This ended up being the problem! I had it happen a few more times, always after ads, and backing out and playing did fix it. Thank you for the solution! Paramount really is a buggy mess of an app.
The problem with Enterprise’s theme is that it undermines the fundamental principles the series had established in every other show. The song along with its imagery may feel like it’s fitting for “mankind stepping into the larger galaxy”, but it does so at great expense. Everything about that opening is anthropocentric. It’s all about humanity and Earth. The show is every bit as broad as its predecessors, but the opening seems to feel like the poster child for HFY fiction. It’s jarring.