the music for the episode was composed by ron jones, and was later released on the second disc of the album "star trek: the next generation: the ron jones project". for this episode, jones created a six-note theme to represent lore. the crystalline entity was given a theme of three notes which played through two pieces entitled "crystal entity" and "crystal attacks". the music played when the away team explore omicron theta was similar to that created by jerry goldsmith for the 1979 film "alien". jones acknowledged that link saying that, "i was playing with the stuff like jerry’s music at the beginning of "alien", bowman was like our ridley scott—he was like ridley scott jr. and i was jerry goldsmith jr."