@NastasiyaFun: from wikipedia: Each episode was opened with opening credits and a visual series that promised a beautiful history lesson with a song performed by Rod Stewart. At a certain point, the creators realized that it was a song, rock, the audience did not like it or did not fit into the ideas that the series carried. They tried to fix it by speeding up the tempo of the song, but it didn't help. (c)
@Hohn: I didn't like the song either from the first episode. I sometimes didn't rewind the previous initial screensavers of Starways, but here it makes me shudder just from the beginning. I am not an opponent of rock or Rod Stewart - but the song is completely inappropriate and annoying for my taste.
@Milkamelloy: And for me, the opposite situation has been created. For the first time since all the previously released star trek series, I did not rewind a single screensaver and enjoyed the song and video sequence. Now I will rewind, because the music was made as if I looked into a relax cafe. If there was such a thing from the very beginning, then this is one thing, and when I got used to one, and then they make another that is similar to the previous one, but not like this, in fact, this is completely different. It's like songs sung by famous artists. To make it better than the original is obtained only by the units.
I don't want to grumble, of course, for nothing, but when we were taught for a long time and persistently that all the aliens here are humanoids are made-up people, and then they abruptly show sitzhiai insects and amphibians, somehow this abruptly breaks out of the general style. Well, in general, after the last series and the flight to the terrible space Bermuda triangle, almost the entire series to watch the fuss in dirty mines is a little not what I expected. Strange feelings.
Why it was only slightly changed and only audio is not clear
Each episode was opened with opening credits and a visual series that promised a beautiful history lesson with a song performed by Rod Stewart. At a certain point, the creators realized that it was a song, rock, the audience did not like it or did not fit into the ideas that the series carried. They tried to fix it by speeding up the tempo of the song, but it didn't help. (c)