Ziz said:
Regarding integrating the TOS theme, I found something that could be very cool. I have an audio book collection of "Enterprise: The First Adventure", "Final Frontier" and "Strangers from the Sky". In addition to the three books, Shatner does a five minute or so introduction to the collection. In that intro, he does a very reserved spoken version of the TOS speech with very subdued music under it. It's a different and interesting take on the opening...familiar, yet with that "tired" feel to it. I'll whip up an audio clip of it later tonight.
GREAT FIND!