rickyyy!

... Stinky!?!?!!??????

Who's Stinky? You keep talkin about some guy named Stinky.

I'm sorry, you're all crazy people who are wrong with your wrongheaded wrongness. Ent is second best 90s/aughts trek. This is a factual fact that is true and good in the eyes of the Lord and Prophet Rodenberry, peace be upon him.

Loudly sings Faith of the Heart over any counter argument

Mommy, look! Star Trek TNG fans!

[does a spontaneous Riker manoeuvre around an invisible chair]

So disappointed that nobody ever tried to like run away from Riker by putting a high chair in his way.
- That would be funny.
  \ Or like a chair where the backrest gets higher if approached from the back & trying act all cool.
  The gag could be also just for standing - the episodes evil aliens would make all the potential leg-perch-ledges in vicinity just a bit uncomfortably high.

I’ll say it loud, I’ll say it proud: I like the STE theme song. I rarely skip it.

There. The truth is out. My soul, stripped bare, exposed to the judgmental gaze of the masses.

May the Lord have mercy on my henceforth outcast soul.

It's not a bad song.
It's just super different than the rest of the franchise.
Nothing is perfect, every show has its ill-fitting parts, enterprise just decided to make it the theme, instead of slapping it here and there in episodes.
I say let your freak flag fly. Fuck the haters. Enjoy your ~~^garbage~~ intro song.
- Idk if its true, the youtube edits seem fairly compelling, but I heard that originally the title scene was cut to "Wherever You Will Go" by The Calling. They either had to or wanted to change it because the second episode of Smallville used the same song for it's closing scene (which aired just weeks before Enterprise's pilot). What shits me off is that they went and added some STUPID ELECTRIC GUITAR RIFF to later seasons for, what, royalty reasons? Like they already had a turd and decided it was cheaper to stuff it full of corn and claim its a new turd than to pay a turd license.
- no.. it's a terrible song. It sounds like AI made it with the prompt "give me a corny ass Nashville radio style song about a vague religious term that can offend no one."
I try not to judge anyone's taste in music, and the song is fine, but I think it was an objectively bad choice for a space show about the future.
Classical, orchestral style music as used most of the other show intros doesn't really age, as it's already a very old and neutral style. The STE theme starts and it instantly dates the show to the 90s (even though it was an early 2000s show).
It was even poorly received at the time, which is why they modified it to drop the original drums and include a faster tempo percussion and orchestral backing, starting in season 3.
- What's crazy is that STE has a more classical theme song. They just only use it for the ending credits afaik. And it still has some stupid electric guitar because its the 2000s and its the FUTURE.
- And Enterprise had a great opening theme song, sadly they decided to play it over the closing credits. Faith of the Heart is raspy and bland and sounds like an advertising jingle.
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 get all tastes are found in nature but this is pushing it
you suck! you have the music tastes of an old white granny

Now I want that line in all the subtitles tracks.

I watched this when I first got into ST because it's the earliest on the timeline (asides from various time travel episodes from other series).

I actually kind of liked it and the cheesy sitcom dad vibe that Bakula brought to the show.

That theme, though...

Still better than Discovery and about two-thirds of Picard.

I don’t know; I’d rather watch all of Discovery than some of the horniest Enterprise episodes…
- may the prophets forgive you 🪄
- Which ones would those be? So i can ~~watch~~ avoid them when I'm ~~not~~ watching with my kids
I'd add the other third of Picard, Discovery and Voyager, the third season of Strange New Worlds and the memberberries-parts of Lower Decks.
- Mate, Voyager? What is wrong with you?