Back when I was around 7, I was exposed to Star Wars for the first time. I walked pass a model shop and saw a ship model on a display. My 7-year-old brain, with certain kind of logic that I doubt I'd ever understand, though that the ship I saw, one of the most majestic ship I've seen, was the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars. My father corrected me that the ship was not the Falcon from Star Wars. It was the Enterprise, from a show called Star Trek. Specifically, it's the Enterprise-D. Later that week, he managed to find a set of TNG VHS tapes, and thus introduce me to the franchise for the first time, all because I misidentify the Enterprise as the Falcon. It was the most beautiful mistake I've ever made. I still have that model on my desk.

I prefer this opening than what it was in later seasons. That shot of Earth... And that build up. No other theme song sends such chills and passion up and down my spine so powerfully.

The strings are gorgeous here but I’ve always loved the way the trumpet rings out in this version

1:26 Love that you can see people walking around in there.

1:04 is just so much better here. They shouldn't've quieted everything down in S3. This intro is so much better.

My favorite Star Trek TV series of them all......This right here represents the best of my childhood and I became a Trek fan for life!!

I was deeply saddened in S03 and afterwards when they changed this theme and those powerful strings (best part about this theme!) were suppressed to the background. Also, holy shit this HD.

One of the best TV series ever !!!

I still get goose bumps everytime i hear the quote to bodly go where no one has gone before

This brings back some good memories from my childhood when it aires once a week, on Sunday, in my country. For almost an hour we were taken to other dimensions. I remember having a crush on Marina Sirtis.

I was 2-3 years old when this season aired. I think Tasha Yar was my first real exposure to death. Scared the crap out of me

goosebumps. every time.

Launched as part of a Paramount Network that ended up as more a syndication distributor than a real network, Star Trek: The Next Generation aired on all various independent channels, the big 4 network affiliates (NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox), The WB, UPN, My Network TV, The CW, and during its 25 year syndicated run.'

I watched this every week, my daughter at the time not very old memorized every word lol she is now 43 years old

get goosebumps from it every time lol;)

I now know what I found strange about this version. Remember it's the late 80s, I was -21 years old, and the 3D version looked nothing like what I was expecting. Sizes varied and planets were MIA. I guess I wasn't the only one questioning why. It's accurate according to the Enterprise's changing perspective and not Earth's. Instead of calling their fans out for being the idiots we often are, TNG changed it to an accurate interpretation closer to our expectaton. Got to love Star Trek dedication to depict science fiction based in reality.

This was on on a Wednesday night at 6pm in England and I never missed it.

You can still watch the original series Next Generation Deep Space Nine Voyager and Enterprise on Me-TV every night at 7 p.m.

Season 1 theme sounds so different, definitelly the one that I remember the most is Season 3, it felt more "grand" if I can use that word to describe it.

This reminds me of watching TNG every Saturday night when I would go over to my dads house 💖💖

TOS' intro was snappy and cheerful. TNG's intro is majestic.

I was nine when this came out. My dad introduced me to TOS and I was anticipating the release of this show since reading about it on a box of cereal. I learned the intro during the premier and played it back in my Yamaha PSS-255 on the second episode. Now change the Enterprise with a picture of my Himalayan kitten. Replace the main theme with an orchestral version of Nyan Cat once it goes into warp.

I love the first season theme, so much more emotive!

I watched this show on BBC America & it was awesome! But, It was okay when I saw this show on H&I!

I wonder what it was like as a TOS fan watching these credits in 1987 and hearing the familiar TOS notes at the beginning after so long....

0:01 Earth, 0:06 The Moon, 0:12 Jupiter, 0:14 Saturn. Series 1 & 2 show the planets in our Solar System, but I think from Series 3 it shows different planets.

Does it bother anyone else that Saturn is lit from the back?

Definitely more strings on the arrangement for Season 1.

And this is in 1987-88... Awesome

Season 1: 1987-1988

whoever did the CGI for this seemed to have a good understanding of how lighting can affect the realism of the object, it's not all about the texture

in season 1, the starting planets is shorter than post s3 and has 2 of those music verses after the enterprise warps at 0:40 but s3 onwards has a longer planets scene and only has 1 of those verses, then the 2 are aligned after 0:50 of the same music just small changes.

I love TNG

I am a Stargate fan at heart, SG-1 and SGA are my favorite shows. But TNG is in my humble opinion the ultimate sci-fi show.

Opening was so much better in Season 1

As usual, despite not being alive at the time, I feel a sense of nostalgia anyway.

star trek will never die in us :)

One word: chills

This is the intro that made me a Trekkie.

This was an awesome series when it was on. I got to get the series on DVD very soon. Along with the original Star Trek and Deep Space Nine.

That is the intro used in Encounter at Farpoint. Only from the episode on did the role names appear under the actor names.

Uma das melhores músicas que já escutei na vida! Espetacular a abertura da primeira temporada a melhor.

Sure wish they would release this particular version on a soundtrack. They’ve released every version except this one

The lens flare is the signature effect of this shot.

@GB452 Thanks for the heads up on the typo, I fixed it. I did cut this straight from the m2ts file, but I remuxed into mkv before uploading to KZfaq.

This series was really throwing you into another world and into deep space. Sad the new Star Trek lost the exploratory appeal and deep stories

Technically this is NOT the season 1 intro since it doesn't have the character names and Gene is billed as executive producer instead of creator as he would be starting the following week with The Naked Now.

Imagining that this "Thing" was over 4 meters long ;) But it shows!

If anyone has ever played around with Space Engine; when the Enterprise is going at Warp Factor 9; if the stars are moving at the same velocity as shown in Star Trek TNG; warp factor 9 is right around 13LY/SECOND or right around 450,000,000 times the speed of light as shown in the opening credits!!!🤔😱🤯 Hell, if that's a fact getting to Proxima Centuri would literally take a few milliseconds, damn well impressive technology in the 24th century I do say so myself.😊 Hell and I was thinking for the longest time that warp factor 9 was 9X the speed of light...NOT EVEN CLOSE...🤪🤔🤯😳 Hell, if that's the case of reality, I cannot wait for what the future beholds!!!

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wow really nice quality

Pffft!!! As if space would be that 'busy' with stars in any given wide open region.

One day I will captain that ship!

Best opening everrrrrr

i need to grab the series off the bay.. didn't have a clue it's out in HD :O

80s overload with that music and design of the Galaxy Class starship. I don't know which craft explains 1987 more, the Airbus A320, or the Enterprise D lol...

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Ficou excelente a alta definição!

still dose it for me man

This intro is ok but the later theme was amazing

the best serie eeeeeeeeeeeever! :D

The best.

Everyone talks about the weird transition but no one ever talks about the stars that the Enterprise passes. Why are the stars so tiny??????

Sheldon's Arch Enemy Is Will Wheaton

In 1989 when this show premiered, (Yes I remember it well), they had a countdown of previews of the series 16, 15, 14,...1 day until it appeared on TV. Does anyone still have these countdown previews from before it was launched?

I always wondered why the Season one theme was just a little bit different compared to the followinf seasons

Who's watching this in 2364?

Has always bothered me that in the initial sequence, Saturn is illuminated in the wrong side: the Sun disappear at left and suddenly the planet is illuminated from right.

This Saturn looks so much better than the one in the season 3 and on opening. It actually looks like Saturn. And Jupiter... 🤌

Is it me, though, or is the trumpet in this one sounding like someone is trying to hold their farts in while they were playing the trumpet?

FYI, you wrote "Season 5" in the title. Nice though, did you just upload the cut m2ts file?

Nice

This is why is it a good idea to save your money and be Frozen at Alcor in Arizona and hopefully wake up at a time where this is possible

Still looks and sounds cool by modern standards.

Cool

1:06a.m. 5/21/2024

Space is the Future...! Thanks to the CORPORATIONS the world has stagnated...!

Intro just as dope and poppin as fuck as the one from season 3 and on. People forget bout this shit right here. The way Saturn comes in is gangsta as fuck and on some Whoopi Goldberg type shit, like open-minded as fuck. She comes on the sho in season 2 too. Word.

Space...ready squadron...

Love the part when Jonathan Frakes comes up. I like the theme from the later seasons of course, but I'm not sure why they changed it from this to begin with. Anyways, this kicks so much ass, it hurts.

I'm from Alderan planet, we want to make part of the united planets league. Might the force be with all of us.

The music sounds like Star Trek The Motion Picture

Isso é um clássico

🐀🐁 Engage Pinkie 👉 The Stars are now OURS!

I must prefer the violin and trumpet over the heavy drums of later seasons.

[Double bass boosted]

i prefer the wooshing flyby sound of this season compared to the thunderclap sound from s2 onwards

Think I like this better for the main part of the song, but the opening with the planets and stuff I prefer the later seasons (one with the comet).

0:57 ❤😂🎉😅 1:02

Like the intro of the first two seasons more. I think the shot of earth going to the outer planets have more impact and the pacing is better. And unfortunatly the cgi up from third season intro aged poorly. They should kept the OG intro also for the later seasons

*As a disappointed throwback Trekkie, I demand My refund for the wrong editions of The Main Title on studio releases of the soundtrack. This conduct was never featured on any of them!* Worship is such sweet sorrow!

Show never look this clean, remember the Old analog on TV just looks Foggy.

This is easily the series' best ever intro. Too bad it was only used in the first and worst season.

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The good thing about TNG is if you hate the Borg as an ill conceived villian, as many fans do, you can ignore the few episodes that feature them as simply being non canon or those episodes in an alternate universe. the original series, TOS movies and TNG can be considered in an alternate retro universe then other trek series, for example the USSR did not fall until the 21st century, technology stayed somewhat bulky, this would explain elements of TOS and TNG and the primitive (by 2020 standards) eements of much of the technology capabiliities in TOS and the early TNG. I love The Next generation as good entertainment with interesting stories and really the only series of Star Trek worth watching. This intro is so mysterious and wonderfully done and the music really sets the scene.

Not as poppin as the other more well known version of the main theme later on, but still poppin

Season 1 best intro. In the second season, the melody changed (to the worse). Reworked intro season 3-7 missed and unnecessary

I love this but every time I see the uss enterprise travel in warp speed the ship should be looking squashed and not stretched out due to relativistic effects traveling at relativistic speeds. (Length contraction)

The end of the mandalorian credits sound a touch like this not gonna lie

Not 80s