I remember pretending to be sick from school so I could stay at home watching this with my dad all day.. now that he's gone, I would do anything to go back and sit there with him eating popcorn watching reruns all day. Star Trek will forever be engraved in my heart. Thanks for the best memories dad 🖤💜
The Bible does speak of a resurrection and Jehovah will fix the world. In relation to Star Trek, TNG was my favorite and I feel like it was the best. I also remember watching Levar Burton showing us the set on Reading Rainbow on Public Television which was excellent that they did that for us kids. The original Star Trek was good too but I still liked TNG so much better. I also realize I enjoyed DS9 as well but still liked TNG the best. Voyager was okay but still doesn't compare to TNG or even DS9. I could be wrong in my thoughts but I did enjoy TNG.
@@rosegonella3098 LOL, my 14 year daughter is a geek like me. Into Star Wars and anime, but I never had the chance to introduce her to the Trek universe yet. Last week I was watching old STNG reruns, she come up behind me: "Daddy, what are these weird saucer and cube shaped ships and why is everyone so terrified?"... It BEGINS! LOL
It’s April 2022…I’m now 38 years old but this makes me 12 again every episode. This show is the ultimate comfort during the hardest times. TNG FOREVER!!!
+Tiberiu Marian Actually, the Federation already has an anthem. We hear it in the DS9 episode "Take Me Out to the Holosuite". You can probably find it on youtube.
Put that in the semi-sentient terraforming devices we send out to cultivate worlds and GROW new life and new civilizations. Funnily enough, if that actually happened, that musical piece would become a unifying religious artifact for species created by such "monoliths". When multiple such civilizations encounter one-another, and find that Also Sprach Zarathustra exists in their respective cultures, it would probably give them proof that they were "created" by the same gods, the same Endless beings who created the mysterious monoliths, reshaping entire planets in their image.
I think for TNG they were still using physical models with computer controlled mounts for the model and camera so separate passes for navigational lights (with studio lights off) and hull exterior would align. Th e stretching effect was accomplished by moving the model as a narrow band of light scanned across it.
yeah, they didn't switch to (partial) CGI until ... the middle? of DS9 and later on went full CG for Voyager. I'll be honest; i can't tell which Voyager is CGI and which is the studio model. For all the well deserved shit Voyager gets, they knew how to light that thing. The main downside was the model itself; the 6footer used in early TNG and the intro sequence was so heavy they had a hard time showing it from some angles. Beautiful thing, that model. I wish i could see it in person. Maybe touch a little. Rub the nacelles.
@@americanbeast7134 A couple of years ago there was a TH-cam video of the Star Trek TNG intro with a Shatner/Kirk voice over! I don't know where it is now.
They edited the original one bad. It’s probably just because of when it was released but when he said “these are the voyages of the Starship enterprise” it sounds like they took the word “enterprise” from another taping and sounds out of place lol.
Best theme music of any of the Star Trek series. Still sends shivers down my spine. Grew up glued to the screen between the ages of 6 and 11, almost entirely based upon the power and majesty of this introduction whenever the show was on. It was what initially drew me to the show. This theme was pure ceremony, with a presence that the spinoffs never came close to capturing. Even as a child I knew this was tantamount to the grandest theatre. The theme music of all the other shows could lull me to sleep; this theme does the exact opposite, an aural monument to adventure and exploration. I can't hate Voyager but, come on, anyone who thinks that show or its intro was better than TNG needs an intervention.
TNG Intro is the Wham Song of Trek, never gets old. Voyager Intro was great while new episodes aired, it had something to it that made me desire to see what comes after it ends every time. Deep Space Nine... these horns...that asteroid that is a nice reminder of the meteor in the TNG Intro, but way more CGI and leading to the station flyover...the composition of John Williams, sampled from ST7: Generations... It was the most mature and serious attempt of all for me, and gives me chills i cannot describe, till today. It has it all.
@@geomodelrailroader Well, obviously the Jerry Goldsmith theme, written for TMP in 1979 and re-used as TNG's theme, was not used in the 1966-1969 show.
"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before."
I can be very cynical at times but when the first faster than light Starships finally come under construction and the species is finally multi-planet... I hope I'm alive but... everytime I look at this intro I do feel a emotion
Some of my happiest childhood memories are sitting in front of the TV after school watching TNG. Captain Picard is my Atticus Finch. He, a fictional character, did more to instill me with a moral compass than my own parents did. So no, you are definitely not alone, my friend. LLAP
What a grand opening. It's so exciting and really feels like the opening credits to a great film. The 80's were really the pinnacle of TV themes, orchestras and bands.
I would sit on my mom's lap as a little kid and name the planets as they passed. My mom passed earlier this year and this intro will always hold a special place in my heart.
I prefer the war-criminal who wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty and who admitted (even indirectly) to being a hypocrite ("It is easy to be a saint in paradise.." - but still hunts the Maquis, despite the Federation abandoning them to space-nazis...at least that bit them in the ass! Seriously, I mourn every Starfleet Officer who died, but frankly: Starfleet deserved to be knocked down a few pegs!): Benjamin Lafayette Sisko
@Theodor Stark I think there are countless videos about this topic. For me Voyager now looks more like a sticom and they made many, many bad decisions. But who cares if there is a reset after each episode. But I understand why the writers did it. Look at the two episodes "The Year of Hell", Voyager would have made it barely past season one without "between episode resets" not to mention seven seasons without help/Deus ex machina.
That's so funny. I was the same way. I would stay up on the weekends as a kid in the late 80s. The TV stations would sign off, and the next generation was the only thing on to watch. I didn't like it when I was a kid. Now I get very nostalgic and love it when I hear it.
Oooh, childhood nostalgia intensifies. That TV-show first introduced me to actual philosophical thought and is propably responsible quite a bit for forming my basic morals.
@@scottianson5133 Not to mention the neccessity for reflection before making a decision of any kind. THINK about what you are about to do, that always was the big lesson for me. Always take the time to think, to account for perspective, that's the big lesson for me. It may be just a TV shot, but it has taught me a lot of things. Reflection and discourse, respect for life, prudence. Never impose, never declare an absolute. Picard always tries tries think, to reason about what he is about to do. To examine it from all angles, and then tries makes the best decision that he can. That is what I also do, and what I think anybody should do. That's the morality this has taught me. To think is to be ethical. Rationality is ethics.
The beauty of “TNG” was that it was Gene Roddenberry’s vision, uncut and un-watered down by the networks. This was the show that proved first-run syndication could work. When Paramount offered the show to people, it was with the understanding that they could refuse to broadcast episodes if they wanted to, but that they could not edit them for content in any way, and they had to take all of them as offered. Only Roddenberry had that kind of juice to be able to do that. I don’t think anyone today besides maybe Spielberg has that kinda power, but his luck’s been really bad on TV.
Well, actually Mama's Family came out on first-run syndication before Next Gen and was a major success. But Next Gen definitely helped cemented that first-run syndication can work.
They actually did heavily veer from what he wanted and kicked him out of production, he had some wacky ideas like absolutely no human interpersonal conflict.
@@thomasmartin4281 No it was more like his bullshit of white liberal supremacy got them annoyed. Gene Rodenberry was so full of shit. It's like "TNG" is "Seinfeld" and "TOS" is "Friends."
@@thomasmartin4281 Yeah that always bothered me. We're SO advanced we've put aside human emotions and empathy? That would make us nothing but organic machines. Fortunately the series got better post Season 2. No disrespect to Gene but just because he was the creator, doesn't mean all his ideas were good.
Except Roddenberry ruined so much of it. He was sexist and didn't listen to his writers who knew better. The show got better once he was not involved day-to-day.
Yuzral If we get to a place where we have constructed a starship Enterprise, we won't need good or bad juju. Or luck. Or gods. [Edit: I want to amend what I wrote-we don't need those things *now*, but belief in them persists, so I guess the starship would probably have to coexist with them in some form just like medical technology and science has to coexist with rosary beads and prayer rugs.]
A damned solid argument can be made, can it not, that that's the best piece of ST theme music ever composed. Tied, only possibly, with the Generations theme. And right the hell up there on the top shelf with anything Williams ever composed. (Ironically, The Star Wars Suite is not my favorite JW piece; the BTTF main title and the JPark main title are tied for that.)
Seven years of never missing an episode from 1987 to 1994 and it took an HD remaster for me to see that "ENTERPRISE" was on the side of the neck section.
This intro captures the very essence of Star Trek: humanity evolved, embarking on a huge adventure to explore the unknown. It's so sad we are not gonna see this kind of Star Trek any more...
Sadly we will never get such glorious episodes as the crew of the enterprise meeting a race of bigendered wrinkly-forehead aliens and Riker being the first representative of the federation to fuck one of the them. Or Wesley falling on a planets sacred hydrangea flower patch while playing frisbee with the Space Chads and nearly getting executed by the planets overly zealous HOA. Or Dr Crusher getting seduced by a Scottish Candle Ghost PEAK STAR TREK
@@liamsp544 well.....you gotta also remember that each and every Star Trek series has had really good episodes and also some real stinkers too. Some more than others, but you gotta take the good with the bad.
As I'm sure most people will agree with, this show hold a special place in my heart because of my Dad. He's the biggest nerd I know which very much rubbed off onto me. Love walking into the living room to see him on the couch watching this. Next time I see him we have to watch some more together, love you dad.
+MrNeutrino900 Better yet, your own ship where you can travel in space and explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
To this day, i still occasionally watch an episode again here and there, TNG just holds a special place in my heart since it was one of the shows i could watch with my Grandpa when i visited him and saw that he was watching it. Thats what got me into Star Trek and im grateful for that.
To simply be a 90s kid altogether, i'll never forget when my mother first introduced me to this. I wish we could all take it back ya'll, as we just knew what real times truly were. Because Patrick just knew how to perfect this character then to now. Thanks buddy, including everyone who joined him in the series. Frakes as well. Loved his character.
Got introduced to this wonderful show when sometime in the 2010s, my dad was watching reruns of this when I wanted the tv. I was irritated at him, but he invited me to watch. I begrudgingly admitted that "it's not THAT bad. I guess." and reluctantly joined him to watch another episode a different night. I quickly grew to love this show, and spent most of middle and high school watching through every episode of it with him on his old dvds. Even though we finished watching tng years ago, this theme music still makes me excited for another adventure with my favorite crew. I can't put into words how special Trek is to me, and next Gen in particular will always have a special place in my heart!
This was the beginning of my love for Star Trek . Me and my dad Ron Ford watch this together. I still remember as a kid sitting on his lap watching it. He's been gone for 7 years 😢
This brings back very special memories for me. When I was little and this would come on, my dad would sit the three of us kids on his lap (taking turns, of course) and he'd zoom us left and right as the Enterprise zoomed across the screen. And of course at the last one (the big one!!) he'd rumble us on his lap, building up the anticipation and then finally did one big ZOOM forward towards the TV as the Enterprise went to warp speed off into the stars. Of course we'd be giggling and just having a blast the whole time. It was a really awesome time, and I'll never forget it!
"Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, Its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before So simple and so perfect
Sometimes I get so damn apathetic and depressed. Is there even a point to this tiny life? In 100,000 years no one will remember me or anything I did, and even in the here and now, the universe couldn't care less about our entire pathetic species. What's more, we squander the little time we do have being unkind to one another, being selfish and petty, and fighting amongst ourselves. It's all so damn pointless that I want to tear my hair out sometimes. But then I watch TNG. The stars fade in, and the music starts playing. Suddenly, I remember! The mundane, petty life around me falls away, and I see the world through the eyes of a child again! It is bright and hopeful, filled with wondrous possibility! Captain Picard, the tv character who taught me more about being a good man than my own father, says that immortal line: "Space, the final frontier..." Ah-ha! There IS a point to life. To all of it, all of its ups and downs, the big moments and the small ones, the busy days and the quiet nights, the angry fights and the loving embraces. I'm sure of it, I can feel the truth of it like a physical object in my mind. I just can't put it into words. But I know this. It's not here, not on this tired old rock, not pacing around on the same patch of dirt we've lived on for a billion years. Somewhere out there, above us among the stars, that's where we'll find it waiting for us. These characters and stories, this vision of what we may one day become, it is beyond you or me or anybody. We can't tarnish it. No matter what happens in life, no matter how low you sink or how hopeless you become, this is still out there. Anyways, I don't really know what my point was to that. It isn't all that coherent, I know that, but I felt the need to get it out there.
Robert Brown That's a good way to be optimistic, the universe is filled with endless wonder, and anything is possible if you dare to imagine it. However, I believe that space is a privilege. What can we hope to find amongst the stars if we cannot even be proper custodians of our homeworld? Space should not, and cannot, be the cure for our weakness, but rather, it will be the reward of our maturity. I believe that is part of the message of Star Trek as well.
Robert Brown The point of life is to live it and be happy, how is it pointless without leaving the planet? The only thing ruining humanity is the lack of humility in this view- that just being a kind person and enjoying life is pointless. The universe doesn't care if we ruin our planet more by poking around the solar system either.
Thank you H&I, the Heroes & Icons channel, for bringing us one episode of every Star Trek series for 5 straight hours a night 6 nights a week, no need for cable.
It was a huge part of my life. My most vivid memories of TV as a child was this intro and the intro to The X-Files. The two most important shows of my childhood. My young adulthood? Lost and Farscape, most definitely.
I never even watched this show. But this intro is so nostalgic for me. It would come on Friday night after I finished watching The X-Files. When I heard/saw this music, I would get excited knowing the weekend was officially beginning and Saturday morning I would wake up, me and my dad would go to McDonalds for breakfast and then come home to watch the brand new episode of X-Men! That is one of my fondest childhood memories. It always started with this music (especially that eerie first section that plays before Patrick starts talking...it just sounds so mysterious and wonderous at the same time).
Rarely do I ever pause and think about how Star Trek: The Next Generation is probably the most successful franchise revival/reboot ever created. It might be easy to overlook that now considering how many Star Trek series and feature films followed it, but TNG was the one that proved that Star Trek not only could continue beyond the original series, but that it could surpass it. A new series with an entirely new cast was a crazy bold move at the time. I’m not dismissing TOS or minimizing it any way, but, this is the Star Trek series that became the flagship for the entire franchise, IMO. Star Trek: The Next Generation is truly a triumph.
Absolutely! I am an original ST fan an was a little skeptical of the new series..but as soon as I watched and listened to Patrick's Stewart's voice in the intro I was hooked 🌌🪐🌠
This takes me back to being 12 or 13 and Next Gen being on BBC2 at 6 o'clock every Wednesday. I hated watching TV (still do) but I always watched Star Trek. Thanks for the memories.
I remember watching this with my dad as a child and it just captured my imagination in a huge way. This show wasn’t perfect, but it will always be special to me
I've always loved sci-fi, but until a few months ago I'd never really watched any Star Trek. Then recently out of sheer boredom I decided to play it on Netflix just as something to play in the background. Now I'm 9 seasons in and I'm kinda obsessed with it.
My father & I had the exact opposite tastes in tv shows, and he wouldn’t watch anything I did, except TNG. It was the one show we’d sit down & watch together on Friday nights when I was a pre-teen/teen. I still remember his reaction to the cliffhanger ending of BOBW pt1, and him saying “damn, now THATS how you do a cliffhanger”. Anytime I catch an episode, I immediately think of him, and us sitting on the couch watching the newest episode, with a bowl of potato chips, a tub French onion dip, and a glass of soda. I miss you dad!😢
My uncle was the biggest Star Trek fan I know, He liked the original first season I loved all of the new shows‼️ I just made a StarTrek Stop Motion tribute with one of my Enterprises 🎬📸🎞️ Hope you enjoy it 🖖🏻
This is the trek that got me into trek !!! first ever episode i watched was The Game , from then on approx age 7 or 8 , i was hooked and now lover everything trek but there is nothing can comes close to this theme and this crew, the end of Picard was a great send off i just hope we see a few cameos now and then ! long live TNG !
My uncle was the biggest Star Trek fan I know, He liked the original first season I loved all of the new shows‼️ I just made a StarTrek Stop Motion tribute with one of my Enterprises 🎬📸🎞️ Hope you enjoy it 🖖🏻
I'm somewhat new to Next Gen.I saw a little bit of it as a kid but wasn't a star trek fan back then so I never saw much of it when my dad watched. Recently been binging it on Netflix and not only am I hooked on the show this intro is so epic I don't ever skip it on Netflix. It's that compelling and mesmerizing. This and the original series are the only Star Trek intros that sound fun and adventurous like the shows are.
I was four or five years old when I first watch Patrick Stewart and the entire cast on the greatest science fiction show in history. I was born in 1996 grew up watching the show lots of times.
This was my dad’s favorite show after dinner. Watching the intro takes me back to this one particular evening at my dad’s house, I was sitting on the floor in front of the tv with a bowl of ice cream and hearing the dishwasher running in the background. I thought the beginning was the coolest part with the planets after that I would go to my room
This is the series that turned me into a Star Trek fan. The intro is only second best to STV. My favorite crew members were Capt Picard, Data, Worf and Geordi La Forg
This intro brings back good memories as a teenager. I’d watch these while I was in high school with my best friend. This was before streaming was even a thing.
My best friend passed this year and at his funeral his Mom choose this as his song and I had no idea till it started playing and I just stopped sat down and cried.
When I was a kid, I worked out different reference points in the visuals to know the exact timing of Picard's words and would say it along with him every time.
The greatest story ever told didn't start with "once upon a time", or "A Long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...." It started with "Space. The final Frontier."
This brings back those Sunday afternoons when I as young teenager was sitting in front of the TV and eagerly waiting for a new adventure on the board of Enterprise 🥹
That final shot where the enterprise sweeps forward from underneath before jumping to warp, you can clearly see people walking about the observation lounge. its that clear.
Hiring a classically trained, Shakespearean actor to play the role of a wise and charismatic starship captain was a master stroke.
Worked out so well, they basically did it for two series in a row.
Who dat?
And yet Roddenberry was against it. Robert Justman fought HARD for him. Roddenberry didn't want a bald man in his utopia.
@@Maulbert Although the intro already said "to baldly go where no one has gone before" :P
@@rachelle_banks Avery Brooks and Shatner both did Shakesphere.
I remember pretending to be sick from school so I could stay at home watching this with my dad all day.. now that he's gone, I would do anything to go back and sit there with him eating popcorn watching reruns all day.
Star Trek will forever be engraved in my heart. Thanks for the best memories dad 🖤💜
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The best traditions come from the heart. Maybe it could be a family thing (or a you thing) on his birthday, or an anniversary of his.
The Bible does speak of a resurrection and Jehovah will fix the world. In relation to Star Trek, TNG was my favorite and I feel like it was the best. I also remember watching Levar Burton showing us the set on Reading Rainbow on Public Television which was excellent that they did that for us kids. The original Star Trek was good too but I still liked TNG so much better. I also realize I enjoyed DS9 as well but still liked TNG the best. Voyager was okay but still doesn't compare to TNG or even DS9. I could be wrong in my thoughts but I did enjoy TNG.
We watch Star Trek as a family every Friday.
@@rosegonella3098 LOL, my 14 year daughter is a geek like me. Into Star Wars and anime, but I never had the chance to introduce her to the Trek universe yet. Last week I was watching old STNG reruns, she come up behind me: "Daddy, what are these weird saucer and cube shaped ships and why is everyone so terrified?"... It BEGINS! LOL
It’s April 2022…I’m now 38 years old but this makes me 12 again every episode. This show is the ultimate comfort during the hardest times. TNG FOREVER!!!
I feel you brother!! Same age!!❤
Same here 👍but I’m 43….I remember seeing encounter at farpoint when it first premiered back in 87
@Aero01 that’s awesome. 👍🏻
@@preppertrucker5736 Just turned 44 two months ago. I also remember seeing, "Encounter at Farpoint" when it premiered in '87. We're old now lmao
@@vgnvideogameninja2930 We certainly are getting old lol 😂
THIS SHOULD BE OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM WHEN WE INVENT WARP DRIVE
More like the United Federation of Planet's anthem, when it is created.
+Tiberiu Marian Actually, the Federation already has an anthem. We hear it in the DS9 episode "Take Me Out to the Holosuite". You can probably find it on youtube.
I have it on good authority that the first song that will be played when we achieve FTL is "Magic Carpet Ride".
Put that in the semi-sentient terraforming devices we send out to cultivate worlds and GROW new life and new civilizations. Funnily enough, if that actually happened, that musical piece would become a unifying religious artifact for species created by such "monoliths". When multiple such civilizations encounter one-another, and find that Also Sprach Zarathustra exists in their respective cultures, it would probably give them proof that they were "created" by the same gods, the same Endless beings who created the mysterious monoliths, reshaping entire planets in their image.
Seguro que si loko
I still get tingles down my back at this intro... the CGI, Patrick Stewart's narration, the epic movie theme. This was and still is, a TV classic.
I think for TNG they were still using physical models with computer controlled mounts for the model and camera so separate passes for navigational lights (with studio lights off) and hull exterior would align. Th e stretching effect was accomplished by moving the model as a narrow band of light scanned across it.
Really though. Like, they did not Have to go so hard....but I am SO glad they did. Amazing how great this still looks (and feels) today.
yeah, they didn't switch to (partial) CGI until ... the middle? of DS9 and later on went full CG for Voyager. I'll be honest; i can't tell which Voyager is CGI and which is the studio model. For all the well deserved shit Voyager gets, they knew how to light that thing. The main downside was the model itself; the 6footer used in early TNG and the intro sequence was so heavy they had a hard time showing it from some angles. Beautiful thing, that model. I wish i could see it in person. Maybe touch a little. Rub the nacelles.
@@robertvirginiabeach The slit-scan technique.
No CGI in this.
Nobody says that intro better than Patrick Stewart!
I'd like to hear it in James Earl Jones' voice though
Patrick Stewart is the best!
William Shatner "Hold my Beer"
@@americanbeast7134 A couple of years ago there was a TH-cam video of the Star Trek TNG intro with a Shatner/Kirk voice over! I don't know where it is now.
He's good but Shatner is the best.
As much as I love Captain Kirk’s monologue, I believe Captain Picard performs the introduction with more power and suspense
He's a very majestic man!
Unlike Shatner, Patrick Stewart is a HELL of a fucking actor.
You, you are the one from my dreams...
They both bad ass
They edited the original one bad. It’s probably just because of when it was released but when he said “these are the voyages of the Starship enterprise” it sounds like they took the word “enterprise” from another taping and sounds out of place lol.
It was a weekly TV series 25 years ago and still looks better than most of nowadays production.
I don't wanna be that guy but... practical. effects. often better.
+Jesse McClure I cannot really say that I understand you. Especially the last three sentences.
tod4y you don't know what practical effects are?
+Jesse McClure Not really. Im not a native speaker. Besides that it wasnt very obvious that these words belong to each other. : )
tod4y basically it means it uses real sets/modles instead of computer generated imagery (CGI) most of the time.
Best theme music of any of the Star Trek series. Still sends shivers down my spine. Grew up glued to the screen between the ages of 6 and 11, almost entirely based upon the power and majesty of this introduction whenever the show was on. It was what initially drew me to the show. This theme was pure ceremony, with a presence that the spinoffs never came close to capturing. Even as a child I knew this was tantamount to the grandest theatre. The theme music of all the other shows could lull me to sleep; this theme does the exact opposite, an aural monument to adventure and exploration. I can't hate Voyager but, come on, anyone who thinks that show or its intro was better than TNG needs an intervention.
Voyager's Theme is pretty good too though I have to say.
It is The Theme The Star Trek Theme this theme is played before every single Star Trek series and I mean every single one from first to last.
TNG Intro is the Wham Song of Trek, never gets old.
Voyager Intro was great while new episodes aired, it had something to it that made me desire to see what comes after it ends every time.
Deep Space Nine... these horns...that asteroid that is a nice reminder of the meteor in the TNG Intro, but way more CGI and leading to the station flyover...the composition of John Williams, sampled from ST7: Generations...
It was the most mature and serious attempt of all for me, and gives me chills i cannot describe, till today.
It has it all.
+Some one Its the short term for The Next Generation
@@geomodelrailroader Well, obviously the Jerry Goldsmith theme, written for TMP in 1979 and re-used as TNG's theme, was not used in the 1966-1969 show.
"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before."
Soon we might hear Sir Patrick Stewart said this line once again in the new Star Trek series :-)
Gives me the goosebumps / chills whenever I think of these lines
🎺 🎺🎺
Twenty years ago my cousin called it “the star trek enterprise,” which is what I always call it now.
Awesome!
oh my god this makes me cry so many memories
Movie Star Trek .Tng
U still alive? It's on Netflix
If I'm the only one that is almost brought to tears by this, then I am the only human being left on earth.
youre not alone
Can you imagine? Encounter at Farpoint is going to have its 30th anniversary next year.
I can be very cynical at times but when the first faster than light Starships finally come under construction and the species is finally multi-planet...
I hope I'm alive but...
everytime I look at this intro I do feel a emotion
No. Man, I remember watching it after school, my favourite part of the week.
Some of my happiest childhood memories are sitting in front of the TV after school watching TNG. Captain Picard is my Atticus Finch. He, a fictional character, did more to instill me with a moral compass than my own parents did. So no, you are definitely not alone, my friend. LLAP
The first 50 seconds have never failed to make my hair stand up every single time for the past 30+ years.
my grandpa absolutely loved TOS and Next Generation. he collected all the tapes. RIP grandpa 😢
Had to be a good man.
God bless him
Hard to believe it was 31 years ago that show first graced our screens. Helped shape my childhood.
What a grand opening. It's so exciting and really feels like the opening credits to a great film. The 80's were really the pinnacle of TV themes, orchestras and bands.
Actually, the TNG intro theme was initially the opening for the first TOS movie, they added to it of course but that‘s what it started as
I would sit on my mom's lap as a little kid and name the planets as they passed. My mom passed earlier this year and this intro will always hold a special place in my heart.
Condolences.
The best of Star Trek series
Yes IT is!
No doubt in my mind, and the fact they modified the spiel makes it even more interesting.
After DS9, sure.
+Comical Sorry bud, but DS9 comes second after TNG. :)
and the most beautiful spaceship, Enterprise-E class Galaxy
I could watch this theme over and over and never get tired of it.
Same
Let’s make sure history never forgets the name… Enterprise.
Picard, yesterdays Enterprise
There is no better Star Trek and Capt. Jean Luc Picard is the best ever.
I prefer the war-criminal who wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty and who admitted (even indirectly) to being a hypocrite ("It is easy to be a saint in paradise.." - but still hunts the Maquis, despite the Federation abandoning them to space-nazis...at least that bit them in the ass! Seriously, I mourn every Starfleet Officer who died, but frankly: Starfleet deserved to be knocked down a few pegs!): Benjamin Lafayette Sisko
@@dreamingflurry2729 Me too.
there will never be anyone better than picard
Ah, kids... Nothing beats James Tiberius Kirk. Even the theme is a reuse of Star Trek TMP's theme.
@Theodor Stark I think there are countless videos about this topic. For me Voyager now looks more like a sticom and they made many, many bad decisions. But who cares if there is a reset after each episode. But I understand why the writers did it. Look at the two episodes "The Year of Hell", Voyager would have made it barely past season one without "between episode resets" not to mention seven seasons without help/Deus ex machina.
My almost-2 year old is obsessed with this intro, he has us rewind and play it over and over and over while saying "Space?? Spaceship??" lol
Awesome!
little astronaut on your hands
Born to love Star Trek lol
Bro is the space core
I hated hearing this every week growing up, my dad was obsessed with this show. Now it brings back memories and I love it
That's so funny. I was the same way. I would stay up on the weekends as a kid in the late 80s. The TV stations would sign off, and the next generation was the only thing on to watch. I didn't like it when I was a kid. Now I get very nostalgic and love it when I hear it.
I got the chills when the music started. It's so beautiful. :D
same *-*
same in Gernany ☆_☆
Same i tear up
Oooh, childhood nostalgia intensifies. That TV-show first introduced me to actual philosophical thought and is propably responsible quite a bit for forming my basic morals.
Me too. It taught me ethics, and the value of diplomacy and discourse.
@@scottianson5133 Not to mention the neccessity for reflection before making a decision of any kind. THINK about what you are about to do, that always was the big lesson for me. Always take the time to think, to account for perspective, that's the big lesson for me. It may be just a TV shot, but it has taught me a lot of things. Reflection and discourse, respect for life, prudence. Never impose, never declare an absolute. Picard always tries tries think, to reason about what he is about to do. To examine it from all angles, and then tries makes the best decision that he can. That is what I also do, and what I think anybody should do. That's the morality this has taught me. To think is to be ethical. Rationality is ethics.
The beauty of “TNG” was that it was Gene Roddenberry’s vision, uncut and un-watered down by the networks. This was the show that proved first-run syndication could work.
When Paramount offered the show to people, it was with the understanding that they could refuse to broadcast episodes if they wanted to, but that they could not edit them for content in any way, and they had to take all of them as offered. Only Roddenberry had that kind of juice to be able to do that. I don’t think anyone today besides maybe Spielberg has that kinda power, but his luck’s been really bad on TV.
Well, actually Mama's Family came out on first-run syndication before Next Gen and was a major success. But Next Gen definitely helped cemented that first-run syndication can work.
They actually did heavily veer from what he wanted and kicked him out of production, he had some wacky ideas like absolutely no human interpersonal conflict.
@@thomasmartin4281 No it was more like his bullshit of white liberal supremacy got them annoyed. Gene Rodenberry was so full of shit. It's like "TNG" is "Seinfeld" and "TOS" is "Friends."
@@thomasmartin4281 Yeah that always bothered me. We're SO advanced we've put aside human emotions and empathy? That would make us nothing but organic machines.
Fortunately the series got better post Season 2. No disrespect to Gene but just because he was the creator, doesn't mean all his ideas were good.
Except Roddenberry ruined so much of it. He was sexist and didn't listen to his writers who knew better. The show got better once he was not involved day-to-day.
The best Star Trek series ever done, even new movies can't compare to this enigma of mystery of universe.
If we ever do go into space, this should be our planetary anthem. That or Sir Patrick Stewart's voice.
Just don't name any starships "Enterprise". That name carries a lot of baggage. Negative space wedgies, Klingon invaders, Borg...
Turnabout Akamia No...you name a ship Enterprise, fire it off as far from Earth as possible and hope it takes all the bad juju with it.
Yuzral If we get to a place where we have constructed a starship Enterprise, we won't need good or bad juju. Or luck. Or gods. [Edit: I want to amend what I wrote-we don't need those things *now*, but belief in them persists, so I guess the starship would probably have to coexist with them in some form just like medical technology and science has to coexist with rosary beads and prayer rugs.]
That would be hella cool. American Space Colony Columbia or British Space Colony Gibraltar.
A damned solid argument can be made, can it not, that that's the best piece of ST theme music ever composed. Tied, only possibly, with the Generations theme.
And right the hell up there on the top shelf with anything Williams ever composed. (Ironically, The Star Wars Suite is not my favorite JW piece; the BTTF main title and the JPark main title are tied for that.)
Seven years of never missing an episode from 1987 to 1994 and it took an HD remaster for me to see that "ENTERPRISE" was on the side of the neck section.
zomg!
what!
I'm gonna blow my family's minds dropping this bomb.
I don't understand
That's so true
This intro captures the very essence of Star Trek: humanity evolved, embarking on a huge adventure to explore the unknown.
It's so sad we are not gonna see this kind of Star Trek any more...
Sadly we will never get such glorious episodes as the crew of the enterprise meeting a race of bigendered wrinkly-forehead aliens and Riker being the first representative of the federation to fuck one of the them. Or Wesley falling on a planets sacred hydrangea flower patch while playing frisbee with the Space Chads and nearly getting executed by the planets overly zealous HOA. Or Dr Crusher getting seduced by a Scottish Candle Ghost PEAK STAR TREK
@@liamsp544 well.....you gotta also remember that each and every Star Trek series has had really good episodes and also some real stinkers too. Some more than others, but you gotta take the good with the bad.
@@liamsp544 both exceptionally good episodes. The ghost episode was really lame.
@@liamsp544 I'm convinced that Riker's sole reason for joining Starfleet was to fuck as many aliens as possible
@@liamsp544 not sure if you’re simply a nitpicking troll or just a brain dead hater
As I'm sure most people will agree with, this show hold a special place in my heart because of my Dad. He's the biggest nerd I know which very much rubbed off onto me. Love walking into the living room to see him on the couch watching this. Next time I see him we have to watch some more together, love you dad.
Takes me back to when I was 12 and watched this so inspiring and thought provoking, gave me the chills right now and not much do. I love this show.
Oh man! This was my Star Trek growing up and this theme song still sends chills down my spine (in a GOOD way)!
this gives me chills on another level, I wish TNG was real and I was crew member of the Enterprise.
+MrNeutrino900 me too
+MrNeutrino900 Better yet, your own ship where you can travel in space and explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Alas that you and I could not be born in the 24th century
Same here dude
NASA is building A faster than light spaceship and called it IXS enterprise. So in other words, FUCK YEAH SPACE
Best part is that you can actually see people walking around in the observation lounge. :)
Wow, don't think I ever noticed that?!
As an 8 year old I always watched for that was my favorite part.
I think that’s the bridge.
It's the conference room rear of bridge.
that's a hand-drawn colored pencil animation
To this day, i still occasionally watch an episode again here and there, TNG just holds a special place in my heart since it was one of the shows i could watch with my Grandpa when i visited him and saw that he was watching it.
Thats what got me into Star Trek and im grateful for that.
Man i loved this, really liked Voyager too and respect the original but this one is where it` s at for me.
See, now I feel the opposite with Voyager is being where it's at for me but really like and respect this one, DS9 and the original series too.
To simply be a 90s kid altogether, i'll never forget when my mother first introduced me to this. I wish we could all take it back ya'll, as we just knew what real times truly were. Because Patrick just knew how to perfect this character then to now. Thanks buddy, including everyone who joined him in the series. Frakes as well. Loved his character.
Got introduced to this wonderful show when sometime in the 2010s, my dad was watching reruns of this when I wanted the tv. I was irritated at him, but he invited me to watch. I begrudgingly admitted that "it's not THAT bad. I guess." and reluctantly joined him to watch another episode a different night. I quickly grew to love this show, and spent most of middle and high school watching through every episode of it with him on his old dvds. Even though we finished watching tng years ago, this theme music still makes me excited for another adventure with my favorite crew. I can't put into words how special Trek is to me, and next Gen in particular will always have a special place in my heart!
After all this time, this still gives me goosebumps!
This intro is one of the first memories I have of my life.
To this day, I still get chills listening to that score.
This was the beginning of my love for Star Trek . Me and my dad Ron Ford watch this together. I still remember as a kid sitting on his lap watching it. He's been gone for 7 years 😢
One of the best, and most catchy, themes ever.
This brings back very special memories for me. When I was little and this would come on, my dad would sit the three of us kids on his lap (taking turns, of course) and he'd zoom us left and right as the Enterprise zoomed across the screen. And of course at the last one (the big one!!) he'd rumble us on his lap, building up the anticipation and then finally did one big ZOOM forward towards the TV as the Enterprise went to warp speed off into the stars.
Of course we'd be giggling and just having a blast the whole time. It was a really awesome time, and I'll never forget it!
My mom hated most shows i watched as a kid for being too violent(read: noisy), but we always sat down together to watch TNG. Great memories.
Star Trek is one of the few sci-fi shows that depict the future in a positive light and for that I've always been grateful.
I used to watch this with my dad every night. I love star trek
This show will forever hold a special place in my heart
"Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, Its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before
So simple and so perfect
Lieutenant commander La Forge, give us warp factor 8.5… engage!
Goosebumps every fucking time.
Sometimes I get so damn apathetic and depressed. Is there even a point to this tiny life? In 100,000 years no one will remember me or anything I did, and even in the here and now, the universe couldn't care less about our entire pathetic species. What's more, we squander the little time we do have being unkind to one another, being selfish and petty, and fighting amongst ourselves. It's all so damn pointless that I want to tear my hair out sometimes.
But then I watch TNG. The stars fade in, and the music starts playing. Suddenly, I remember! The mundane, petty life around me falls away, and I see the world through the eyes of a child again! It is bright and hopeful, filled with wondrous possibility! Captain Picard, the tv character who taught me more about being a good man than my own father, says that immortal line: "Space, the final frontier..." Ah-ha! There IS a point to life. To all of it, all of its ups and downs, the big moments and the small ones, the busy days and the quiet nights, the angry fights and the loving embraces. I'm sure of it, I can feel the truth of it like a physical object in my mind. I just can't put it into words. But I know this. It's not here, not on this tired old rock, not pacing around on the same patch of dirt we've lived on for a billion years. Somewhere out there, above us among the stars, that's where we'll find it waiting for us.
These characters and stories, this vision of what we may one day become, it is beyond you or me or anybody. We can't tarnish it. No matter what happens in life, no matter how low you sink or how hopeless you become, this is still out there.
Anyways, I don't really know what my point was to that. It isn't all that coherent, I know that, but I felt the need to get it out there.
Have you seen BSG and The Walking Dead?
Just remember you can always do great things.
Robert Brown That's a good way to be optimistic, the universe is filled with endless wonder, and anything is possible if you dare to imagine it. However, I believe that space is a privilege. What can we hope to find amongst the stars if we cannot even be proper custodians of our homeworld? Space should not, and cannot, be the cure for our weakness, but rather, it will be the reward of our maturity. I believe that is part of the message of Star Trek as well.
Robert Brown The point of life is to live it and be happy, how is it pointless without leaving the planet? The only thing ruining humanity is the lack of humility in this view- that just being a kind person and enjoying life is pointless. The universe doesn't care if we ruin our planet more by poking around the solar system either.
Very profound words.
Well spoken sir.
Those few lines of introduction are all anybody needs in order to know what Trek is about...
...and the delivery is AWESOME.
And the message we take with us into the stars. 😎
Thank you H&I, the Heroes & Icons channel, for bringing us one episode of every Star Trek series for 5 straight hours a night 6 nights a week, no need for cable.
"Shut up, Wesley!"
Viper & Mustang
He’s the Jar-Jar Binks of the Star Trek Universe
Wesley was the original Meg
John Smith shut up Meg!
Everytime someone comments that I hear Picards voice and its hilarious.
🤣
This was my late dad’s favourite programme! I even have a Star Trek tattoo on my left arm in his memory 💙
It was a huge part of my life. My most vivid memories of TV as a child was this intro and the intro to The X-Files. The two most important shows of my childhood. My young adulthood? Lost and Farscape, most definitely.
So many years has passed and I still feel like a little kid dreaming to be on the Enterprise, every time I see this opening theme. Love it!
This was a huge part of my childhood. Wednesday at 6pm on BBC2. Never missed it :)
One of the best damn shows ever on TV 🤘
The TNG theme always gives me goosebumps
I never even watched this show. But this intro is so nostalgic for me. It would come on Friday night after I finished watching The X-Files. When I heard/saw this music, I would get excited knowing the weekend was officially beginning and Saturday morning I would wake up, me and my dad would go to McDonalds for breakfast and then come home to watch the brand new episode of X-Men! That is one of my fondest childhood memories. It always started with this music (especially that eerie first section that plays before Patrick starts talking...it just sounds so mysterious and wonderous at the same time).
Sounds like an AWESOME childhood. I can hear the x-men theme in my head nw
Hell yeah (but, go look up a list of the best episodes of TNG and definitely watch those, please)
Incredible period of quality TV I was in my 40s when these were first shown my god how privileged we were unlike today’s millennials raised on shite
I remember those days, you should definitely give TNG a shot tho, there’s just something about it
Rarely do I ever pause and think about how Star Trek: The Next Generation is probably the most successful franchise revival/reboot ever created.
It might be easy to overlook that now considering how many Star Trek series and feature films followed it, but TNG was the one that proved that Star Trek not only could continue beyond the original series, but that it could surpass it. A new series with an entirely new cast was a crazy bold move at the time.
I’m not dismissing TOS or minimizing it any way, but, this is the Star Trek series that became the flagship for the entire franchise, IMO.
Star Trek: The Next Generation is truly a triumph.
This intro is still artistically great
I doubt anything can beat it!
Of all the star trek intros, this one is my favorite!
The sheer poetry and power of that monologue 😍
Absolutely! I am an original ST fan an was a little skeptical of the new series..but as soon as I watched and listened to Patrick's Stewart's voice in the intro I was hooked 🌌🪐🌠
Watching this after the Return of Enterprise D in Star Trek Picard. So excited for the finale.
This takes me back to being 12 or 13 and Next Gen being on BBC2 at 6 o'clock every Wednesday. I hated watching TV (still do) but I always watched Star Trek.
Thanks for the memories.
I love the sound when the warp speed starts and how it stretches the space/time.
The next time you think something is impossible, listen to this.
The first thing I played on my home theater when I bought it years ago. Amazing
I remember watching this with my dad as a child and it just captured my imagination in a huge way. This show wasn’t perfect, but it will always be special to me
Sadly my dad never cared about anything in particular, and as a kid this show didn't have enough "battles" as I preferred.. auch!
I've always loved sci-fi, but until a few months ago I'd never really watched any Star Trek. Then recently out of sheer boredom I decided to play it on Netflix just as something to play in the background.
Now I'm 9 seasons in and I'm kinda obsessed with it.
I am so happy I could watch this week after week back in the 80s... The impact this show had and still has on me, as a human being... is just.
My father & I had the exact opposite tastes in tv shows, and he wouldn’t watch anything I did, except TNG.
It was the one show we’d sit down & watch together on Friday nights when I was a pre-teen/teen.
I still remember his reaction to the cliffhanger ending of BOBW pt1, and him saying “damn, now THATS how you do a cliffhanger”.
Anytime I catch an episode, I immediately think of him, and us sitting on the couch watching the newest episode, with a bowl of potato chips, a tub French onion dip, and a glass of soda.
I miss you dad!😢
My uncle was the biggest Star Trek fan I know, He liked the original first season I loved all of the new shows‼️ I just made a StarTrek Stop Motion tribute with one of my Enterprises 🎬📸🎞️ Hope you enjoy it 🖖🏻
This is the trek that got me into trek !!! first ever episode i watched was The Game , from then on approx age 7 or 8 , i was hooked and now lover everything trek but there is nothing can comes close to this theme and this crew, the end of Picard was a great send off i just hope we see a few cameos now and then ! long live TNG !
My uncle was the biggest Star Trek fan I know, He liked the original first season I loved all of the new shows‼️ I just made a StarTrek Stop Motion tribute with one of my Enterprises 🎬📸🎞️ Hope you enjoy it 🖖🏻
This is truly one of television's most epic openings!
Absolutely !
This Opening intro music as all the other ST Series never fails to hope for the future. Please continue to inspire us !
😂😂😂
I used to record these on my VCR to be able to see them after working night shift. Good times!!
I'm somewhat new to Next Gen.I saw a little bit of it as a kid but wasn't a star trek fan back then so I never saw much of it when my dad watched. Recently been binging it on Netflix and not only am I hooked on the show this intro is so epic I don't ever skip it on Netflix. It's that compelling and mesmerizing. This and the original series are the only Star Trek intros that sound fun and adventurous like the shows are.
Wednesdays BBC 2. I'm 35 now and I still love star trek xxx
A future we all have to work towards. This is why Star Trek will forever be inspirational.
Amen.
Epic, magnificent, legendary. One of the best damn theme songs ever!!!!
I was four or five years old when I first watch Patrick Stewart and the entire cast on the greatest science fiction show in history. I was born in 1996 grew up watching the show lots of times.
This was my dad’s favorite show after dinner. Watching the intro takes me back to this one particular evening at my dad’s house, I was sitting on the floor in front of the tv with a bowl of ice cream and hearing the dishwasher running in the background. I thought the beginning was the coolest part with the planets after that I would go to my room
This is the series that turned me into a Star Trek fan. The intro is only second best to STV. My favorite crew members were Capt Picard, Data, Worf and Geordi La Forg
Ya, Data and Picard are my all time favorites.
I love the backshot of the enterprise where you can see people walking around in the observation lounge at the back of the bridge.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who noticed. 😮
This intro brings back good memories as a teenager. I’d watch these while I was in high school with my best friend. This was before streaming was even a thing.
My best friend passed this year and at his funeral his Mom choose this as his song and I had no idea till it started playing and I just stopped sat down and cried.
Sorry for your loss.
Best send off though, he's not dead, he's finally on a path to discover new worlds.
He has gone to the Undiscovered Country.
When I was a kid, I worked out different reference points in the visuals to know the exact timing of Picard's words and would say it along with him every time.
36 years later, no other show has done an intro even remotely close to this epic!!!
This makes me want to go back and watch an episode of TNG....
Indeed! I will say that it is a perfect show to just pick up and watch, when you feel like it.
The greatest story ever told didn't start with "once upon a time", or "A Long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...."
It started with "Space. The final Frontier."
damn bro you really didnt need to be hatin on star wars like that
@@The_og_moonwalker he’s right though.
As much as I love Star Trek, the “greatest story ever told” starts with “The world is changed.”
My childhood right here
This brings back those Sunday afternoons when I as young teenager was sitting in front of the TV and eagerly waiting for a new adventure on the board of Enterprise 🥹
God that first 20 seconds just brings the childhood memories flooding back.
The solar wind is unbeatable and iconic. It makes ya think the mountain wind could take you out there.
That final shot where the enterprise sweeps forward from underneath before jumping to warp, you can clearly see people walking about the observation lounge. its that clear.
I just watched the first episode of Picard.
Regardless of my feelings toward the new show itself...
It made me want to come back to here.
The enterprise design is one of the few sci-fi concepts that I find convincing, and beautiful.
The intro is just so majestic!!!!