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Star Trek: Enterprise Theme Song Lyrics

Why Star Trek: Enterprise Had THAT Terrible Theme Song

"Where My Heart Will Take Me," the opening theme to Star Trek: Enterprise, had reason to be scorned. Over time, however, its reputation has improved.

Among Star Trek: Enterprise ’s more contentious quirks was its opening theme song: a reworked version of Rod Stewart’s “Faith of the Heart” entitled “Where My Heart Will Take Me.” It’s very much a product of its time, and in the ensuing years has become something of a guilty pleasure among the Star Trek faithful. It’s the kind of infectious earworm that takes days to get rid of, and it’s definitely an anomaly among Star Trek themes. Fans at the time did not take it well.

Before Enterprise , Star Trek shows stuck resolutely to classic orchestral themes. That started with Alexander Courage’s iconic introduction to the original Star Trek , and was emulated by The Next Generation, Deep Space 9 and Voyager. Star Trek: The Next Generation appropriated Jerry Goldsmith’s theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which is telling: all of them aimed for an operatic sound indicative of epic theatrical films. When Enterprise began, the producers wanted to break from that tradition in a big way.

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It Was Supposed to Help Enterprise Bridge Our Present with Trek’s Future

Enterprise was posited as a prequel to the original series: detailing the early days of humanity’s exploration of the stars, and the eventual formation of the Federation. Producer Brannon Braga told Starlog magazine that he felt the era had more unexplored dramatic potential than something closer to the original series, and that the characters would respond to challenges differently than the characters in other Trek series had. The song was intended as part of that principle: a firm break from what Trek had become, but also a link between the present day and the bright future the franchise promised.

That, however, could have found better expression elsewhere. The song adopted a soft-rock power ballad format, presumably in order to reach as wide an audience demographic as possible. But the supposedly inspiring lyrics fell flat against Enterprise’s impressive visual title montage of real-life heroes like Amelia Earhart and Gus Grissom. And while the orchestral scores from earlier Trek shows felt evergreen, this one dated itself almost as soon as it had dropped.

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The Song Itself Had a Difficult Background

The choice of song was strange too. Rather than commissioning their own, the producers simply reskinned the Stewart song with new lyrics, giving it the air of a cheap knock-off. Stewart himself – a notorious womanizer – left his second wife less than a month before the song hit the charts, rendering its heartfelt tone disingenuous from the start. A few hastily added lyrics weren’t going to change that. Furthermore, Stewart wrote it for Patch Adams , the infamous Robin Williams tearjerker reviled for its excess sentimentalism.

In short, it felt very corporate: assembled for reasons that had little to do with Star Trek and presented as a change of pace that went badly off the mark. Trekkies responded as Trekkies sometimes do: with anger, rejection and organized demands to replace the song with something else. Enterprise stuck with it, however, and kept it as part of the opening credits for the whole of its run.

The song has since attained a kind of scruffy charm among the Trek faithful, and an apt companion to Enterprise, which similarly took some time for parts of the Star Trek community to warm to. Today the two are intertwined, and the high quality of the show itself lends the comparatively clunky theme song an affection it might otherwise merit. It even earned a playful dig on Star Trek:  Lower Decks   -- as sure a sign as ever that Trekkies are ready to forgive if not forget.

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Where My Heart Will Take Me

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" Where My Heart Will Take Me " is the main title song of Star Trek: Enterprise played over the opening title sequence . Originally titled " Faith of the Heart ", it was written by Diane Warren and originally performed by Rod Stewart for the 1998 movie Patch Adams .

At the conclusion of ENT Season 1 , Brannon Braga acknowledged fan feedback on the theme song ("some love it, some hate it... [but] it's staying.") " I think the song is cheesy, but I like cheesy things. We wanted a sentimental theme song with just the right lyrics that obliquely capture the spirit of human exploration. I feel the song nails it. " ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 3, Issue 2 , p. 11)

In In Conversation: Rick Berman and Brannon Braga , a bonus feature available on ENT Season 1 Blu-ray , Rick Berman described himself as having been "grilled over the coals" for the theme song. He stated that he could not blame Braga for that one. He continued that all of the previous series and films had big sweeping orchestral scores with one major theme and that he thought it would be cool if they were doing something new and different to find a song to put over an opening credit that would show a history of flight and even before. He interviewed a number of songwriters before discovering Diane Warren and felt the song fit perfectly into what the show was about and what it meant. He described the decision to remix the song in the third season as being Paramount 's decision, but the ultimate result being a "bust."

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The version for Enterprise was performed by Russell Watson . It remains the only Star Trek theme song besides Star Trek: The Original Series that is not completely an instrumental, orchestral piece, the only theme to have sung lyrics, and is the only theme that is not a composition original to the franchise.

"Where My Heart Will Take Me" was played for the crew of the space shuttle Discovery as their morning wake-up call on 2 August 2005. [1] The song was also used as a wake-up call for the crew of the Endeavour during STS-118 on 9 August 2007. [2] The song was used again for the STS-125 Hubble Telescope repair crew on board Space Shuttle Atlantis on 24 May 2009. [3] In December 2014, Russell Watson recorded a special version of the song to help wake the New Horizons space probe from hibernation prior to the craft performing the first flyby of Pluto. [4]

Three versions of the theme were recorded: one for the entire full length song and two for the opening credits of Enterprise , with a revised arrangement being introduced in Season 3:

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Full length version [ ]

It's been a long road , getting from there to here. It's been a long time , but my time is finally near. And I can feel a change in the wind right now. Nothing's in my way. And they're not gonna hold me down no more. No they're not gonna hold me down. Cause I've got faith of the heart . I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul . No one's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star . I've got faith. I've got faith, faith of the heart. It's been a long night, trying to find my way. Been through the darkness. Now I'll finally have my day. And I will see my dream come alive at last. I will touch the sky. And they're not gonna hold me down no more. No they're not gonna change my mind. Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. No one's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith. Faith of the heart. I've known the wind so cold, and seen the darkest days. But now the winds I feel are only winds of change. I've been through the fire and I've been through the rain. But I'll be fine. Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. No one's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith. I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got strength of the soul, and no one's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith. I've got faith, faith of the heart. It's been a long road.

Star Trek: Enterprise version [ ]

It's been a long road, getting from there to here. It's been a long time, but my time is finally near. And I will see my dream come alive at last. I will touch the sky. And they're not gonna hold me down no more, no they're not gonna change my mind. Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. And no one's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith. I've got faith, faith of the heart.

Other versions [ ]

During previews for Enterprise on UPN , the song " Wherever You Will Go ", performed by the musical group The Calling , was played instead of the regular theme song.

A unique one-off instrumental version of the song "Where My Heart Will Take Me" plays over the closing credits of " Broken Bow ".

• In the LD : " No Small Parts " episode, Captain William T. Riker was seen quoting the lyrics to Deanna Troi aboard the USS Titan .

External link [ ]

• " Where My Heart Will Take Me " at Wikipedia

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• This song was written by accomplished American songwriter Diane Warren. It was originally recorded by Stewart for the 1998 Robin Williams movie Patch Adams , where it fit with the theme of believing in yourself.
• In 2001, the song was re-recorded by British opera singer Russell Watson under the title "Where My Heart Will Take Me," to be used as the theme song for Enterprise , the fifth TV series in the Star Trek franchise and a prequel to the original series. Like many other aspects of the Enterprise series, the choice of this song as the theme music became a point of controversy among longtime Star Trek devotees. In 2003, Watson's version was remixed to coincide with the show's rebranding as Star Trek: Enterprise . Ironically, this livelier mix of the theme song came as the plot of the series itself took a darker turn.
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The Story Behind The Star Trek Franchise's Most Controversial Theme Song

It's hard to imagine there are many Trekkies in the world who are immensely fond of Russell Watson's rendition of "Where My Heart Will Take Me," the theme song to "Star Trek: Enterprise." Imagine if Rod Stewart were straining to produce a particularly stubborn bowel movement, and you can hear the gravelly strains of Mr. Watson's vocals. The insipid lyrics wax elegiac about the progress we've made "getting from there to here," and how the singer's "time is finally near." No one can hold back the song's narrator as he has "faith of the heart." Nothing's gonna bend or break him. The effect of the song is more or less equivalent to a black-bordered inspirational poster hung on a corporate office wall next to a cubicle. You have strength of the soul. 

One might be able to see why the makers of "Star Trek: Enterprise" wanted a pop song, with lyrics, to lead into their new 2001 TV series. The previous "Star Trek" shows all began with bold, orchestral themes that evoke the excitement and exhilaration of jetting off into the cosmos. "Enterprise" was to be the fourth new "Trek" series in 14 years, and would be the first to run by itself since the debut of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" in 1993. The series wanted to set itself apart, and a pop song seemed like the way to go. 

In the helpful oral history book "The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams," edited by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, the shows creators, writers, and directors all talked about the theme song and what led to their (dubious) decision to include Russell "The Voice" Watson's dulcet groans into official "Star Trek" canon. 

It's been a long road...

I didn't mention Rod Stewart above by accident. "Where Will Heart Will Take Me" actually began its life as a 1998 Stewart song called "Faith of the Heart," written by serially Oscar-nominated songwriter Dianne Warren. It was initially penned for Tom Shadyac's execrable, treacle-smeared Hollywood biopic "Patch Adams," and the song's ultra-sentimental tone perfectly matches the corniness of the movie itself. "Faith of the Heart" hit #20 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, and peaked at #4 in Canada. A 1999 cover by Christian/Country artist Susan Ashton made it as far as #51 on the Hot Country Songs chart. 

Russell Watson began his singing career as a mere lad and began winning radio singing contests in his 20s. In 1999, he sang "God Save the Queen" at the rugby Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, and England really took notice. Two years later, Watson released his first album, "The Voice" (not related to the TV game show of the same name) and it was a massive success; "The Voice" is the first album to hold the #1 spot on both the U.S. and U.K. classical charts at the same time. Watson, lacking in the "stuffy" pretensions of modern opera and willing to sing pop songs, gained the nickname of "The People's Tenor." He was also called, rather theatrically, "The Voice," after that first album. In short, he was hot s*** in 2001.

Brannon Braga and Rick Berman, the creators of "Star Trek: Enterprise," likely knew all about Watson and his cresting popularity. The two wanted a pop song — mostly at Berman's insistence — but, as it turns out, not that pop song. Braga remembers what he wanted to use, and how awful he thought "Where My Heart Will Take Me" was.

Getting from there to here...

Braga originally wanted a temp track they were using to become the actual "Enterprise" theme song. He was a big U2 fan, it seems. He was not, however, a fan of Russell Watson. Braga said: 

"Rick and I felt that a song would set the slightly more contemporary feeling we were going after with Enterprise. For the longest time, we had a temporary song we cut the main titles to, U2's 'Beautiful Day.' If we had used that—or could have afforded it-that would have been a great song. Those main titles with U2 are amazing. It's hip and cool, whereas the song we ended up with is awful. I'm a big fan of Diane Warren, she's a great songwriter, but this particular song and the way it was sung was tacky." 

For the record, "Beautiful Day" doesn't really have the "bold" qualities of classic "Star Trek" orchestral openings, but it is a sight better than what we got. Braga continued: 

"I still cringe when I hear it and, by the way, I think the song had a lot to do with people's adverse reaction to the show. If you look at the main titles themselves, it's a really cool sequence. But the song is awful, just awful." 

If it was that awful, why was it selected as the theme song for "Enterprise"? Berman revealed that it was the culmination of ideas that all seemed great at the time, but that ultimately combined very poorly. Opening montage, lyrics about progress, talented songwriter, hot pop singer. It seemed like all the pieces were correct, and everything was on track to be great. They could reach any star.

It's been a long time...

Berman remembers the process well. He said: 

"This is another example of my being stubborn, right or wrong. I thought it would be nice to have a theme song. Nobody had ever done it before. I knew that I wanted the animation at the opening instead of just being the flying-through-space stuff that had existed on all the other 'Star Trek' shows. But I wanted it to be sort of a compilation of the science and the people that led up to the space flight. Our visual effects people put together an amazing visual montage. Then we went to a very famous, contemporary composer named Diane Warren, who's written huge hits."

So far, so good. For the record, the opening montage is wonderful. It begins with footage of the first sailing ships on Earth in long-ago times, and quickly walks the audience through the history of navigation. There is a three-masted sailing vessel, a modern ship, a space shuttle. At some point, the montage passes from real-world ships into the fictional crafts of "Star Trek." It ends with the title vessel, warping into adventure.  

Berman recalls Warren:

"...[W]ent through a whole bunch of songs and we came up with this tune that she had written. The lyrics seemed perfect. Then she got all excited, there was a British singer named Russell Watson and he was a very hot performer — kind of semi-operatic and pop performer — and he agreed to sing it. It basically spoke to exactly what we were looking for a dream of going out into the unknown and the whole idea of bringing one's heart to what matters. We recorded the song and put it to the animation and everybody thought it was terrific. And the audience hated it."

But my time is finally near...

Indeed. The semi-operatic sound of "Where My Heart Will Take Me" was hated pretty much unilaterally. The idea of opening a "Star Trek" show with a pop song wasn't a bad idea in itself, necessarily, but audiences made it quite clear that Watson's wailings weren't wanted. Eventually, at the start of the show's third season, the song was remixed to add more electric guitars and drums, hoping to trick audiences into thinking it was more upbeat. Watson's vocals, perhaps unfortunately, remained. Berman liked the remix. No one else did. He said: 

"In the second or third year, the network said to us, 'Can you rewrite the song and could you make the song hipper?' We left the vocal on, but we did a completely different instrumental with a lot more electric guitars and things to make it a little more rock 'n' roll. I don't know if anybody was truly satisfied with that. I, for one, can tell you that I thought it was a great opening and I'm not alone in that. I don't think I'm in the majority, but I'm not alone." 

Many of the other producers and writers on "Enterprise" were fine with moving away from a Jerry Goldsmith or Alexander Courage-penned orchestral overture, but none of them liked "Where My Heart Will Take Me." Writer Mike Sussman liked the shake-up, but not "kind of shaking it up in many of the wrong ways. Let's say all the wrong ways." Producer Antoinette Stella recalled that everyone was "shocked" when they heard the song at the series' first screening. "Everybody talked about it after we saw the pilot," she said. "Sometimes you try to be different and they work ... and sometimes they don't."

I will see my dreams come alive at night...

Chris Black, one of the staff writers on "Enterprise" noted that the song was perhaps terrible, but that it was ultimately perfect for the tone of the show. It was about aspiring and touching the furthest star, etc. etc. There were worse things in the world that one should reserve their hate for. Black said: 

"If you listen to the lyrics of that song, they're appropriate. Are the lyrics cheesy? Absolutely. But is it saying something about the characters of the Star Trek universe that I think is appropriate? Absolutely. I don't hate it or love it. Everybody hates it. I don't hate it. I hate Nazis. I don't hate the theme song from 'Enterprise.'"

The editor of Film Score Monthly, Lukas Kendall, noted that "Where My Heart Will Take Me" has aged like fine milk. It was derided in 2001 and still has no fans 22 years later. He asked:

"Is there anybody who likes that song? The choice was ridiculed at the time and comes across no better today. I would not be opposed to the use of a song in principle, but it was the wrong one-a Diane Warren power ballad from 'Patch Adams?' Really? Even the producers seemed to hedge when they had the backing track redone for season three, but they had too much invested to dump it entirely."

In the pages of /Film, it was previously written that modern pop music always feels a little out of place in "Star Trek." The franchise takes place in a post-capitalist society. Adding recognizable commercial pop into the proceedings adds an unavoidable corporate element to Trek. Kendall noted the clash between Trek's typically classical bent and its own need for an insufferable power ballad. 

I will touch the sky

Kendall continued: 

"The producers broke one of their own rules: 'Star Trek' has become pop culture, but there is no pop culture within 'Star Trek,' because it punctures the reality. They tried rebranding with a mainstream radio song instead of another 'space theme for nerds,' so to speak — the desperate attempt to reach a bigger audience — but it was cheesy and lame." 

Many years later, the makers of "Star Trek: Lower Decks" got to affectionally (?) take a swipe at "Where My Heart Will Take Me." William Riker (Jonathan Frakes), while serving as captain on board the U.S.S. Titan, liked to while away his free time interacting with the "Enterprise" characters on the ship's holodeck. This was a reference to the final episode of "Enterprise," wherein Riker did that very thing. As he returned to the bridge after one of his holographic sojourns, he idly commented that he loved visiting the past and that "it's been a long road, getting from there to here." Trekkies instantly recognized Dianne Warren's opening lyric. 

It's worth noting that all the "Star Trek" shows to follow "Enterprise" went enthusiastically back to the "space theme for nerds" model, providing each series with a unique orchestral score. The third season of "Stra Trek: Picard" even repurposed Jerry Goldsmith's theme for "Star Trek: First Contact" wholesale.

Fun trivia: in what might have been a fit whimsical irony, "Where My Heart Will Take Me" was used as the wake-up alarm for mission specialist Richard Mastracchio on the Space Shuttle Endeavour  in 2007.

Hearts were broken. Lessons were learned. "Star Trek" will never again have The Voice.

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Question: Who sang the Enterprise theme song, "Faith of the Heart"? It wasn't Rod Stewart, but could it have been Scott Bakula, aka Captain Jonathan Archer?Answer: It could've been, I suppose. But it wasn't. "Faith of the Heart," written by Diane Warren and originally performed by Rod Stewart for the Patch Adams soundtrack, was sung by rising U.K. opera star Russell Watson during the show's opening credits. Watson comes from humble beginnings, initially earning a living as a bolt fitter in Manchester and practicing his singing on the side. From there, "The People's Tenor" (I love that name — a tenor for the rest of us) has come into his own as a best-selling singer and was even named a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations. Now, if only one could say the same for the song itself, which creat

Question: Who sang the Enterprise theme song, "Faith of the Heart"? It wasn't Rod Stewart , but could it have been Scott Bakula , aka Captain Jonathan Archer?

Answer: It could've been, I suppose. But it wasn't.

"Faith of the Heart," written by Diane Warren and originally performed by Rod Stewart for the Patch Adams soundtrack, was sung by rising U.K. opera star Russell Watson during the show's opening credits. Watson comes from humble beginnings, initially earning a living as a bolt fitter in Manchester and practicing his singing on the side. From there, "The People's Tenor" (I love that name a tenor for the rest of us) has come into his own as a best-selling singer and was even named a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations.

Now, if only one could say the same for the song itself, which created quite a storm in the Trek community. It's tough to find a fan who's ambivalent about it. (Admittedly, it's tough to find a Trek fan who's ambivalent about anything .) Those who hated the song started petition drives to get it dumped, while those who championed it screamed just as loudly to have it left alone.

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For the “ Star Trek ” franchise, music from the television shows and films has been something that has helped set Trek apart. From the very beginning, Trek had a different sound for its first series. Composed by Alexander Courage, the  “Star Trek” theme  was written in November of 1966 and has become an  iconic piece of music.  

Scientific research has proven that music “ guides the audience in certain ways , for example emotionally, and it enriches and deepens their experience of the film.” Thanks to research conducted by  Prof. Nanette Nielsen at the University of Oslo , there is solid research that says that music “always plays on something deep within us and is therefore capable of moving us.”

The Theme for “The Next Generation”

“Even when we sit in a room all to ourselves, alone and listening, we still have our thoughts and our imagination,” said Nielsen, in a  report on some of her research . “Music can work in powerful ways to evoke memories and ideas and thereby engage our thoughts and feelings. Music can quite simply contribute towards shaping the stories of our lives.”

Since it is scientifically proven that music can “engage” the “thoughts and feelings” of people, it should be no wonder that the music of “Star Trek,”  according to writer Alasdair Stuart , “have done an amazing job of encapsulating the shows’ spirit and scope.”

That is, except for the theme from “Star Trek: Enterprise.” That is the theme that seems to be cited more than any other as the oddball in the bunch. Even though an  official StarTrek.com poll  ranked Courage’s theme lower than the music from “Enterprise,” it is the latter that still draws the ire of Trek fans.

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According to  ComicBookResources , upon hearing the new theme back in 2001, fans “responded as Trekkies sometimes do: with anger, rejection and organized demands to replace the song with something else.”

The song was never replaced, but it was tweaked a bit.  Newsweek said  the updated version was like “smooth jazz-pop,” but the lyrics were the same. 

“It’s Been a Long Road…”

The story behind why co-executive producer Rick Berman chose “Where My Heart Will Take Me” is well known. Thanks to Mark A. Altman and Ed Gross’s book, “ The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years ,” Berman wanted to try something different and stubbornly would not change his mind. 

“I wanted the animation at the opening instead of just being the flying through space stuff that had existed on all the other ‘Star Trek’ shows,” Berman told Altman and Gross. “Our visual effects people put together an amazing visual montage.”

Berman contacted  Diane Warren , a composer, lyricist, and “Star Trek” fan. She allowed Berman to use “Where My Heart Will Take Me,”  originally written for the Robin Williams  film, “ Patch Adams .” The song was initially performed by  Rod Stewart . 

They hired British pop singer  Russell Watson  to record the “Star Trek” version of the song.

“We recorded the song and put it to the animation, and everybody thought it was terrific,” said Berman. “And the audience hated it.”

U2’s “Beautiful Day”

Before the montage was joined with Watson’s song, the cast and crew got to see a different version of the show’s opening. This version featured the number one hit from Irish pop band U2 — “ Beautiful Day. ”

When “Enterprise” writer and producer  Mike Sussman  saw the U2 version, he reacted entirely differently. 

“When they showed us the opening graphics, it was set to U2’s ‘Beautiful Day,’ which is an amazing song,” Sussman  told Gross and Altman . “It gets back to the people running the franchise saying ‘We’ve got to do something different. We’ve got to shake it up.’ And kind of shaking it up in many of the wrong ways.”

Co-executive producer Brannon Braga also liked the U2 version better than what was ultimately created with Watson.

“If we had used that — or could have afforded it — that would have been a great song,” Braga said in “ The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years .”

“Those main titles with U2 are amazing,” Braga said. “It’s hip and cool, whereas the song we ended up with is awful. I’m a big fan of Diane Warren, she’s a great songwriter, but this particular song and the way it was sung was tacky.”

“I still cringe when I hear it and, by the way, I think the song had a lot to do with people’s adverse reaction to the show,” said Braga. “If you look at the main titles themselves, it’s a really cool sequence. But the song is awful, just awful.”

As Braga noted, the budget for the show could not afford to license the U2 song — which had already been used for many projects, including the  2000 Sydney Olympics . Sussman also told Gross and Altman that Diane Warren let Berman use “Where My Heart Will Take Me” for “next to nothing.”

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Every 'Star Trek' Theme Song Ranked

It's hard not to take the Star Trek: Enterprise theme as an affront upon first hearing it. There's nothing science fiction feeling about it, and none of the orchestral swell found in previous Star Trek series themes, which foreshadowed the more perfect human future ahead. Instead, it's a twangy soft rock ballad version of a song from Patch Adams , which had come out less than three years before Enterprise . But this time "Where My Heart Will Take Me" was sung by British opera tenor Russell Watson instead of Rod Stewart.

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The discordance was clearly no accident. Enterprise was meant to stand apart from other Star Trek s in any number of ways—the words " Star Trek " didn't even appear in the title until the third season. But there was an instant backlash to the saccharine theme when Enterprise premiered in 2001, with fan protests and petitions calling for a return of "score that is without vocals, as traditionally used by Star Trek television series."

"What's a Star Trek series without something for people to hate?" Star Trek series producer and Enterprise executive producer Rick Berman said at time, responding to the backlash for SciFi Wire.

But for all the sputtering, it's hard not to find a Star Trek theme with singalong lyrics at least a little charming, even if its syrupy sentiment would make actually singing along embarrassing. The Enterprise theme may have sucked all the mockery in the galaxy into its orbit, but it's a little hard not to admire them for sticking by it, even doubling down with a baffling third season pivot to a new version—this one smooth jazz-pop, which sounded a little as if the record player had been sped up slightly to get it over with.

While few would dispute that "Where My Heart Will Take Me" is the worst Star Trek theme , it has still, for the most part, been tolerated, sometimes even embraced. NASA archivist Colin Fries confirms Space Shuttle crews were subjected to it four times, with "Where My Heart Will Take Me" serving as a wake up call twice as often as the themes for the original Star Trek or The Next Generation . (Other selections used for morning esprit de corps on space missions included the theme from the 1965 Western For a Few Dollars More , "Eye in the Sky" by Alan Parsons Project and "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" by Will Smith.)

Watson, the song's singer, probably described the journey towards acceptance best: "Something new happens, and people aren't quite sure of it. But they'll get used to it," he said in 2001 . "By the time they've watched the 20th episode, they'll be thinking, 'Well, it's not that bad after all.'"

He's probably right. Those sticky lyrics ensure you'll never forget it.

Cause I've got faith, of the heart.

I'm going where my heart will take me.

I've got faith to believe.

I can do anythinggggggg.

But while it's easy to step on the Enterprise song, ranking the rest of the Star Trek themes—which stick closer to the style of the soaring orchestral introduction that first appeared before the very first episode, "The Man Trap," on September 6, 1966—is a lot trickier. A 2013 poll by the official Star Trek site found a split fanbase, though the most substantial support went to the same two themes as top this ranked list.

Star Trek: Discovery

Jeff Russo's Star Trek: Discovery theme is cluttered with instrumentation. This sometimes works beautifully, including its early, mournful horn build-up and the confident strings vibrating after, but the cumulative effect is a little too mathematically fussy, made worse by an emphasis on propulsive energy over mood. But the Discovery theme might have been able to stand on its own if it weren't for the decision to sink it between two nostalgic stings from Alexander Courage's original Star Trek fanfare.

Star Trek: The Animated Series

With story editor D.C. Fontana's focus on tight science fiction plots and most of the original cast returning to voice their characters, The Animated Series felt like another year in the Enterprise's five-year mission—rather than just Star Trek for kids—when it debuted in 1973, four years after the original series' cancellation. But while Star Trek: TAS did everything right, there was no disguising the limited animation or the derivative theme, composed in-house by the animation studio's cofounder and their prolific cartoon composer, both bearing pseudonyms.

But while it's missing the orchestral grandeur of other Star Trek themes, The Animated Series music is undeniably jaunty. It's chintzy for sure, but there's a colorful bounciness to it that gives it an enduring camp appeal.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Created by longtime Star Trek series composer Dennis McCarthy, who scored hundreds of hours—from the first episode of The Next Generation to the last episode of Enterprise —the Deep Space Nine theme has an unimpeachable pedigree. Opening with a lonely trumpet solo, it's a moody introduction to the remote space station setting for the series.

But from there, the DS9 theme expands into a repetitive martial fanfare. Loaded with trumpets and French horns, it's a song that feels like it's perpetually revealing, instead of going anywhere. While its theme is in line with the diplomacy and war of the series (and a fourth season re-orchestration adds a little more energy), it's a little too stately for a series that deconstructed the high-minded planet-hopping of The Next Generation , pioneered Star Trek serial storytelling and pushed the United Federation of Planet's utopian principles to their breaking point.

Star Trek: Picard

Where Deep Space Nine is a one-dimensional theme that doesn't suit its fascinating show, Star Trek: Picard is everything its series is not. Composed by Russo, but far less slavish than the nostalgic Discovery theme, the main title for Picard feels mysterious and hopeful, combining strings to evoke the cultured, urbane Jean-Luc Picard with a pining flute—a reminder of the starship captain's soulful playing of his Ressikan flute (an instrument he learned to play in the beloved TNG episode "Inner Light"). While the series devolves into a busywork action adventure, the theme song has an earthy sentiment, perfect for a Star Trek series about a planetbound captain returning to the stars.

Star Trek: The Original Series

"I don't want any of this goddamn funny-sounding space science fiction music, I want adventure music," composer Alexander Courage recalls Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry telling him, in interviews excerpted in the 2013 collection Music In Science Fiction Television: Tuned to the Future . "He wanted something that had some balls and drive to it."

Courage combined woodwinds, a harp, a vibraphone, French horns and Loulie Jean Norman: a soprano singer from The Dean Martin Show , who was the first to sing the wordless Star Trek melody. The result is a theme that is both adventure-driven (you can almost hear trotting horse hooves underneath the singing) and iconically sci-fi, as the first four notes ring out like satellite pings over the depths of space.

Courage even created the "woosh" sound effect as the Enterprise zips across the screen during the opening credits, by making the sound with his mouth. (Gene Rodenberry would later write useless, never-sung lyrics so he could lay claim to half of Courage's royalties).

A beautiful version of the theme also popped up in Star Trek: Discovery , right after the reveal of a rendezvous with the U.S.S. Enterprise at the end of the first season finale. Discovery and Picard composer Jeff Russo assembled a 74-piece orchestra, more than doubling the original recording.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Jerry Goldsmith was nominated for Best Original Score at the 1979 Academy Awards for the 12th time for his soundtrack to Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Unlike his second nominated score—the experimental, influential and deeply strange music for Planet of the Apes— Goldsmith's Star Trek movie score was bold and unabashedly accessible. Goldsmith cited the direct influence of John Williams' theme for Star Wars , which came out in theaters two years earlier—not the last time the series would aim for the more mainstream appeal of the space opera pulp adventure.

The opening fanfare became so central to the Star Trek identity that McCarthy, the composer who would go on to create the DS9 main theme, rearranged The Motion Picture theme for the opening of Star Trek: The Next Generation nearly a decade later.

The result is likely the most iconic Star Trek title track. Booming and heroic, it evokes the more elevated and diplomatic dilemmas confronted by the starship Enterprise of the 24th century, redefining the series from James T. Kirk's swashbuckling adventures a century earlier.

Star Trek: Voyager

The Next Generation theme may be the defining musical motif for all of modern Star Trek , but Goldsmith topped its sonic pleasures when he composed the Voyager theme in the middle of a decade-long run scoring Star Trek movies (including beloved entries like First Contact , and loathed ones like Nemesis ). Completely different from the marching rhythm of the TNG and DS9 themes, Voyager recaptures some of the spacey ethereality of Courage's original vocal melody, while adding a deep space resonance that evoked the series' lost explorers, far from home among uncharted stars.

Unlike most other Star Trek themes, there's not a hint or sample of what came before in Voyager 's main title, emphasizing how apart the series was from the supportive unity of the United Federation of Planets. Rather than the drumbeat of purpose, Voyager captures a more open-ended sense of searching. Of the Star Trek series released since The Next Generation , it's the Voyager theme that sounds the least martial and most exploratory. This is music to calibrate your nacelles to.

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The bad idea behind the naming of Star Trek: Enterprise

B efore Star Trek: Enterprise became Star Trek: Enterprise, it had been decided during the development of the series that the "Star Trek" would be dropped. For some reason, the powers-that-be, including Rick Berman, had the idea that dropping the colon would help the series be "dramatically different." According to Berman, as reported in The Fifty Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, From The Next Generation to J.J. Abrams, The Complete Uncensored and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, he thought it "might be fun" to not have a division between Star Trek and the main title.

And I thought that if there's any one word that says Star Trek without actually saying Star Trek, it's the word "enterprise." Rick Berman

But fans weren't happy that a long-standing tradition had been dropped. Combine that with the theme song, and there was even more unhappy fans. But that's not the worst part of this scenario.

When the ratings weren't as high as they hoped and were actually dropping in the second season, all of a sudden, it was time to put Star Trek in the title. Perhaps the executives were thinking people weren't watching because they didn't know it was a Trek show.

"As if anybody out there was going to say, 'Damn, I didn't know that was a Star Trek show.' So it became Star Trek: Enterprise the last two years.Rick Berman

The reasons behind Enterprise's failure had little to do with the series' name. I, for one, am a big fan of the series, but even I saw issues with it that had nothing to do with what it was called or the theme song. Quite frankly, I didn't think the right people were in charge of the scripts, and that was just one of the problems. There just simply weren't enough great stories, which is a shame because when Enterprise did have a great story, like Terra Prime, they really did it right.

There were plenty of other standout episodes during the series' four-season run, but obviously, it wasn't enough to satisfy the ratings. The idea, though, to attach Star Trek to the title after two seasons was a dismal failure. People weren't failing to watch because of the name; they were failing to watch because they didn't like the way the series was being written. I would have gladly watched more episodes, but there just weren't enough people who felt the same way.

This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as The bad idea behind the naming of Star Trek: Enterprise .

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The long lost original model of the USS Enterprise has been returned

The model, in the opening credits of Star Trek , had been missing since the 1970s. It popped up on eBay last fall. The seller helped facilitate its return to the family of the creator of Star Trek .

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The long-lost original model of the USS Enterprise, the one that could be seen in the opening credits of the TV show "Star Trek," has been returned. Missing since the 1970s, the model popped up on eBay last fall. The seller eventually took down the item and helped facilitate its return to Rod Roddenberry, the son of the late "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry, the son, says he now hopes to get the model into a museum for the public to enjoy.

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Kirk’s starship enterprise returns in star trek: discovery - with a big twist.

The Starship Enterprise makes a shocking return in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, but it's a version that hasn't been seen since TOS season 2.

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 5 - "Mirrors"

• The Mirror Universe's ISS Enterprise, last seen in Star Trek: The Original Series' "Mirror, Mirror," makes a shocking return in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5.
• Star Trek: Discovery filmed scenes on the USS Enterprise set of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• The ISS Enterprise now exists in the 32nd century, offering a new glimpse into the alternate reality of the Mirror Universe.

Captain James T. Kirk's (William Shatner) Starship Enterprise makes a shocking return in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5, but with a jaw-dropping twist - it's the ISS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series ' "Mirror, Mirror"! Written by Johanna Lee & Carlos Cisco and directed by Jen McGowan, Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5, "Mirrors," sees Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) enter interdimensional space to pursue Moll (Eve Harlow) and L'ak (Elias Toufexis) and the next clue to the Progenitors' ancient treasure. What Burnham and Book never expected to find was the Mirror Universe's derelict ISS Enterprise.

Star Trek: Discovery picked up the mantle of the Mirror Universe from Star Trek: The Original Series , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , and Star Trek; Enterprise. Discovery 's season 1's game-changing Mirror Universe arc introduced Emperor Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh), who would enter Star Trek 's Prime Universe and is now headlining Paramount+'s upcoming Star Trek: Section 31 movie. Star Trek: Discovery deepened the saga of the Mirror Universe, but the alternate reality's final appearance was in Star Trek: Discovery season 3. Thanks to Star Trek 's Temporal Wars , it's now impossible for the Prime and Mirror Universes to cross over in Star Trek: Discovery 's 32nd century.

Individuals who both time travel and cross from Star Trek' s Prime and Mirror Universes suffer a lethal medical condition, such as what happened to Emperor Georgiou.

Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Returning Cast & New Character Guide

Star trek: discovery brings back kirk’s mirror universe starship enterprise, the iss enterprise last appeared in star trek: the original series' "mirror, mirror".

The Mirror Universe's ISS Enterprise in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5 is the same Constitution Class starship from Star Trek: The Original Series season 2, episode 4, "Mirror, Mirror," which was the ISS Enterprise's only prior canonical appearance. The ISS Enterprise was trapped in interdimensional space and abandoned by its crew, who were refugees and freedom fighters attempting to flee the Mirror Universe for Star Trek 's Prime Universe in the 24th century. As Captain Burnham later learned, the refugees made it to the Prime Universe, and one scientist even became a Starfleet Admiral.

In Star Trek: Enterprise season 4's "In A Mirror, Darkly", the 22nd-century Terran Empire gained control of the Constitution Class USS Defiant, which crossed over and time traveled from the 23rd-century Prime Universe.

In Star Trek: The Original Series ' "Mirror, Mirror", the ISS Enterprise was commanded by Captain James T. Kirk who assassinated its prior Captain, Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter). "Mirror, Mirror" saw the Prime Universe's Kirk, Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and Scotty (James Doohan) switch places with their Mirror counterparts due to a transporter accident during an ion storm. Before switching back, Prime Kirk planted a seed with the goateed Mirror Spock (Leonard Nimoy) to take control of the Terran Empire and institute reforms to prevent the inevitable destruction of the Empire.

Mirror Spock's reforms were successful but ultimately weakened the Terran Empire, which was conquered by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, as seen in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Star Trek: Discovery Filmed Season 5’s Enterprise On Strange New Worlds’ Set

Star trek: strange new worlds was on hiatus after season 2..

Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5, "Mirrors", was filmed on the USS Enterprise set of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . When Discovery season 5 was in production in late 2022, Strange New Worlds was on hiatus after completing season 2 filming in June . ( Strange New Worlds wouldn't begin season 3 production until December 2023.) Sonequa Martin-Green, David Ajala, Eve Harlow, and Elias Toufexis shot on Strange New Worlds ' sets, which are located in Toronto where Star Trek: Discovery also filmed.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 is in production, and the series has been renewed for season 4.

Star Trek: Discovery redressed Strange New Worlds ' USS Enterprise set to become the ISS Enterprise. Scenes were filmed on the Enterprise's bridge, hallways, and medical bay. Interestingly, by using Strange New Worlds ' Enterprise set, which depicts the USS Enterprise before Captain Kirk assumes command, Star Trek: Discovery season 5 establishes that the ISS Enterprise, which crossed into the Prime Universe decades after Star Trek: The Original Series , is the same ship as in "Mirror, Mirror" despite the very different interiors.

Star Trek: Enterprise recreated the sets of Star Trek: The Original Series ' USS Enterprise for the interiors of the USS Defiant.

What Happens To Mirror Universe’s Enterprise In Star Trek: Discovery?

The 32nd century just got another 23rd-century starship.

Captain Burnham and Cleveland Booker piloted the ISS Enterprise out of interdimensional space and into Star Trek 's Prime Universe with the help of the USS Discovery. Afterward, Burnham assigned Lt. Commanders Kayla Detmer (Emily Coutts) and Joann Owosekun (Oyin Oladejo) to fly the ISS Enterprise to Federation headquarters, so that the Mirror Universe's starship could be put into "storage". However, there are now fascinating ramifications to the ISS Enterprise existing in Star Trek: Discovery 's 32nd century .

Amazingly, the ISS Enterprise is also now the second 23rd-century starship in 3191 along with the USS Discovery itself.

Although the ISS Enterprise is obsolete by 32nd-century standards, it's still a bonanza of Mirror Universe technology that the United Federation of Planets has now acquired . This would certainly be of interest to Dr. Kovich (David Cronenberg). The 23rd-century ISS Enterprise is a window not just to 900 years ago, but also to the alternate reality, especially since the Mirror Universe is now sealed off permanently from the Federation. Amazingly, the ISS Enterprise is also now the second 23rd-century starship in 3191 along with the USS Discovery itself. Perhaps the ISS Enterprise will reappear and play a role in the second half of Star Trek: Discovery season 5.

New episodes of Star Trek: Discovery season 5 stream Thursdays on Paramount+