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?
- Terevos ( @Terevos@lemm.ee ) English19•25 days ago
Just Enterprise. Man I still hate that intro.
- Sisko Urso ( @siskourso@odin.lanofthedead.xyz ) English13•25 days ago
Really? But it’s been a long road gettin from there to here….
- Corgana ( @Corgana@startrek.website ) English3•24 days ago
It’s vile.
…bubbly and cloying and happy.
- d41 ( @d41@startrek.website ) English3•25 days ago
The end credits music was quite good if I remember right though.
- Sisko Urso ( @siskourso@odin.lanofthedead.xyz ) English2•25 days ago
The end credits song were originally suppose to be the intro song but was changed last minute.
- CeruleanRuin ( @CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ) English1•24 days 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.
- CeruleanRuin ( @CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ) English3•24 days 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.
- Stepos Venzny ( @SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ) English2•25 days ago
There is something about my hatred for the Enterprise intro which compels me to endure it.
- fakeman_pretendname ( @fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ) English7•25 days ago
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 ( @badlotus@lemm.ee ) English2•25 days ago
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.
- Stepos Venzny ( @SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ) English3•25 days ago
It went EVEN BIGGER.
- Pandantic [none/username] ( @Pandantic@midwest.social ) English1•24 days ago
Season 3 had the new intro (I’m watching it now) and it was a better version, but still a corny rock ballad so I still am a meh/10.
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 10•25 days ago
I was just complaining that ds9 has a 90+ second intro… it’s just too much
- Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) English7•25 days ago
I laughed so much when they lampshaded that in Lower Decks
- data1701d (He/Him) ( @data1701d@startrek.website ) English4•25 days ago
Ransom: “Just keep circling.”
- witheyeandclaw ( @witheyeandclaw@lemmy.sdf.org ) English5•25 days ago
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.
- Match!! ( @match@pawb.social ) English1•25 days ago
it’s the absolute BEST for sleeping to
- Corgana ( @Corgana@startrek.website ) English2•24 days ago
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 ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 2•24 days ago
ya know, youre absolutely right. when im in the mood it is absolutely beautiful.
- Corgana ( @Corgana@startrek.website ) English2•24 days 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.
- hendrik ( @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ) English6•25 days 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 ( @Klanky@sopuli.xyz ) English6•25 days ago
Only Enterprise lol
- LazyGit ( @LazyGit@feddit.org ) English5•25 days 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
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•24 days ago
never skip the ds9 intro; i’m too busy crying and grandly humming along.
- Skull giver ( @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ) English4•25 days ago
I watch every intro/outro about three times every binge session before I get sick of it and skip them. Yes, that includes Enterprise;the intro is fine, haters gonna hate.
- The Picard Maneuver ( @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ) English3•25 days ago
Usually, but I love the optimistic fanfare of the TNG intro, and it has a habit of drawing me in.
- Pandantic [none/username] ( @Pandantic@midwest.social ) English2•24 days ago
I watch it is for like the first 5 eps and then I don’t. I wanna get to the action!
- Luke ( @lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml ) English2•25 days ago
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.
- data1701d (He/Him) ( @data1701d@startrek.website ) English1•25 days ago
Do you count The Inner Light as one of the cozy episodes or stressful episodes?
- Luke ( @lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml ) English1•25 days ago
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.
- data1701d (He/Him) ( @data1701d@startrek.website ) English1•25 days ago
Gotta agree with Data’s Day. In that same vein, I also love Hero Worship.
Using book mode, I once typed the entirety of The Inner Light script in Monkeytype. My meme description of that episode is “Picard plays Animal Crossing VR and then has his entire save deleted.”
- CapillaryUpgrade ( @CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•25 days ago
Only so I don’t have to turn down the volume, and turn it back up when the episode starts.
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) English1•24 days ago
Yeah, mostly, I mean why are they like 20 minutes long?! :D
Tho I don’t always skip the outros.
- data1701d (He/Him) ( @data1701d@startrek.website ) English1•25 days ago
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.
- xyguy ( @xyguy@startrek.website ) English1•25 days ago
TOS always, the others it depends.
- CCMan1701A ( @CCMan1701A@startrek.website ) English1•25 days ago
Never, same applies to The Expanse
- Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) English2•25 days ago
The Expense’s intro is in it’s own league