British composer, born in 1982, who scored the third season of Star Trek: Picard in 2023, drawing heavily on the film themes of Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner.
Stephen Barton is a British composer born in 1982. He is widely known for video game scores, among them Titanfall, Apex Legends and, with Gordy Haab, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and he co-composed the television series 12 Monkeys.
He succeeded Jeff Russo as composer of Star Trek: Picard for its third and final season in 2023. Barton scored the first six episodes on his own and shared the last four with Frederik Wiedmann.
His music deliberately echoed the orchestral sound of the Star Trek feature films, weaving in themes associated with Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner as the Next Generation crew reassembled aboard the USS Titan and, finally, the Enterprise-D.