# Star Ship theme songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310 "2019-07-19T16:39:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/1 "2019-07-19T16:39:02Z")
Star ship theme songs: USS Enterprise [Star Trek: The Motion Picture • Main Theme • Jerry Goldsmith - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI9YYe-jgHI) Death Star Does the TARDIS count as a spaceship? Others? ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/2 "2019-07-19T18:57:48Z")
Sarah Brightman - I lost my heart to a starship trooper [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxfB0b9Ix9o) ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/3 "2019-07-19T19:02:57Z")
We Built this City (on Rock and Roll). 🆒😃 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/4 "2019-07-19T19:18:27Z")
Deep Purple - [Space Trucking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHOrpFeXUao) Of course David Bowie - [Space Oddity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo) ([here performed by astronaut](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo) Chris Hadfield in actual space, one of the coolest things to have ever happened IMHO) and Peter Schilling’s sequel - [Major Tom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoW4Vw4XGAs) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/5 "2019-07-19T19:22:57Z")
_Starship Trooper_ by Yes. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/6 "2019-07-19T19:24:42Z")
“Thus Spake Zarathustra” and “The Blue Danube” were not written to be star ship theme songs, but post-Kubrick, they might as well be. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/7 "2019-07-19T19:31:56Z")
Firefly’s Serenity [had this Bluesy one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7vS4z6ngQo) by Sonny Rhodes. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/8 "2019-07-19T19:37:37Z")
Composed by John Williams, as part of the soundtrack for _The Force Awakens_: [Scherzo for X-Wings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzuanMUuS4) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/9 "2019-07-19T19:40:23Z")
Pink Floyd - [Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbXIMZmVv8) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/10 "2019-07-19T19:40:53Z")
[quote=“furryman, post:1, topic:837310”] Death Star [/QUOTE] The [Millennium Falcon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaBbM7H2dW8) had a theme song too. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/11 "2019-07-19T19:44:59Z")
[Telstar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrEPzsx1gQ) wasn’t a star ship, but at least was a spacecraft. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/12 "2019-07-19T19:45:08Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Pink Floyd - [Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbXIMZmVv8) I prefer [“Interstellar Overdrive.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2sA0vpA-4) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/13 "2019-07-19T19:51:15Z")
[Star Fleet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7GFU5ncKhU) – Brian May [Space Station #5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxUgW5CLk18) – Montrose ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/14 "2019-07-19T19:55:22Z")
More John Williams I believe: [Close Encounters of the Third Kind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4PYI6TzqYk) ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/15 "2019-07-19T20:00:12Z")
Montrose- Space Station #5. Dammit!\*\* blondebear!\*\* I took too long listening to various versions. Here is a live version from 1974. Ronnie Montrose on guitar and a young Sammy Hagar belting out the vocals, under all that hair. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bjuUtCQNEPQ/hqdefault.jpg "Montrose \_ Space Station No 5 live 1974.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjuUtCQNEPQ) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/16 "2019-07-19T20:26:57Z")
It’s not a Star Ship, but mention should be made of the disaster that was **Via Galactica** , a big-budget Broadway Science Fiction Musical that bombed spectacularly, becoming the first show to lost $1 million. Surprisingly, Raul Julia, Irene Cara, and Broadway veteran Virginia Vestoff were in the cast. It ran seven performances before closing. > **[Via Galactica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Galactica)** > > Via Galactica is a rock musical with a book by Christopher Gore and Judith Ross, lyrics by Gore, and music by Galt MacDermot. It marked the Broadway debut of actor Mark Baker. > Originally entitled Up!, it offers a futuristic story of social outcasts living on an asteroid in outer space in the year 2972. Among them is Gabriel Finn, a space sanitation man who collects trash in a clamshell-shaped garbage ship called the Helen of Troy. > The storyline was so incomprehensible that at the last moment pr... > **[The story of Via Galactica, the scifi Broadway musical flop of the 1970s](https://gizmodo.com/the-story-of-via-galactica-the-scifi-broadway-musical-5722762)** > > Decades before Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was just a twinkle in Julie Taymor's eye, Broadway had weathered a prior most expensive scifi musical ever: 1972's Via Galactica, a spacey extravaganza starring Raul Julia and a set made of trampolines. > [@](#): > > Raul once got stuck in the spaceship and hung helplessly over the orchestra for 20 minutes until stagehands extricated him ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/17 "2019-07-19T21:33:18Z")
The entire side 2 of the Jefferson Starship album Blows Against The Empire. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/18 "2019-07-19T22:19:55Z")
If we extend to satellites then Billy Bragg’s [A new England](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfRcgoPxTw) _I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites It’s wrong to wish on space hardware I wish, I wish, I wish you’d care_ Also lots of stuff by Hawkwind ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/19 "2019-07-20T01:40:01Z")
[Forbidden Planet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unSrf-htPbk) [Battlestar Galactica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyHxYxc-Mo) (1978) Yes, Stu Phillips was jumping on John Williams’ bandwagon, but he did a good job. [Battlestar Galactica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhkmglawA2w) (2004) More soulful, but not as epic. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310/20 "2019-07-20T10:08:44Z")
[Pioneers over c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8BcFF2GAnw) by Van der Graaf Generator! Sadly, in the lyrics the launch date was in 1983. But the song does date from 1970… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310.md?page=2)