Bombast

"The Cerritos" by Chris Westlake

I've admitted to being a big fan of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, and will frequently defend things that are often the target of fans' derision like the fly-by sequence around the refit Enterprise. That does not mean that I cannot appreciate when a brilliant show like Star Trek: Lower Decks absolutely takes the piss out of that sequence like in the season 1 episode "Crisis Point."

The episode throughout makes fun of film conventions, especially those of the JJ Abrams run, with over-the-top lens flares and a more "cinematic" look to the animation (complete with a wider aspect ratio and letterboxing). But when the crew flies over to the newly refit Cerritos, things are taken up to 11, with long and gratuitous pans over the ship and cuts back to the crew smiling, gaping, and in Billups's case, weeping.

Chris Westlake's music for this sequence takes his main title theme and ramps it up to its most Goldsmith/Horner extremes, particularly with the horn and trumpet flourishes the latter composer was known for. It's big, it's bombastic, and just like the picture it goes with, it's beyond excessive. But that's the whole point.