Movie Park Germany releases orchestral performance of Star Trek: Operation Enterprise ride music

The Budapest Film Orchestra performs the score to Star Trek: Operation Enterprise

Remember theme parks? If you’re a Star Trek fan (I suspect you are) and a fan of theme parks, you probably know about Movie Park in Germany. It’s filled with attractions built around movies and TV shows (that’s the theme). Trek fans may know it as the home of the only Star Trek roller coaster in the world. For now. 

One can dream.

Of course, the park is closed as part of COVID-19 mitigation efforts, as is - one assumes - every theme park on the planet. But Movie Park is still looking to amuse. The site The Trek Collective has word of something new from the park. Well, something we’ve not seen before anyway. Movie Park has posted 22 minutes of an orchestra recording music for the roller coaster, Operation Enterprise.

The ride…is just over two-minutes long. And there’s no music. So, what’s the soundtrack for? The Star Trek coaster is accompanied by a walkthrough of set replicas, a “Holodeck Simulator” (sounds sort of recursive), a “food synthesizer,” and all sorts of Star Trek-seeming stuff - all set around a “Starfleet Academy Recruitment Center”. The Trek Collective went in depth on that a few years ago. But we were talking about the music. 

The site says the attraction features “specially recorded music; a mix of classic Trek themes, and brand new music composed just for the ride.” Recorded with the Budapest Film Orchestra, the performance includes 63 musicians - 40 strings, 8 woodwinds, 11 brass, 3 percussionists, and one harp player. You can watch the 20-plus minutes of Trek and Trek-inspired music on YouTube. And - if you’re feeling adventurous - there’s also a 360° video of a ride on the coaster itself.