It’s just super different than the rest of the franchise.
Nothing is perfect, every show has its ill-fitting parts, enterprise just decided to make it the theme, instead of slapping it here and there in episodes.
I say let your freak flag fly. Fuck the haters. Enjoy your garbage intro song.
Idk if its true, the youtube edits seem fairly compelling, but I heard that originally the title scene was cut to “Wherever You Will Go” by The Calling. They either had to or wanted to change it because the second episode of Smallville used the same song for it’s closing scene (which aired just weeks before Enterprise’s pilot). What shits me off is that they went and added some STUPID ELECTRIC GUITAR RIFF to later seasons for, what, royalty reasons? Like they already had a turd and decided it was cheaper to stuff it full of corn and claim its a new turd than to pay a turd license.
no… it’s a terrible song. It sounds like AI made it with the prompt “give me a corny ass Nashville radio style song about a vague religious term that can offend no one.”
At first I knew of the theme song as a joke … a meme. So I listened to it fully at the start of every episode as a joke … by about six or seven episodes in, I didn’t want to turn it off. After that, I started enjoying it … then they changed the style in Season 3? and for a while I was pissed … then it took another three or four episodes and I started liking that too.
I think it’s more of an age thing … I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I enjoy a lot of folky style rock and I always found the theme so vaguely familiar and I associate with it already. Coupled with the idea that Enterprise is a throwback to an earlier age of the Trek universe, it all seems to fit in with me, which is one of the main reason why I enjoy it all.
I was a kid when ENT was airing, I wasn’t able to watch it consistently, but it was my first brush with Star Trek and I remembered how hopeful the song made me feel for the future. I can admit it is corny, but I was a kid and I didn’t know much English at the time so I didn’t get the religious undertones and to this day hearing it makes me incredibly nostalgic. I long for that feeling of hopefulness now and I’m thankful I get to experience at least a little bit of it when watching that intro.
That’s exactly the spirit that Star Trek was always about. Hope.
I grew up in the 80s and I never saw the Original Series but I saw a few of the movies and I always looked up to the characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy and all the others. I was a teen when TNG started but we didn’t have full access to cable TV so I only ever watched a handful of episodes but I loved them all … because like you said, it gave a sense of hope and optimism for the future.
It’s been so much fun over the past 10/15 years that I slowly got to watch all or most of the Star Trek I missed out on. It’s getting to the point of being able to rewatch them all again and I don’t mind.
Thanks for sharing! Keep watching, keep hoping and it’s great to hear your story.
I try not to judge anyone’s taste in music, and the song is fine, but I think it was an objectively bad choice for a space show about the future.
Classical, orchestral style music as used most of the other show intros doesn’t really age, as it’s already a very old and neutral style. The STE theme starts and it instantly dates the show to the 90s (even though it was an early 2000s show).
It was even poorly received at the time, which is why they modified it to drop the original drums and include a faster tempo percussion and orchestral backing, starting in season 3.
What’s crazy is that STE has a more classical theme song. They just only use it for the ending credits afaik. And it still has some stupid electric guitar because its the 2000s and its the FUTURE.
And Enterprise had a great opening theme song, sadly they decided to play it over the closing credits. Faith of the Heart is raspy and bland and sounds like an advertising jingle.
So you dislike the thing that I like. Well, well. Guess what? I absolutely despise the things that you like. And the things you love? I abhor them. You must be a brute, a philistine, a barbarian, not only to have such an uneducated palate, but to have the foolishness to admit it. Ha ha, truly! This person has different tastes! Very bizarre but also absolutely wrong.
I’ll say it loud, I’ll say it proud: I like the STE theme song. I rarely skip it.
There. The truth is out. My soul, stripped bare, exposed to the judgmental gaze of the masses.
May the Lord have mercy on my henceforth outcast soul.
It’s not a bad song.
It’s just super different than the rest of the franchise.
Nothing is perfect, every show has its ill-fitting parts, enterprise just decided to make it the theme, instead of slapping it here and there in episodes.
I say let your freak flag fly. Fuck the haters. Enjoy your
garbageintro song.Idk if its true, the youtube edits seem fairly compelling, but I heard that originally the title scene was cut to “Wherever You Will Go” by The Calling. They either had to or wanted to change it because the second episode of Smallville used the same song for it’s closing scene (which aired just weeks before Enterprise’s pilot). What shits me off is that they went and added some STUPID ELECTRIC GUITAR RIFF to later seasons for, what, royalty reasons? Like they already had a turd and decided it was cheaper to stuff it full of corn and claim its a new turd than to pay a turd license.
no… it’s a terrible song. It sounds like AI made it with the prompt “give me a corny ass Nashville radio style song about a vague religious term that can offend no one.”
Even though I like the theme because of how corny and thus hilarious it is, I have to agree with you.
I’m here with you on that
I watched it all over the past year.
At first I knew of the theme song as a joke … a meme. So I listened to it fully at the start of every episode as a joke … by about six or seven episodes in, I didn’t want to turn it off. After that, I started enjoying it … then they changed the style in Season 3? and for a while I was pissed … then it took another three or four episodes and I started liking that too.
I think it’s more of an age thing … I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I enjoy a lot of folky style rock and I always found the theme so vaguely familiar and I associate with it already. Coupled with the idea that Enterprise is a throwback to an earlier age of the Trek universe, it all seems to fit in with me, which is one of the main reason why I enjoy it all.
I was a kid when ENT was airing, I wasn’t able to watch it consistently, but it was my first brush with Star Trek and I remembered how hopeful the song made me feel for the future. I can admit it is corny, but I was a kid and I didn’t know much English at the time so I didn’t get the religious undertones and to this day hearing it makes me incredibly nostalgic. I long for that feeling of hopefulness now and I’m thankful I get to experience at least a little bit of it when watching that intro.
That’s exactly the spirit that Star Trek was always about. Hope.
I grew up in the 80s and I never saw the Original Series but I saw a few of the movies and I always looked up to the characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy and all the others. I was a teen when TNG started but we didn’t have full access to cable TV so I only ever watched a handful of episodes but I loved them all … because like you said, it gave a sense of hope and optimism for the future.
It’s been so much fun over the past 10/15 years that I slowly got to watch all or most of the Star Trek I missed out on. It’s getting to the point of being able to rewatch them all again and I don’t mind.
Thanks for sharing! Keep watching, keep hoping and it’s great to hear your story.
I try not to judge anyone’s taste in music, and the song is fine, but I think it was an objectively bad choice for a space show about the future.
Classical, orchestral style music as used most of the other show intros doesn’t really age, as it’s already a very old and neutral style. The STE theme starts and it instantly dates the show to the 90s (even though it was an early 2000s show).
It was even poorly received at the time, which is why they modified it to drop the original drums and include a faster tempo percussion and orchestral backing, starting in season 3.
What’s crazy is that STE has a more classical theme song. They just only use it for the ending credits afaik. And it still has some stupid electric guitar because its the 2000s and its the FUTURE.
And Enterprise had a great opening theme song, sadly they decided to play it over the closing credits. Faith of the Heart is raspy and bland and sounds like an advertising jingle.
I"m 100% with you. Faith of the Heart fans unite!
I get all tastes are found in nature but this is pushing it