Final week, Paramount debuted very Quick Treks, a kooky new spin on the vibes of the unique Star Trek: The Animated Collection from Too Many Cooks! creator Casper Kelly. And if final week’s peculiar entry—which noticed the Enterprise explode as its captain contemplated a collection of probably offensive euphemisms—didn’t key you into the sort of humor these are going for, this week’s Unusual New Worlds entry positively will.
Set throughout a First Contact Day celebration aboard the Unusual New Worlds-era Enterprise—season one particularly, contemplating Uhura (a briefly returning Celia Rose Gooding) remains to be a cadet and Chief Engineer Hemmer (Bruce Horak) is, nicely, nonetheless alive—“Vacation Occasion” sees Spock (Ethan Peck) try to grasp the human nuance of horrible jokes as he tries to lighten the temper with a gag reel of Starfleet bloopers.
Horrifying, traumatic bloopers.
It’s… definitely one thing, and for anybody who would possibly’ve been anticipating one thing slightly extra Decrease Decks, and rather less Sealab 2021, the tone would possibly come as a little bit of a shock. Nevertheless it was clear from the get-go that these shorts have been going to be distinctly non-canonical, so there’s nothing to get too up in arms about from that perspective—it’s simply Star Trek stretching itself to a tone and magnificence it not often chooses to go to.
Although I wouldn’t thoughts Unusual New Worlds season three having an episode the place individuals endure a collection of genital-based pratfalls for some inexplicable purpose. Actually take a look at the boundaries of what that present can do!
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