All series feature flybys of the featured ship.
All series feature ship moving in/out of warp.
Well we've had a fly around the planets.
We've had a fly past a comet and a wormhole.
We've had a fly through planet rings and a gas cloud.
We've had a fly around man-made structures.
I suggest we keep this continuity but with places not visited in an opening sequence.
Beginning is rather like the opening titles of the Innerspace movie. There we're looking close up at ice in a glass but you can't tell that until it zooms out. It just looks strange and captivating. We could do the same thing with the cellular construction of the navigational deflector or the phaser strip, or the dilithium crystals. Well stick with the dilithium crystals. Same sort of chromatic instrumentals as in the Inner space movie.
Camera slowly pulls back and drifts from a view inside the ship, backwards out through one of the windows out into space, becoming an external view. Ship flies by.
Programme title.
Ship flies off screen, camera rotates to a protostar system from above. Red glowing protostar is seen surrounded by various cloudy lumps. Camera passes through acretion disc and we see dust swirling around some lumps and generally swirling as the camera disrturbs it. On the other side of the disc ship appears, and we follow it fly along the acretion disc towards the star.
Star ignites into fusion, and we see an energy shockwave blast out. Ship quickly turns to the side and flies into the darkness, off screen.
New scene with shuttlecraft landed on a planetoid. Camera zooms in close to the planetoid as we see the craft take off. Very detailed ejection blanket/cloud. Some particles fly to the camera are seen like little spinning pebbles.
Shuttle is off top of screen, and main ship comes into view from bottom right. As shuttle bay doors are opening, the camera drifts into a position looking down through the impulse engine exhaust. Camera shot through the exhaust gasses from the impulse engines causing a light bending ripple/haze to the background.
Shuttle glides slowly into shuttle bay seen through the haze. Camera moves back so that final shot is of the shuttle craft not through the haze.
Ship flies off at warp to top right of screen.
New scene.
Black hole moves into frame with spinning clouds around it and visible xray sources from its poles.
The ship of the title comes out of warp, flies rightward behind the black hole, where we see gravitational lensing of the ship and a visible interaction of the xrays with deflector shields.
In orbit around the black hole is a gas giant. Ship makes a brief pass through the
atmosphere of a gas giant, causing it to drag a tail of gas from the planet. The ship turns towards the camera, black hole is seen again at left of screen as camera pulls back with ship heading towards it. Tail of gas is spun around by black hole gravity. Ships again goes to warp but we see the warp from infront of the ship, so the stars around and the back end of the ship are blittered to the centre of the screen, until finally the ship is faster than the camera, moved off bottom of the screen, fade to darkness. Opening titles end.
The brief pause in the story during the opening credits gives a pleasant time to reflect and wonder about what we've just seen. But it shouldn't be too long as it can be pretty tiring after 100+ episodes. 45 seconds is about right. 
