Spoilers Increased Comedy in Star Trek (SFA spoilers)

[Mudd]

Everything works better in SNW than SFA, including the humor.

Someone thinks swallowing a combadge is funny.

That said, Trek benefits from adopting a tongue-in-cheek tone ala DW or The Orville. It's people dressed in carnival colors pretending to fly spaceships, for gods' sake. Klingons have long since become pop culture punchlines.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

When they start getting self-conscious about how silly their fantasy looks to people and fail to commit to it, the fantasy starts to collapse and all that's left is a TV show.

 

[Starflight]

Yeah I think there's a distinction between humour arising from characters and situations, and humour arising from the writers winking at the viewer about the nature of the setting/premise.

Recent Trek can sometimes slip into the latter because of the issue that runs through all these shows, which is that they're obsessed with Star Trek as a cultural phenomenon and of the idea that they belong in a wider "canon", hence the constant callbacks and having characters turn to the camera to tell you what Star Trek is about or w/e.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Everything works better in SNW than SFA, including the humor.

None of the humor in Four and a Half Vulcans worked until the end tag. It was quite possibly the least funny Star Trek "comedy" episode ever produced.

 

[fireproof78]

Not as long as there is the Outrageous Okona.