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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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!
Not to mention that great soundtrack. Honestly, Lower Decks truly has the most memorable soundtrack of pretty much any Star Trek post-VOY. No generic cinematic fare for me.
The extended Cerritos refit montage/music was
You could say it was earl grey hot.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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.
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.”
Only Enterprise lol
Usually, but I love the optimistic fanfare of the TNG intro, and it has a habit of drawing me in.
I will watch the intro once.
SPACE . . .
🎶🎶 It’s been a long road… 🎶🎶
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.
Ent and lower decks often get skipped, everything else occasionally.
Prodigy, never. That theme is up there with Voy and DS9.
TOS always, the others it depends.
Yes. Almost every time.
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.
I got faith
Of the heaaart
I actually started to like that song.
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.
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.
I’ll watch one when I sit down to watch, then I’ll skip it on any further episodes in the same watch session.
