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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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[–] Terevos@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Just Enterprise. Man I still hate that intro.

[–] siskourso@odin.lanofthedead.xyz 20 points 2 months ago

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

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 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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[–] d41@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] siskourso@odin.lanofthedead.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 3 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.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

It's vile.

…bubbly and cloying and happy.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is something about my hatred for the Enterprise intro which compels me to endure it.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] badlotus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

It went EVEN BIGGER.

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[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 15 points 2 months ago

🎶🎶 It's been a long road... 🎶🎶

[–] axont@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got faith

Of the heaaart

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I-was-saying I actually started to like that song.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 12 points 2 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.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I laughed so much when they lampshaded that in Lower Decks

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

Ransom: "Just keep circling."

[–] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.sdf.org 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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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 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.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 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.

[–] LazyGit@feddit.org 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

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 8 points 2 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 😅

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

Only Enterprise lol

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

[–] Baalial@lemm.ee 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.

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It was fun to watch the Lower Decks intro gradually change over time, especially that shootout that the Cerritos runs away form.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

I'm a sucker for that sort of pageantry.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't skip the Enterprise intro?

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

What have I done

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (3 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.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I will watch the intro once.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 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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[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never, same applies to The Expanse

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Kiernian@lemmy.world 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.

[–] chillbo_baggins@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

If I'm alone, I often skip. With my daughter, we listen patiently. She needs to absorb the majesty.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yes. Almost every time.

[–] CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org 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.

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