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New *Animated* Short Trek: Ephraim & Dot

So which animated Short Trek is the winner?

  • Ephraim and Dot

    Votes: 57 78.1%
  • The Girl Who Made The Stars

    Votes: 6 8.2%
  • Neither, animated Short Treks are rubbish

    Votes: 10 13.7%

  • Total voters
    73
The Girl Who Made The Stars was abject rubbish - unengaging, rotten story and barely Trek adjacent.

Ephraim and Dot was just not very good.
 
Are we sure Ephraim isn't Ripper? Ephraim was originally going to be Ripper's name, back when Ripper was meant to be an officer serving on Disco.

And if we accept Ephraim and Ripper are the same, then yeah, Ripper was totally carrying eggs in season 1.

Ripper looks to be much larger (and more hostile) than Ephraim, so I doubt they're the same character.
 
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These were fine.

I was going to judge them on one dimension, and one alone: "what did my kids think?"

They both had ear-to-ear smiles through both shorts, and my 8-year old wanted to see E&D again immediately after it ended.

I could give a shit about anything else. Windows in sickbay, crooked saucers...whatever. Like it matters.
 
It was fun,

Quite true.

though what was with the placement of Sulu's shirtless swordplay after Kirk meets with Khan in sickbay? The Naked Time takes place well before Space Seed. And, Starfleet kept the tardigrade eggs in the Enterprise's engine room even after the refit?

So why try to remove the fun? :shrug:

Not like they showed truly abominable things like a leading zero registry number like NCC-01701. :shifty:

;)
 
So why try to remove the fun? :shrug:
Yeah, I kind of ruined my own joke there. My original intent was to go on at length with nitpicks, putting on a show of being offended by their blatant and flagrant disregard for all that is good and proper and then finish off with "but apart from that I enjoyed it." Somehow, when it came time to write the post I couldn't quite get clever enough to make it properly amusing, and time was working against me, so I kept it simple to convey that I did enjoy it and tossed in the nitpicks to be a traditional Trek Fan with no sense of fun. Just trying to maintain an image, that's all.
Not like they showed truly abominable things like a leading zero registry number like NCC-01701. :shifty:
Oh, I did notice that and am eternally grateful each and every day that aberration seems to be firmly in the past where it belongs.
 
I gave "The Girl Who Made the Stars" a 7. "Ephraim & Dot" an 8. Both were fun little one-offs. I'll take stuff like this over drek like "Ask Not", every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
 
Ripper looks to be much larger (and more hostile) than Ephraim, so I doubt they're the same character.

Well, this occurs 10 years after Discovery, so maybe she's calmed down a bit. Also, she's considerably bigger than Dot, who is roughly human-sized, so I don't see that she's tiny.

OT, but how do those Tardigrades reproduce?

The nearest thing I can figure out is they're born pregnant. Thanks, Edward!
 
Well, this occurs 10 years after Discovery, so maybe she's calmed down a bit. Also, she's considerably bigger than Dot, who is roughly human-sized, so I don't see that she's tiny.

I wasn't aware DOT-7 drones were that big. I always thought they were smaller, like roughly R2D2-size.
 
I was clearly not the target audience for either of these. I found them ok at best.

been kinda disappointed by the Short Treks this go round.
 
I wasn't aware DOT-7 drones were that big. I always thought they were smaller, like roughly R2D2-size.

After they crash through the laundry vats, Dot is wearing a red shirt. It seems to more or less fit, though I suppose it's just the shirt that covers it. But anyway, Epheraim is still much bigger.
 
Not like they showed truly abominable things like a leading zero registry number like NCC-01701. :shifty:
They should totally put that blinking helmet toy on Spock's head sometime!

"Silence Earthling! My name is Darth Vader! I am an extra terrestrial from the planet Vulcan!"
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The supreme Klingon hereby commands you to take the entity known as Baines Lorraine to the place known as Hill Valley High School exactly 4 earth cycles from now!
 
Ex Astris with a predictably joyless review, seemingly entirely missing the emotional climax of the short.
From that review: "the idea of a tardigrade and a robot forming a family is absurd."

Wow.

This guy is always bitching, not just in his Disco reviews but in any of his reviews for any of the Star Trek whenever the "fundament values of Star Trek" or dare I say it, "Gene's Vision" are ignored and disregarded. But then, we get a perfect example of IDIC, certainly one of the fundamental values of Star Trek and representative of the myth that is Gene's Vision, and he bitches about it and calls it absurd.

Words fail me right now.
 
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