Strange New Worlds’ Opening Titles Are a Star Trek Nostalgia Assault

Ironically, by being so totally different from all the opposite Star Trek exhibits occurring proper now, Strange New Worlds’ wholehearted embrace of the nostalgia for the unique Star Trek is what’s making it stand out from the pack—and its new opening titles are not any exception, a stunning riff on traditional Trek in a shiny new package deal.

Paramount has launched the opening titles sequence for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, they usually’re each suitably unusual and suitably acquainted for a present that’s leaning all the way in which in on the retro aesthetic of the unique Star Trek. From Anson Mount’s Captain Pike narrating that traditional “These are the voyages…” opening, to the attractive pictures of the Enterprise hovering via interstellar anomalies and, actually, previous some unusual new worlds, to the music itself riffing on the unique Trek theme, these titles are a reminder that this present is setting itself aside from the remainder of the present Trek oeuvre to re-embrace the traditional feeling of the older exhibits.

There’s a lot to like right here visually, not simply within the Enterprise itself, however pictures of it hovering via asteroid belts and thru clouds of dazzling stardust that really feel extremely paying homage to Star Trek: Voyager’s opening titles. Or hell, the Enterprise itself swooshing previous the display screen feeling like a really high-budget re-imagining of the way in which the ship would virtually scream its method via the unique Star Trek opening. And but, it’s not hyperkinetic or something. It’s… surprisingly placid? Which, as a result of that is the Enterprise, we all know is a vibe that’s not going to final very lengthy. But for now, we are able to simmer within the magnificence and leisure of boldly going earlier than all of the explosions and phaser beams begin blaring out.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds begins streaming on Paramount+ May 5.

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