This is just a beginning at breaking down the intro sequence in Star Trek: Enterprise. There is a lot of fun stuff in there, not all of which I have been able to decipher.
Please e-mail me at wrolf@wrolf.net if you have any corrections or more information.
| Vocals | Main shot | Superimposed graphic | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| It’s been a long road | Low Earth Orbit shot – over Lake Ontario, facing Cape Cod | ||
| Getting from there to here | Another close shot of earth | ENTERPRISE | |
| It’s been a long time | Renaissance diagram of celestial mechanics – Earth and Zodiac | ||
| But my … | Portion of map | ||
| … time is finally here. | Show from helicopter, flying over birds on sea shore as they take off | ||
| And I will see my dream come to life at last | Polynesian raft with sail at sunset | German diagram of inner solar system, including comet orbits | |
| HMS Enterprize map, fade in to sailing ship | |||
| I will touch the sky | Space Shuttle runway, sailing ship fades out at end of runway | Based upon ‘STAR TREK’ Created by Gene Roddenberry | |
| And they’re not going to hold me down no more | Orange balloon crossing mountain range | diagram of Mercury Redstone multistage rocket circular diagram — sundial face? | |
| Spirit of St. Louis after landing in Paris | continues superimposition and scan of rocket schematic | ||
| No they’re not going to change my mind | Space Shuttle Enterprise – full scale test vehicle for aerodynamic flight and landing of Space Shuttle | Celestial diagram | |
| Cause I’ve got | Amelia Earhardt | Scott Bakula | |
| faith | Wright Flier | Redstone rocket schematics | |
| of the heart | Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis | Leonardo da Vinci diagram with wings for manned flight | John Billingsley |
| I’m going where my heart will take me | Deep Flight submarine | backdrop of map | |
| Chuck Yeager in flight suit walking away from X-1 on ground | |||
| I’ve got faith to believe | 2 Apollo astronauts carrying A/C units wearing “bell jar” helmets. | Celestial diagram | |
| Alan Shephard preparing for Apollo 14 with helmet off, shaking head in amusement | Lunar map | ||
| Underneath Saturn V rocket firing | Jolene Blalock | ||
| I can do anything | Apollo launch from gantry | diagrams of da Vinci wings | |
| Fish eye view of from launch tower of Space Shuttle at liftoff | |||
| I’ve got strength of the soul | Space Shuttle mid-deck astronauts in launch phase | ||
| Robert Goddard writing at chalkboard: Limit of balloon, 20 miles Limit of atmosphere: 200 miles indistinct diagram and equations — maybe of math for moonshot | Saturn V rocket in early boost, still in atmosphere | Dominic Keating | |
| 1st stage Saturn V separation completes with shedding 1st/2nd stage interstage separator | star chart? | ||
| Astronaut in MMU, low earth orbit, holding onto handhold in open Shuttle bay. | unclear | ||
| No one’s going to bend or break me | “Buzz” Aldrin leaving a footprint on the moon | celestial mechanics | |
| I can reach any star | Lunar Excursion Module (perhaps Eagle) descent immediately after separation from Command Module | celestial mechanics: “Solar and Lunar Eclipse” (very indistinct) “Moon’s Eclipse May 10th 1768”? | |
| Zoom of Mars Pathfinder’s rover Sojourner, heading to rock Yogi | indistinct | ||
| Astronaut in free flight above open shuttle doors | Anthony Montgomery | ||
| I’ve got faith | International Space Station under construction (simulation) | ||
| I’ve got faith | space station gantry pulling away from a hypersonic spaceplane heading Earthward | Linda Park | |
| Faith of the heart. | Zephram Cochran Phoenix flight — rocket separation, side panels burst off, warp nacelles deploy | Connor Trinner | |
| Early warp starship SS Emmette flying over an Earth colony | |||
| NX-01 Enterprise rising from Earth, pan as passes and goes to warp | Created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga |