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― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 7 November 2002 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

A crime against humanity.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 7 November 2002 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Totally ruins the mood- theme songs for sci-fi shows should be grand and sweeping, assuring you that what's being presented here is GLORIOUS and IMPORTANT.

Or alternately, just have Spock sing "If I Had A Hammer".

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 7 November 2002 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Awful awful awful. Surely nobody, not even Trekkies, can defend it? Sheesh.

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 7 November 2002 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 7 November 2002 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

>Totally ruins the mood- theme songs for sci-fi shows should be grand
>and sweeping, assuring you that what's being presented here is
>GLORIOUS and IMPORTANT.

Not really. But no show should have a shit power ballad as a theme song.

― fletrejet, Thursday, 7 November 2002 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh, having just finished watching it right now, I remember thinking during the theme song (not having been able to get up, as there was a cat in my lap who would tear my face off if I tried to move) that not only is the theme wildly inappropriate for a Star Trek show (or indeed a show of almost any kind, let along sci fi), it's also wildly anachronistic. It's not just a power ballad, folks, it's a HAIR METAL power ballad, something that we haven't really had to deal with since before even Voyager went on the air. Why they would dredge up this horrid thing now is surely, as Shaky Mo suggests, a crime that deserves immediate retribution.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 7 November 2002 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

It's awesome that they (Rick and Brendon?) dug up that song. It's the exact opposite of what you would expect them to have, but they can do it that way, and get away with it. People nearly worship every decision they make, and they are playing with that.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 7 November 2002 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

That episode wasn't very good. For instance, did I miss something but why/how did ye olde bar full of aliens totally explode into flames just because that guy like, pushed over a table? And what happened to the supposed foot eating acid on the platform? I really shouldn't even get started.

p.s. the song SCARES me.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 7 November 2002 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I guess the acid had probably been cleaned up by the snow by that point, or something. What bugged me most about the flames and aliens running for cover thing is: absolutely no one stood up against these three interlopers that came in and started shooting up the place? Where the hell was the manager? And why would a spaceport not have a fire extinguisher?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 7 November 2002 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

And why would the producers of the series not have an extinguisher for that awful theme song? Surely they have enough money now to afford one. Or at least to call in the exterminator.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 7 November 2002 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

This series is supposed to be the 'dark ages' of Star Trek tho... so it seems we're to assume that complicated sprinkler system technology and basic bartending was still beyond this planet's means.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 7 November 2002 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

K-lame, I guess the kids these days would say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 November 2002 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Aye aye, cap'n, warp k-lame.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 7 November 2002 02:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I burst out laughing the first time I heard it. It wasn't because the song was funny

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 7 November 2002 05:07 (twenty-three years ago)

well, i think jel needs to come in here.

yes it is inappropriate. I was horrified when i first heard it but i have got used to it. so its not like i put the volume down or anything when i sit down to watch it every sunday evening.

like a lot of this stuff it grows on you. it is EVIL! i wouldn't buy it but i quite like it with the images and actually it is the best starting sequence for a star trek series that I have seen. better this than some third rate classical stuff and picard talking abt 'space being the final frontier'- type bollocks.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the opening images themselves are really great, and yes, better and more sort of sentimental and engaging than yr usual "monologue over shot of the universe" claptrap. But the song is awful awful AWFUL. I don't know anyone - even the most devoted Trek fans - who approves of this. I don't think it's accurate to say that "the producers can do no wrong" in the eyes of the fans, because I don't know anyone who likes this show. I can barely sit through it. The minute I saw Scott Bakula's "Dubya" impression, I knew they were going to ruin a perfectly good premise...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 7 November 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I dig that tune! It's so futuristic, like the Enterprise went through a wormhole and the away team beamed down to a planet populated by Starship circa 1986. And they wrote them a song, and Archer said "It's not very good, but they were nice, lets use it anyway" "illogical captain" said the vulcan lady, "that's your first lesson in being human, someone somewhere is bound to like it".

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 7 November 2002 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

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