Star Trek has always been interesting for how it does its opening credits. They’ve never gone for the traditional TV format featuring images of the entire cast. It’s almost always been concentrated on the ships and the stars to let fans know that is the focus of the show's opening titles, not as much on the characters.
As the franchise has grown over the years, the opening credits have changed with technology, yet still keeping to the heart of Trek. They’re all about the space adventures matched with glorious music. Everyone may have their own favorites, but here’s how the best Star Trek intro sequences rank as a showcase for how every Trek show got things off on the right foot.
11. Enterprise
On paper, doing a different type of intro for this prequel series wasn’t a bad idea. A montage of humanity’s history of flight from the Wright brothers to space travel was also a fun motif. What ruins it? The song. “Faith of My Heart," which became "Where My Heart Will Take Me" for the show, isn’t a bad tune, but a Star Trek theme song just didn’t seem right, no matter how well done it is.
Frankly, the only time this intro succeeded was “In a Mirror, Darkly,” where the two-parter dropped the song for a militaristic theme while showing the history of the Mirror Universe. "Where My Heart Will Take Me" and that lackluster opening set a bad tone for Enterprise that only added to the feeling it’s not the best Trek show out there.