I was a kid when ENT was airing, I wasn’t able to watch it consistently, but it was my first brush with Star Trek and I remembered how hopeful the song made me feel for the future. I can admit it is corny, but I was a kid and I didn’t know much English at the time so I didn’t get the religious undertones and to this day hearing it makes me incredibly nostalgic. I long for that feeling of hopefulness now and I’m thankful I get to experience at least a little bit of it when watching that intro.
That’s exactly the spirit that Star Trek was always about. Hope.
I grew up in the 80s and I never saw the Original Series but I saw a few of the movies and I always looked up to the characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy and all the others. I was a teen when TNG started but we didn’t have full access to cable TV so I only ever watched a handful of episodes but I loved them all … because like you said, it gave a sense of hope and optimism for the future.
It’s been so much fun over the past 10/15 years that I slowly got to watch all or most of the Star Trek I missed out on. It’s getting to the point of being able to rewatch them all again and I don’t mind.
Thanks for sharing! Keep watching, keep hoping and it’s great to hear your story.
I was a kid when ENT was airing, I wasn’t able to watch it consistently, but it was my first brush with Star Trek and I remembered how hopeful the song made me feel for the future. I can admit it is corny, but I was a kid and I didn’t know much English at the time so I didn’t get the religious undertones and to this day hearing it makes me incredibly nostalgic. I long for that feeling of hopefulness now and I’m thankful I get to experience at least a little bit of it when watching that intro.
That’s exactly the spirit that Star Trek was always about. Hope.
I grew up in the 80s and I never saw the Original Series but I saw a few of the movies and I always looked up to the characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy and all the others. I was a teen when TNG started but we didn’t have full access to cable TV so I only ever watched a handful of episodes but I loved them all … because like you said, it gave a sense of hope and optimism for the future.
It’s been so much fun over the past 10/15 years that I slowly got to watch all or most of the Star Trek I missed out on. It’s getting to the point of being able to rewatch them all again and I don’t mind.
Thanks for sharing! Keep watching, keep hoping and it’s great to hear your story.