Do you agree Voyager had the best soundtrack/opening?

[USS Dragon]

I have only seen one or two Voyager shows. I plan on watching every single episode after I finish watching all TNG shows.

One thing I noticed right off the bat though, out of all the Trek shows the Voyager series has the best opening music in my opinion. Love it!

Anyone else?

 

[kimc]

I've always thought it was the best opening too. Not just for the music but the visuals as well.

 

[USS Dragon]

I've always thought it was the best opening too. Not just for the music but the visuals as well.

Those are awesome as well... The music gives me "Chills"

 

[brcarthey]

I've always thought it was the best opening too. Not just for the music but the visuals as well.

agreed on both counts.

 

[Jaespol]

Best opening fa sho

 

[Michael]

I like the (original) opening sequence of Deep Space Nine a little more, but I agree, Voyager's is pretty nice, too. I always thought both the visuals and Goldsmith's theme wonderfully capture the sense of the unknown and the adventurous. It also helps that Rick Sternbach's Voyager model is very nice to look at.

 

[TheGodBen]

Sacrilege: I didn't like it.

It always felt very drawn out, I feel every one of the 200 seconds and I used to loath the fact that I couldn't fast forward past it when I watched it on TV, it drove me nuts (and now you know how it started). There is over five hours of my life lost because of that damn song! I feel the same way about DS9 1-3, even though I think that's a great theme song it just seems to go on and on...

Further sacrilege: I liked DS9 4-7 best, it was more up-tempo and I hardly noticed it at all. When I rewatched that show on DVD I rarely fast forwarded the theme because it always seemed to fly by.

Right, I see everybody is preparing torches and pitch-forks so I'm fleeing to France (although I'm really fleeing to Italy).

 

[Michael]

Okay, I cover France. Who's going to Italy? We gonna hunt him down and make him watch the Voyager opening 'till his ears bleed! *evil laugh*

 

[Orac Zen]

By a considerable distance.

And as kimc said, the visuals are pretty fabulous too.

 

[Tachyon]

For me it is not only the best Trek opening tune, but one of the most beautiful opening tunes of TV shows I have heard so far.

 

[Jaespol]

Sacrilege: I didn't like it.

It always felt very drawn out, I feel every one of the 200 seconds and I used to loath the fact that I couldn't fast forward past it when I watched it on TV, it drove me nuts (and now you know how it started). There is over five hours of my life lost because of that damn song! I feel the same way about DS9 1-3, even though I think that's a great theme song it just seems to go on and on...

Further sacrilege: I liked DS9 4-7 best, it was more up-tempo and I hardly noticed it at all. When I rewatched that show on DVD I rarely fast forwarded the theme because it always seemed to fly by.

Right, I see everybody is preparing torches and pitch-forks so I'm fleeing to France (although I'm really fleeing to Italy).

What on earth? The opening theme is 103 seconds long, not 200.
And it was much better than DS9's ridiculously boring opening and don't get me started on Battlestar Galactica.

 

[TheGodBen]

What on earth? The opening theme is 103 seconds long, not 200.
And it was much better than DS9's ridiculously boring opening and don't get me started on Battlestar Galactica.

It felt like 200. But you are correct, I typed the wrong number.

And at least the BSG theme is only 43 seconds, 10 of which are a nifty preview of what is coming up in the episode. And it has the survivor counter which is something to pay attention to each episode.

 

[USS Dragon]

I'll beam down to Italy today!


(besides, I love good pasta)

 

[Frazzled]

Definitely the best, I used to love it, until I bought the dvds and I have to suffer the damn thing over and over again when anyone leaves them on the menu page....

 

[Jaespol]

What on earth? The opening theme is 103 seconds long, not 200.
And it was much better than DS9's ridiculously boring opening and don't get me started on Battlestar Galactica.

And at least the BSG theme is only 43 seconds, 10 of which are a nifty preview of what is coming up in the episode. And it has the survivor counter which is something to pay attention to each episode.

Spoilers you mean! I have to cover my eyes everytime. And at the moment in season 1 (i bought seasons 1-4) it goes previously on bsg-teaser-title-episode which is confusing and annoying, plus the episodes are really short!
And I'm not really enjoying it either.

 

[TheGodBen]

Spoilers you mean! I have to cover my eyes everytime.

I used to worry about that at first too, but by the second season I quickly realised that they don't put any real spoilers in the opening credits. There's no need to cover your eyes.

And at the moment in season 1 (i bought seasons 1-4) it goes previously on bsg-teaser-title-episode which is confusing and annoying...

You mean it is confusing because it follows the format of most modern television shows? Almost all serialised shows follow that format, Star Trek even followed that format in two or three parters. I honestly don't understand your complaint here.

...plus the episodes are really short!

No they're not, they run for roughly 42 minutes just like every show on TV these days. They may seem short because the teasers are extra long and sometimes run for over ten minutes, so the "main" episode only seems to last for 30 minutes. Personally, I love long teasers, one of the things which annoyed me about later Trek was that the teasers kept getting shorter.

And I'm not really enjoying it either.

Fair enough, it's not to everyone's taste.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I agree! Voyager's theme was THE BEST as were the opening visuals. JUST BEAUTIFUL!

Personal note: My son, who played the French Horn in high school also played in another organization on Lawngeyeland. At one of the concerts, after all of the pieces that were listed on the program were played, the conductor turned, faced the audience and said, "And now for something completely different."

I of course, thought they were going to play the Monty Python theme!

Wonderful surprise: they played the Voyager theme. I nearly cried!

 

[Thestral]

That's a tough question.

Both themes conveyed excellently the mood of the show, with VGR very adventurous, "let's-see-what's-out-there" on the odyssey home. Meanwhile, DS9 is slowly, mysteriously revealed, then nobly declares itself and lets you bask in its glory; as the series gets faster-paced and more militaristic, the music follows suit. I would say I wish VGR had adjusted its music to match the show, but it never became different in a way that would warrant that.

Both make very effective use of brass, which is always a bonus, but I think I prefer DS9's trumpeting to VGR's more sonorous horns.

Visuals there's little contest. As cool as the comet is, as much as I care for the station and Defiant (and who can't love the runabouts! ), Voyager just surpasses it in visual majesty. Then there's the fact that the Intrepid-class starship is the second-most-attractive ship in canon (look to your left ), which certainly doesn't hurt.

So on balance I'll have to say it's a push for opening, with the music/soundtrack going to DS9 - VGR is a very close second, and blows the others out of the water (even if there is something noble about the opening narration).

 

[kes7]

I loved the VOY music. The visuals, however, really bugged me because of how enormous Voyager looked. The ship took up 2/3 of the width of the rings of that gas giant it's shown flying by, and its shadow was HUGE. Same with it flying through that nebula or whatever it was supposed to be. Either that was the smallest nebula ever, or Voyager is the size of the ship in "Spaceballs.".

 

[Anticitizen]

Didn't the Voyager theme song win some sort of award, or have aliens been mucking about with my memory again?