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[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

As someone who knows almost nothing about Star Trek, you finally made a meme that I cannot comprehend on any level. Well done.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Star trek opening credits were always these expansive, gorgeous classical pieces. Highly aspirational, with intense, driving music but very grandiose.

This was the case for the first 4 star trek shows, but when the 5th show Enterprise premiered, a show about the federation leading up to the original series timeline, its intro was a country pop power ballad. Its still inspirational and driving, but it was a wild departure from the more cerebral intros that came before it.

People have...feelings about it.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Think “I love my blue jeans, I love my truck, l love my beer and America” style.

My wife dun died and my dog dun divorced me.

Still, there should be emphasis on the power in power ballad. I hate that song a lot, but at the same time it's such a powerful earworm that I love it.

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

It's a better version of the Armageddon movie song.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

The quotes are parts of the theme song to Enterprise.

It was the only Star Trek show that didn't use a variant of the Trek theme song.

The show also had a rough start. But got good.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

That's because ♫I've got faith of the heart, I'm going where my heart will take me♫

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Request denied. All command functions have been routed to Broccoli.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Not because he dislikes it. He simply believes that his own rendition is superior. Let's hear it, shall we?...

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, the TOS and TNG theme songs were different from the DS9 and Voyager themes. The former being more powerful, driving themes. The latter being more somber, contemplative themes.

It makes sense to change it up every once in a while. And honestly the more grounded, hopeful theme of Enterprise felt right for the theme of the show, setting up the eventual foundation of the United Federation of Planets at the end (spoilers, sorry).

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They were different, but they were all still instrumental. When most people think of Star Trek music, they think of horn and violin music. Enterprise had none of that and was heavily lyrical.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's about time they worked some bongos back into a theme.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Fuck yes. Star Trek needs its own Cantina song!

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

TOS and TNG also had the voice over stating the Starfleet modus operandi.

Sometimes things are just different.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Voiceover =/= lyrics.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

The horn work in the DS9 theme is awesome. Just tossing that out there.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

NO THEY'RE NOT GONNA HOLD ME DOWN

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

sing along with it once ironically and you know it’ll own you soon. It’s a curse; a plague.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Resistance is futile.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope. It's terrible and it will always be terrible.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Terribly awesome, and feeling that way makes you terrible too.

That song is schadenfreude in musical form.

[–] bagele@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: The song is a Rod Stewart song written for the movie Patch Adams.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

His rejecting the song is our gain.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Day 50: red bloodshot eyes trickling tears ... snaps flute in half .... someone hands him another flute

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

You're right, and everybody who hates it is right.

It's cheap, hokey, sentimental, and goddamnit it fucking works on me.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, but the utter inanity of "faith of the heart" as a lyric kills any possible enjoyment of the song for me. The bland but overwrought vocals don't help, but if the lyrics were good enough, I could look past that.

I've said it before, I didn't mind a lyrical theme song, I minded that song. It was just so damn empty and cookie cutter. Like, the frakking Dr Pol theme song is better because it's at least not pretending to be something it isn't.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

You can't just refer to it as "faith of the heart", it's "faith of the heaarrr-arrr-arr-arr-arrrt".

[–] ClarkDoom@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thrn they drop the season 3 version...

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, need to add a panel of grumpy old pissed-off Picard lambasting the horror that is the remix.