• UESPA_Sputnik@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I usually love bad humour. But these Very Short Treks are just terrible.

    I do like the TAS animation style though. And that the actual actors are voicing the characters is great too. Everything else … not so much. Bummer. 🙁

  • Stamets@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    On brand for me to like this when everyone doesn’t, I guess. Everyones complaints are valid though. These are rough. However this dry/brutal type of humor is closer to my personal brand of humor than anything else. Last weeks was awful but this I at least laughed a few times. SNW Enterprise looks beautiful in TAS animation style. The Discovery clip just confused me. It’s from the second episode of Season 1 but Saru is wearing his uniform from Season 4 of Discovery. I just… don’t get it. That seems like such an insanely weird decision to make.

    Totally see why people don’t like this. I did. However it does feel like a fanmade shock humor video. The fact this is official is a little odd.

    • Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s from the second episode of Season 1 but Saru is wearing his uniform from Season 4 of Discovery.

      I’m pretty sure it’s a nod to TAS and other cartoons of the era having inexplicable errors when it comes to character models and animation.

    • Prouvaire@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      That seems like such an insanely weird decision to make.

      It could have also been a mistake. The “Ephraim and Dot” Short Trek made a similar continuity booboo when they gave the TOS-era Enterprise the “NCC 1701-A” naval construction code.

  • agoodlittlemonkey@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    I mean yes, it’s dumb, but I didn’t really go into these expecting they’d be particularly clever or ground-breaking. This one was silly and I had fun, I look forward to the rest of them.

  • SJSmith@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    So far I’m pretty disappointed with these ‘very short treks’. I really enjoyed Short Treks and was hoping these would be as good.

  • khaosworks@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    That was just plain terrible. The first one was offensive, and this one was lame. The next I expect to be both.

  • Nmyownworld@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    I think this one is better than the last one, but that’s a very low bar to clear. The animation is done well in TAS style. This episode is like a Saturday Night Live skit that falls flat. Not innovative, just tepid. I’ve now learned to temper my expectations for the rest of the Very Short Treks.

  • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.websiteM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Well, that’s oh for two. I don’t think this instalment was quite as rough as the first, but it also didn’t have Pete Holmes, so it gets points for that alone.

    For whatever reason I assumed each of the VSTs would be done by different studios, but this is the same team that worked on the first. I don’t have high hopes for the rest.

    • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      I understood that the EP/Showrunner is the same for all, and the writer of the first one. So, he set the tone. Sigh.

      A am still hopeful for ‘Holograms all the way down’ as it has Aaron Waltke as the writer credited.

    • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      One might therefore hope that there might be one in the set that I don’t find so unbearably cringey that I might want to watch it more than once.