Star Trek Voyager - Opening credits (15% faster tempo from start) - speeded up
Star Trek Voyager was another long-running sci-fi series that ran from 1995 to 2001. The CGI opening sequence was considered very fancy for the time, winning an Emmy, although the reflection on the planet rings looks very odd: more, much more, about this here.
I've always disliked this introduction sequence's music, but Dr Mrs 15 Percent Faster is of the opinion that it's actually quite good; it's just too slow to excite the viewer for the space action to come. She says:
"The steady pace, while unexciting, is appropriate for depicting a very long journey that, apart from the odd deviation, is basically a straight line at constant velocity. Compare this to TNG, where they're always zipping around all over the place at a moment's notice, or for that matter, DS9, which doesn't move at all (as depicted in its dull and harmonically static music). The melodic and harmonic aspects of the Voyager music also manage to convey a nice combination of stately vessel proudly powering through space (albeit not very quickly), pathos of being a long way from home (the II minor), hope and determination (the leap upward in the melody), and a bit of spacey delta quadrant weirdness (the key shift in the middle section)."
Enjoy at 15% faster tempo, original is here for comparison.
