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Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Worst Contact"
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I am not enjoying this series sadly
I hesitated to watch this one.
The humour is very 90s colonic irrigation level and sensibility.
This one did make me smile at one point though.
To see Riker, who would bravely take on fresh gagh to show openness to other cultural expectations, find the limit of his tolerances, is amusing.
I just wish the humour got beyond school age.
I'm not enjoying the "series" much, but Frakes was very good in this.
Which is ironic because TAS, while a bit whacky, was extremely mature for a cartoon of that era.
Aren't the TAS episodes literally the TOS scripts they didn't get to do?
Notably "the soft weapon"...
(Are those Caitians? No, Kzinti!)
Anyway, given that it's the original cast doing the voice acting, I like to think of TAS as "the rest" of TOS.
Star Trek TOS: 3 seasons
Star Trek TAS: 2 seasons
Star Trek TNG: 7 seasons
Star Trek DS9: 7 seasons
Star Trek Voy: 7 seasons
Star Trek Ent: 4 seasons
Star Trek Dis: 4 seasons
Star Trek ST: 2 seasons
Star Trek Pic: 3 seasons
Star Trek LD: ≥4 seasons
Star Trek Pro: ≥1 season
Star Trek SNW: ≥2 seasons
Hmm, what's next? A DS9+Ent crossover show, to round out the "peak Trek nostalgia" lineup?
Personally, my pick would be to see a crew of scrappy Terrans find their way to the ~~good~~ lucky universe, rather than "Starfleet Academy" kids... We have Prodigy for that?
That's how Vulcans must have felt during First Contact with humans. 😖
Of all the episodes so far, this was certainly one of them.
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It's really too bad the writing isn't as good as the animation, voice acting, and sound design for these.
This one had a couple of turns of phrase that smacked of an inexperienced Trek writer: Riker introduced himself as "Commanding officer William Riker" (rather than "Commander" or "First Officer"), and Crusher called him "Bill" rather than "Will".
On the bright side, I can rationalise these as evidence that this is far from a canon story. 🤣
The Bill thing at least is a joke about TNG season 1 - they had Troi call him Bill and it was in the early series bible that Picard would call him William and he would be called Bill by "close female friends." I hate these shorts (although I'm glad they exist for the animation, at least), but that was a pretty funny callback.
I actually found this one amusing, but that may be because of the better voice work.
There are comics?
Yes indeed - it's basically a Star Trek version of "Duck Amuck." Very lightweight, but I'm enjoying it more than the actual shorts. The first one is linked here.
The videos have made me completely disinterested in even looking at the preview first issue comic.
I don’t want to reward the behaviour in any way. One viewing per very short Trek is all they will get from me.
Paramount can gauge the success from how much repeated viewing these the narrow slice of the mostly American male population of an age to have loved 90s humour. Maybe they think it’s got high overlap with Berman-era fans. I’m dubious but data will tell the story.
Well, the comic is by a completely different creative team...
Oh, I completely misunderstood the promotional copy for the comic then. It sounded like the EP for the animated videos was the lead for the comics.
In that case, I will give the preview a view. IDW has delivered some good comedic Trek content.
Is it bad etiquette to link directly to the comic? I don't see any other monetization on it; seems promotional?
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