...though unless I was imagining things, it's a slightly remixed version of the original theme. *sigh*

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Tips to Paramount:

#1 -- fire Braga. Get someone who respects Trek, who actually can give us GOOD writing like TNG and DS9 instead of crap like Voyeur (yeah I know it's technically Voyager, but come on, the only point to watching the last 4 seasons was to see what color tits were on the borg this week).

#2 -- Fire Berman. Same reason.

#3 -- Get some real writers. Bring back DS9 and TNG writers. Stop trying to use the writers who wrote for Voyager, who had NO respect for Trek and got in a hissy-fit when someone told them what they wrote broke continuity. Trek fans LIKE continuity, we RESPECT continuity, and you don't bring in crap-diva-writers who don't give a damn about continuity and expect us to like what they're wanting to shove down our throats.

#4 -- Make sure your actors know their characters. DS9 worked because everyone had fun and loved their characters; the Nagus was only around occasionally because the guy hated being makeupped, but he endured it how many times to give us how many superb, fun episodes?

Voyager's acting plain sucked for this reason; the actors didn't give a damn, they came in, said their lines, that was that. This was especially true for Kate Mulgrew, the worst captain EVER, including all the bit-part captains of ships during TNG time.

Well, that's pretty much it. I know this rant will never get near anybody in Paramount who (a) has the wherewithal, (b) has the brains, and (c) has the power to fix things, but I have to try.

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... I don't think the criticism was really about using a pop song.

It was about using a God awful pop song which every Trek fan very easily can imagine being sung by Barry Manilow.

Really, Russell Watson or Barry Manilow. Would it had made any difference? I think not.

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The voice over would be great at this point. I don't want to hear a trashy rock song but even that should be better than the one they have now.

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In my opinion, just about all the music in the TV incarnations of TREK, post-TOS, is bland. The only theme song that ever impressed me was VOYAGER's opening theme. Okay, it was Jerry Goldsmith, but it sounded majestic, sweeping...unlike the actual series.

There needs to be some risk-taking in Enterprise's music, just like there needs to be risk-taking in the writing, the directing, the SFX, and everything else. But, considering Rick Berman and Brannon Braga's record for taking risks, I'll believe it all when I actually see it.

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The laughable 70's cartoon series of Star Trek is better than Enterprise... and that was crap.

It makes me weep watching the Season 4 DVD's of DS9... that's how a good Star Trek show is done (great scripts, characters, acting, vision, continuity). Not the pitiful shite we have been getting these last 2 years.

I do hope all these changes amount to something on Enterprise - and I will be watching in hope - but I fear by Christmas this show will be axed.

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I'd like to see Danny Elfman take a crack at it.

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They could play the sounds of nature and if the show was great nobody would care. I can't stand the current song as it is, and I greatly favored the Calling, but I think the only true song that needs to be there is a full orchestra led by Jerry Goldsmith. When I here the words pops or energetic of whatever, I just know its going to suck for trek. Classical music never goes out of style, putting dated tunes on the show helps to lock it into the era it was created forever.

Go get Johnny Cash.

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I loved the old theme song! Not the style in general, but the way they chose to merge it with Star Trek. Totally appropiate and wonderful lyrics. Nuff' said.

Who is Voven? What means "more energetic"? This could go very wrong.

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It has to be said that "Faith of the Heart" is, was and always will be terrible. Dianne Warren is a hack songwriter, whose music appeals to middle-aged housewives and no one else (and don't give me that 'ol "Aerosmith's ARMAGEDDON song was number 1!" crap--no self-respecting Aerosmith fan bought that single). And whoever sang "Faith" makes Barry Manilow sound like Johnny Rotten. Bland, cliched and hackneyed... it deserves to be dumped and I for one will be tuning in to see what replaces it... but remember, B&B, if the script stinks, I'll be tuning out just as fast. The visuals during the opening credits were always nice, though...

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This is very encouraging! That "Faith of the Heart" song was downright miserable. Judging from what I've seen of the new look of the show and the direction of the story arc, something a little more on the techno side would be loads better.

Perhaps the orchestral theme is more appropriate for the other series as they were about established space exploration. The theme for ENT should reflect danger, mystery, strangeness, adrenaline and technology. Horns and trumpets can't do that. I don't know how Woven sound, but I hope I will very soon. And as someone below said, I agree that Bakula needs to do the voiceover thing.

I hear the sound of dejected fans returning to see what's new with the show. I hope we're all happy with the changes.

One thing is for sure, the rock sound of the 80s and 90s was definitely wrong for ENT. The song by The Calling was better, but still wasn't the right choice of music for a sci-fi series like ENT.

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New theme songs, new costumes, new aliens. All we ever hear about are cosmetic changes. Bad writing doesn't get any better with different music during the opening credits; hackneyed dialogue doesn't sound any better if the person saying it is in a different costume; and retelling stories from other Trek series doesn't count as new just because you subsitute one bumpy-headed alien for another.

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I love the way this is going. I don't think instrumental pieces are needed right now. However, I do believe we should get a voiceover with the whole "Space...the final frontier" in Bakula style.

Seasons 1 and 2 presented us with "Yay, we are finally able to explore space" feel, therefore the opening credits reflected that.

Season 3 is telling us "Well, we are out here now, but have a serious situation and must take action and attack now" feel, therefore electrical rock works hand at hand with that.

Maybe by Season 4 or longer, we will see another change. But thus far, I see nothing wrong, as long as they scrap the opening credits and put more of a "kick" to the new ones.

Also, reducing the length of the opening credits isn't going to help anything. I do believe DS9's credits were the longest in Trek. ENT's credits are only about 1:15, and DS9 were closer to 2:00. So therefore, ENT would have to reduce them to about 15-30 second credits in order to make any everlasting effects, because a couple of seconds off the opening credits isn't going to do much good.



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Forget these goddam rock bands, get Jerry Goldsmith in there - NOW.

Trek is not in the same catagory as Buffy/Angel/Smallville/Dawsons Creek and it never has - stop trying to appeal that sort of 'crowd' because its the wrong one!

Its as if TNG has been erased from their memories.

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