Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Worst Contact"
Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Worst Contact"
Plus, read the penultimate chapter of the tie-in comic!
Here's the direct YouTube link, though the latest issue of the accompanying comic can only be found on the official website.
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.
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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I've enjoyed two of the three episodes so far, but as burns go, this is 👍.
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.
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.
Is it bad etiquette to link directly to the comic? I don't see any other monetization on it; seems promotional?
I actually found this one amusing, but that may be because of the better voice work.