Is it only me who doesn’t like the new style of the theme song for Star Trek: Enterprise? I think it is too lighthearted and not uplifting enough. I always have a lump in my throats whenever I watch the old version. Now, it is just comical. Why, oh why, did Rick Berman and Brannon Braga change the song?
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As an avid fan of Enterprise (th elow ratings don’t surprise me becuase would rather watch a bad Jim Belushi show, shows the american taste), i truly love the theme song, but not the current version. I would say that its the best theme song in TV right now, where good themes songs are very hard to find. Most shows don’t even have one anymore, and if they do, there are 15 seconds long. After hearing Rod Stewart and the full Russell Watson verson from the soundtrack, I think the Watson version is better, and that is coming from a big Rod Stewart fan.
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But, you can’t beat CSI’s use of The Who 🙂 I wonder which song they will choose for CSI:NY…..
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I think they will steer away from the Who. To be honest, as a big Who fan, there are no other popular Who songs that would fit the bill.
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For the love..! We now have episodes with prequel sections featuring people destroying earth or vulcans screaming in pain, or people getting flamed to death, and then it cuts to a truly, amazingly, unbelievablu schlocky piece of muzak. The season 1 and 2 theme at least had some sense of pathos. I got used to it. It was humanistic, existential almost. The crappy beat over the new one is truly out of place.
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The new CSI: NY is going to be using The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” . . . “out here in the fields, I fought for my meals.” I saw the promo tonite; gotta love The Who!
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The theme song for Enterprise is an absolute disgrace. It is appalling. Anybody who likes it has no idea what star trek is about, and is as intelligent as a dog who has been run over by a bus.
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How could someone say the original soundtrack of Enterprise was not uplifting? Infact it is one of th emost uplifting songs I have ever heard. If anyone else has heard more uplifting song than this than just email me the list please!
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I’ve been a fan of Star Trek for as long as I can remember – I’ve watched every episode of TOS for at least 10 times, couldn’t get me out of the house when it was airing – I had my doubts when TNG came to the screen, decided to dislike it without even seen a single episode, but after overcoming my prejudices I gave it a change – and you know what I grew to love it
DS9 had an easier start with me, remebered my old misjudgement and did the right thing by getting hooked on it – the storyline was fantastic – it reminded me of Babylon5, but it was even better, way darker for anything you could expect from Star Trek – it really made a difference (I thought to be taught better by Voyager)
Saddly Voyager showed the changes in lead in every possible way, B&B made a comedy show of the ST universe – the storyline consisted of ‘let’s go home’ and ‘let’s go home’
Unfortunatly they were never willing to make the decisions Sisko would have made – they always took the polite and gentle way, like hey stealing their technology would get us home, sound and save, but wait – nah, we can’t do that’ – it’s what already p*ssed me off from the pilot, even though I didn’t realise it back then, but since they brought the same scenario up again and again and again, they gave me enough chances to do so
And now to the newest additon in the ST universe, though no Star Trek anything anymore, just Enterprise
Well, of course I didn’t like the choice for a main theme, who from the old fans could really like this from the start? No one I know.
It’s obviously an attempt to get non-Trekkies to watch the show, like they wanna spread the message: hey were no geeks, look we got naked women (oh come on, how often have we seen T’Pol down to almost nothing for the most absurd reasons?), we got sex (goes along with the previous comment)
And for all of you who Trekkers out there: what the hell have they done with the Vulcans? Aren’t the supposed to suppress their emotions, acting completely on logic instead of being annoyed, angry and disgusted all the time?
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So anyway, long post, but I had to let it out, well, the hope dies last – I am still willing to give Enterprise a chance, I just don’t want to believe ST is going down like this and if it should be meant to proof me wrong I hope someone out there will erase this bad dream from my memory
Thanks for listening, feels much better!
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Thanks to TiVo, now I can just start watching ENT a few minutes late and fastforward past that sissy song!
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I too hate the new song. I think the old one rocked and inspired adventure. I have missed the last two seasons due to non cable tv. Recently I got an active antenna that lets the channel come in, but very fuzzy.
(whats this about downloading the shows from the net.. i need details please!)
Anyway, I did a search and found out Russell Watson sang the song.. Question: Who sings the new song? To me it doesn’t sound like Watson.. Why did they change the sone in the first place??
Thanks,
John Phoenix
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