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I mean, I get it. For bingewatching to be effective such option must exist. But I just can't imagine to skip Star Trek intros. It's part of the anticipation, the joy, the ritual. What about you? Do you skip intros?
I'll watch one when I sit down to watch, then I'll skip it on any further episodes in the same watch session.
I watch it is for like the first 5 eps and then I don’t. I wanna get to the action!
I ALWAYS skip enterprise, I never skip the others.
I get that they were trying for something different, I can even appreciate using a folksy ballad that doesn't have all is the "formality" of classical music the same way Starfleet of the time doesn't have all the formality of later treks. I even personally find it to be a cool idea on paper, but for some reason it just didn't land with me.
It's jarring when it SHOULDN'T be. Even the closing credits get a "WhoOoAawhatthefuuuuOh."reaction out of me every time the music starts. Like, it takes until almost the fourth note on the credits before I go "oh yeah, they do this.
I still watch the credits, though.
Ent and lower decks often get skipped, everything else occasionally.
Prodigy, never. That theme is up there with Voy and DS9.
never skip the ds9 intro; i'm too busy crying and grandly humming along.
When streaming I do because I'm binging, but regardless of how I'm watching I will NEVER skip TNG intros. My god what a masterpiece, even the end credits are just a capstone to perfection.
Oh, where's that option in VLC? (I'd probably skip if given the choice, I remember wanting to constantly with game of thrones but whoever I was with insisted on watching the entire 5 hours every time)
Usually, no, especially with DS9 (Even that crappy spread-up version with the cheap drum track tacked on top used after season 4.)
However, as I was watching Prodigy on my desktop, my behavior varied. For a while, I watched the whole intro, but my anticipation became too much and I began skipping right through it as I got through season 2.
Even skipped it back in the days when we were recording TNG episodes on tape. Fast forward and a magical chant of ‘Gene, Gene, Gene…’ to ensure stopping at Gene Roddenberry’s name as it indicated the end of the intro
I got faith
Of the heaaart
I actually started to like that song.
The DS9 one really drags on. It's great but long.
If I'm alone, I often skip. With my daughter, we listen patiently. She needs to absorb the majesty.
If it has opening narration, I don't skip it.
I'm a sucker for that sort of pageantry.