This week marks the beginning of a mini-marathon of Star Trek composers. Over the next several weeks, we're going to turn the spotlight onto the four composers responsible for nearly all of the music in televised Star Trek (except for the original series). In fact, three composers - Jay Chattaway, Dennis McCarthy, and Ron Jones - wrote a vast majority of the score heard in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. And you'll hear from all of them right here. On this episode, we talk to Jay Chattaway about his early musical career with the U.S. Navy Band, scoring documentaries and National Geographic specials, coming into Star Trek three seasons in, the massive creative restrictions he had to work within, source music and the ability to break out of the Trek mold, differences among the shows, "The Inner Light," and so much more.