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3. Star Trek: Lower Decks

The opening sequence for Star Trek: Lower Decks immediately features a musical callback to the Animated Series, as the Cerritos is pummelled by space debris and falls toward a star. However, the ship gets a second chance and zooms away, effectively serving as a summary of the entire first season.

The independent animation studio Titmouse designed this sequence, sticking rigidly to the aesthetic set up in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The typeface and artwork closely match this period, with the Cerritos itself realised in a stunning high definition. The main theme was composed by frequent Mike McMahon collaborator, Chris Westlake.

He composed somewhere close to six or seven different themes to accompany the sequence, which McMahon narrowed down to two. One was a classic, stately version of a theme, while another leaned a little more heavily on comedy and action. The final version heard in the show is a mix between the two, with the choir added by Westlake to give it a sense of grandeur - even as the ship is doing a runner from the Borg.

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