This reminds me that one of several chages the Saturday morning cartoon version of Star Trek made vs the original was that they redid the theme music and replaced the “swoosh” as the ship went past with a cymbal roll. I agree, that’s now a bit of a cliche, and I like the idea that he was asked to find sounds other than the obvious percussion… one of the best spurs to artistic solutions is to apply constraints.
(In space nobody can hear you swoosh, but they can hear the theme music. Apparently there’s a Muzak channel on the communicators, but it seems to play better-than-average stuff.)
