Star Trek: Picard
2020–2023Paramount+Sci-Fi
An opening about memory rather than exploration. Fragments of a life — a vineyard, a Borg cube, a face — resolve out of swirling particles, and only at the very end does it admit it is a Star Trek show.
Star Trek: Picard rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1–3, running between 97 and 120 seconds.
At 120 seconds at its longest, it opens well above the 58-second median for sci-fi sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Paramount+ in 2020, when SEAL Team, Star Trek: Discovery and Evil were also on the network.
Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; Star Trek: Picard did so once.
All 2 opening title sequences
Seasons 1–2
97sJeff Russo's slow, mournful theme over images that assemble themselves from drifting dust — the Chateau Picard vines, a Borg cube, the pips of a uniform he no longer wears.
Season 3
120sRebuilt for the final season and moved to the back of the episode as a main-on-end sequence. Stephen Barton rescores the theme around Goldsmith's Next Generation fanfare while the ships and faces of the old crew replace the drifting particles.
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