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?
TOS always, the others it depends.
If it has opening narration, I don’t skip it.
I’m a sucker for that sort of pageantry.
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’ll watch one when I sit down to watch, then I’ll skip it on any further episodes in the same watch session.
Never, same applies to The Expanse
The Expense’s intro is in it’s own league
If it’s Enterprise? Definitely. Or I mute it.
Usually, but I love the optimistic fanfare of the TNG intro, and it has a habit of drawing me in.
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 😅
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.”
never skip the ds9 intro; i’m too busy crying and grandly humming along.
Even skipped it back in the days when we were recording TNG episodes on tape. Fast forward and a magical chant of ‘Gene, Gene, Gene…’ to ensure stopping at Gene Roddenberry’s name as it indicated the end of the intro
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.
I ALWAYS skip enterprise, I never skip the others.
I get that they were trying for something different, I can even appreciate using a folksy ballad that doesn’t have all is the “formality” of classical music the same way Starfleet of the time doesn’t have all the formality of later treks. I even personally find it to be a cool idea on paper, but for some reason it just didn’t land with me.
It’s jarring when it SHOULDN’T be. Even the closing credits get a "WhoOoAawhatthefuuuuOh."reaction out of me every time the music starts. Like, it takes until almost the fourth note on the credits before I go "oh yeah, they do this.
I still watch the credits, though.
Yes, unless I haven’t watched in a while.
I was just complaining that ds9 has a 90+ second intro… it’s just too much
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.
it’s the absolute BEST for sleeping to
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.
ya know, youre absolutely right. when im in the mood it is absolutely beautiful.
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.
I laughed so much when they lampshaded that in Lower Decks
Ransom: “Just keep circling.”
