While it wasn’t quite as cool as meeting Sir Patrick Stewart, yesterday was still pretty awesome for a Trekkie. My friend James and I went to Star Trek, The Ultimate Voyage, a Star Trek Concert at the royal Albert Hall, where a full orchestra played the music from my favourite tv series. Needless to say, Lyn stayed home, but from the first note I was in heaven. Of course I’ve always loved the music from star trek. They played the music as they projected clips from the shows and films onto a screen at the back of the stage with voice-over narration by Michael Dorn, and I was engrossed. I was over the moon to hear the theme from First Contact and the Klingon theme, but my favourite moment was when they played the flute solo from the Inner Light – to have seen that played live is very special indeed.

It struck me as a great idea: music in tv and film is often overlooked, but concerts like this really bring it to the fore. I realised yesterday that it was put on by Cineconcerts, a company which does these shows for Star Trek, but things like the Godfather, Gladiator etc. It was thus part of a franchise, rather than a one off; to me that makes it a little less special. They also just did the usual orchestrations of the music rather than anything new. Nevertheless, it was a great afternoon, and something I’d recommend to any trekkie.