I mean, I get it. For bingewatching to be effective such option must exist. But I just can’t imagine to skip Star Trek intros. It’s part of the anticipation, the joy, the ritual. What about you? Do you skip intros?
I got faith
Of the heaaart
I actually started to like that song.
Just Enterprise. Man I still hate that intro.
Really? But it’s been a long road gettin from there to here….
I love it.
It’s absolutely NOT Star Trek, and whoever decided that it would match a series of Star Trek is a moron…but for a standard sci-fi show it’s a good song choice.
I tried Enterprise back when it came out and I was out after a couple episides. I just couldn’t do it
Oh, Enterprise is pretty poor. There were some solid ideas, but at the time it was just too big a departure from Star Trek for it to be taken seriously.
Now, if Enterprise were the lead-up to First Contact, the intro would make sense as it would be an early prequel to everything…
I can understand not vibing with the song, but the montage and what it represents is peak Trek to me. I love it to death.
It’s vile.
…bubbly and cloying and happy.
The end credits music was quite good if I remember right though.
The end credits song were originally suppose to be the intro song but was changed last minute.
[citation needed]
I’ve read the exact opposite, that they always wanted a pop song for the credits, but nearly waffled on it just before it aired.
There is something about my hatred for the Enterprise intro which compels me to endure it.
Is it a weird guilt thing?
I hated that song when the programme was new, but now I feel guilty about it, because someone was trying their best, and they wrote, re-wrote, edited and worked on that song and for every instrument and vocal, someone practised and practised and performed, and even if it wasn’t quite to my taste, it doesn’t mean it was bad, and I picture them still crying themselves to sleep at night, twenty years later, going “everyone hates the song I did for Star Trek Enterprise and now I hate myself”, so I make sure to watch the full intro so I don’t hurt their feelings.
That’s what everyone else does too, right?
I watched the intro during the first season of every series. After that I generally skipped the intro. I found out they actually re-recorded/remixed the Enterprise intro somewhere late in the series when I was late to click the skip intro button. It still sucks and I hate it.
It went EVEN BIGGER.
Season 3 had the new intro (I’m watching it now) and it was a better version, but still a corny rock ballad so I still am a meh/10.
That song actually has three full verses, only the first is used for the intro credits
I’m thankful for that.
never skip the ds9 intro; i’m too busy crying and grandly humming along.
I was just complaining that ds9 has a 90+ second intro… it’s just too much
I laughed so much when they lampshaded that in Lower Decks
Ransom: “Just keep circling.”
Yes I actually think DS9 has the best intro overall… but it is also the one I skip most often for the reason you give.
ya know, youre absolutely right. when im in the mood it is absolutely beautiful.
I just love when the station appears on screen so small, alone in deep space with the lone french horn playing… then suddenly it flashes up close! And we see a flurry of activity! It reminds me of a whale fall or some other deep sea island of life.
It’s a snooze-fest! Slow panning shots for 75 seconds until the wormhole opens briefly. Low-tempo, gentle music. You ride a slow moving elevator to arrive at the show’s content matter.
When streaming I do because I’m binging, but regardless of how I’m watching I will NEVER skip TNG intros. My god what a masterpiece, even the end credits are just a capstone to perfection.
If it has opening narration, I don’t skip it.
I’m a sucker for that sort of pageantry.
SPACE . . .
🎶🎶 It’s been a long road… 🎶🎶
I watch it is for like the first 5 eps and then I don’t. I wanna get to the action!
I ALWAYS skip enterprise, I never skip the others.
I get that they were trying for something different, I can even appreciate using a folksy ballad that doesn’t have all is the “formality” of classical music the same way Starfleet of the time doesn’t have all the formality of later treks. I even personally find it to be a cool idea on paper, but for some reason it just didn’t land with me.
It’s jarring when it SHOULDN’T be. Even the closing credits get a "WhoOoAawhatthefuuuuOh."reaction out of me every time the music starts. Like, it takes until almost the fourth note on the credits before I go "oh yeah, they do this.
I still watch the credits, though.
Rarely. A good intro gives me a moment to set aside real-life worries and get into the right mindset to enjoy the show. TNG, DS9, VOY, and SNW are all bangers.
Yeah, I actually MISS intros on shows that don’t have them. I forget when in the 2000’s or 2010’s they started that, but it aggravated me almost as much as the cutback from 20+ episodes a season to fewer.
Usually, but I love the optimistic fanfare of the TNG intro, and it has a habit of drawing me in.
I’ll watch one when I sit down to watch, then I’ll skip it on any further episodes in the same watch session.
Ent and lower decks often get skipped, everything else occasionally.
Prodigy, never. That theme is up there with Voy and DS9.
Yeah, I often fall asleep to a TNG playlist where I’ve selected all the most cozy episodes (e.g., no Borg or “4 lights!” because those are amazing but stressful) but being jolted wide awake by that jarringly loud intro music is less fun than nodding off to Picard romancing Lwaxana with Shakespeare quotes.
Do you count The Inner Light as one of the cozy episodes or stressful episodes?
I will watch the intro once.
