Star Trek: The Original Series opening title sequences

The opening title sequences for featured the flying through space and past planets, narrated by William Shatner: "Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
During the run of the series two opening credits sequences were made, one of the first season, using visual effects footage from the two pilots, and and a different one, with updated effects shots, used in the second and third seasons.
The season 1 title sequence only credits William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy as "Starring" and "Also Starring" respectively. In the season 2 and 3 title sequence, DeForest Kelley was added to the list of series regulars with an "And" credit above his name. In the third season, the color of the title letters was changed from gold to blue.
There are a few international variations of the opening title sequence which differ from the original ones. The German title sequence (created in the 1970s for the first West German broadcast) is a modified version of the season 2-3 sequence (which is used even for season 1 episodes). It features the German-language title "Raumschiff Enterprise" ("Spaceship Enterprise") in white letters, after which William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and James Doohan are credited as "Mit" ("With"), even in episodes which do not feature Kelley or Doohan. Finally, the German-language episode titles are credited at the end of the opening title sequence instead of the beginning of Act One.
During the original British broadcast, the BBC (which is a public service broadcaster and thus doesn't have ad breaks) placed the opening title sequence at the beginning of the episodes before the Teaser, instead of between the Teaser and Act One.
On the British ITV channel, the advert break for featured a still screenshot of James T. Kirk, Spock, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Pavel Chekov, Christine Chapel, Uhura, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy and Hikaru Sulu are all sitting inside . Also, there's no music.
As Robert H. Justman explained to , footage of the Enterprise for the opening titles was expected to be produced by the Howard Anderson Company in Summer . By , Gene Roddenberry and Justman were running out of time to get the footage, and insisted on a viewing, where most shots "jiggled and joggled" to the point of being nearly unusable. Roddenberry and Justman took what they had, along with footage from the two pilots ( and ) and cobbled together the sequence. Justman considered his major contribution to be the suggestion that the Enterprise "deliver" the cast credits as the ship zoomed by, rather than the names just pop on the screen as suggested by Roddenberry. ()
* (composed by Alexander Courage)
* (composed by Alexander Courage)
Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the "Theme from Star Trek" in order to secure a partial writer's credit for the song. These lyrics were never recorded as part of the original theme song, and thus were never aired.
The opening tagline of Star Trek includes a : "To boldly go where no man has gone before." This fact was memorably highlighted by Cambridge-educated sci-fi writer and satirist Douglas Adams who wrote in his that, "all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before, and thus was the Empire forged." The pilot episode of , , has Zefram Cochrane delivering that phrase without the split infinitive as "to go boldly." The English rule forbidding split infinitives appeared in the mid-19th century; however, modern reference books do not include this rule, and the "to boldly go" from Star Trek is a prime example of where a split infinitive is perfectly acceptable.
Original Series