What is the reason for the existence of "Star Trek: very Short Treks"?
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That first one with the guy basically complaining he can’t call people offensive names anymore? HiLaRiOuS!.
As someone who works in customer service, I've had to sit through a few training videos/workshops about what we can/cannot say in front of customers. That one hit pretty close to home.
I found it mildly amusing with random aliens popping up in reference to cliche Earth phrases.
Some were good, some were not. They were all weird as hell, which I loved.
I thought these were fine. They're just basically Robot Chicken sketches in TAS style, but they're not as wild as Robot Chicken, and Gazelle Automations doing the TNG/Voyager TAS animations played straight and earnestly was way funnier.
Well very short treks wasn't held in high regard by myself and many more. Certainly ad infinitum criticism, arose to the fore, during it's run. 
Here's hope lots of Lower Decks, Prodigy and new animated Star Trek shows are coming up soon.
Here's hope lots of Lower Decks, Prodigy and new animated Star Trek shows are coming up soon.
Deadpan Spock explaining that T'Pring has cheated on him many times is one of my favourite Trek moments ever, and certainly puts SNW and TOS in a different light!
Certain skits only warrant a Saturday Night Live set up—and some of them ran on too long.
TAS’s Yesteryear could have been a limited series, where BEM could have been shorter.
I remember a program where Penn Jillette was a guest…and he was charged with timing things…however he became a little engrossed with the actors themselves…and they started flailing. (I forgot the program.)
The only thing professional wrestling crowds can say to influence things is “boring.”
On SNL, you need someone to do that hand chop to end things—or if the stars are “hot” to let them continue.
Easier done with scripted material.
Woe be tide whoever tried to wrangle Robin Williams.
TAS’s Yesteryear could have been a limited series, where BEM could have been shorter.
I remember a program where Penn Jillette was a guest…and he was charged with timing things…however he became a little engrossed with the actors themselves…and they started flailing. (I forgot the program.)
The only thing professional wrestling crowds can say to influence things is “boring.”
On SNL, you need someone to do that hand chop to end things—or if the stars are “hot” to let them continue.
Easier done with scripted material.
Woe be tide whoever tried to wrangle Robin Williams.
Summarizing my feelings regarding them:
Regardless, if you didn't like the fourth, don't bother with the rest.
- Skin a Cat: Painfully unfunny and offensive.
- Holiday Party: Okay I guess? There were a few laughs here at least.
- Worst Contact: Painfully unfunny and gross.
- Holograms, All the Way Down: Genuinely great, with a lot of deep cuts to Trek lore (including a coda to In The Pale Moonlight!), giving every show a little cameo.
- Walk, Don't Run: Not even a real skit, since Tendi breaks the fourth wall from the start, then there's some lame jokes, and a terrible musical number.
Regardless, if you didn't like the fourth, don't bother with the rest.
Nothing washed up about him -- he's still got a very active career. And whatever you may think of Very Short Treks, his short film Too Many Cooks is brilliant.
There's a new Very Short Trek for Valentine's Day
This isn't new. It's the musical clip from Walk Don't Run.
But it has sing along subtitles now
It was made because someone wanted to make it, there was the money to do it and so it got made...
What a strange question.
What a strange question.
In the creator's own words:
My thoughts...
- Skin a Cat: A commentary on our exaggerated tendency to go out of the way to avoid offending people? Or on all the social landmines in our culture? It could go either way.
- Holiday Party: I guess it rubbed me the wrong way because it reminded me of the ASD individual making a jackass of himself in public. A little too close to home...
- Worst Contact: Gives new meaning to Picard's words in "First Contact" (the episode): "Chancellor, there is no starship mission more dangerous than that of first contact. We never know what we will face when we open the door on a new world, how we will be greeted, what exactly the dangers will be." Maybe boogers and microwaved fish aren't what you expect... but that's the point.
- Holograms, All the Way Down: Reminds me of "The Thirteenth Floor". One wonders how deep the rabbit hole could conceivably go...
- Walk, Don't Run: Harmless and ridiculous fun, with the musical number hailing back to the Saturday Morning cartoons of the 70's.
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What happened with Very Short Treks:
You can't have a production these days without people trying to take the piss out of it. Everything is knowingly self-referential and snide winking at the audience.
VST 's winking was so strong it literally formed a singularity and collapsed in on itself.
One if the strengths of modern Trek is Kurtzman choosing showrunners for his shows. In this case it backfired.
You can't have a production these days without people trying to take the piss out of it. Everything is knowingly self-referential and snide winking at the audience.
VST 's winking was so strong it literally formed a singularity and collapsed in on itself.
One if the strengths of modern Trek is Kurtzman choosing showrunners for his shows. In this case it backfired.
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