Redstick SF

After about 3 seasons, it’s obvious that positive, uplifting episodes are few and far between. Evidence? Here’s the show’s intro set to the Star Trek: Enterprise theme song, “Faith of the Heart.”

It’s only after seeing images from the 20th straight show of people being tortured, killed, maimed, emotionally scarred and unfulfilled that you realize that the spirit of wonder, discovery, and human progress of Star Trek is an impossibility in BSG. The following video is, then, a complete bastardization of everything BSG is about (which, if I had to articulate it, would amount to misery). In other words, the show that would follow this intro is a complete impossibility.

I love this video because:
1. It discards the seriousness and contemplation of the vedic poem music that begins a very dark show in favor of upbeat, 90s soft-rock cheesiness.

2. The hilariously appropriate matchup between the line “been a long road/ getting from there to here” when Caprica gets nuked (and the guitar strum when one of the bombs goes off).

3. The german titles that illustrate how lazy I was when making this vid. Seriously, I’m only willing to commit the .32 seconds in a cursory google search for “battlestar galactica mpeg.” Although, I think the german titles add something. Check out the episode trailers in german and tell me you’re not convinced we’re watching fascists in space.

4. You can still hear the Enterprise warping away in the last few seconds.