At first I knew of the theme song as a joke … a meme. So I listened to it fully at the start of every episode as a joke … by about six or seven episodes in, I didn’t want to turn it off. After that, I started enjoying it … then they changed the style in Season 3? and for a while I was pissed … then it took another three or four episodes and I started liking that too.
I think it’s more of an age thing … I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I enjoy a lot of folky style rock and I always found the theme so vaguely familiar and I associate with it already. Coupled with the idea that Enterprise is a throwback to an earlier age of the Trek universe, it all seems to fit in with me, which is one of the main reason why I enjoy it all.
I was a kid when ENT was airing, I wasn’t able to watch it consistently, but it was my first brush with Star Trek and I remembered how hopeful the song made me feel for the future. I can admit it is corny, but I was a kid and I didn’t know much English at the time so I didn’t get the religious undertones and to this day hearing it makes me incredibly nostalgic. I long for that feeling of hopefulness now and I’m thankful I get to experience at least a little bit of it when watching that intro.
That’s exactly the spirit that Star Trek was always about. Hope.
I grew up in the 80s and I never saw the Original Series but I saw a few of the movies and I always looked up to the characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy and all the others. I was a teen when TNG started but we didn’t have full access to cable TV so I only ever watched a handful of episodes but I loved them all … because like you said, it gave a sense of hope and optimism for the future.
It’s been so much fun over the past 10/15 years that I slowly got to watch all or most of the Star Trek I missed out on. It’s getting to the point of being able to rewatch them all again and I don’t mind.
Thanks for sharing! Keep watching, keep hoping and it’s great to hear your story.
I’m here with you on that
I watched it all over the past year.
At first I knew of the theme song as a joke … a meme. So I listened to it fully at the start of every episode as a joke … by about six or seven episodes in, I didn’t want to turn it off. After that, I started enjoying it … then they changed the style in Season 3? and for a while I was pissed … then it took another three or four episodes and I started liking that too.
I think it’s more of an age thing … I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I enjoy a lot of folky style rock and I always found the theme so vaguely familiar and I associate with it already. Coupled with the idea that Enterprise is a throwback to an earlier age of the Trek universe, it all seems to fit in with me, which is one of the main reason why I enjoy it all.
I was a kid when ENT was airing, I wasn’t able to watch it consistently, but it was my first brush with Star Trek and I remembered how hopeful the song made me feel for the future. I can admit it is corny, but I was a kid and I didn’t know much English at the time so I didn’t get the religious undertones and to this day hearing it makes me incredibly nostalgic. I long for that feeling of hopefulness now and I’m thankful I get to experience at least a little bit of it when watching that intro.
That’s exactly the spirit that Star Trek was always about. Hope.
I grew up in the 80s and I never saw the Original Series but I saw a few of the movies and I always looked up to the characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy and all the others. I was a teen when TNG started but we didn’t have full access to cable TV so I only ever watched a handful of episodes but I loved them all … because like you said, it gave a sense of hope and optimism for the future.
It’s been so much fun over the past 10/15 years that I slowly got to watch all or most of the Star Trek I missed out on. It’s getting to the point of being able to rewatch them all again and I don’t mind.
Thanks for sharing! Keep watching, keep hoping and it’s great to hear your story.