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?
It depends. I have a ritual of watching a Star Trek series start to finish with my kids when they’re around 10-12. Currently watching Voyager season 5 with my 10 year old and we do savour that intro occasionally but not always. I’d say maybe one in five times we’ll watch it.
It’s a long intro at nearly two minutes but it’s such a good one. Great music, great graphics, super setting.
For binge-watching yes. If I’m in the mood and it’s the one off occasion that I’m re-watching some old episode (or the newest one of the week), then of course not 😅
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.
You don’t skip the Enterprise intro?
It’s been a long time…
What have I done
I was just complaining that ds9 has a 90+ second intro… it’s just too much
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.
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.
I laughed so much when they lampshaded that in Lower Decks
Ransom: “Just keep circling.”
even when binging I watch the voyager intro every few episodes, I love the music too much
The intro music is the best part of VOY.
TNG’s music is engraved on my soul tho.
If it’s Enterprise? Definitely. Or I mute it.
Yes, unless I haven’t watched in a while.
I will watch the intro once.
Only Enterprise lol
SPACE . . .
🎶🎶 It’s been a long road… 🎶🎶
It was fun to watch the Lower Decks intro gradually change over time, especially that shootout that the Cerritos runs away form.
I usually skip the intros unless I’m really in the mood, but for LD my daughter and I always skip to the nacelle-eating alien (we named him Yum Yums), yell “YUM YUMS!”, and then skip to the end.
Not to mention that great soundtrack. Honestly, Lower Decks truly has the most memorable soundtrack of pretty much any Star Trek post-VOY. No generic cinematic fare for me.
The extended Cerritos refit montage/music was
You could say it was earl grey hot.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Yes. Almost every time.
Just Enterprise. Man I still hate that intro.
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…
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.
That song actually has three full verses, only the first is used for the intro credits
I’m thankful for that.
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.
It’s vile.
…bubbly and cloying and happy.
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.
Really? But it’s been a long road gettin from there to here….
