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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In addition, the series airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada and on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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| April 29, 2022 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 207 comments so far

We are now less than a week away from the launch of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount+ and more insights into the series are coming out this morning, including a look at the opening title sequence and another video featurette introducing the show.

Strange New Title Sequence

On Friday morning Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount (Captain Pike) revealed the opening title sequence for the show. He also expressed that it was an honor for him to perform the classic “Space, the final frontier…” narration.  Watch it below. [Also available internationally at startrek.com ]

Perhaps the greatest honor of my career to date was getting to utter these words: “Space, the final frontier…” I could not be more proud to be a part of the @StarTrekOnPPlus team and I could not be more grateful to the Trek community. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU. pic.twitter.com/NgMvUC9nza — Anson Mount (@ansonmount) April 29, 2022

More From Inside The Show

Paramount+ also released a 22-minute introductory video hosted by Wil Wheaton. This includes the 8-minute featurette released yesterday, along with more footage and additional interviews with Anson Mount, showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, and Celia Rose Gooding (Uhura). There is also a segment with Jeff Russo talking about composing the theme for the series.

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love it! Love It!! LOVE IT!!!!

Looks beautiful, though the theme seems a bit muddled. Would have preferred something like this aka a refresh of the existing TOS theme: youtu.be/uSaIQuUwKEI

Still though, very nice and nice to see a proper ship opening sequence again. Now, if they can just give the Ent straight nacelle pylons/struts again like the classic Connie… but that’s just me being picky ;)

Hope it’s a good show *fingers crossed*

That sounds a lot like TOS. Well good news, friend! There’s 3 seasons’ worth of all that goodness!

The Cage had all those before TOS’ 3 seasons though tbf. Should match up or be closer.

“Looks beautiful, though the theme seems a bit muddled.”

Initially I wasn’t too impressed either but it is growing on me (10+ viewings so far)… And it IS a refreshed version of the TOS theme. It’s TOS done in Two Steps From Hell style if you ask me…

The rhythm of the main part reminds me of the 90s Hercules theme :-)

And the final TOS them towards the end is somewhat reminiscent of the X-Files (that one had already been in the trailers)…

So… stock music. Yeah, I can hear that. Ah well, the visuals are a nice enough continuation of the Prodigy/Voyager approaches to a title sequence.

I chose not to listen the theme just yet. Next Thursday, when the show starts.

You’re in for a real treat!

It’s definitely a variation on the theme, not simply a more intense reorchestration. The half note at the end of the first triplet is a higher note, not the original middle C-flat (I think that’s what it is). The recapitulation of the phrase the second around resolves on the middle C but then deviates again after that.

But – it’s a different crew, a different captain, so it’s ok. It’s actually thematically quite lovely in that, it does feel incomplete, because this ship hasn’t yet reached it’s first, best destiny yet. It’s kind of there, you can sense it, but it hasn’t been fufilled yet.

It’s not “Beyond the Rim of Starlight” but getting close :D

It’s growing on me…

We’ve all heard the original so many times that it is hard-wired into our expectations.

I’m going to give this one a few episodes before any critiques.

I agree. I would have liked the theme to have been grander. Hearing “Space, the final frontier…” though. Now, that got me!

Anson does a very good job with the narration. the music and visuals after the narration is very meh and not that exciting

Man, I disagree about the narration 100%. It sounds like Mount took some evil lessons from Harrison Ford’s BLADE RUNNER narration and tanked the delivery. Any chance that was just his first readthrough? Even Nimoy’s read of the material at the end of TWOK was better than this.

This was the one thing I was sure they couldn’t mess up. And the visuals are living down to expectations.

I agree with kmart. It sounded like Mount was half-asleep and needed a stimulant. Why were there no “titles,” like the name of the show (the words at the end were part of a promo, not part of the show’s opening) and “starring Anson Mount” and so on?

This is probably a “clean” credits sequence without the names added yet. We saw the same with the Prodigy opening titles unveiling.

Mount is very much a natural delivery American television and film actor of his generation.

He’s not from the Shakespearean theatre tradition that either Shatner or Stewart were formed in.

It’s generally a positive, but this may be one of the drawbacks in Mount’s style of performance.

I love the visuals (always up of gratuitous shots of the E), but the score feels kinda meh on first listen. It’s like when a non-licensed production is trying to evoke the original Star Trek theme, but skews it just enough to protect it in a court of law. I would have leaned into the original theme more. Really own it.

Beautiful visuals; theme is undistinguished / unmemorable / not BOLD!

NOW WE’RE TALKIN’!!

THAT’S THE SPIRIT!

I am not a huge fan of this Jeff Russo.

Agreed. He’s a good composer but not a good Trek composer. All of the the series have main title scores that are not memorable and sound similar to each other and anything else on tv, in my opinion.

I haven’t care for any of his Trek work. Too generic.

And, once again, I have to throw something over my lap….BRING. IT. ON.

So on Anson’s instagram… he says that they recorded this while Shatner was in orbit!

That just gave me thrilling Nerd chills. So cool.

Shatner was never in orbit. He was briefly in space, for about 3 minutes, not likely long enough to record the monologue. Maybe they intentionally timed it just right, I don’t know.

That was a suborbital flight, but that’s still awesome to hear!

It took me a decade to love the themes for DS9 and Voyager, this feels like it will grow on me much quicker.

Although, part of me was hoping that, in the same way TNG stole the theme from the TOS movies, SNW would use a re-arranged version of the Giacchino theme from the Abrams movies, which is easily one of the bright spots of that trilogy.

While I rarely warmed to VOYAGER itself, I loved the opening music instantly. It (and the visuals) totally embodied the theme of the show: little ship lost on the edge of the final frontier, far from home. There’s a reason Goldsmith got paid the big bucks: he could set the phone book to music, and it would work. By comparison the SNW theme is *sigh* a muddled mess, only really coming to life when Courage’s music takes over. And the visuals are pretty, but cartoonish. Still hope the best for the show, but these opening titles are a real disappointment.

(That said, I hated Giaccino’s endlessly repetitive theme for Trek 2009, and am delighted that Russo went nowhere near it.)

Yeah, my feelings too. There really isn’t a stand out theme beyond the existing TOS bits. The visuals as well don’t feel grounded. I showed the directors edition of The Motion Picture to a friend Wednesday evening and we were discussing just how bland most special effects are these days. They lack the ingenuity, inspiration and genius of someone like Douglas Trumbull. These artists don’t appear to have any real education or understanding of how these vehicles would actually function, they just know how to use their CGI software to make things move. Are they given an education in movie lenses and the like? Shot composition? I just don’t get that from the effects in this introduction or in the clips of the show I’ve seen so far. Unlike the physical model from TMP this CGI model just doesn’t feel real and with the right textures and attention to lighting / movement, CGI can definitely feel just as real as any physical model.

Giacchino’s is the best Trek theme since TNG, bar none. It’s not even close.

I liked Giacchino’s Star Trek theme most when he re-used it in Doctor Strange ;)

I love the Dr. Strange score but I’ve never heard any Trek 09-like cues in it. Which pieces are you referring to?

And TNG is a re-arrangement of Goldsmith’s TMP score.

You are, of course, welcome to feel that way. Obviously, I don’t, but that doesn’t mean you’re wrong. FWIW there hasn’t been a time I haven’t teared-up during the pre-credits sequence in UP, and a lot of that is due to Giacchino’s music, so my feelings about his work on the Abrams Trek films are nothing personal.

Since the TNG theme just peed all over the TMP theme, sounding offspeed and chintzy by comparison, you’re setting the goalpost crossbar below the actual playing field.

They had to hastily get Goldsmith to rework the TMP theme for TNG after Dennis McCarthy’s original main theme (which sounds like ’70s Saturday morning TV music) was disliked by Roddenberry & Co.

Well, to be honest, McCarthy’s TNG theme is pretty awful.

I didn’t think Goldsmith was involved at all; I remember around the time of TFF somebody asked him about TMP’s use of it and he said he thought it sounded pretty good (then again, JG was always very gracious and forgiving; when somebody asked him about other composers stealing from his work (looking at you, James Horner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), he said he was flattered.

Love Giacchino, his “Incredibles” one of my favorite soundtracks, but yeah, his Star Trek theme disappointed me. It was kinda “down” and gloomy.

I thought that just as TNG used the theme from TMP, “Enterprise” should have used the theme from “First Contact.”

That choice would have actually fit, because FC’s theme is what I consider ‘graduation day’ music (and no, that’s generally not a flattering description, and I apply it to quite a lot of John Williams less edgy work as well as his less intellectual sounding work), and thematically that sort of sound represents what ENT aspired to do.

Absolutely loved it! It’s going to be even better after a few episodes of the show, but I already know I’m gonna get excited for it every time

I’m predicting 30 executive producer credits.

I would not be surprised, but hopefully they return to classic Trek in every way, including the opening credits featuring the cast.

Using everyone’s names is a feature of new Trek. Classic Trek had two names in the first season and only added a 3rd for the 2nd and 3rd season.

What DO all those producers do anyway?

Spectacular opening credits, excellent voiceover by Anson Mount, and awesome remix of the TOS theme!

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting that he said “five year mission” instead of changing that part like Picard did. I wonder if that means that the plan is for five seasons, which would still end them a couple of years before TOS.

This version has “five yr mission” AND “where no one” together. It’s a blend of TOS & TNG which is a nod to both while being unique, & I like that. I’d presume they’d welcome it going much further than 5 yrs.

At 10 eps per season, that’s likely 6 months or less than real mission time, so they can go 10 years easily before we’d need to start to question that.

I am so optimistic about this series though, that I am expecting them to shift to major movies at some point — probably after the traditional Trek seven season run.

A bit dangerous going to warp between two moons and a planet!

This is the best opening title that I have seen on any Trek series, all the beauty shots of the Big E set me all a-flutter!!

It comes in third-best for me. Prodigy and Voyager are still above but it’s great!

We need the DS9 and VOY openings in HD!!!!

I haven’t seen Prodigy, and yeah Voyager title is pretty damn good – well except for that part where Voyager has an out of scale reflection from the rings of a planet, that didn’t look right, unless maybe it was a dwarf planet or something….

That’s the first thing I thought about at the end actually. Should they really be going to warp between the moons and the planet? Reminded me the scene in The Last Jedi when they warped the ship into a Star Destroyer to destroy it.

They’ll be millions of miles between them. Plenty of space for a good helmsman.

Cool titles, but I’m a bit confused by the five-year mission part. Ever since Into Darkness introduced the idea that no five-year mission had been completed before (which means certainly not before the divergence point when Nero arrived), I kind of figured the reason Kirk & Co. came back as heroes between TOS and TMP was because they were the first to complete such a mission. If that’s the case, then I’m not sure why Pike’s on a five-year mission. What defines such a mission, especially since he’s been captain since at least 2254, which is 6 years before this show takes place? My interpretation of a five-year mission has been one in which they don’t return to Earth for the duration (barring time-travel episodes like “Tomorrow is Yesterday” and “Assignment: Earth”). If that’s the case, then a five-year mission that begins in 2260 would make sense. And maybe the mission gets cut short when Pike has to confront his fate, paving the way for Kirk’s tenure.

Pike doesn’t meet his fate until after Kirk’s mission begins.

Correct, Legate. 😊

Shhhhh, the current production team doesn’t know that detail. They know Trek at a surface level.

In the prime universe, we don’t know whether Kirk’s Enterprise was the first to successfully complete a five-year mission. It’s never been addressed before on screen. Given that the Enterprise was launched in 2245 under April, and Pike took command in 2250, I think it’s reasonable to assume that there were successful five-year missions before Kirk. But again, we don’t know for sure.

Haha, I know. Was just making a joke.

Into Darkness did not introduce that concept. The novelization to Star Trek The Motion Picture explained that Kirk was the first captain to actually complete the mission and return mostly intact.

Personally that would make it much more interesting to me to see what the hell happened to the rest of the fleet.

Into Darkness is in a different universe.

Discovery has already established that Pike was first officer on the Enterprise under Robert April (2245-2250), when he became the captain. Michael Burnham mentions the Enterprise was away in its five-year mission during the Klingon War, so prévios five-year missions ARE canon. What is NOT canon is the idea that Kirk was the first captain to complete one of those.

To my understanding, the many many Star Trek books are not canon.

even the one written by Roddenberry :| (TMP novelization)

Having just recently reread that book after several years, I have to say THANK GOD.

With the Deltan “oath of celibacy” backstory stuff and the ‘New Humans’ business (both 100% pure Roddenberry), let’s hope TMP isn’t canon.

Didn’t Pike complete two five year missions?

It’s just me, but I like to think that the “Five Year Mission” concept came along later. Originally, the Constitution-class was meant to ‘show the flag’ in Federation and nearby territory. So just because Pike was in command for five or more years doesn’t mean he was given a single mission.

Then something happened that the Federation decided to really push out beyond the confines of its little corner of the Alpha Quadrant. I was hoping Strange New Worlds would set that up, with Pike & Co. starting to see that there are weird and dangerous worlds beyond the Federation and as the series comes to an end the Five Year Mission program is announced. But it seems unlikely now.

Looks phenomenal, the music score is growing on me the more I listen to it. Hopefully they add some sound FX to the final mix.

I had goosebumps every step of the way! LOVE IT!!!!!

Mount’s narration is spot on. The Enterprise is stunning. The music will probably grow on me. There is a space western/adventure feel to it.

Nice to see space looking colourful again. I always preferred the original TOS planet colours and not the remastered toned down ones, even if pink planets aren’t completely realistic.

Nice to see space at all. Picard Season 2 has been Los Angeles Trek.

This gave me goosebumps. Excellent. Hopefully the show will be as good.

It’s like Dr. Seuss designed an intro.

I see the ship.

I see the ship up close.

I see the ship far away.

I see the ship in green light.

I see the ship in orange light.

Where’s the ship?

THERE’S THE SHIP!

Also, the music sounds like someone was trying to play the TOS theme but couldn’t remember how it went past the first half-dozen notes.

So I guess when you see a Monet painting, you just see blotches of paint…

Well, now I do!

Bravo! Chris, do you need some suntan lotion? You just got burned!

If you say so, champ.

You made my weekend. Every time I read this, I start laughing. :D

Heh. I’m usually not a big fan of fan-snark, but aside from the fact that I largely agree, this was pretty funny.

I’m not crying ! YOU’RE crying!

To be fair all the main titles for trek shows have been pretty good for current era trek shows. That’s a positive most of us might agree at least.

Yea, the vast majority of fans are with you on that.

I rather liked (and still like) the Discovery theme music, if not the title design. I very much liked the melancholy of the Picard season 1 theme, but consider season 2 to be a muddle, as (unfortunately) I do this. So, it’s a mixed bag.

The second half of Picard season 2 has left a sour taste in my mouth. I’ve heard people blame covid for the dip in quality of the season but considering the track record of stretching plot threads razor thin in modern live action trek and other lazy writing tropes that I can go on and on about, I’m cautiously optimistic about SNW… and thats to put it mildly.

Here’s to a return of the spirit of classic trek! Fingers crossed!

Can’t blame covid for a dip in quality since so many other show have been hitting it out of the park (Better Call Saul comes to mind) but I think you nailed it: stretching plot threads razor thin. We really didn’t need 10 episodes to tell the story that’s unfolding in Picard season 2.

I love, I mean really, really love, the music and narration. They nailed that!!!

Regarding the E itself, I will withhold judgement until I see more, but three comments:

First, the ship needs a carwash? I mean how does a ship get dirty like that in space, and dust and dirt should fall off in cold vacuum.

Secondly, is it just me, or does space itself seem like there’s a lot of atmosphere and cloudiness that slightly blur most of the space scenes.

Finally, I prefer at least in some scenes with the lighting to see a lighter almost white E (like TMP E’s drydock scene), not a silver E…it looks too much like a silver metal diecast ship to me.

Regardless of these critiques on the E, I am really stoked to get to E1 next week!

Well, I agree with all of this, but when I made similar comments on these forums some time back, you dusted me for it!

It’s a shame, because I mostly like the Eaves design, but the lighting and rendering make the ship look like it’s stitched together out of iron plates. Why couldn’t it have been TMP-beautiful instead?

Hey Michael, well I guess now that I am seeing this in like every freaking scene in the intro, I appreciate your point more. I didn’t see that all the time in DSC, so I may have given it more of a free pass than I should have.

As Fonzie would say, I was “wrooooooooooong” :-)

Well, this is probably a trekmovie first, the three of us agreeing on something. Can I stand the strain?

“I love it when a plan comes together!” :-)

Actually, dust and dirt would “fall” towards the strongest source of gravitational force, which in open space would be the ship.

And that might not be dust. It could be weathering from radiation and heat (we see the Enterprise hull glowing red hot in one sequence.) The Space Shuttles all looked dingy after a couple of re-entries. That was heat weathering, not dirt.

Now that’s a viable point.

NASA has studied this on the space station, and this simply isn’t true. Settling dust is simply not a problem. Keep in mind that dust in space does not settle on surfaces like it does on Earth–it’s not slowly sinking, it hits the surface at relative speeds measured in km/s. Additionally there is very little friction in space in regards to dust attached to the ship, so every time the ship moved only the very very tiniest portions of duck would stick due to the infinitesimal amount of gravity from the ship holding it…unless it’s a truly massive ship (Death Star).

I mean, technically Starfleet ships have shields/navigational deflectors to repel any particles on a collision course. Then again, any “dirt” would be so small relative to the ship’s size that you probably wouldn’t be able to see it from a distance. So more likely damage to the hull as Thorny suggested. Or the producers simply made an artistic decision to have the hull look dirty, just like it’s an artistic decision to have smudges on the lenses in space shots or to fog up space shots.

Agreed, let’s go with Thorny’s suggestion so we don’t have to worry about it. :-)

@1:12 in the credits. I slowed the YouTube version down to .25 speed and used a straight edge from the center of the bridge to the perimeter of the saucer. The saucer is rotating around the bridge. I hope this is not a Discovery carryover.

No, that’s just an optical illusion.

That is some insane determination to try and find even the smallest thing wrong to complain about.

Give it a rest. It’s a fairly obvious observation from the observant eye, not a complaint. It’s probably an optical illusion as New Horizon said, or perhaps there is a GoPro behind the bridge filming the Enterprise turning.

That said, I hope that Discovery’s spinning saucer section hasn’t made it into SNW because it was a horrible McGuffin.

DSC’s saucer rotating is Busch League compared to the Trek McGuffin’s of Trek Backwards Time Travel through Sun Slingshot, Katra’s, Warp 14 and Protomotter. LOL

Pretty ship. Lifeless music, with no melodic energy.

Ditto. Very harsh.

Nice. Fine. I liked the closeups. But gravely disappointed they used the “Space the final frontier” bit. They should have left that alone. IF they had to do it this would have been the perfect opportunity to return to the classic “…where no man has gone before.” Instead of the more vague and frankly incorrect, “no one”. Which means they will be be encountering no life forms whatsoever.

I agree. Since a liens are practically everywhere, “no one” is actually inaccurate. If they didn’t want to use the “man” of TOS, they should have at least gone with “human” instead of “one.” More accurate and would have finally corrected TNG’s original politically correct error.

Yep. Even “human” works better if they decided they had to have the narration. Since I knew they wouldn’t have the stones to use the original it was just better to not use it at all.

“Human” is nonsensical. It gets rid of the sexism but it doesn’t include Spock, Hemmer etc… No one is correct, from Starfleet’s POV… Of course you can still say… well, aliens are already there wherever they are going… But then you’d have to say “where no starfleet officer has gone before” and that’s lame… “no one” is the best solution, officially approve by GR himself. And no, it’s not an “error”, it’s a decision, a choice, a message…

I agree. Not sure what the issue is with “one,” unless of course you a dude and/or a real stickler for TOS opening and really just want it to be “man,” but you are not courageous enough to come out and say that, so you look for other minor reasons to criticize “one.”

If someone thinks it should be the masculine form, “man” as in TOS, just say it and stick by your opinion. No need for the gamesmanship. We can accept that opinion, even if many of us we disagree with it.

The problem with your assessment is that it is not a masculine or feminine thing. It is a term that has for ages and ages referred to all humans. There is nothing wrong or sexist about it. Therefore, the change made no sense.

Agree to disagree. No “one” is nonsensical. Always has been. It means they will find no life where they are going. If one is going to decide to abandon the concept that “man” refers to ALL human kind then it is consistent to be just as rigid with the “no one” meaning no one is there. But the fact is when used in this context “man” is hardly a sexist term. It refers to all humans. Period. The same is true of “mankind.” And using “no man has gone before” does not preclude the possibility that Spock or Hemmer or any other non-human. They are still going where no human has gone before. It works the best on every level. Being approved by GR doesn’t help. He’s made plenty of questionable decisions. Including being against the casting of Stewart.

You honestly expect them to withdraw on the inclusion front. changing it back from “one” to “man” in 2022??? And “man” is a double lie: first there are women on board, second, there are loads of aliens on board. So “no one” is the only correct – not just politically correct – version. You could fill in “starfleet officer”, but that’s uninspired.

And no, I’m glad they included the narration. I would have been grievously disppointed if they hadn’t.

I think some older fans would like 1960s gender roles to make a comeback. It was fine to have a woman serving food and coffee as a yeoman or even be a nurse or communications officer, but heaven forbid she be at the helm or a first officer. At least GR got around the producer’s sexism by having Uhura occasionally take over the nav position when needed. That was pretty cool! By 1987 things had changed appropriately both on set and in the TNG opening narrative. Btw, in the real world during the 1960s it was common to call human rated spacecraft like Mercury, Gemini and Apollo – manned spacecraft. NASA and other space agencies changed that sometime in the 1980s or 90s. In fact NASA got rid of the Manned Spacecraft Center name for its operations in Houston in the 1970s. It is now known as the Johnson Space Center or JSC.

And I think that some younger fans are too quick to make bad assumptions with little to no information to back up those takes. And many are so very arrogant that they think their view is the one and only “correct” way to see things and as such find it extremely difficult to try and understand other points of view.

I did not expect them to change it back for what I think are obvious reasons. That is why it would have been better to just drop the narration. And no, “man” is not a lie. Using ‘man’ in this context is a part of the language. It refers to all humans. Just like ‘mankind’ does. It is not a term that omits females. The only way you could change it to make sense is to say “where no human has gone before.” Which, as you say, is uninspired.

I actually really like it. The music is fun, the visuals are beautiful. I can’t wait to see it in 4K and on a large TV screen. That’s going to be a treat. I feel the wonder and excitement that the USS Enterprise has always brought me.

As an afterthought memberberry. Meh. This seems to be a thing with these new shows, the Courage’s fanfare is basically “grafted” onto the Discovery’s theme, it doesn’t even fit there, and is followed by that ominous low brass stabs. Bleh.

Happy Friday Everyone! What a great way to begin the weekend!

Great job by Anson Mount and I assumed he was going to get to narrate those famous words and when the Enterprise full view first appears after he says, “Where no one has gone before”… spectacular!

Agree with most of the comments, I liked the visuals of the Enterprise traveling through space and I too thought about them going to warp between planets…. haha too funny! The naysayers will have a field day with that one!

Overall great job, IMHO the visuals of the Enterprise flying through space reminded me of the opening of Voyager and Prodigy! The music was maybe a little underwhelming but I will have to listen and watch a few episodes before I give a verdict.

Btw, I am sure people are happy it didnt start with, It’s Been a Long Road! (Although it really has – 1964 to 2022)

Absolutely LOVE the visuals, and the narration. The theme leaves me utterly cold, a soulless mechanical echo of prior greatness. This is no future classic theme alas. Fingers crossed the actual in-episode scoring is far stronger, colourful and less synthetic sounding,

Wow. I like it. Its a good and strange mix of all previous Trek shows, 50+ years into one song. I feel the new, the past, present, and future. This is actually very cool.

If I was a teenager now, listening to this theme would seriously push me to join USSF. Maybe is the military drum beat and my joy to be a fan. Like Picard Season 2 Opening theme, I hear more military less diplomacy, and I think that is very accurate for our current domestic issues.

I need to listen to this song all week. It is a weird and fascinating variant. I can hear TOS, TNG, Voyager, Discovery, Prodigy, Enterprise Parallel Universe, all into one song!

Visuals, same vibes. I see a Voyager and Prodigy. In one of the shots, the ship is moving exactly like the NX-01 Enterprise. :D

Anson Mount is the highlight. I actually enjoy his voice over. It is powerful. You could clearly tell he is very proud to be leading this show. And he is truly enjoying to be the new captain.

Can’t wait for next week. Look forward to watching Picard finale and Strange New Worlds premiere!!! 🖖🏼

Yes, the scenes feel like a sequel to ENT. I wonder if the theme-song of ENT fits to these scenes? 🤔😉

Very likely, at some point a YouTuber will upload the Enterprise version!

trekcore did it over on their twitter and it fits perfectly

It’s lacking the “oomph” that many of the other Trek themes have, especially since it heavily uses the original TOS composition. For all the movie’s faults, Giacchino’s version nails it, I wish they either just used that or something closer to that.

I only listened to it on a laptop, but perhaps Mount’s voice also needs a bit of extra reverb or something else to make it pop a bit more.

I think he’s trying to set his version apart from Shatner’s and Stewart’s. He’s going to be the most mellow of the Enterprise captains. And I mean all this in a good way.

I was not a big fan of Giacchino’s theme (IMO it would fit a western (yeah yeah I know, TOS is a space western), it didn’t have that sci-fi vibe that Goldsmith themes have), but I’ve gotta hand it to him – it’s catchy and memorable.

Is the end of that short doc full of new images and scenes? Maybe I hadn’t seen those, but they look soooooooooo sweet.

My inner geek approves….

Opening narration: so so glad it’s there. But it’s very bland in its execution. No wonder or excitement, which is a missed opportunity.

Visuals: stunning (perhaps a bit too Prodigy/cartoony)

Music: beige. The driving rhythm is great, but there is no theme. No melody. It doesn’t go anywhere. Again, missed opportunity.

Overall, there are some really good bits, but it doesn’t hang together. It stinks of committee writing. It’s not bad by any means. But it’s just a bit……meh.

I don’t want to sound negative, and I am more excited about SNW than any modern Trek. I just feel they could have done better.

Effects look great, with some shots seemingly taken right off the covers of those classic Trek book covers from the 70’s and 80’s. Anson Mount’s recitation of the Star Trek creed is well read. Theme music is meh to me; the variations on the classic theme work to varying effect and the whole just feels like less than the sum of its parts.

The big question is the quality of the writing which is what this show will ultimately live and die on. My hope is that the more episodic nature of the show will make it easier to move past shows that maybe don’t work as well and that we at least have a few memorable episodes sprinkled in there. I’m not holding my breath given the creative team’s track record but I do sincerely hope they get it right.

Those textures on the hull are horrendous!

Agreed ! Some really bizarre choices were made to make everything look so embossed and dirty, the hull plating looks really strange, dark and gappy, but yet also shiny and reflective? The motion of the ship as it flies past is also kinda lifeless and static, they could’ve done with some more motion blurs to give it some more life. Overall I get video game vibes from this, and not in a good way.

Really hope they get the time to re-do some of these shots; 00:45- 00:58 in particular. It’s giving me season 1 of discovery effects quality.

i am a StarTrek fan from the very first days of TOS. these characters are a part of my life. i know there are many who feel that way as well. thank you for making the circle complete.

Jeff Russo has had the unenviable task of composing three – four? Is it four? -new Star Trek theme songs in roughly as many years. I think he’s done very well distinguishing between them, although he loves his string sections, which is honestly refreshing after the brass-centric Berman years (which I also love, and I play a brass instrument).

This time around, he’s keeping the rhythm of the TOS melody but changing the notes. A nice little solution for an immediate prequel.

And the twinkle at the end is cute af.

Three: Discovery , Picard and Strange New Worlds . Chris Westlake composed the Lower Decks main theme. Michael Giacchino composed the Prodigy main theme.

I don’t quite understand why Secret Hideout is so enamored with Jeff Russo. His work is nothing to write home about in my opinion. Picard Season 1 is probably his best work, but they bastardized it with Season 2.

The theme is just OK, but I love everything else. I like the closeups and how big they made the ship look.

This is the best opening title and theme of all the new Star Trek series. I liked how they mixed in the original theme with new music. They are really going for a nostalgia feel with this.

It’s pretty good in my opinion. But Jeff Russo is no Jerry Goldsmith. Voyager’s theme is in an entirely different league.

Glad to hear those words again and this time from Captain Pike. I was hoping for the narratiojn from the Early Voyages comics, but this will do. Spock already said a variation of these words in the movies.

The opening theme feels a little like the remix modern Doctor Who opening to me: the original is there, but a bit off. Yes, I understand remixes, and I get that this is a different generation of the ship’s crew, but it will take a little getting used to. For me at least.

I think the opening monologue is a little flat and needs more conviction.

By ‘a little flat’ I mean Sir Patrick’s had more gusto. Shatner’s was a little matter-of-fact, and I understand context, so I’d like I little more verve, but that’s just me.

Anyone think some of the CGI is off a little? Some parts of it look like out of a 90s sci Fi bmovie…other parts look amazing.

Think Picard still had the best opening theme song out of all new trek…this one is similar to discovery…it’s ok, not earth shattering

The opening score feels a little New Who to me.

No, I find the CGI to be off a whole lot, not a little. Some of these vendors have done stupendous, credible yet dazzling work, but not for Trek. These show look horrible. The Borg cube in Picard wasn’t even up to the level of a 90s video game, and DSC’s ship stuff in the seasons I watched was excrement. Why is everything so mushy and dirty-looking and blue? They’re in a vaccum — in SPACE!

I don’t know somewhere between the Abrams movies and the start of Discovery the visual effects of Trek got muddled. I mean Trek used pride itself on the quality of its visual effects back in TNG days, while having the occasional cheesy bits, the effects almost always had that smooth clean edge. After Discovery it seems like the edict for the space shots is to make them more fuzzy, dirty and less clear. The ship CGI effects also leave a lot to be desired, maybe they should have done what The Orville did in its first season and built a model of the ships and get a better idea of size and movement from those models and incorporate them into the final CGI models.

I find the CGI of the Enterprise in DSC season 2 looked better. Altough I like that they changed the design a since then a bit to get closer to the TOS-Enterprise.

I keep thinking this weird look is very intentional; there’s no reason for things to look this bad otherwise, given the tools and the talent involved. And unlike the way it was back in the 90s, by now CG people have been educated with photographic art understanding as well as computer knowledge, so factors like depth of field and contrast and real-world stuff should be baked in to their worldview — as should the fact that space is black and a vacuum, not a dirty fishtank. Sometimes this stuff looks like seaQuest through a dirty screen door.

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The narration mirrors that of William Shatner ‘s from Star Trek: The Original Series .

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship  Enterprise . Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiers Thursday, May 5th on Paramount+.

The series stars Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock, Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley (a.k.a. Number One), Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga,  Christina Chong  as La’an Noonien Singh,  Celia Rose Gooding  as Cadet Nyota Uhura,  Jess Bush  as Nurse Christine Chapel,  Melissa Navia  as Lt. Erica Ortegas, and  Bruce Horak  as Hemmer.

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Ironically, by being so different from all the other Star Trek shows going on right now, Strange New Worlds ’ wholehearted embrace of nostalgia for the original Star Trek is what’s making it stand out from the pack—and its new opening titles are no exception, a gorgeous riff on classic Trek in a shiny new package.

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Paramount has released the opening titles sequence for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , and they’re both suitably strange and suitably familiar for a show that’s leaning all the way in on the retro aesthetic of the original Star Trek . From Anson Mount’s Captain Pike narrating that classic “These are the voyages...” opening, to the gorgeous shots of the Enterprise soaring through interstellar anomalies and, truly, past some strange new worlds, to the music itself riffing on the original Trek theme, these titles are a reminder that this show is setting itself apart from the rest of the current Trek oeuvre to re-embrace the classic feeling of the older shows.

There’s so much to love here visually, not just in the Enterprise itself, but shots of it soaring through asteroid belts and through clouds of dazzling stardust that feel incredibly reminiscent of Star Trek: Voyager ’s opening titles . Or hell, the Enterprise itself swooshing past the screen feeling like a very high-budget re-imagining of the way the ship would practically scream its way through the original Star Trek opening. And yet, it’s not hyperkinetic or anything. It’s... surprisingly placid? Which, because this is the Enterprise , we know is a vibe that’s not going to last very long. But for now, we can simmer in the beauty and relaxation of boldly going before all the explosions and phaser beams start blaring out.

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The opening titles for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds have been released. The highly anticipated new series is the latest under Alex Kurtzman's rebranding of the Star Trek franchise for a new generation. Announced in 2020, Strange New Worlds will focus on the famed starship USS Enterprise and its crew prior to Kirk's arrival as captain. The new series is aimed to be less serious in tone than Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard , and will be more similar in style to the Original Series.

Anson Mount stars as Christopher Pike in Strange New Worlds , the captain of the USS Enterprise . His character is derived from the pilot episode of  Star Trek: The Original Series before being replaced by William Shatner's Captain James T. Kirk. Mount will be joined by Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Ethan Peck as Spock, Babs Olusanmokun as Doctor M'Benga, and Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura . These new versions of Pike, Spock, and Number One previously appeared in Star Trek: Discovery season 2.

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Paramount+ has recently released the opening titles for their new Star Trek spin-off series, Strange New Worlds . Similar to past Star Trek opening sequences, the main starship of the series is the focus of the titles; in this case, it's the USS Enterprise . Check out the full sequence below.

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The titles begin with introductory images of the USS Enterprise as Mount recites the famous words from the "Where no man has gone before" speech that preceded nearly every episode of  The Original Series . Brief shots of the USS Enterprise as it travels throughout the galaxy, passing black holes, stars, and space debris, are paired with the new series' orchestral theme by composer Jeff Russo, a theme that calls back to Alexander Courage's theme for  The Original Series . The final notes of music from this sequence also appear to be pulled directly from that initial theme.

The title sequence is a clear indication that the new series will try to evoke the original Star Trek series that spawned a massive multimedia franchise. Where Discovery and Picard were criticized for straying from the Star Trek formula that audiences were so accustomed to, the upcoming series seeks to recapture the magic that revolutionized science-fiction television. With Star Trek: Picard season 2 set to conclude on May 5, Paramount has chosen to waste no time between shows and will premiere Strange New Worlds the same day on its streaming service.

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If you love to live in nostalgia, the incredible  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds opening titles are right up your alley.

With the premiere of the newest  Star Trek series on Paramount+ less than a week away, the streaming service released its opening titles. “Space, the final frontier,” Anson Mount , who plays Captain Christopher Pike, says. “These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.” Watch them below.

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise… Here’s your first look at the opening titles from #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds ! pic.twitter.com/090MUm2Nbd — Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) April 29, 2022

“Perhaps the greatest honor of my career to date was getting to utter these words: ‘Space, the final frontier…’ I could not be more proud to be a part of the @StarTrekOnPPlus team and I could not be more grateful to the Trek community,” Mount wrote on Twitter with the release of the video. “From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU.”

Those are the same words — with the exception of “no one” instead of “no man” from  Star Trek: The Original Series ‘ opening titles, by William Shatner , who played Captain James T. Kirk. ( Paul Wesley will be playing Kirk in the second season of  Strange New Worlds .) Watch those credits below.

Strange New Worlds  is based on the years Pike manned the helm of the  U.S.S. Enterprise , following him, Science Officer Spock ( Ethan Peck ), and Number One ( Rebecca Romijn ) — all three of whom were introduced in  Discovery Season 2 — in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the starship as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

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The series also stars Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as La’an Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura, Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas, and Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga.

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Opening credits for star trek: strange new worlds is giving us all the feels, it's a visually stunning tribute to iconic opening credits of the original series ..

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Paramount+ debuted the official opening credits for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Twitter this morning, and the sequence leans heavily into fan nostalgia. The credits are a visually stunning tribute to the iconic opening credits sequence for Star Trek: The Original Series , showing the USS Enterprise soaring through space, past asteroid belts and clouds of interstellar dust as it searches for the titular new worlds. Even the voiceover dialogue remains the same (except "no man" is now "no one").

As we've previously reported , showrunner Akiva Goldsman has confirmed that  Strange New Worlds will return to the episodic structure of classic Star Trek — making it a rare beast in this era of serialized storytelling and streaming platforms—and will respect existing canon. It will feature Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Number One (Rebecca Romijn), and Ethan Peck's Spock, who first appeared in Star Trek: Discovery 's second season.

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise... Here's your first look at the opening titles from #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds ! pic.twitter.com/090MUm2Nbd — Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) April 29, 2022

Babs Olusanmokun plays Dr. M'Benga; Celia Rose Gooding has the unenviable task of filling  Nichelle Nichols'  shoes as Cadet Nyota Uhura; Jess Bush plays Nurse Christine Chapel; Melissa Navai plays Lt. Erica Ortegas; Bruce Orak plays an Aenar named Hemmer who is blind in one eye (Aenar are an albino subspecies of Andorians that are generally depicted as blind); and Christina Chong plays La'An Noonien-Singh (a relation of the classic revenge-obsessed Star Trek villain Khan). The streaming platform has already greenlighted a second season, with Paul Wesley ( Vampire Diaries)  joining the cast as future Enterprise Capt. James T. Kirk.

Paramount+ released  a brief teaser in March and a full-length trailer just a few weeks ago. The latter opened with Pike beaming into the middle of what appears to be a bitter dispute between two alien factions. There were crew members beaming down to the surface of a comet and encountering a large, glowing, golden egg-shaped structure. Pike and the Enterprise found themselves under fire by aliens who considered their presence to be "blasphemy." And romance bloomed for both Pike and Spock (separately, not with each other—sorry, slashfic shippers).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds debuts on Paramount+ on May 5, 2022, so we'll soon learn much more about the crew's adventures in this first season.

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Following the starship’s start-up sequence, the opening credits follow the  USS Enterprise as it warps through a variety of interstellar locations — reminiscent of  Star Trek: Voyager’s exploratory-style title sequence.

In addition to the gorgeous visuals, Jeff Russo’s new Strange New Worlds title theme is an modern spin on Alexander Courage’s classic Star Trek tune, with a pounding percussion track underscoring the adventurous nature of the series. (Russo’s musical contribution is limited to the Strange New Worlds theme, as Star Trek: Prodigy composer Nami Melumad has command of the series’ episodic score. )

Speaking to TrekCore and some other members of the press in mid-April, Anson Mount shared his excitement about recording the iconic Star Trek  narration for the  Strange New Worlds  credits.

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I knew I wanted to do that speech! I knew it like I knew I wanted to eat — so I was very grateful when [showrunners Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman] told me I would be doing it. We kind of did it on the fly, on set, as a temp track for the editing process, but I really wanted to make sure I got it right. So they sent a bunch of equipment to my place in Connecticut to set up basically a sound studio in my basement. I was there recording while our tech guy was in New York and our post-production crew was in Los Angeles, all networked. We’re slogging this out, doing many, many takes: combining a sentence from this take, a sentence from that take, making sure everything is sounding the way we want, doing several versions. This is back in October, and there was a moment when I said, “Guys, can we just take a moment here and acknowledge the fact that we are going to remember this moment for the rest of our lives?” I mean, it is a very, very select group of people who have the privilege to work on this speech. Everyone was like, “Yeah, yeah, that’s really cool!” There was a pause, and I said, “Of course… you realize right now William Shatner is in orbit.”  It was also a good lesson for me: don’t ever try to out-do Shatner!

Composer Jeff Russo also talks about the theme song in the below video released today on the Paramount+ YouTube channel, which seems to be a mash-up of content from the April 28 and May 5 episodes of The Ready Room after-show.

What do you think of the new  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds opening credits? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds debuts with its premiere episode — aptly titled “Strange New Worlds” — on Thursday, May 5 on Paramount+ in the United States, Australia, Latin America, and the Nordics, as well as on CTV Sci Fi Channel in Canada.

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Watch the Opening Titles From Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds might be pushing its namesake franchise into the future, but the show’s opening titles are a blast from the past. Ahead of its debut next week, Paramount+ has released the series’ full opening sequence, which both honors its forebears and sets the stage for epic new adventures. You can check it out for yourself below.

The sequence begins with the USS Enterprise firing up its engines to prepare for another journey through the cosmos. But as it takes off, we hear the familiar “These are the voyages…” narration from the original Star Trek series, this time delivered by Anson Mount’s Christopher Pike. Even the music (composed by Nami Melumad) features a unique twist on the classic Star Trek theme, hinting at plenty of thrills ahead.

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise… Here’s your first look at the opening titles from #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds ! pic.twitter.com/090MUm2Nbd — Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) April 29, 2022

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The opening sequence also boasts some impressive visuals as well. There is no shortage of shots of the Enterprise flying from one galaxy to the next, navigating an assortment of nebulae and asteroid fields before finally making the jump to hyperspace. Additionally, to help get fans ready for the series, Paramount+ has also released a new inside look at the show hosted by Wil Wheaton. You can watch the 22-minute preview below.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will premiere on Paramount+ on May 5.

What do you think of the show’s opening titles sequence? Let us know in the comment section below!

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• Goofs There are some rank insignia mistakes. Number One is introduced as "Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley" yet she is wearing the rank insignia of a full commander: two full stripes. A Lieutenant Commander's rank insignia is a full stripe under a thin stripe (in TOS it is a full stripe and a staggered stripe). It is not uncommon for a ship's first officer to be a Lt. Commander if they have not been in the position long. Spock at this point is a Lieutenant but he is wearing Lieutenant Commander's stripes; a Lieutenant just has one stripe. La'an is the ship's chief of security and the ship's second officer. She is also wearing Lt. Commander stripes but is addressed as a Lieutenant, but it would make more sense for her to be a Lieutenant Commander. Either way both of their rank insignia are not matching the rank they are addressed by. Ortegas is addressed as a Lieutenant but is wearing Lieutenant Commander's strips. A Lieutenant Commander may be addressed as a Commander or Lieutenant Commander but never as just a Lieutenant, so either her rank insignia or the manner she is addressed by the rest of the crew is in error.

[opening narration]

Captain Christopher Pike : Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

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Paramount+ Releases Opening Titles, Extended Featurette For Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is almost here. The first episode of the new "Star Trek" series is set to premiere on May 5, 2022 on Paramount+, and will follow the exploits of the U.S.S. Enterprise before the events of the original "Star Trek" series from 1966. 

"Strange New Worlds" stars Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Ethan Peck as Spock, Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura, Jess Bush as Nurse Chapel, and Babs Oulsanmokun as Dr. M'Benga, bringing back a number of characters from the original series with fresh young faces, some of whom are reprising their roles from "Star Trek: Discovery". To get Trek fans excited to check out the latest iteration of the franchise, Paramount+ has released the series opening credits and an extended featurette hosted by Wil Wheaton that digs into the process of boldly going back to a series pitched 55 years ago, and making it work for a modern audience. 

Going inside the series

The behind-the-scenes featurette has Wheaton, who played Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and has remained a life-long Trek fan, chatting with Mount, Gooding, co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, and main theme composer Jeff Russo. Goldsman reveals that COVID-19 delays led to them filming the pilot with an unfinished Enterprise set, while Mount shares his disbelief that he was really the Captain of the Enterprise, and there's much more. 

Through brief interviews with the rest of the cast, the featurette also gives fans a taste of what "Strange New Worlds" brings to the Trek table, setting it apart from other contemporary Trek shows like "Picard" and "Discovery." One big factor? Each episode is self-contained and wraps up the conflict before the credits roll, just like "Star Trek: The Original Series." Each episode will take them to some "strange new world," and the original exploration element of the original series will be embraced. Goldsman explained that the creators also really want to embrace the franchises' themes and get back to Roddenberry's original mission:

"'Strange New Worlds' will unite fans new and old with the experience of commonality, and with adventure, and of joy. Because ultimately, 'Star Trek' is at its heart optimistic and foot-forward when it comes to the future." 

In addition to the featurette, Paramount+ shared the official opening credits sequence on Twitter, giving fans a tiny taste of just how much "Strange New Worlds" is drawing from "The Original Series" while also making something totally new. The opening credits are reminiscent of "Star Trek: Voyager" and its opening trek across space, but with a throwback score and Mount's smooth voice reading the well-known voice-over introduction. Check it out:

That opening score, Mount's voice, and seeing "U.S.S. Enterprise" across the ship gave me chills. If you're not excited for "Strange New Worlds" by now, you may never be excited. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" debuts on Paramount+ on May 5, 2022. 

Star Trek opening title sequences

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Primary title screen for seasons 1 and 2

The opening title sequences for Star Trek: The Original Series featured the USS Enterprise flying through space and past planets , narrated by William Shatner : " Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise . Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. "

As ITV is a commercial channel, the advert break for Star Trek: The Original Series featured a still screenshot of James T. Kirk, Spock, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Pavel Chekov, Christine Chapel, Uhura, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy and Hikaru Sulu are all sitting inside USS Enterprise . Also, there's no music.

As Robert H. Justman explained to Star Trek: The Magazine , footage of the Enterprise for the opening titles was expected to be produced by the Howard Anderson Company in Summer 1966 . By August 1966 , Gene Roddenberry and Justman were running out of time to get the footage, and insisted on a viewing, where most shots "jiggled and joggled" to the point of being nearly unusable. Roddenberry and Justman took what they had, along with footage from the two pilots (" The Cage " and " Where No Man Has Gone Before ") and cobbled together the sequence. Justman considered his major contribution to be the suggestion that the Enterprise "deliver" the cast credits as the ship zoomed by, rather than the names just pop on the screen as suggested by Roddenberry. ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 1 , pp. 10-11)

• Main Title Theme (Season 1)  file info (composed by Alexander Courage )
• Main Title Theme (Season 2-3)  file info (composed by Alexander Courage )

Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the " Theme from Star Trek " in order to secure a partial writer's credit for the song. These lyrics were never recorded as part of the original theme song, and thus were never aired. ( citation needed • edit )

The opening tagline of Star Trek includes a split infinitive : " To boldly go where no man has gone before. " This fact was memorably highlighted by Cambridge-educated sci-fi writer and satirist Douglas Adams who wrote in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that, " all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before, and thus was the Empire forged. " The pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise , " Broken Bow ", has Zefram Cochrane delivering that phrase without the split infinitive as "to go boldly." The English rule forbidding split infinitives appeared in the mid-19th century; however, modern reference books do not include this rule, and the "to boldly go" from Star Trek is a prime example of where a split infinitive is perfectly acceptable. ( citation needed • edit )

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds could benefit from using J.J. Abrams' Star Trek idea

S tar Trek (2009) brought back Leonard Nimoy in his iconic role, using him as Spock Prime in the Kelvin Timeline. His character came face to face with Zachary Quinto's Spock in a way that worked surprisingly well, both for the movie and for Nimoy, who said he "found a certain peace with the character." And Star Trek: Strange New Worlds could now have that same opportunity, just with different characters.

Recently, William Shatner has expressed a willingness to return as a de-aged Captain James T. Kirk if the story idea was good enough. He made it clear he won't do cameos so it would have to be a strong storyline with more than just a few minutes of screen time for the acting legend. One way to bring Shatner back would be to have his Captain Kirk face off with Paul Wesley who plays the current Lt. Kirk on Strange New Worlds. If done properly, this could be an incredible piece of work.

Other than the fact that he has aged, Shatner is still Kirk. And perhaps bringing him in to either confront Wesley's Kirk over an important decision or to walk the entire Enterprise crew through a tricky situation if Captain Pike (Anson Mount) wasn't available would be a definite boon for the series. The use of time travel would make this a breeze.

Strange New Worlds doesn't need any help with ratings as it's one of Trek's best series; however, Kirk facing Kirk much like Spock faced Spock would be a pivotal moment in Star Trek history, especially since it would, most likely, be the last time we would see Shatner as Kirk.

This could also work without the use of de-aging if Shatner were amenable, with Lt. Kirk seeing himself in the future much like Pike saw his own future. This could also serve as a retcon for Kirk's death in Star Trek: Generations, which wouldn't upset any fan in the Trek community. Otherwise, having a sixty-something Kirk meeting a younger version of himself aboard the Enterprise would be a perfect way to say a final goodbye to the beloved captain.

This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds could benefit from using J.J. Abrams' Star Trek idea .