A couple things ... I am sooo looking forward to this show. I love the visuals here as well as Anson Mount reading the words from the original intro. And...as a composer myself - I can't help but notice that the new theme that comes in it around :40 is... well ... just uninspired sounding, and neither fresh or bold enough to match the rest of the concept. I looked at a few comments and saw that someone else mentioned the same . It just strikes me as something someone tossed off without a lot of effort, thought, or inspiration....and a Star Trek theme deserves all three. I am thrilled about this show, it's return to episodic Star Trek, and the characters - so I wish very much that there was a fresh, bold theme instead of something generic sounding....
WOAH is this REAL or did you make make this in your mom's basement or something? Or did your mom make it in your basement? Either way thanks for sharing!!
Best Star Trek in a LONG time. So refreshing to go back to an episodic nature without all of these silly cliffhangers and filler episodes. Well done folks.
That was the startrekiest intro since Star Trek. I have no idea what I'm talking about, but everytime I see this I get goosebumps and a little tear in my eyes.
Finally, FINALLY a proper trek. Episodic, optimistic, philosophical, a crew at its center, made of relatable characters. Great acting. Very TOS feelings. And I love the sci fi Easter eggs. More of this please!
We’ll I must admit I was concerned about how Strange New Worlds would turn out And I too was honestly surprised how well the show was It capture no re-captures the spirit and everything that made Star Trek what it was good light humour Wonderful imaginative stories, great Alien designs, exploration (seriously when was the last time you saw an episode that explore some kind of mystery) great action, brilliant characters (again discovery didn’t have much on the way of Characters in fact only Suru and Michael where they only real three dimensional characters on the show the rest where just there to fill out the ship thou season 2 did try and flesh more of the characters out) It was nice seeing characters getting along and only teasing not being mean spirit in any way In fact until Strange New Worlds Lower Decks felt more Star Trek and of course I love Lower Decks In short I think anyone who saw this show felt relieved and happy to see Star Trek Returning to it roots And for one think shows of today (Masters of the Universe Revelation anyone) need to follow this example of recapturing a shows true self
It's a salvage attempt because modern Trek has been train wreck. I hope it's good but I don't really want to see this. I want to see something NEW and further into the future not another prequel. But I guess it's a safe bet for the studio to attract initial viewers.
I simply can’t stop watching this intro! Anyone else? 😀🖖 I have the highest expectations with this show… They seem to be trying hard to bring the old Star Trek spirit back. I hope they succed!
I always knew. That's why I say Twilight Zone is the best show of all time. 25 minutes to tell a story. Sorry, but no interesting story takes 3+ years or 30+ hours to tell. A lot of the stuff being told or shown is clearly completely unnecessary to the story. It's like telling a story about getting robbed and stopping midway through to describe the average looking person reading a book along the way. Most serial story telling is just a bunch of filler, oftentimes disguised as character development. But all that filler is so that the authors can stall actually moving the plot forward, and not have to give you the good stuff.
@@kennyhudson9201 You are right Ken. I am tired of those issues. Miss one "episode" and you are poop out of luck. 'Discovery' is awful and I have to download to get it. I never bothered to follow after their second season. To me, it is not Star Trek at all. Orville is much better However in Season 3 of ENTERPRISE serial worked great without the problems you described. A marathon of 24 episodes though. I used good blue tooth headphones for the whole thing and a very fine TV. I never saw any of it before and planning on season four now.
@@davidmacphee8348 Orville is great. I could never get into Enterprise. I've tried more than once and it never holds me. This may sound blasphemous, but I find Discovery, which I don't even like, to be better than Enterprise.
@@kennyhudson9201 I tried several times too to get into Enterprise but I got lost somehow. T'Pua the Vulcan woman really kicks Ass as an actress in Season three. Forget the first two seasons and maybe give it a try again. Like I say, I used stereo headphones. I don't feel like I can get into DS9 but people say it's good. I am an older person and tastes are so subjective. I hope I have helped.
@@davidmacphee8348 Why do you think the headphones made a difference? Do you think all of Trek is enhanced while watching with headphones? I didn't get into DS9 the first time around, but on the next try I loved it, and have watched it in its entirety a few times. I appreciate you sharing your view with me as a fellow Trek fan. I won't say Voyager is my favorite but it is the one I feel the most like losing friends when I reach the finale, every time I watch every few years or so.
The opening sequence has an old world charm about it, a mysterious curiosity about discovering strange new worlds. They've brought Star Trek back to it's roots, and I'm here for it.
Well put! The other new trek shows since Discovery and onwards have been very disappointing for me. This show could very well end up being that way as well, but this intro does give me hope because of how perfect it feels.
Love the long beauty shots in this intro and the show, really shows just how gorgeous this ship design is without being put through Discovery’s blue hue of doom
Agreed. I just hope the showrunners don't take the "5 year " part too literally. If this show turns out to be as good as it looks to be, I want it to last longer than that, especially since the seasons will consist of just 10 episodes.
No worries guys, it'll be a complete train wreck of "pew pew pew... ahhhhhhhh [exploding console]... Spock, I love you, I've always loved you.... pew pew pew... I can save the ship using tachyon sub-neutrino particles from that black hole... ahhhhhhhh... pew pew pew.."
@Dan Calzacorta Nope, I won't be 🌞 If it isn't a train wreck, there'll be no reason, right? If it is a train wreck, there'll be no reason, right? Everyone will be whining! LOL
Having heard some interviews I think Anson Mount had to pinch himself while recording the opening. He said he’s in a position that’s so unlikely it wouldn’t have been a bucket list item because he never thought he’d be there. Excited for this show.
Yeah. I love how they all seem to feel that way. I mean, as a kid, TOS was something my Dad watched & I was introduced to as soon as I could watch TV (I was born in '66). Then came the cartoon version. Trek has always been a great part of TV. And it's always been a big family, & it just keeps growing!
@@rorschach36 anyone who thinks the creatives at CBS working on this, suddenly got a clue: Prediction - this Star Trek won't be hauling garbage. It will be hauled away as garbage.
This, right here, perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Strange New Worlds, and the original Star Trek. It's a show about adventure, about appreciating the beauty of what's out there, sharing our experiences of the cosmos with whoever we find. It's exactly what we need now.
Half way through Season 1 and shocked, after some lacklustre Trek years, at just how good this show is. One thing I love is that there have been a couple of episodes , like the comet one, where we do the usual Federation preaching but it turns out the aliens are right and we are wrong. Great characters, great writing. Joyous.
Technically they were both wrong. The alien and the asteroid consciousness required the intervention of the Enterprise crew to create the fragment of ice that seeded the atmosphere.
When I watch any Star Trek I usually skip the intro music. I never do with SNW. Everything about this incarnation of Trek is excellent. It's like the original series we all love, but modern. Love it.
i like how they put it in line with the nx-designs from enterprise. you can really see how the designers at starfleet wouldve gotten from the nx-02 design to this iteration of the constitution class.
Necks to short. Which is understandable given it’s made to fit the wider aspect ratio of modern TV’s, but it throws off the golden ratio of the original and as a result… it’s cinematically less easy to find a good angle to film. The original looked good no matter the angle it was filmed at. Because the neck is shorter the primary and secondary hulls are less distinct at certain angles leading to Voyager syndrome. If you film the model from to high an angle you lose sight of the deflector dish and all you get is saucer and nacelles, and if your lucky, a bit of the rear of the engineering hull. With Voyager the only interesting angle was to shoot it bottom up. Thanks to there being a neck, this enterprise won’t have it as bad as Voyager… but neck is to short. This enterprise was developed for TV, but not for camera.
It is so rare that the opening to a show can give me the chills, but this one nails it. The reworked Original Series theme song just has so much promise woven into it.
After been disappointed by Discovery and Picard over and over again, it took me a long time to bring myself to give Strange New Worlds a chance. Got Paramount+ for 7 days for free and been through the first season. The opening actually says it all. Strange New Worlds is the best modern Star Trek has to offer right now. If a modern Star Trek series deserves to be watched, it's this one.
As a 58yr old I grew up with TOS - hardly a day went by when I didn't watch an episode...over and over and over again. If it was listed in TV Guide, time was always made to sit down and watch it. It was as if the TOS crew was part of the family. It was engrained so much I could recite entire chunks of dialogue from so many episodes with all the nuances. In later years I tuned in for most episodes of TNG - but didn't have the same enthusiasm or dedication for it as TOS. Watched just a few episodes of DS9 and never cared for it. Watched Voyager sporatically. It's not until now that STSNW has captured my excitement and attention in the Trek universe once again. This is remarkably done in many aspects. It's a return to what made Star Trek so great...but with better visuals.
@@SmartSmears For me Prodigy is the winner, but this isn´t bad. Of course, I´m only talking about visuals, Goldsmith´s theme is still more memorable that the other two.
I remember the excitement I felt, and the anticipation, of Star Trek:TOS and waiting to see that first episode on September *8 1966. (Yes, I am that old). I feel that excitement, and anticipation again for Star Trek:SNW , I've watched this introduction 4 times and can't wait to see the show. Live Long and Prosper!
As a longtime Trek fan, this may be my new favorite intro. The theme has grown on me to the point that it's right up there too. It draws inspiration from the original theme music but takes it in bold new directions. Every time I listen to it I notice something new. It's the best Trek theme since the Goldsmith days
I agree I hope they can tell some good thought provoking stories without shoving obvious political or social issues in our face. TOS, DS9, and next gen knew how to tell stories to make you think.
@@coreydoty687 i mean, theres going to be that. we live in times where everything is constantly shifting and being fought over. plus, its kind of the point of trek to do this. of course it shouldnt be in your face, because the goal is to make people opposed to necessary/unavoidable progress view something very similar from a different perspective (and that cant happen if they can tell what it is straight away), but it shouldnt be so subtle that you cant tell if youre not informed on the latest developments at politics (tm). we'll have to see if they can strike that balance.
@@jenshep1720 Star Trek was based on Roddenberry's liberal views that everyone should have a voice and that our future is utopian, the complete opposite of all new Trek. New Trek is the opposite of liberalism, as is the neo-liberals. They are closer to Fascism than the idea that mankind can evolve into a utopian meritocracy.
As a fan who has watched Star Trek from its very beginning... I have an open mind and embrace any changes made as long as they make sense and are well written. I love ALL of the Star Trek series and all of their different takes on what Star Trek can be. I'm not a Star Trek snob expecting it to echo the past. I don't want it to be the same as Star Treks past...open minds... and I'm open to what is produced as long as it entertains and stimulates the imagination. Bravo...I look forward to Strange New Worlds.
So your not annoyed that this enterprise has technologie that was never in tos, and which other series characters after tos would have conversations about how tough it was...... for example.... replicators. 23rd century didn't have replicators, yet pike has a private one in this series. 🤔 thanks Alex
@@Mmanifesto22 WE have tech that is as advanced, if not more advanced in some cases, than what was in TOS. TOS is 55 years old. What they thought was possible way down the road is possible now in some cases, and our vision of what the future will look like has shifted. You can respect what came before, while recognizing that it would look pretty silly if it was stuck having to adhere to what they thought was possible 55 years ago.
@@Mmanifesto22 What? TNG writers honestly never seemed to have really watched TOS, so who care what they wrote about its technology. Hell in TNG S3 "Hollow Pursuits" they have Wesley and other TND engineers claiming Transporters didn't exist 100 years earlier. Technically "Hollow Pursuits" occurs in 2367. 100 years earlier was 2267 or TOS S2. Get over the fact that (unlike what many fans like to believe) - the only thing Star Trek has been consistent with is that its more often than not, internally inconsistent.🥴 Oh and BTW been watching Star Trek first run since TOS S3 on NBC in 1969 - I was 6, so spare me the "You don't really know Star Trek..." retort.
@@archeryguy1701 still doesn't change the fact replicators didn't exist in the 23rd century its a well documented fact. In fact food synthesizers were still in use in the 2290's.
@@robertmartinjr.6292 Let's be honest.... getting hung up on if something is a food synthesizer vs a food replicator is splitting hairs and just looking for something to be annoyed by. They're both holes in the wall that food magically appears out of.
I mean "She is one well endowed lady. I'd like to get my hands on her ample nacelles, if you'll pardon the engineering parlance." According to Scotty in Star Trek (2009)
I guess that's because there are subtile callouts to the other series and movies in it. 1:00 Discovery 1:05 Kelvin Timeline 1:09 Voyager 1:17 TNG movies (Ent-E reveal during First Contact) 1:21 (Maybe?) DS9 1:25 TNG
This intro hit me hard. I love it so far. The thing I always loved about STAR TREK was the story of the week format. They concentrated on good story telling and sprinkled in some character development to bring it all together. What has made the new TREKs so hard for me to watch is it takes a whole season to solve something they would have been done with in one episode in the old days and spend way too much time on the characters. If I want to watch a soap opera there are plenty of shows that already fill that void. I really hope they are going back to the story of the week format. Give writers a chance to tell good stories again!
100% agree, classic trek did character development by showing how they worked together and reacted in weekly stories. Which felt so much more organic and earned.
Current trek is definitely too heavy on the soap-opera-in-space. Most of the characters in current series would have washed out in training. I would, however like to see a little bit more continuity from episode to episode than was in the original series. The adventure-of-the-week approach is fine, but I would appreciate lessons learned and other things discovered early on to become important in later episodes and seasons. I also appreciate Anson and Rebecca being in this. I hope this is done right.
What's tear jerking is that anyone would find this anything but vacuous pandering, by a creative team who knows nothing but how to roll around a turd in pile of classic Star Trek, then hold it under your nose and say, "Look what we made, we make Star Treks! You wanna Star Trek? Everyone should have a Star Trek, made just for them!".
It’s only me or authors placed homages on ALL Star Trek intros from 1966 to 2002 on this? And, of course, a last standoff to 2001: a space odissey in last shot? ❤️
@@kennethnystrom593 if your referring to the fact pike says "no one" and not "no man" then know you're fucking trek. TNG started saying it. Hasn't changed recently cause of kurtzman. Its been a thing
@@sanhcman666 i agree with that fully. I enjoy most of the new content because i take them as individual stories and i understand that the platform of storytelling is massive. There is need and cause for all types of stories, all types of characters. Historically if people as closed and judgmental as they are today... Think of all the great fun we would have missed out on
Star Trek has changed from TOS to STSNW But so have the fans - its a moving target to get the fan / series combination I hope they do ...god knows we need some positive Sci-Fi story telling...utopian (not distopian).
Could this be the Trek that actually has hope for the future? Actual episodes that see new things and places w different challenges and accompanying allegories to tell the story? I wonder.
I absolute love the modern 60's color schemes and architectural elements bases off of the original series, with that American Western adventurism. We had such dreams back then, that we could reach out with Human exploration and explore the whole Universe.
😀I'm of that generation. I was in the third grade when Glenn orbited the earth three times. Nearly 18 when the one small step for all mankind was taken and we saw the pictures of the earth rising over the moonscape. Instead of dolls I asked my parents for a 3 inch telescope. I remember the excitement of the first Star Trek, believing We could do it. We could explore the universe. That is why I loved it when the computer age hit like a speeding semi and we bought our first home computer. I truly believed I might live long enough to see men land on Mars and a colony on the moon, and who knows, maybe the first faster than light prototype? But we didn't and this generation is incapable of even dreaming that it is possible. 😢
@@kathleenhensley5951 The Boomers are still here and Gen X is still trying and the Millenials *might* be getting a wake up call. We can get through whatever the Woke-Babies are. At least we seem to have missed the Eugenics Wars...
Me As long as they show at the end of it refited to the og constitution class and I guess rewatch all the original series LoL but to my eyes the TMP constitution class will always be my favorite ship and tos
@@ZR117 Oh yeah. The Constitution Refit will always be my favorite too. I do like the fact that this version of the Enterprise pays homage to the Refit and NX-01.
Having watched TOS in the 60’s and every spin off since I can honestly say that for me SNW is the best of them all. Everything from the writing, design, attention to detail and acting says this is being crafted by people with a genuine affection for and belief in what they’re making. Outstanding TV.
Wow that was amazing. The reactions of the fans here taught me one simple thing: Trekkies might be difficult to satisfy. However, if you give Star Trek to Star Trek fans, they are actually happy. This intro is Star Trek. In all the other new trek series, I missed the focus on space and the ship (and I missed Star Trek).
Fantastic. The opening is sensational, the more traditional fans find the new chords strange, but you have to think ahead and give the new a chance and the subtle touches of the themes are there. Despite being a Star Trek series it has to create an identity. And seeing the Enterprise soar through space like that broke me. I've watched it five times and I'm not tired of it. Live long and prosper.
yeah, im not in love with it yet, but i can tell its one of those things youll learn to love, like the enterprise intro. and just having a new, classic star trek intro again is heartwarming. update: im in love with it
And the FAA ground SpaceX the only chance of building a ship of that kind(just let other advanced tech catch up).... just look at SpaceX Star Ship barrel sections line them up side by side with connecting hatches and you have each layer(deck) mount horizontally you get corridors of a ship like the Enterprise...
I remember a series that was a sequel of sorts, that had an interesting premise and a lot of familiar faces. It even had an emotional intro. The name of the show - Galactica 1980 and like NuTrek it was around for 10 episodes.
@@wmlau69 The new remastered TOS shots of the Enterprise, other ships, and planetary orbits are good. Everything else in the episodes are the same as they were originally. There are a few minor changes in certain spots.
Awesome...simply Awesome! I got chills watching this and hearing Captain Pike recite the classic lines. I think I'm looking forward to this show the most of any of them. Thank you Paramount for listening to the fans and making this happen!
This is absolutely beautiful! Fourth time I've watched this, and it still gives me goosebumps! And I grew up watching TOS reruns and TNG as it aired on TV.
I love it, I was not born yet when TOS first aired, I had the opportunity to see TNG, DS9, and VOG during my high school and college years. I’ve come full circle.
Yeah it was good. I am not to watch strange new worlds. Because it's the same writers from std and Picard. It's a shame that the writers from tos didn't have the technology that we have today. Now we have great FX and the worst writing that I have ever seen. I recently finished Lost in space the new version. hundreds of millions of people watch that show. This is the writers and producers of the nutrek. The money has always been about the script.
@@Globalman43 No I judge based on evidence and observation. Look I love Star trek growing up my family used have dinner together and watch Star trek. I am not to invest my money or time into Alex Kurtzmans version of Star trek. It will have to be my loss as have said. I am okay with that
It's perfect. That's all I can say. It's everything I hoped it would be and more. The monologue, the Alexander Courage fanfare, the TMP-style slow montage of all the Enterprise lights coming on, the TNG jump to warp on the music crescendo, the reimagining of the TOS theme, the Voyager flying-through-awesome-colorful-space-stuff montage (even the silly-but-gorgeous sun glare at 0:40 from the Voyager intro), flying away from the burning planet at 0:44 giving me Genesis planet vibes from Search for Spock, another shot straight out of Voyager at 1:08, and all the new stuff like the zoomed-in action shot at 1:17 and the warp jump between planets at the end... I love all of it, every frame of it. It's pure wish fulfillment, and it makes my little Trekkie heart sing. If the actual show is even half as good as this intro, I will die a happy nerd. I wish I could go back in time and show this to Gene Roddenberry. For all his faults as a person, he really did create something amazing with Star Trek, and I think he would have loved this. One weird question that nobody seems to have asked yet, though, but... where are the titles? And the credits? Are they adding those later, or is the new trend to just not have any text on the intro sequence? I'm fine with it either way, it just seems odd.
I think the TOS reimagining theme is rather a failure. Not a glorified copy, not an inventive re-arrangement of the original score either, but an oversimplified development of a portion of the original theme. Reminded me of Michael Giacchino’s heavily flawed “re-arrangement” of John Williams’ themes in “Rogue One”. Aside that, it looks like something really nice is on the way!
THERE ARE A LOT REFERENCES TO OTHER STAR TREK INTROS! I put some together in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uPPuwySiavQ.html You'll maybe find more but I see: 0:39 Voyager, flight through the nebula (a bit faster) 1:00 angle from Discovery, where you see the mans lower part of the face and the chest and the ship flys nearby 1:09 also Voyager intro, with the flying asteroid 1:22 station reminds me of DS9 1:24 TNG at the end, where the saucer comes in from the bottom and the ship jumps into warp do you find more?
The blue sphere at 0:51 looks like the "whale probe" from The Voyage Home ? The "small" Enterprise passing over a large cloud at 1:00 looks like when the Enterprise passes over Vger in The Motion Picture ?
When I first watched this intro I felt really uplifted, it seems like Star Trek itself is happy to be back to its origins, and it's time to celebrate this return.
Couldn't help but notice you didn't mention Lower Decks or Prodigy, so can we infer that it's on par with their intros? My favorite current intro is Prodigy, but this might just edge it out...
WOW!!! Perfect juxtaposition of both TOS music and its own take. What a blend, and the visuals are absolutely stunning! Thank you so much for this masterpiece! RIBBIT!!
