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.<\/p>\n
Please e-mail me at wrolf@wrolf.net<\/a> if you have any corrections or more information.<\/p>\n
| Vocals | Main shot | Superimposed graphic | Credits<\/tr>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| It’s been a long road<\/TD> | Low Earth Orbit shot – over Lake Ontario, facing Cape Cod<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| Getting from there to here<\/TD> | Another close shot of earth<\/TD> | <\/TD> | ENTERPRISE<\/TD><\/TR> |
| It’s been a long time<\/TD> | Renaissance diagram of celestial mechanics – Earth and Zodiac<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| But my …<\/TD> | Portion of map<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| … time is finally here.<\/TD> | Show from helicopter, flying over birds on sea shore as they take off<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| And I will see my dream come to life at last<\/TD> | Polynesian raft with sail at sunset<\/TD> | German diagram of inner solar system, including comet orbits<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | HMS Enterprize map, fade in to sailing ship<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| I will touch the sky<\/TD> | Space Shuttle runway, sailing ship fades out at end of runway<\/TD> | <\/TD> | Based upon ‘STAR TREK’ Created by Gene Roddenberry<\/TD><\/TR> |
| And they’re not going to hold me down no more<\/TD> | Orange balloon crossing mountain range<\/TD> | diagram of Mercury Redstone multistage rocket circular diagram — sundial face?<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Spirit of St. Louis after landing in Paris<\/TD> | continues superimposition and scan of rocket schematic<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| No they’re not going to change my mind<\/TD> | Space Shuttle Enterprise – full scale test vehicle for aerodynamic flight and landing of Space Shuttle<\/TD> | Celestial diagram<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| Cause I’ve got<\/TD> | Amelia Earhardt<\/TD> | <\/TD> | Scott Bakula<\/TD><\/TR> |
| faith<\/TD> | Wright Flier<\/TD> | Redstone rocket schematics<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| of the heart<\/TD> | Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis<\/TD> | Leonardo da Vinci diagram with wings for manned flight<\/TD> | John Billingsley<\/TD><\/TR> |
| I’m going where my heart will take me<\/TD> | Deep Flight submarine<\/TD> | backdrop of map<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Chuck Yeager in flight suit walking away from X-1 on ground<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| I’ve got faith to believe<\/TD> | 2 Apollo astronauts carrying A\/C units wearing “bell jar” helmets.<\/TD> | Celestial diagram<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Alan Shephard preparing for Apollo 14 with helmet off, shaking head in amusement<\/TD> | Lunar map<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Underneath Saturn V rocket firing<\/TD> | <\/TD> | Jolene Blalock<\/TD><\/TR> |
| I can do anything<\/TD> | Apollo launch from gantry<\/TD> | diagrams of da Vinci wings<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Fish eye view of from launch tower of Space Shuttle at liftoff<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| I’ve got strength of the soul<\/TD> | Space Shuttle mid-deck astronauts in launch phase<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Robert Goddard writing at chalkboard: Limit of balloon, 20 miles Limit of atmosphere: 200 miles indistinct diagram and equations — maybe of math for moonshot<\/TD> | Saturn V rocket in early boost, still in atmosphere<\/TD> | Dominic Keating<\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | 1st stage Saturn V separation completes with shedding 1st\/2nd stage interstage separator<\/TD> | star chart?<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Astronaut in MMU, low earth orbit, holding onto handhold in open Shuttle bay.<\/TD> | unclear<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| No one’s going to bend or break me<\/TD> | “Buzz” Aldrin leaving a footprint on the moon<\/TD> | celestial mechanics<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| I can reach any star<\/TD> | Lunar Excursion Module (perhaps Eagle) descent immediately after separation from Command Module<\/TD> | celestial mechanics: “Solar and Lunar Eclipse” (very indistinct) “Moon’s Eclipse May 10th 1768”?<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Zoom of Mars Pathfinder’s rover Sojourner, heading to rock Yogi<\/A><\/TD> | indistinct<\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Astronaut in free flight above open shuttle doors<\/TD> | <\/TD> | Anthony Montgomery<\/TD><\/TR> |
| I’ve got faith<\/TD> | International Space Station under construction (simulation)<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| I’ve got faith<\/TD> | space station gantry pulling away from a hypersonic spaceplane heading Earthward<\/TD> | <\/TD> | Linda Park<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Faith of the heart.<\/TD> | Zephram Cochran Phoenix flight — rocket separation, side panels burst off, warp nacelles deploy<\/TD> | <\/TD> | Connor Trinner<\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | Early warp starship SS Emmette flying over an Earth colony<\/TD> | <\/TD> | <\/TD><\/TR> |
| <\/TD> | NX-01 Enterprise rising from Earth, pan as passes and goes to warp<\/TD> | <\/TD> | Created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga<\/TD><\/TR> \n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-550","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n |