Star Trek: Discovery
2017–2024Paramount+Sci-Fi
A complete break from every Trek opening before it — no ship, no narration, just schematic drafting-table renderings of Starfleet hardware assembling and dissolving in empty space, with a pair of hands reaching through it all.
Star Trek: Discovery rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1–5, running between 91 and 95 seconds.
At 95 seconds at its longest, it opens well above the 58-second median for sci-fi sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Paramount+ in 2017, when SEAL Team and The Good Fight were also on the network.
Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; Star Trek: Discovery did so once.
All 2 opening title sequences
Seasons 1–2
95sPrologue's blueprint sequence — phaser, tricorder, spacesuit and delta shield drawn as exploded technical illustrations while Jeff Russo's theme builds. Small objects are swapped between the first two seasons, but the design and score hold.
Seasons 3–5
91sReworked when the show jumps to the 32nd century — the hardware in the illustrations is replaced with far-future equivalents, including the detached-nacelle Discovery and the new combadge, and the closing image changes to two hands reaching across a gap.
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