Enterprise Theme tune

Woden · 22-05-2003 2:40pm #1

First saw enterprise in ucd when the first episode was aired after it being obtained from the states some how anywho the music comes on and theres tittering and giggling all round. However the music has grown on me (grown on me like a fungus) and sure enough i'm embrassingly going to admit to have it downloaded (and the full version) and sure enough also singing along when i watch the episode

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so who else likes it, hates it, has also had it grown on them, or just thinks the music that comes on sound be in the tradition of star trek being for the most part instrumental?

woolymammoth · 22-05-2003 2:45pm

i hate it, with a passion. everytime Enterprise starts i hit the mute
button. has to be the worst decision ever made for a tv show.

ugh!

Dataisgod... you should be ashamed. Delete that file at once! :ninja:

Woden · 22-05-2003 2:46pm

i've got the russel watson sort version and then rod stewart to bang out the whole lot

woolymammoth · 22-05-2003 2:51pm

heh. seriously though, imho that tune, or any like it, has no place
in Star Trek. it's just.. too Dawson Creek! i'm actually
disappointed in the producers everytime i see (cos i mute it
remember!) it!

terrible tune!

Woden · 22-05-2003 2:57pm

seriously indeed, it was a departure from tradition and i think the creators where trying to make a statement about the show by doing so and trying to encompass what star trek is all about or the state of earth after WW3 and the current situation on earth around archers time (mid 2100's ?), i would what roddenberry would have thought of it.

davros · 22-05-2003 3:02pm

I've watched most episodes so far but I still haven't warmed to the show. The characters are a bunch of self-righteous, pontificating wusses. The theme song is entirely appropriate.

woolymammoth · 22-05-2003 3:06pm

i bet roddenberry **** himself. royally! i still think they could've
done a lot better in their decision. it definitely wasn't a trekkie
who chose it! damn marketing ppl!

MrGump · 22-05-2003 5:33pm

Its so cheesy.

" been a long road getting from there to here"

Cheesetastic!

and to Wollymammoth - u need to respect Paula Cole* more, she had some great songs. Do u not remember "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone"?

Respect the Cole!!!

* Dawsons Creek Lady

woolymammoth · 22-05-2003 5:42pm

what? who?

ya i remember that song, not bad, but not really my kinda music.

that enterprise one still sucks ass though!

Cheesetastic is quite a good description!

spooky donkey · 22-05-2003 11:05pm

Yeah dataisgod i kinda agree with you. I got a dodgy vhs from the us and a gang of mates all sat around to watch the first epp and we all cringed at the music at first.
Now ot has grown on me though im not as sad as you to go and down load it, not yet anyway, now where is my kazza shortcut again.

so yeah i hum along with it and to me it is star trek these days. I rember going to see the trek show in Mosney years ago and getting the rousing felling hearing the next gen music as i entered the exhabtiion. Enterprise may do the same for me some day. It was unuasual for them to go with a song rather than an instrumentl i supose and is sounds so american, when we like to think of trek as multi racial and not such an american nationilist universe.

BuffyBot · 23-05-2003 7:49am

I think the intention was to "seperate" it from the whole Star Trek image - hence the vocal theme tune/different style credits etc - I think they were trying to make it appeal as a stand alone show.

As for the theme itself...the jury is still out on this one.

Kevok · 23-05-2003 9:39am

That Mosney exhibition was great, although everyone had taken the buttons off the transporter as 'souvenirs'.

The theme song is a mixed bag, but I certainly wouldn't miss it if they changed it to a more orchestral theme next season as romoured.

MrGump · 23-05-2003 9:50am

Ah now there is no need to change it, as I said Cheesetastic! when does cheesiness earn such a bad rep???

Cheesists!!!!

Praetorian · 23-05-2003 10:09am

I don't think its too bad, although the "alternative" that they were considering was more traditional and was better in my opinion.

DS9 changed their theme half way through, maybe the same will happen to Enterprise.

blackadder · 23-05-2003 10:13am

it doesn't matter what the intention was. it sucks. great big moose dicks.

Woden · 23-05-2003 11:40pm

oh shocking i can't recall ds9's theme tune changing (sure i noticed it when i was watching it though) shame on me :eek:

STaN · 23-05-2003 11:46pm

Originally posted by Dataisgod
oh shocking i can't recall ds9's theme tune changing (sure i noticed it when i was watching it though) shame on me :eek:

Yeah, watch an old episode and a new one. Its the same tune but twice the speed or so

STaN · 23-05-2003 11:47pm

Personally i like the theme. Its a remake of a song. I don't believe its actually original or made specificly for Star Trek.

It gave me shivers down my spine when i heard it. In the good way!

MrGump · 23-05-2003 11:53pm

I remember that change! its difficult to notice but it started when DS9 got good circa season four - the way of the warrior

bizmark · 24-05-2003 12:36am

in my view they speeded up the ds9 team song inorder to cut down the on screen time and also to give it a more "war" feel fast and action like not slow and dull

Spock · 24-05-2003 11:24am

Its very insparatinoal.

In order to attract new fans thats the kind of thing they need, get rid of the usual opening and take "star trek" out of the title

MrGump · 24-05-2003 11:30am

Inspirational??? How so? are u inspired to act Cheesy?

bizmark · 24-05-2003 10:51pm

the producers of Ds9 voyager and akirapirse ****ed star trek up and changed it into just one more hybrid action/sci fi alot of fighting and little brain

so so unlike Star trek Tng

MrGump · 25-05-2003 12:51pm

Now Bizmark what has that to do with the theme song of enterprise? As for you opinion, i think all star trek shows have that hybrid quality of "action/sci fi - alot of fighting and little brain". Fortunately that's all im looking for, not rock science!!!

P.s - is this post gonna be become controversial? LETS HOPE SO!!!:D

bizmark · 25-05-2003 3:56pm

thats not true

Tng always tryed to avoid fighting even though the galaxy class was showen to be massively more powerful that most of its enemys and even those that the E-D wasnt more powerful that they mostly retreated like anyone that likes their life would

compear that to ds9 where the fed fleet jumped in size by about 1000 times compeared to what was shown on tng (fair anuff sfx where getting much better aloneing them to show more ships and big battles)

or voyager no matter what attacked them they could win .......16 borg cubes brign in on !!!!

and now enterprise (whos team song is rubbish

their i saved the massively off topic post of mine LOL) seems to show every single race that the ship comes into conntact with as being far stronger and fair more aggasive .......... with those type of enemys it seems unlikely the FED would have come into exstents at all

so their thats why i thing its gotten worse

Pigman II · 25-05-2003 4:31pm

Originally posted by Spock
Its very insparatinoal.

It's inspiring alright! Inspired me to switch channels right after hearing it!

Nah I tell a lie. The boring characters, excessive 'buddy-ness' and corny references to future technologies inspiring me to kick this one into touch right after the pilot. Not even Scott Bakula could save that tub.

Star Trek was about exploring 'what's out there', not 'what was' and that's why this show sucks! Oh yeah, and that tune sucks donkeyballs as well. It should be on an ad for gilette razors or something!

MrGump · 25-05-2003 5:57pm

GILLETTE, THE BEST A MAN CAN GET!

Spock · 27-05-2003 7:50pm

It shows us mans reckless pursuit of knowledge and adventure and i love it. Those of us that went to the Star trek convention in London on Janurary remember the great reaction (well, small reaction) when they said they'd try to get the guy who sings it to come to the next convention, to sing for us all

Squall · 27-05-2003 8:12pm

Have to say its grown on me too.

alot different to the usual Star Trek Intros. They could use a bit more non-american clips at the start though. At least theres the ISS and stuff

Zukustious · 30-05-2003 7:11pm

Worst theme music ever. By God it has to be the most inappropriate star trek theme I've ever heard, I mean seriously now, were they really thinking about star trek when they chose it? Maybe they got it mixed up with some super-cheesey show about cheese.

Spock · 30-05-2003 7:15pm

thats just it though, they were not thinking about star trek because they are trying to attract more people to the show other than trekkies

bizmark · 30-05-2003 7:52pm

which is a massive sell out to us sad gits that have supported st and bashed B&B so many times its funny

Spock · 31-05-2003 7:55pm

I as a trekkie i didnt see why they wanted non trekkies to watch it either, but with more people watching it builds a wider trekkie community so now i think its a good a idea.

They didn't sell you out, they don't owe you anything

bizmark · 31-05-2003 9:29pm

i dont think they made a bigger commuity seeming a lot of people dont like enterpize

also it is a sellout their dumbing st down for the mass,s i dont like that

sceptre · 01-06-2003 12:17pm

Originally posted by Dataisgod
i would what roddenberry would have thought of it.

Let's not forget Roddenberry writing crappy lyrics to the first theme tune so Alexander Courage would only get half the royalties in future, leaving the other half to go to Roddenberry-land. Go find the lyrics. They're pretty terrible.

Pigman II · 01-06-2003 12:48pm

Originally posted by sceptre
Let's not forget Roddenberry writing crappy lyrics to the first theme tune so Alexander Courage would only get half the royalties in future, leaving the other half to go to Roddenberry-land. Go find the lyrics. They're pretty terrible.

Yeah Roddenberry's did some pretty slimey things in his time producing the show but I think that was one of the lowest!

'I know he'll find in star clustered reaches, love strange love a starwoman teaches!' :rolleyes:

bizmark · 01-06-2003 10:03pm

'I know he'll find in star clustered reaches, love strange love a starwoman teaches!'

BAHAHAHAHAH hahahahahahhaha ......... jesus id hate to hear the full song good god their awful heheheheh

BigWelshSteve · 15-05-2005 10:44pm

... "Strong" by Robbie Williams? (or parts of it)

"Life's too short to be afraid, Step inside the sun.."
http://www.lyricsdir.com/robbie-williams-strong-lyrics.html

BigWelshSteve · 15-05-2005 10:47pm

BigWelshSteve wrote:

... "Strong" by Robbie Williams? (or parts of it)

"Life's too short to be afraid, Step inside the sun.."
http://www.lyricsdir.com/robbie-williams-strong-lyrics.html

The Enterprise theme tune, I mean! (not the dodgy Courage/Roddenberry effort)

User45701 · 16-05-2005 7:15am

i kinda felt like i had to sing along for the last episode it may not be the best rek but i still have some respect to it i just quietly sang the words for the last epsidoe

bizmark · 16-05-2005 10:05am

Jesus christ this must be one of the first topic i posted on two 2 years ago

MrVestek · 16-05-2005 10:06am

Why are we dragging up old threads from the depths of the long forgotten?

Enterprise Theme tune

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