On the sequence as a whole:

"The more I thought about it, the more I decided to keep things as abstract as possible; to make the credit sequence more of a tone-poem inspired by the themes of ST(R), and less of a commercial for it. Besides, the ship itself is portrayed only as a vehicle; the romanticism of the Enterprise really doesn't exist like it did before, it's all about the people. The premise is not another "ship in space", it's really a three way love story (albeit a platonic one) between Kirk, Spock and McCoy...."

On the song:

"[The song] was a decision I came to after careful consideration. I almost used Frou Frou's Let Go, but I realized that despite it's dreamy sound (which I like) the song had the wrong message. Before that, it was close to being Radiohead's Planet Telex, but it too just didn't have what I was looking for. What I wanted was a song that celebrated what Cameron Crowe called "the sweet and the sour" in Vanilla Sky....

"...so I chose Ms. Apple's cover of Lennon's Across the Universe for precisely it's themes of light and dark, of balance: "pools of sorrow, waves of joy" etc. Also, the song is about the strength of the individual, of positive affirmation, the human spirit: "Nothing's gonna change my world". Very Star Trek. The song celebrates that life is what it is and you cant change it. Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win...but that's okay, because even when it's kicking your ass, life is beautiful. That's my philosophy, it's the show's philosophy, and I think it ties in nicely with the Dubois quote at the beginning."

On the graphics:

"It was clip that a friend of mine got from a college professor that teaches string theory. The class did some sort of deep new-wave-y mediation while watching it in silence. It was an excerise to prepare them for the mere act of thinking about string theory (which, as I understand it, can be difficult to get one's head around).

"It's supposed to represent different things to different people. Could it be a journey through the cosmos, a journey into an atom or a journey around the synapses of the mind? I consider it more flowery and abstract than that: it's a joruney into the human spirit."