Working from the oral history in The Five Year Mission: The next 25 years, this is a fascinating deep dive that answers the question “How did a recycled cover of a 1998 song written for Rod Stewart, ‘Where My Heart Will Take Me’ aka ‘Faith of the Heart’ become the title music for Enterprise?”
Also, after resisting melodic scoring in all the 90s shows, it turns out this was the music Rick Berman liked?!!
“…I, for one, can tell you that I thought it was a great opening and I’m not alone in that. I don’t think I’m in the majority, but I’m not alone."
And it seems the song does have its own subniche of supporters who share Berman’s view. (But not I.)
I thought Stewart wrote the song, but the on-show singer was someone else.
It’s not the original recording, but it’s one of those covers that sound so similar that you ask what the point was.
Presumably, the point was lower licensing fees.
The song was originally written for Stewart as ‘Faith of the Heart’ and for another recording.
It’s worth reading the article for the history. It was another British singer, who was briefly popular but past his peak, who did the recording.
Ah, my mistake.