Why didn't James Horner compose Star Trek IV?

The answer is simply that the choice was up to Leonard Nimoy (the director of the film) and he decided he wanted his friend Leonard Rosenman to compose the score. read more

In an interview on his website, Horner revealed why he didn't return to compose the second movie; that he didn't like how the movie resulted in comparison to the first movie, and even called the movie "dreadful." Upon his departure, he was replaced by Hans Zimmer. read more

(From Star Trek IV.) As Jon Cho put it, Sulu didn't need to do an accent because you could tell his race from his face, while the ethnic Caucasians (Bones, Scotty, Chekov) needed an accent for you to tell where they were from. read more

James Horner James Horner: from Star Trek to Avatar - 10 of his best film scores in clips The Oscar-winning composer James Horner, who has died in a plane crash, wrote the music for Star Trek II aged 28 and went on to score films such as Aliens, Iris and Braveheart. read more