Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming?
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?
SPACE . . .
🎶🎶 It's been a long road... 🎶🎶
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I was just complaining that ds9 has a 90+ second intro.. it's just too much
I laughed so much when they lampshaded that in Lower Decks
Ransom: "Just keep circling."
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.
it's the absolute BEST for sleeping to
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.
If it’s Enterprise? Definitely. Or I mute it.
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 😅
Only Enterprise lol
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
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.
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.
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.
That's adorable!
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.
You don't skip the Enterprise intro?
It's been a long time...
What have I done
If it has opening narration, I don't skip it.
I'm a sucker for that sort of pageantry.
Yes, unless I haven't watched in a while.
I will watch the intro once.
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.
Do you count The Inner Light as one of the cozy episodes or stressful episodes?
Good question.. it's not on my playlist but it's probably actually cozy. I just don't tend to watch that one often because it makes me feel sad.
My top 3 favorite cozy episodes are Data's Day, Déjà Q, and Manhunt. Horny Lwaxana is an inspiration; her reactions to her daughter's slut shaming comments are so priceless to me.
never skip the ds9 intro; i'm too busy crying and grandly humming along.
Same except the Enterprise intro, which is objectively terrible, and you know it in your heart of hearts
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.
10-12? I was sneakily joining my mom's TNG watch sessions when I was 7! 😂
Though I enjoyed Star Trek, I wasn't watching whole series until 2020 or so. Funny enough, VOY Endgame came out four days after my parent's wedding, which my dad had to sit with my mom for.
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.
If I'm alone, I often skip. With my daughter, we listen patiently. She needs to absorb the majesty.
Never, same applies to The Expanse
The Expense's intro is in it's own league
Yes. Almost every time.
I watch it is for like the first 5 eps and then I don’t. I wanna get to the action!
Ent and lower decks often get skipped, everything else occasionally.
Prodigy, never. That theme is up there with Voy and DS9.
I'll watch one when I sit down to watch, then I'll skip it on any further episodes in the same watch session.
TOS always, the others it depends.
The DS9 one really drags on. It's great but long.
Only so I don't have to turn down the volume, and turn it back up when the episode starts.
Oh, where's that option in VLC? (I'd probably skip if given the choice, I remember wanting to constantly with game of thrones but whoever I was with insisted on watching the entire 5 hours every time)
Yeah, mostly, I mean why are they like 20 minutes long?! :D
Tho I don't always skip the outros.
Usually, no, especially with DS9 (Even that crappy spread-up version with the cheap drum track tacked on top used after season 4.)
However, as I was watching Prodigy on my desktop, my behavior varied. For a while, I watched the whole intro, but my anticipation became too much and I began skipping right through it as I got through season 2.
Just Enterprise. Man I still hate that intro.
Really? But it’s been a long road gettin from there to here….
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
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.
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.
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?
That song actually has three full verses, only the first is used for the intro credits
I'm thankful for that.