbed # Phaser Fight # Breakthrough # Grappled # The Rescue # Temporal Battle # Blood Work # New Horizons # Archer's Theme # Where My Heart Will Take Me (TV Version)

References

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