List of Star Trek: Enterprise introduction images
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This is a list of images in the opening credits sequence for the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. The introductory sequence, the most complex ever devised for a Star Trek series, is a montage of various different people and vessels both from the real-world history of exploration, aviation and space travel and from fictional events of the Star Trek universe. These images, mostly in chronological order, are overlaid with writings, star charts and other documents.
During the first three seasons, and into the fourth, the sequence was accompanied by the song "Where My Heart Will Take Me" (a.k.a. "Faith of the Heart"). A new arrangement of the song was introduced at the start of the third season. (An alternate opening credits sequence was posted to startrek.com in October 2004, using the closing credits song "Archer's Theme" and adding the "Space, the final frontier..." monologue, but this was never actually considered a potential replacement for the show's opening credits.)
For the first two seasons, plus the first three episodes of season three, the title card for the series read Enterprise, after which it became Star Trek Enterprise.
The Mirror Universe story arc, In a Mirror, Darkly, Part I and II, feature completely different introduction images. (add them below)
| Pictures | Overlays |
| The Earth from space, looking southeast over Lake Ontario | |
| The Earth from space, | "—STAR TREK— ENTERPRISE" |
| Globe of Earth, set inside globe of heavens | |
| Sunset at sea | Solar System, showing planets' orbits |
| Polynesian sailing raft | Solar System, showing planets' orbits |
| silhouette of sailing ship | Engraving of HMS Enterprize |
| Sailing ship on horizon; at end of Edwards AFB runway used by US space shuttle | " Based on —STAR TREK— created by Gene Roddenberry" |
| Balloon passing over mountains | Drawing of Mercury Redstone rocket |
| Spirit of St. Louis | Drawing of Mercury Redstone rocket |
| Space Shuttle Enterprise on ground | "Scott Bakula"; drawing of |
| Amelia Earhart with her plane | |
| The Wright Flyer | Drawing of Mercury Redstone rocket |
| Chuck Yeager's X-1, Glamorous Glennis | Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of flying machine |
| Sylvia Earle's Deep Flyer submarine | "John Billingsley"; outline map of |
| Several shots of Apollo astronauts | drawing of orrery? |
| Close-up of Alan Shepard | |
| Close-up of space shuttle engines igniting | "Jolene Blalock"; starchart? |
| Saturn V taking off, seen from tower | Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of mechanical wings |
| Space shuttle taking off, seen from tower | |
| Astronauts in space shuttle middeck during liftoff | |
| Saturn V during first stage burn; Robert Goddard writing on a blackboard | "Dominic Keating" |
| Saturn V shedding 1st/2nd-stage interstage separator | |
| Astronaut in spacesuit outside space shuttle | |
| "Buzz" Aldrin's footprint on the Moon | |
| Apollo Lunar Module before descent to Moon | Diagram about solar and lunar eclipses |
| Sojourner on surface of Mars (simulation) | |
| Space shuttle astronaut floating in space | "Anthony Montgomery"; diagram |
| International Space Station above Indian Ocean (simulation) | |
| Space vehicle, possibly VentureStar (simulation) | "Linda Park"; text, not in Latin alphabet, Leonardo's reversed handwriting |
| Zefram Cochrane's Phoenix launching | "Connor Trinneer"; starchart? |
| Phoenix deploying warp nacelles | |
| An early warp starship over alien planet | |
| NX-01 Enterprise over Earth | |
| NX-01 Enterprise goes to warp | "Created by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga" |
Trivia
- Amelia Earhart become a Star Trek character when she appeared in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The 37s" in which it was revealed that her disappearance in 1937 was the work of aliens.
- The footage of the Space Shuttle Enterprise was taken at its official rolling out ceremony in 1976. Present at the unveiling were the cast members of Star Trek: The Original Series and Gene Roddenberry. It is believed that they can be glimpsed in the clip used in the opening credits, but this has not been confirmed. Some sources claim that the footage used for the credits is actually of another shuttle, but this claim has yet to be verified.
- The footage of the Phoenix is taken from the film Star Trek: First Contact.
- The actors' names appear alphabetically. As it happens, Scott Bakula's name came first in the alphabet, unlike earlier Trek series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager which had to break alphabetical order in order to credit the lead actor first.
External links
- Detailed information regarding the Enterprise intro (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/cda/html/images/feature/docs/ent_open/timeline_begin.html)
- Wrolf's Enterprise intro breakdown (http://wrolf.net/enterprise_intro.html)