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. (see 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 on ground (modified to appear as an operational Enterprise) | "Scott Bakula"; drawing of |
| Amelia Earhart with her Lockheed Model 10 Electra on the ground | |
| The Wright Military Flyer taking off | Drawing of Mercury Redstone rocket |
| The Bell X-1 executing a roll in flight | Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of flying machine |
| Sylvia Earle's Deep Flyer submarine | "John Billingsley"; outline map of |
| Chuck Yeager walking away from his X-1 Glamorous Glennis on the ground | |
| Several shots of Apollo astronauts | drawing of orrery? |
| Close-up of Alan Shepard in an Apollo spacesuit, prior to his moon flight on Apollo 14 in 1971. | |
| 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 | |
| Chiaki Mukai, John Glenn, and Stephen K. Robinson in Space Shuttle Discovery middeck during liftoff of STS-95 | |
| 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 (first use of images taken on the surface of another planet in science fiction television or film history) | |
| 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 (from Star Trek: First Contact) | "Connor Trinneer"; starchart? |
| Phoenix deploying warp nacelles (from Star Trek: First Contact) | |
| An early warp starship over the Moon. | |
| NX-01 Enterprise over Earth | |
| NX-01 Enterprise goes to warp | "Created by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga" |
[edit] Mirror Universe Version
In contrast to the normal version, most of the images in this alternate opening credits sequence are related to war and the military. Some of the stock footage comes from previous Enterprise episodes (e.g. when the NX-01 fires phase cannons on and destroys an alien ship -- although in our universe, they were actually firing on a Romulan ship made to look like Enterprise).
| Pictures | Overlays |
| The Earth from space, looking southeast over Lake Ontario (N.B. The music which plays is not "Faith of the Heart.") | |
| The Earth from space (N.B. The writing starts out as white with black outline, then morphs to black with white outline.) | "—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 (N.B. Up to this point, the images used in the mirror and normal intros are the same.) | Engraving of HMS Enterprize |
| Cannon firing, shifting to a shot of the sailing ship, with the cannon smoke billowing from one side | " Based on —STAR TREK— created by Gene Roddenberry" |
| World War I biplane firing its machine guns | |
| German biplane hit and trailing smoke as it begins to slowly go down | "Scott Bakula" |
| Army (infantry and tanks) advances from right to left of screen as biplanes fly overhead | "Scott Bakula" |
| Troops marching on parade | Terran Empire Emblem |
| Artillery battery firing | |
| Explosion in the middle of the screen, a tank trundling off to the left, and a man running toward us before he fires his flamethrower at us | "John Billingsley" |
| Three Stuka dive-bombers fly past, with the camera turning to follow the last one | |
| Atom bomb detonation with ships in the foreground (N.B. In the real world, this was a test performed with obsolete ships to see how well they would survive a nuclear detonation, but in the Mirror Universe, they might very well have used it on an enemy fleet.) | "Jolene Blalock" |
| Front view of an F-15 Eagle taking off from a runway with the motion slightly slowed down, shifting to a view from below the aircraft looking behind it | |
| Modern submarine firing a torpedo (N.B. This is a clip of the Konovalov from The Hunt for Red October.) | |
| Submarine (apparently a U-boat) explodes | |
| Tank advancing slowly, turret traversing, with ruined buildings on fire and the sky glowing orange/red in the background | "Dominic Keating" |
| SAM site with three missiles viewed through smoke/mist | |
| Pilot HUD view of enemy aircraft (apparently a F-16) as he attempts to lock-on his missiles | |
| Side shot of jet bomber (Rockwell B-1 Lancer) carpet bombing | |
| Looking behind past the bomb bay doors at the bombs exploding on the ground | "Anthony Montgomery" |
| Saturn V taking off, seen from tower, as Robert Goddard writes on a blackboard | |
| Man in Enterprise-style space suit placing a Terran Empire flag on the moon (simulation) | "Linda Park" |
| Zefram Cochrane's Phoenix launching (from Star Trek: First Contact) | |
| Phoenix deploying warp nacelles (from Star Trek: First Contact) | |
| An early warp starship over alien planet -- instead of just flying over it, it fires two torpedoes at the surface | |
| NX-class ship flanked on both sides by two other Earth ships, with all three banking to their right before the NX fires 2 torpedoes on a planetary city, where at least one torpedo smashes into a city skyscraper and blows a huge hole through it (N.B. The skyscraper shot is taken from the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Dragon's Teeth".) | "Connor Trinneer" |
| Close up of NX-class ship firing torpedoes on a Klingon ship, which suffers massive damage | |
| MACOs abseil down and shoot a number of armed aliens | |
| NX-class firing phase cannons on and destroying an alien ship | |
| Numerous Xindi ships firing at each other, passing by the camera in all directions, with one NX-class toward the centre of the shot, firing torpedoes (from the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Council") | |
| As the last ship goes past, a 3-D rendered logo of the Terran Empire zooms in, with a globe rotating round the axis of the sword | "Created by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga" |
[edit] Trivia
- Amelia Earhart became 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.
- Cast members of Star Trek: The Original Series and Gene Roddenberry were present at the actual rolling out ceremony of the Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1976. Some believe that they can be glimpsed in the clip used in the opening credits, but the footage is actually of another shuttle with the Enterprise name simulated. Unlike the shuttle seen in the footage, the actual shuttle Enterprise has its name painted on its cargo bay doors and not on the crew cabin. The shuttle Enterprise, a test glider never configured for spaceflight, also has simpler black and white nose markings than those of the shuttle in the footage.
- 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.
