When Paramount launched very Brief Treks a few weeks in the past, it did so with a brief that trod a really fantastic line between being crass and flexing some knowingly Trek humor. However because it’s progressed, issues have solely gotten a better to the previous.
This week’s entry, “Worst Contact,” sees Jonathan Frakes and Gates McFadden return as Will Riker and Beverly Crusher, because the Enterprise makes a primary contact assembly with a brand new alien species, solely to search out that their customs aren’t precisely essentially the most interesting for Federation membership.
Whereas the prior shorts had been of comparable low-brow humor, there’s simply one thing about this one specifically that strikes the form of factor Trek followers feared Decrease Decks could possibly be earlier than it aired—the place Trek itself is as an unpleasant joke, relatively than the medium for humor, that its beliefs of multi-species co-operation will be undone by snot and microwaved fish.
That could be a little bit of a excessive and mighty factor to say about what’s in the end an inconsequential a brief cartoon about gross-out humor—not all the things needs to be so critical. However Decrease Decks already proved you will be very humorous in Star Trek and nonetheless be actually good Star Trek. It’s additionally value taking into account that very Brief Treks was introduced as a celebration of fifty years of Star Trek animation. As an alternative, it’s beginning to really feel prefer it’s turning its snotty nostril up at it, if this the extent of its humor.
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