Every Star Trek Opening Titles Ranked Worst To Best

The opening sequence to Star Trek's second live-action spin-off holds a special place in my heart. Deep Space Nine has finally, in the last few years, been receiving the adulation it has sorely deserved for more than twenty years, with the documentary What We Left Behind teasing what the show would look like in full HD. The opening sequence is as beautiful a series of images of the station that could have been captured at the time.

The theme, composed by Dennis McCarthy, won an Emmy. It began, from seasons one to three, as a solo french horn calling out the show's motif, signalling the loneliness of the station's location beside the Wormhole, far from the Federation. However, as the show went on and more and more ships began docking, this lonely theme didn't suit the sequence anymore.

From season four onwards, a brass accompaniment was added behind the horn, enlarging the scope of the theme. Meanwhile, the sequence itself changed, with several extra Runabouts, starships and support craft appearing in and around the station. The biggest change of course was the addition of the USS Defiant departing the station, signalling that it was as much a character on the show at this point as the cast was.