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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Enterprise fans a few years ago-

"I wonder if they'll give this show a proper finale? Eh. Probably too much to ask. The intro music isn't bad, at least."

[–] FlyingSquid 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The intro music isn’t bad, at least.

"The intro music sucks and isn't Star Trek because it's a pop song" was like the very first complaint people made upon seeing the first episode.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It is a bad, cheesy, non-trek song that we ironically called good for so long we actually started liking it for real.

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 6 months ago

I guarantee you that not only were there plenty of people who loved it the first time they heard it, there were plenty of people who loved it the first time the heard it on the Rod Stewart album they already owned when the show came out.

Now me, I hate Rod Stewart and I hate that song, but different strokes...

[–] OccamsTeapot 5 points 6 months ago

It's insidious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

that we ironically called good for so long we actually started liking it for real.

Yeah. That was my journey, exactly. Now I'm really fond of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I occasionally sneak that into a playlist while my wife and I are listening to something, and then I leave the room for a bit. I don't do it too often, though, because I don't want a divorce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I like the song and the intro.

[–] Buffalox 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It so reminds me of Rod Stewart "Sailing", Which was used for a TV show in the late 70's. I hated that song more than 40 years ago and I still do, and I hate the theme song to Enterprise sounding like something from the 70's. It seemed to me everything about Enterprise was to make humanity seem backwards and primitive but in a future SciFi setting. Like when one of the first episodes, they are totally surprised that bacteria can contaminate a planet. Something that has been well known and considered already for several decades.

[–] FlyingSquid 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It reminds you of a Rod Stewart song because... it's a Rod Stewart song!

He did it originally. They couldn't afford the rights to his version for the show so they re-recorded it with a guy who sounds kind of like Rod Stewart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I get Brian Adams vibes myself.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 6 months ago

You might, but it was a Rod Stewart song. It was also originally in the movie Patch Adams before it was in Enterprise. I don't know why, but I think that's amusing.

Maybe it's because, apparently according to my searching, the songwriter also wrote songs for Bryan Adams?

I was wrong about one thing though: it wasn't on a Stewart album, it was just on the Patch Adams soundtrack album.

[–] Buffalox 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

OK that would explain it, but AFAIK if you rerecord it, you still need to pay royalties.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 6 months ago

They did pay royalties. They just paid less than they would have to pay if they used the original song.