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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?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Just Enterprise. Man I still hate that intro.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Really? But it’s been a long road gettin from there to here….

[–] EnderMB 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The end credits music was quite good if I remember right though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The end credits song were originally suppose to be the intro song but was changed last minute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

[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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It's vile.

…bubbly and cloying and happy.

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[–] ooterness 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kiernian 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] itsathursday 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

🎶🎶 It's been a long road... 🎶🎶

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I was just complaining that ds9 has a 90+ second intro.. it's just too much

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I laughed so much when they lampshaded that in Lower Decks

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

Ransom: "Just keep circling."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ya know, youre absolutely right. when im in the mood it is absolutely beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Even skipped it back in the days when we were recording TNG episodes on tape. Fast forward and a magical chant of ‘Gene, Gene, Gene…’ to ensure stopping at Gene Roddenberry’s name as it indicated the end of the intro

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Usually, but I love the optimistic fanfare of the TNG intro, and it has a habit of drawing me in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Only Enterprise lol

[–] reddig33 8 points 3 months ago

If it’s Enterprise? Definitely. Or I mute it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

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 😅

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

even when binging I watch the voyager intro every few episodes, I love the music too much

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

The intro music is the best part of VOY.

TNG's music is engraved on my soul tho.

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

You don't skip the Enterprise intro?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle 7 points 3 months ago

What have I done

[–] Ensign_Crab 6 points 2 months ago

If it has opening narration, I don't skip it.

I'm a sucker for that sort of pageantry.

[–] newthrowaway20 5 points 3 months ago

I will watch the intro once.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 3 months ago

Yes, unless I haven't watched in a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you count The Inner Light as one of the cozy episodes or stressful episodes?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

never skip the ds9 intro; i'm too busy crying and grandly humming along.

[–] khannie 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never, same applies to The Expanse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The Expense's intro is in it's own league

[–] eightpix 3 points 3 months ago

Yes. Almost every time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I watch it is for like the first 5 eps and then I don’t. I wanna get to the action!

[–] Kiernian 3 points 2 months ago

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.

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

I'll watch one when I sit down to watch, then I'll skip it on any further episodes in the same watch session.

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

Only so I don't have to turn down the volume, and turn it back up when the episode starts.

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

TOS always, the others it depends.

[–] then_three_more 2 points 2 months ago

Ent and lower decks often get skipped, everything else occasionally.

Prodigy, never. That theme is up there with Voy and DS9.

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