I've just learned (from inerrant ) that Sol Kaplan, who also scored the episode "The Enemy Within," was blacklisted from Hollywood for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

"The Enemy Within" ALSO had a bitchin' soundtrack; it and "The Doomsday Machine" were dipped into a lot for later Star Trek incidental music.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Kapl

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My current earworm is the soundtrack by Sol Kaplan from the classic Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine." It fuckin' SLAPS! Adventure and suspense and pathos and tragedy and victory — it is some top-goddamned-notch sci-fi music.

youtu.be/U_mwtoeqneM?list=PL5U

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Joe Wynne · @joewynne
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Crew,
Tonight, I watch with my mother. First time watching it together since 1968 in Prime Time. She remembers a lot! Her favorite is Spock!

Could she be the first Trekkie? Back then the speech-activated "remote" was telling your kids to change the channel. (We would be sitting in front of it about 3 feet away from the screen.) She was responsible for me watching it!


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Joe Wynne · @joewynne
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( Watching )

[Scotty enables the Enterprise to escape and thus saves entre crew]
Kirk: "Scottie, you just earned your pay for the week."
So he has to do this every week? Respect.

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