(written from a Production point of view)
Emmy-winning composer Jay Chattaway (born 8 July 1946; age 77) has written musical scores for numerous episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise.
He has been nominated for an Emmy Award five times for his work on Star Trek, winning in 2001 for his score for the Star Trek: Voyager series finale, "Endgame". In addition, he won (or shared) eight ASCAP Awards for his music, all in the Top TV Series category. His name appeared on a crew manifest in the Voyager episode "Projections". Some of Chattaway's Trek scores have been released as part of the GNP Crescendo album Star Trek: The Next Generation Volume 4 and their release of the Voyager pilot episode "Caretaker", as well as the La-La Land collections for Star Trek: The Next Generation (volumes one and two), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (volumes one and two), Star Trek: Voyager (volumes one and two), and Star Trek: Enterprise (volumes one and two).
Chattaway was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania and was a member of the band "The Astronotes" while attending high school. He received a scholarship to study composition at West Virginia University of Creative Arts and later attended the Eastman School of Music, the Catholic University and the Institute of Audio Research. Chattaway recalls "It taught me how to write fast" about his time in the Navy band in Washington, D.C. during the Vietnam War. (The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 13, p. 32)
In 1976 he moved to Manhattan and became staff producer for CBS Records where he worked with artists such as Carly Simon, David Byrne and Maynard Ferguson. For Ferguson's album "Conquistador", he arranged a jazz version of Alexander Courage's Star Trek theme. Through his collaboration with Gato Barbieri on his album "Caliente", Chattaway was introduced into film scoring. He worked as orchestrator with 85 musicians, the London Philharmonic. In 1979 he and artist Bob James founded Tappan Zee Records but both branched out three years later.
Chattaway composed the music for many well-known action and horror B-movies of the 1980s, including two of the three Missing in Action films, and William Lustig's horrors, including Maniac (1980), Vigilante (1983, co-starring Fred Williamson) and Maniac Cop (1988, with Judy Levitt, Erik Holland and Lee Arnone-Briggs). He also scored the action movies Invasion U.S.A. (1985, with Jon De Vries, Richard Lynch, Stephen Markle, Nick Ramus, and Maria Doest) and Red Scorpion (1989). His work on Red Scorpion gained the attention of the producers of The Next Generation when they've searched for a composer to fill in for a TNG Season 3 episode. With the help of Paramount's head of music, David Grossman, Chattaway was called in.
Media[]
- The tune file info which Jean-Luc Picard plays on the Ressikan flute in "The Inner Light" was composed by Chattaway.
Star Trek credits[]
- TNG:
- "Tin Man" (Season 3)
- "Remember Me" (Season 4)
- "The Host"
- "In Theory"
- "Darmok" (Season 5)
- "Silicon Avatar"
- "The Game"
- "A Matter Of Time"
- "Hero Worship"
- "The Masterpiece Society"
- "Power Play"
- "The Outcast"
- "The First Duty"
- "The Perfect Mate"
- "I Borg"
- "The Inner Light"
- "Realm Of Fear" (Season 6)
- "Relics"
- "True Q"
- "A Fistful of Datas"
- "Chain Of Command, Part I"
- "Chain Of Command, Part II"
- "Aquiel"
- "Birthright, Part I"
- "Birthright, Part II"
- "Starship Mine"
- "The Chase"
- "Frame of Mind"
- "Rightful Heir"
- "Descent"
- "Descent, Part II" (Season 7)
- "Interface"
- "Gambit, Part I"
- "Gambit, Part II"
- "Dark Page"
- "Inheritance"
- "Sub Rosa"
- "Lower Decks"
- "Eye of the Beholder"
- "Journey's End"
- "Emergence"
- "Preemptive Strike"
- DS9:
- "A Man Alone" (Season 1)
- "Past Prologue"
- "Dax"
- "If Wishes Were Horses"
- "Dramatis Personae"
- "Cardassians" (Season 2)
- "Necessary Evil"
- "Rivals"
- "Armageddon Game"
- "Shadowplay"
- "Profit and Loss"
- "The Maquis, Part I"
- "The Collaborator"
- "Tribunal"
- "The Search, Part I" (Season 3)
- "The Search, Part II"
- "Equilibrium"
- "The Abandoned"
- "Civil Defense"
- "Defiant"
- "Visionary"
- "Through the Looking Glass"
- "Family Business"
- "The Adversary"
- "Hippocratic Oath" (Season 4)
- "Rejoined"
- "Starship Down"
- "Our Man Bashir"
- "Paradise Lost"
- "Return to Grace"
- "Bar Association"
- "Rules of Engagement"
- "For the Cause"
- "To the Death"
- "Broken Link"
- "The Ship" (Season 5)
- "Things Past"
- "The Darkness and the Light"
- "The Begotten"
- "By Inferno's Light"
- "Ties of Blood and Water"
- "Ferengi Love Songs"
- "Empok Nor"
- "Call to Arms"
- "Sons and Daughters" (Season 6)
- "Favor the Bold"
- "Resurrection"
- "One Little Ship"
- "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night"
- "His Way"
- "Time's Orphan"
- "Tears of the Prophets"
- "Afterimage" (Season 7)
- "Chrysalis"
- "It's Only a Paper Moon"
- "Chimera"
- "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang"
- "Strange Bedfellows"
- "The Changing Face of Evil"
- VOY:
- "Caretaker" (Season 1)
- "Time and Again"
- "The Cloud"
- "Emanations"
- "Prime Factors"
- "Cathexis"
- "Learning Curve"
- "Twisted"
- "Non Sequitur" (Season 2)
- "Maneuvers"
- "Prototype"
- "Death Wish"
- "Threshold"
- "Investigations"
- "Innocence"
- "Tuvix"
- "Sacred Ground" (Season 3)
- "The Chute"
- "Future's End"
- "Future's End, Part II"
- "Blood Fever"
- "Rise"
- "Before and After"
- "Displaced"
- "Scorpion"
- "Scorpion, Part II" (Season 4)
- "Scientific Method"
- "Random Thoughts"
- "Hunters"
- "Retrospect"
- "Unforgettable"
- "One"
- "Night" (Season 5)
- "In the Flesh"
- "Counterpoint"
- "The Fight"
- "Think Tank"
- "Warhead"
- "Equinox"
- "Equinox, Part II" (Season 6)
- "Dragon's Teeth"
- "Riddles"
- "Pathfinder"
- "Collective"
- "Spirit Folk"
- "Fury"
- "The Haunting of Deck Twelve"
- "Drive" (Season 7)
- "Repression"
- "Shattered"
- "The Void"
- "Human Error"
- "Author, Author"
- "Endgame"
- ENT:
- "Fight or Flight" (Season 1)
- "Unexpected"
- "Civilization"
- "Cold Front"
- "Shuttlepod One"
- "Detained"
- "Two Days and Two Nights"
- "Carbon Creek" (Season 2)
- "The Seventh"
- "Vanishing Point"
- "The Catwalk"
- "Cease Fire"
- "The Breach"
- "Bounty"
- "Anomaly (ENT)" (Season 3)
- "The Shipment"
- "North Star"
- "Stratagem"
- "Azati Prime"
- "E²"
- "Zero Hour"
- "Storm Front" (Season 4)
- "Cold Station 12"
- "Awakening"
- "United"
- "Divergence"
- "Bound"
- "Terra Prime"
- PIC:
- "Remembrance" (flute theme from "The Inner Light")
- "Maps and Legends" (flute theme from "The Inner Light")
- "The End is the Beginning" (flute theme from "The Inner Light")
- "Absolute Candor" (flute theme from "The Inner Light")
- "Stardust City Rag" (flute theme from "The Inner Light")
- "The Impossible Box" (flute theme from "The Inner Light")
- "Nepenthe" (flute theme from "The Inner Light")
- "Broken Pieces" (flute theme from "The Inner Light")
Star Trek awards[]
Chattaway received the following awards and nominations for his work on Star Trek:
- 1995 Emmy Award nomination in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for the episode "Caretaker"
- 1995 ASCAP Award in the category Top TV Series for Star Trek: The Next Generation
- 1996 Emmy Award nomination in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series for the episode "Our Man Bashir"
- 1996 ASCAP Award in the category Top TV Series for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- 1997 ASCAP Award in the category Top TV Series for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- 1998 Emmy Award nomination in the category Outstanding Music Direction for the episode "His Way"
- 1998 ASCAP Award in the category Top TV Series for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, shared with Dennis McCarthy
- 1999 ASCAP Award in the category Top TV Series for Star Trek: Voyager
- 2000 Emmy Award nomination in the category Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for the episode "Spirit Folk"
- 2000 ASCAP Award in the category Top TV Series for Star Trek: Voyager
- 2001 Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for the episode "Endgame"
- 2001 ASCAP Award in the category Top TV Series for Star Trek: Voyager, shared with Dennis McCarthy and David Bell
- 2002 ASCAP Award in the category Top TV Series for Star Trek: Enterprise, shared with Dennis McCarthy, David Bell, Paul Baillargeon, and Diane Warren
Star Trek interviews[]
- "Jay Chattaway – Composer of The Next Generation", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 18, pp. 32-37, interviewed by David Hirsch
- TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Making of a Legend" ("Music")
- TNG Season 3 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Three" ("New Music"), interviewed on 5 September 2001
- TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Five" ("Music"), interviewed on 5 September 2001
- TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Memorable Missions Year Five" ("The Perfect Mate"), interviewed on 5 September 2001
- TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Select Historical Data Year Six" ("Musical Directions"), interviewed on 5 September 2001
- In Conversation: The Music of Star Trek - The Next Generation (2013)