Although my least favourite of all the four series in
Star Trek, this theme gets a little higher placed in my top ten than perhaps it should, for several reasons. Firstly, it's the first and only
Trek theme to have lyrics and for that it has to get some points. Second, it's accompanied by a very clever and well-crafted montage of the history of Man's attempts to fly, and eventually make it into space. Third, it's probably the best thing about the series. Fourth, it's written by hitmaker Diane Warren. And so, standing rather uncertainly and perhaps slightly ironically at number
we have the oft-maligned (and quite rightly too) so-far-final attempt at a continuation of the
Trek franchise, one that lasted the least of all the spinoffs and which, though it tried to survive for two seasons without the prefix "Star Trek", eventually had to realise that nobody cared about it without it. Unfortunately, it also turned out that nobody cared about it
with it!
