I will admit, I had to go back and make sure I wasn't hallucinating on that one. That could be something I see them fixing. That's the joy of digital releases. Just swap one file for another. But if they don't, whatevs.
New *Animated* Short Trek: Ephraim & Dot
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I will admit, I had to go back and make sure I wasn't hallucinating on that one. That could be something I see them fixing. That's the joy of digital releases. Just swap one file for another. But if they don't, whatevs.
Huh. That kind of mistake is something I’d expect the guys at IDW to make, not the producers of these Short Treks...
Yeah I did that too before I posted ...........I was just like REALLY?
Chang was in TUC and the Ent-A never self-destructed
OOps... wrong movie title.
And I guess They made a similar error confusing the movies.
I wonder if They originally intended to depict all the way from the beginning of TOS to TUC and somewhere along the way the storyboards got shortened but They forgot to drop the A.
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I wonder if They originally intended to depict all the way from the beginning of TOS to TUC and somewhere along the way the storyboards got shortened but They forgot to drop the A.
That sounds about right. Or someone said, "We don't have time!" Not the same thing, but I was recently tweaking around with the audio of a file of a video I wanted to export at work. The boss said, "We have to turn it out fast! Unless the audio is terrible, don't worry about it!" And the audio wasn't terrible, I just wanted to make it better. But without that as an option, I exported as was. So there's my Real World explanation. Sometimes they don't want it perfect. They want it Tuesday. Or, in this case, Thursday. Deadlines.
I could very well see something like that happening.......I wonder if They originally intended to depict all the way from the beginning of TOS to TUC and somewhere along the way the storyboards got shortened but They forgot to drop the A.
Abe Lincoln shaking his fist at the Enterprise...
Sums up the whimsy of this adorable Short Trek.
Sums up the whimsy of this adorable Short Trek.
I liked the short a lot, but I feel like the continuity errors - and the use of Looney Tunes style action which cannot actually happen (stretching tartigrade, bulging pipes, etc) are going to make canon-nerds heads explode the same way that the fake commercial at the end of The Trouble with Edward did. Which is weird, because it was so full of Easter eggs that they were clearly going for trying to impress the die-hard TOS fans.
Basically it works great as a fanfic love-letter to the TOS era, but if it's actually within the main continuity of Trek (which I think it would have to be, as part of a Trek show) it creates all sorts of headaches for the people who can't just see Star Trek as a show, and instead think it's a literal documentary of things which happen in the Trekverse.
Basically it works great as a fanfic love-letter to the TOS era, but if it's actually within the main continuity of Trek (which I think it would have to be, as part of a Trek show) it creates all sorts of headaches for the people who can't just see Star Trek as a show, and instead think it's a literal documentary of things which happen in the Trekverse.
The star of this short was the musical score. Reimagined cues stitched together to make a quilt to keep TOS fans warm at heart.
It was directed by Michael Giacchino.
It's another one of those factually inaccurate, dramatized accounts commissioned by Starfleet's Public Affairs Office of the type Admiral Kirk complains about in his preface to the TMP novelization.
As one of those hardcore TOS Fans, I'd say it did the trick. I liked it a lot.
Of course, I also accept Disco. For those who don't, there's nothing you can do with them. So this was really made for people who like both.
I'll assume that Klingon ship we saw was actually General Chang's and, while on the way back to being decommissioned, Kirk just decided to blow up the 1701-A.
That's the first thing I thought of when I finished watching it. It's just going to give the haters more in their arsenal of venom to try and prove that the powers that be are "lazy" and "don't care."
That was exactly my thought! Like one of those Pixar animated shorts.
because i added it in the middle of the night last night and i was thinking (groggily) that the thread was covering both animated short treks, not just the one. and now we're stuck with it.