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?

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    111 months ago

    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)

  • The Picard Maneuver
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    811 months ago

    Usually, but I love the optimistic fanfare of the TNG intro, and it has a habit of drawing me in.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      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.

  • hendrik
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    811 months 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 😅

  • originalucifer
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    1211 months ago

    I was just complaining that ds9 has a 90+ second intro… it’s just too much

    • Corgana
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      411 months 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
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        311 months ago

        ya know, youre absolutely right. when im in the mood it is absolutely beautiful.

        • Corgana
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          411 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months 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!!
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        111 months ago

        it’s the absolute BEST for sleeping to

  • String
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    611 months ago

    even when binging I watch the voyager intro every few episodes, I love the music too much

  • @[email protected]
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    411 months ago

    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.

    • data1701d (He/Him)
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      111 months ago

      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.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    611 months ago

    It was fun to watch the Lower Decks intro gradually change over time, especially that shootout that the Cerritos runs away form.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      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.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        110 months ago

        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!

    • data1701d (He/Him)
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      11 months ago

      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.