The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, "Where My Heart Will Take Me (Theme from Star Trek: Enterprise" (composed by Diane Warren) from The Music of Star Trek (The Last Angry Trekkie)
Captain's Log: A.K.A. "Faith of the Heart," the song debuted on the Patch Adams soundtrack, performed by—egad!—Rod Stewart.
By 2001, the Golden Age was drawing to a close, due to two main factors: One, there was a perceived drop in quality—the much-heralded Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) was a seven-year slog through mediocrity & unloved by the fans due to its vast inferiority to its black-sheep sibling, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999), & the third Next Generation feature film, Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), had been a dud. Two, most persons are damnable fools, including the vast majority of Trekkies, who had grown complacent after the myriad splendors of the Golden Age & had begun to take Star Trek very much for granted—so-called "franchise fatigue." Instead of addressing the core issue of quality writing & character development (I shall spare you the lengthy jeremiad about that), the Star Trek brain trust instead decided to make a few superficial alternations for the new series. Initially, the show was titled simply Enterprise, not being re-branded Star Trek: Enterprise until the third season. Also, in place of the sweeping orchestral themes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, & Voyager, the new show had the dreadful soft-rock ballad, "Where My Heart Will Take Me (Faith of the Heart)," performed by an unknown singer named Russell Watson. The visuals that comprised Enterprise's opening sequence were magnificent, but through all four seasons the song remained an albatross around the show's neck.
Fortunately for us, today's R.B.D.S.O.T.D. is an orchestral rendition, based on the end credits music which was almost never heard during the show's broadcast run, making "Where My Heart Will Take Me" barely tolerable.
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