Back when I was around 7, I was exposed to Star Wars for the first time. I walked pass a model shop and saw a ship model on a display. My 7-year-old brain, with certain kind of logic that I doubt I'd ever understand, though that the ship I saw, one of the most majestic ship I've seen, was the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars. My father corrected me that the ship was not the Falcon from Star Wars. It was the Enterprise, from a show called Star Trek. Specifically, it's the Enterprise-D. Later that week, he managed to find a set of TNG VHS tapes, and thus introduce me to the franchise for the first time, all because I misidentify the Enterprise as the Falcon. It was the most beautiful mistake I've ever made. I still have that model on my desk.
I prefer this opening than what it was in later seasons. That shot of Earth... And that build up. No other theme song sends such chills and passion up and down my spine so powerfully.
I was deeply saddened in S03 and afterwards when they changed this theme and those powerful strings (best part about this theme!) were suppressed to the background. Also, holy shit this HD.
I’ll have to respectfully disagree. The S3-7 version of the theme is much better. The intro in S1-2 is actually a bit ragged at times, and not quite as full or powerful.
OMG I never saw that before! Thank-you! And they're in the conference room too, no doubt figuring out a strategy to deal with the problem of the week. :D
Kleavers You could barely see it, but it's always been there. Supposedly that was one of ILM's first shots they did for TNG. BTW, if I'm not mistaken, that's supposed to be Ten Forward...
Before the decision was made to air the series in first run syndication, producers considered an offer to air the show on the Fox Network, which was launched at roughly the same time the series was. Many Fox-affiliated stations, particularly those just going on the air, broadcast the series as part of their non-Fox Network programming.
and the fact you got both the legendary Jerry Goldsmith and the music writer of the original Series Alexander Courage teamed up to work on the score together is genius
NYKgjl10 I always love to watch this Star Trek TV Series, well, it's because I was thinking of or about Patrick Stewart so much this often and was GREAT in this show a lot.
This brings back some good memories from my childhood when it aires once a week, on Sunday, in my country. For almost an hour we were taken to other dimensions. I remember having a crush on Marina Sirtis.
Season 1 theme sounds so different, definitelly the one that I remember the most is Season 3, it felt more "grand" if I can use that word to describe it.
0:01 Earth, 0:06 The Moon, 0:12 Jupiter, 0:14 Saturn. Series 1 & 2 show the planets in our Solar System, but I think from Series 3 it shows different planets.
I now know what I found strange about this version. Remember it's the late 80s, I was -21 years old, and the 3D version looked nothing like what I was expecting. Sizes varied and planets were MIA. I guess I wasn't the only one questioning why. It's accurate according to the Enterprise's changing perspective and not Earth's. Instead of calling their fans out for being the idiots we often are, TNG changed it to an accurate interpretation closer to our expectaton. Got to love Star Trek dedication to depict science fiction based in reality.
If anyone has ever played around with Space Engine; when the Enterprise is going at Warp Factor 9; if the stars are moving at the same velocity as shown in Star Trek TNG; warp factor 9 is right around 13LY/SECOND or right around 450,000,000 times the speed of light as shown in the opening credits!!!🤔😱🤯 Hell, if that's a fact getting to Proxima Centuri would literally take a few milliseconds, damn well impressive technology in the 24th century I do say so myself.😊 Hell and I was thinking for the longest time that warp factor 9 was 9X the speed of light...NOT EVEN CLOSE...🤪🤔🤯😳 Hell, if that's the case of reality, I cannot wait for what the future beholds!!!
I was nine when this came out. My dad introduced me to TOS and I was anticipating the release of this show since reading about it on a box of cereal. I learned the intro during the premier and played it back in my Yamaha PSS-255 on the second episode. Now change the Enterprise with a picture of my Himalayan kitten. Replace the main theme with an orchestral version of Nyan Cat once it goes into warp.
When I was a kid I always used to think the ship was CGI, (This was pre-Jurassic park) way before CGI was a common thing, I still thought it looked like computer graphics. It actually looks like early CGI, it's very saturated looking, unlike most model shots.
I know, it's really amazing how much they have tidied the remastered editions up. Puts Voyager and even Enterprise to shame. Just wish we could have it in wide-screen though...
@@algernonilfracombe It was never filmed in Widescreen, watch the extras on the Blu-Ray... If they put it in widescreen there would've been parts of the picture missing from the top and bottom. th-cam.com/video/DQtWeor58rU/w-d-xo.html
Technically this is NOT the season 1 intro since it doesn't have the character names and Gene is billed as executive producer instead of creator as he would be starting the following week with The Naked Now.
in season 1, the starting planets is shorter than post s3 and has 2 of those music verses after the enterprise warps at 0:40 but s3 onwards has a longer planets scene and only has 1 of those verses, then the 2 are aligned after 0:50 of the same music just small changes.
I’m not sure about this new trek 1: looks like someone sat on the enterprise and flattened her out 2: they stole the theme from the Motion Picture 3: it’s where no man, not one, has done before. 4: and isn’t that the kid from stand by me? Yeah this show won’t last more than a season, maybe two. Bring back Kirk and Spock!!!!
Like the intro of the first two seasons more. I think the shot of earth going to the outer planets have more impact and the pacing is better. And unfortunatly the cgi up from third season intro aged poorly. They should kept the OG intro also for the later seasons
It was re-recorded twice for the second and third seasons. I believe Ron Jones did the second season version and either Dennis McCarthy or Jay Chattaway (?) did the season 3 version. A lot of TNG was in flux for its first two years. They were still trying to find their footing and to hold on to the few female cast members that hadn't already quit or been fired.
Launched as part of a Paramount Network that ended up as more a syndication distributor than a real network, Star Trek: The Next Generation aired on all various independent channels, the big 4 network affiliates (NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox), The WB, UPN, My Network TV, The CW, and during its 25 year syndicated run.'
Intro just as dope and poppin as fuck as the one from season 3 and on. People forget bout this shit right here. The way Saturn comes in is gangsta as fuck and on some Whoopi Goldberg type shit, like open-minded as fuck. She comes on the sho in season 2 too. Word.
80s overload with that music and design of the Galaxy Class starship. I don't know which craft explains 1987 more, the Airbus A320, or the Enterprise D lol...
*As a disappointed throwback Trekkie, I demand My refund for the wrong editions of The Main Title on studio releases of the soundtrack. This conduct was never featured on any of them!* Worship is such sweet sorrow!
Love the part when Jonathan Frakes comes up. I like the theme from the later seasons of course, but I'm not sure why they changed it from this to begin with. Anyways, this kicks so much ass, it hurts.
+Guy Typing There were several changes in the cast--for example, Denise Crosby and Gates McFadden left the show after Year One, and only McFadden returned for Year Three. As a result, the theme had to be re-recorded several times. Also, for Years One and Two, the planet montage was of our solar system; while from Year Three and onward, the planets were supposed to look far different, symbolic of the "strange new worlds" the Enterprise-D was supposed to explore.
+Daniel Pippenger Thank you for your thoughtful reply. You're right though, I never thought of that. With Gates and Denise not being on the show in the 2nd season and with Diana Muldaur's Pulaski being credited as only a guest star, they had to tweak the theme.
That is correct. I just got done watching Adam Savages Test and he had Mike and Denise Okuda and Mike talk about this at 14:25 mark th-cam.com/video/D24tYFIVyv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ttsxC9x4IICTV3Fl
In 1989 when this show premiered, (Yes I remember it well), they had a countdown of previews of the series 16, 15, 14,...1 day until it appeared on TV. Does anyone still have these countdown previews from before it was launched?
Has always bothered me that in the initial sequence, Saturn is illuminated in the wrong side: the Sun disappear at left and suddenly the planet is illuminated from right.
@@TheRogueX Oh yeah but on old resolution TV screens of the Nineties, that was barely discernible. Shame that these errors weren't corrected for TNG-R.
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Back when I was around 7, I was exposed to Star Wars for the first time. I walked pass a model shop and saw a ship model on a display. My 7-year-old brain, with certain kind of logic that I doubt I'd ever understand, though that the ship I saw, one of the most majestic ship I've seen, was the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars.
My father corrected me that the ship was not the Falcon from Star Wars. It was the Enterprise, from a show called Star Trek. Specifically, it's the Enterprise-D.
Later that week, he managed to find a set of TNG VHS tapes, and thus introduce me to the franchise for the first time, all because I misidentify the Enterprise as the Falcon.
It was the most beautiful mistake I've ever made. I still have that model on my desk.
I love this ❤
I prefer this opening than what it was in later seasons. That shot of Earth... And that build up. No other theme song sends such chills and passion up and down my spine so powerfully.
And also Star trek logo is better in this season
Same, and that brass 👌
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The strings are gorgeous here but I’ve always loved the way the trumpet rings out in this version
I was deeply saddened in S03 and afterwards when they changed this theme and those powerful strings (best part about this theme!) were suppressed to the background.
Also, holy shit this HD.
Pretty bad mistake ngl
That's Rick Berman exuding his influence...MAKE THE MUSIC SUCK!!!
I’ll have to respectfully disagree. The S3-7 version of the theme is much better. The intro in S1-2 is actually a bit ragged at times, and not quite as full or powerful.
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It had to be shortened to accommodate seven or eight actors as opposed to nine.
1:26 Love that you can see people walking around in there.
Not anything new for the time. 1968 Kubrick's Space Odyssey had that.
I mean that you couldn't really see it in the crappy tv version ;) If it was even there.
OMG I never saw that before! Thank-you! And they're in the conference room too, no doubt figuring out a strategy to deal with the problem of the week. :D
Kleavers I think that's meant to be Picard walking past the windows of the observation lounge.
Kleavers You could barely see it, but it's always been there. Supposedly that was one of ILM's first shots they did for TNG.
BTW, if I'm not mistaken, that's supposed to be Ten Forward...
1:04 is just so much better here. They shouldn't've quieted everything down in S3. This intro is so much better.
In my opinion the S3 onwards intro is louder. And fuller, might I add. This just sounds a lot less well put together.
OMG I just realized the beginning of this intro might be a homage to Voyager 1’s trajectory. Neat!
Before the decision was made to air the series in first run syndication, producers considered an offer to air the show on the Fox Network, which was launched at roughly the same time the series was. Many Fox-affiliated stations, particularly those just going on the air, broadcast the series as part of their non-Fox Network programming.
and the fact you got both the legendary Jerry Goldsmith and the music writer of the original Series Alexander Courage teamed up to work on the score together is genius
You can still watch the original series Next Generation Deep Space Nine Voyager and Enterprise on Me-TV every night at 7 p.m.
All the star treks are on netflix
I was 2-3 years old when this season aired. I think Tasha Yar was my first real exposure to death. Scared the crap out of me
It was more sad than scary to me.
Angelus Me too. What was really scary was that alien in "Conspiracy". Star Trek's answer to the chestburster from Alien(1979).
I was also 3 and I still remember it vividly.
@@alexpalmer9101 I was three when that episode aired and it freaked me out.
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My favorite Star Trek TV series of them all......This right here represents the best of my childhood and I became a Trek fan for life!!
same with me dude! Still love this show today 30 years later.
NYKgjl10 I always love to watch this Star Trek TV Series, well, it's because I was thinking of or about Patrick Stewart so much this often and was GREAT in this show a lot.
Those words could be spoken by me. I still watch it on Netflix almost every day
@@MrCrazyrob666 I'm surprised it's still on there, seeing as the original Star Trek has been gone for some time.
@@alanrowan6328 original is still on my Netflix. All the series are
One of the best TV series ever !!!
I love TNG
Does it bother anyone else that Saturn is lit from the back?
+Amy Costello LMAO!!! I never noticed that!!! Omg now I can't unsee it. THANKS!!! XD
It does now. :'-(
Perhaps there has been a mishap somewhere between now and the 24th century?
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Bothers me, for God's sake!
I watched this every week, my daughter at the time not very old memorized every word lol she is now 43 years old
This is the intro that made me a Trekkie.
This brings back some good memories from my childhood when it aires once a week, on Sunday, in my country. For almost an hour we were taken to other dimensions. I remember having a crush on Marina Sirtis.
I still get goose bumps everytime i hear the quote to bodly go where no one has gone before
Season 1 theme sounds so different, definitelly the one that I remember the most is Season 3, it felt more "grand" if I can use that word to describe it.
0:01 Earth, 0:06 The Moon, 0:12 Jupiter, 0:14 Saturn. Series 1 & 2 show the planets in our Solar System, but I think from Series 3 it shows different planets.
I now know what I found strange about this version. Remember it's the late 80s, I was -21 years old, and the 3D version looked nothing like what I was expecting. Sizes varied and planets were MIA. I guess I wasn't the only one questioning why. It's accurate according to the Enterprise's changing perspective and not Earth's. Instead of calling their fans out for being the idiots we often are, TNG changed it to an accurate interpretation closer to our expectaton. Got to love Star Trek dedication to depict science fiction based in reality.
goosebumps. every time.
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This was on on a Wednesday night at 6pm in England and I never missed it.
Sky One for almost 20 years
get goosebumps from it every time lol;)
Definitely more strings on the arrangement for Season 1.
Opening was so much better in Season 1
This reminds me of watching TNG every Saturday night when I would go over to my dads house 💖💖
I love the first season theme, so much more emotive!
Who's watching this in 2364?
dylanwtn I'm watching in star-date: 41254.5
I'm Watching this on Stardate 41148.0
Watching on Stardate 1513.2 on the OG USS Enterprise
I'm watching this on stardate 41153.7.
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If anyone has ever played around with Space Engine; when the Enterprise is going at Warp Factor 9; if the stars are moving at the same velocity as shown in Star Trek TNG; warp factor 9 is right around 13LY/SECOND or right around 450,000,000 times the speed of light as shown in the opening credits!!!🤔😱🤯 Hell, if that's a fact getting to Proxima Centuri would literally take a few milliseconds, damn well impressive technology in the 24th century I do say so myself.😊 Hell and I was thinking for the longest time that warp factor 9 was 9X the speed of light...NOT EVEN CLOSE...🤪🤔🤯😳 Hell, if that's the case of reality, I cannot wait for what the future beholds!!!
star trek will never die in us :)
Star Trek is life 😊
I was nine when this came out. My dad introduced me to TOS and I was anticipating the release of this show since reading about it on a box of cereal. I learned the intro during the premier and played it back in my Yamaha PSS-255 on the second episode.
Now change the Enterprise with a picture of my Himalayan kitten. Replace the main theme with an orchestral version of Nyan Cat once it goes into warp.
I wonder what it was like as a TOS fan watching these credits in 1987 and hearing the familiar TOS notes at the beginning after so long....
And this is in 1987-88... Awesome
Normal ILM!
I watched this show on BBC America & it was awesome! But, It was okay when I saw this show on H&I!
whoever did the CGI for this seemed to have a good understanding of how lighting can affect the realism of the object, it's not all about the texture
When I was a kid I always used to think the ship was CGI, (This was pre-Jurassic park) way before CGI was a common thing, I still thought it looked like computer graphics. It actually looks like early CGI, it's very saturated looking, unlike most model shots.
I know, it's really amazing how much they have tidied the remastered editions up. Puts Voyager and even Enterprise to shame. Just wish we could have it in wide-screen though...
@@algernonilfracombe It was never filmed in Widescreen, watch the extras on the Blu-Ray...
If they put it in widescreen there would've been parts of the picture missing from the top and bottom.
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This wasn’t CGI. ILM didn’t have that kind of capability back then. This was practical effects and motion control.
Pffft!!! As if space would be that 'busy' with stars in any given wide open region.
Uma das melhores músicas que já escutei na vida! Espetacular a abertura da primeira temporada a melhor.
Is it me, though, or is the trumpet in this one sounding like someone is trying to hold their farts in while they were playing the trumpet?
This intro is ok but the later theme was amazing
This was an awesome series when it was on. I got to get the series on DVD very soon. Along with the original Star Trek and Deep Space Nine.
Space is the Future...!
Thanks to the CORPORATIONS the world has stagnated...!
:)
Technically this is NOT the season 1 intro since it doesn't have the character names and Gene is billed as executive producer instead of creator as he would be starting the following week with The Naked Now.
This series was really throwing you into another world and into deep space. Sad the new Star Trek lost the exploratory appeal and deep stories
Sucked back when ds9 became part of the franchise. TOS and tng are the only treks for me.
One word: chills
The violins on this version kind of make me cringe. I much prefer the rerecorded version from later seasons
I am a Stargate fan at heart, SG-1 and SGA are my favorite shows. But TNG is in my humble opinion the ultimate sci-fi show.
in season 1, the starting planets is shorter than post s3 and has 2 of those music verses after the enterprise warps at 0:40 but s3 onwards has a longer planets scene and only has 1 of those verses, then the 2 are aligned after 0:50 of the same music just small changes.
I’m not sure about this new trek
1: looks like someone sat on the enterprise and flattened her out
2: they stole the theme from the Motion Picture
3: it’s where no man, not one, has done before.
4: and isn’t that the kid from stand by me?
Yeah this show won’t last more than a season, maybe two. Bring back Kirk and Spock!!!!
This Saturn looks so much better than the one in the season 3 and on opening. It actually looks like Saturn. And Jupiter... 🤌
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Season 1 best intro. In the second season, the melody changed (to the worse). Reworked intro season 3-7 missed and unnecessary
i prefer the wooshing flyby sound of this season compared to the thunderclap sound from s2 onwards
Like the intro of the first two seasons more. I think the shot of earth going to the outer planets have more impact and the pacing is better.
And unfortunatly the cgi up from third season intro aged poorly.
They should kept the OG intro also for the later seasons
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Everyone talks about the weird transition but no one ever talks about the stars that the Enterprise passes.
Why are the stars so tiny??????
Imagining that this "Thing" was over 4 meters long ;) But it shows!
The music sounds like Star Trek The Motion Picture
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The Stars are now OURS!
i need to grab the series off the bay.. didn't have a clue it's out in HD :O
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I must prefer the violin and trumpet over the heavy drums of later seasons.
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I always wondered why the Season one theme was just a little bit different compared to the followinf seasons
To me it had a more orchestral sound to it versus the later season versions, especially when the main theme starts at 0:40.
It was re-recorded twice for the second and third seasons. I believe Ron Jones did the second season version and either Dennis McCarthy or Jay Chattaway (?) did the season 3 version. A lot of TNG was in flux for its first two years. They were still trying to find their footing and to hold on to the few female cast members that hadn't already quit or been fired.
@@alucard624 That was Dennis McCarthy. Ron Jones handled the more electronic orchestral aspects of the show.
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This is easily the series' best ever intro. Too bad it was only used in the first and worst season.
Launched as part of a Paramount Network that ended up as more a syndication distributor than a real network, Star Trek: The Next Generation aired on all various independent channels, the big 4 network affiliates (NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox), The WB, UPN, My Network TV, The CW, and during its 25 year syndicated run.'
Still looks and sounds cool by modern standards.
Sure wish they would release this particular version on a soundtrack. They’ve released every version except this one
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Intro just as dope and poppin as fuck as the one from season 3 and on.
People forget bout this shit right here. The way Saturn comes in is gangsta as fuck and on some Whoopi Goldberg type shit, like open-minded as fuck. She comes on the sho in season 2 too. Word.
Ahead of its time.
I remember this on reruns in the 2000s
80s overload with that music and design of the Galaxy Class starship. I don't know which craft explains 1987 more, the Airbus A320, or the Enterprise D lol...
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TOS' intro was snappy and cheerful. TNG's intro is majestic.
Space...ready squadron...
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*As a disappointed throwback Trekkie, I demand My refund for the wrong editions of The Main Title on studio releases of the soundtrack. This conduct was never featured on any of them!* Worship is such sweet sorrow!
I'm from Alderan planet, we want to make part of the united planets league. Might the force be with all of us.
This is why is it a good idea to save your money and be Frozen at Alcor in Arizona and hopefully wake up at a time where this is possible
@GB452 Thanks for the heads up on the typo, I fixed it. I did cut this straight from the m2ts file, but I remuxed into mkv before uploading to TH-cam.
Love the part when Jonathan Frakes comes up.
I like the theme from the later seasons of course, but I'm not sure why they changed it from this to begin with.
Anyways, this kicks so much ass, it hurts.
+Guy Typing There were several changes in the cast--for example, Denise Crosby and Gates McFadden left the show after Year One, and only McFadden returned for Year Three. As a result, the theme had to be re-recorded several times. Also, for Years One and Two, the planet montage was of our solar system; while from Year Three and onward, the planets were supposed to look far different, symbolic of the "strange new worlds" the Enterprise-D was supposed to explore.
+Daniel Pippenger Thank you for your thoughtful reply. You're right though, I never thought of that. With Gates and Denise not being on the show in the 2nd season and with Diana Muldaur's Pulaski being credited as only a guest star, they had to tweak the theme.
That and the orchestra apparently didn't sound very good for this recording anyway...
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Nice
0:57 ❤😂🎉😅 1:02
The best.
Cool
As usual, despite not being alive at the time, I feel a sense of nostalgia anyway.
FYI, you wrote "Season 5" in the title. Nice though, did you just upload the cut m2ts file?
Think I like this better for the main part of the song, but the opening with the planets and stuff I prefer the later seasons (one with the comet).
God no. The transition to the Enterprise shot from the ringed planet is *terrible.* Whoever thought that worked is a moron.
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That is the intro used in Encounter at Farpoint. Only from the episode on did the role names appear under the actor names.
That is correct. I just got done watching Adam Savages Test and he had Mike and Denise Okuda and Mike talk about this at 14:25 mark th-cam.com/video/D24tYFIVyv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ttsxC9x4IICTV3Fl
The lens flare is the signature effect of this shot.
Show never look this clean, remember the Old analog on TV just looks Foggy.
It also had a bluish blurry tint on the bottom of the screen most of the time too, especially in the space shots. So glad that was cleaned up.
In 1989 when this show premiered, (Yes I remember it well), they had a countdown of previews of the series 16, 15, 14,...1 day until it appeared on TV. Does anyone still have these countdown previews from before it was launched?
Workdove 1987
You obviously don't remember that well then.
Best opening everrrrrr
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Has always bothered me that in the initial sequence, Saturn is illuminated in the wrong side: the Sun disappear at left and suddenly the planet is illuminated from right.
The terrible transition from the ringed planet to the Enterprise shot in the "new" intro is way way more disconnected and disconcerting.
@@TheRogueX Oh yeah but on old resolution TV screens of the Nineties, that was barely discernible. Shame that these errors weren't corrected for TNG-R.