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| Date | Episode | Title |
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| 11-07 | LD 5x04 | "A Farewell to Farms" |
| 11-14 | LD 5x05 | "Star Base 80?" |
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What are your guy's thoughts on the theme for Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973)?
I feel like:
If anything, Lower Decks has intentionally lifted some 7-note sequences from the TAS title theme.
The title theme for Lower Decks almost does a bait and switch riff of the TAS one.
Especially the beginning part.
Everything about that show is great, including the theme. I sincerely hope we get a M’Ress cameo on SNW or at least someone from her planet.
If you haven’t seen the “TNG animated series“ homage someone put together, I highly recommend looking for it on YouTube or elsewhere. It’s lovingly done and spot on.
Have you seen the VOY one they did as well of the salamander Tom Paris episode?
TAS really is (besides maybe that weird stuff with the inflatable Enterprise, giant Spock, or that iffy bit of chauvinism in "The Slaver Weapon") a great TOS continuation. I loved The Lorelei Signal for giving Uhura and Chapel the opportunity to be girl bosses.
On a bit of a tangential note, I hope we get some excuse to see young April. It kind of makes me sad that STA is going to be set in the 32nd century and not the peaceful yet mysterious 2290s-2330s period. I feel like you could have just depicted academy life without all the "save the universe drama" (okay, maybe just a little, but not every episode) while following the late careers of a few officers like April or Sulu.
I find it ever-so-slightly pompous with all the horns, but otherwise, a cool remix of the original theme.
(TNG theme, DS9 theme, VOY the, LD theme all gasp, offended.)
Oh, rabbits!
Well, if you're looking for absolute perfection in a ST theme, good luck. It's not like Mike Post or John Williams were writing these suckers.
That said, I thought Alexander Courage did a hell of a job on the original.