I imagine there will be a number of starship battles in response to this prompt, so I’m taking a different approach. One of my favorite examples of “The David Bell Motif” appears during the sequence in “Tacking Into the Wind” where Worf (finally) kills Gowron.

Ominious-sounding underscore gives way to that (in)famous 3/4 up-and-down rhythm as Worf and Gowron engage in hand-to-hand combat. Perhaps borrowing a bit of percussion from Cliff Eidelman’s treatment of the Klingons in STAR TREK VI this time out, Bell ramps things up until Worf catches Gowron by surprise, leading to some Big Consequential Chords as Gowron collapses.

You will not have this…day…

Gowron (final words)

The remainder of the cue is fairly subdued as Worf and the other Klingons contemplate what Gowron’s death means to the Empire and to the Federation, including a solo trumpet that would have been at home in a Dennis McCarthy score.

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