New *Animated* Short Trek: Ephraim & Dot

[WarpFactorZ]

The star of this short was the musical score. Reimagined cues stitched together to make a quilt to keep TOS fans warm at heart.

This! I was going to post the exact same thing. From the Amok Time fight music, to Horner's Reliant riff, no Trek music was left unturned. That was a lot of fun, and also combined personalities from an array of Trek eras (Kirk Thatcher, Michael Giacchino, audio from TOS).

On, I also liked how Dot, after flying through the laundry loads of uniforms, ends up a red-shirt.

My one complaint: no one noticed the Tardigrade eggs in the refit process, where they basically replaced the engines and warp core with new ones? (oh yeah, and the 1701-A destroyed over Genesis).

 

[DEWLine]

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.

Perfect way to cover this one!

 

[thribs]

I hear they messed up the Enterprise. These idiots can’t do anything right.

 

[XCV330]

I liked this one much much better then the other one. It was fun. I liked the animation too.

Stick-up-the-butt Trekkers will feel the stick they have had lodged in them for years grow. Whether that brings them euphoria or rage or despair or that fan-peculiar mix of all three i don't know and really don't care. It was great.

 

[XCV330]

It felt like a damn Tom & Jerry cartoon......in space.

NCC-1701-A? A pretty big mistake, if it was a mistake. Not sure why they'd do it otherwise. It was clearly the 1701 self-destructing over planet Genesis. Not enough to spoil my enjoyment though.

The history of TOS scenes were fun. I'd give it an solid 8 if there was a proper poll.

NCC-1701-Animated

 

[bryce]

As for all the continuity errors, I don't think that "Ephraim & Dot" (btw, which was which?) was meant at all the be even remotely cannon. It was just meant to be a whimsical, very stylized cartoon, maybe like kids in the Trek universe would watch on space TV on whatever the 23rd century equivalent of Saturday morning is.

I mean, was that Tribble cereal commercial supposed to have really been made in the Trek universe? No. It was a little joke. (Either that, someone on the 23rd century equivalent of social media read about Edward's clusterf*ck and decided to make a funny 23rd century SpaceYoutube comedy video to mock him because, well...he was an idiot.)

Because, I mean, when the Enterprise was refit, I think somebody would have noticed those Tardigrade eggs, lol.

 

[bryce]

that's what I meant with the saucer being rotated oddly away from facing forward, and it's the most avoidable of all mistakes

Maybe that's a capability of the Enterprise that we just never knew about before!?

It's helps cavitate the subspace something-or-other.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I was going to mention the sickbay window,but just did not type it.
If the animators had to model and render a refit 1701, as in the movies,why not create the TOS 1701 as we saw it in all other tv shows??

I suspect the point they are making is, "it doesn't matter".

Either that or some 25% conspiracy about them not having sold the rights to the design when Enterprise was cancelled.

 

[The Wormhole]

It was fun, 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?

 

[NCC-73515]

Maybe that's a capability of the Enterprise that we just never knew about before!?

It's helps cavitate the subspace something-or-other.

So other ships spin their dishes too, not just the Disco? XD

 

[Ronald Held]

The tardigrade juMped in and out of the Network not always going forward in time?

 

[Galaxy]

This was excellent. Loving these animated Treks more then I thought I would.

 

[DaveyNY]

The tardigrade juMped in and out of the Network not always going forward in time?

It did seem a bit haphazard.

 

[DEWLine]

I had fun, mistakes and all.
And if it's a Starfleet Sciences Public Affairs production...

 

[DEWLine]

The tardigrade juMped in and out of the Network not always going forward in time?

That could work.

 

[StarMan]

I liked this one much much better then the other one. It was fun. I liked the animation too.

Stick-up-the-butt Trekkers will feel the stick they have had lodged in them for years grow. Whether that brings them euphoria or rage or despair or that fan-peculiar mix of all three i don't know and really don't care. It was great.

Just seen both back-to-back. Wish I'd watched Michael's one first. Ephraim and Dot was leagues ahead of The Girl Who Made The Stars. Whimsical and entertaining for what it was. Can't say I spotted the registry blunder. Anyway... IMO, the best Short Trek since Calypso - which, funnily enough, is the last Short Trek I remotely enjoyed.

 

[Kzinti]

i freaking loved ephraim and dot it was so damn cute and the ending

i want more!

 

[NCC-73515]

They should do a whole Ephraim show instead of S31

 

[Awesome Possum]

Memory Alpha lists Kirk Thatcher (the punk on the bus in TVH) as being part of the cast of this ep. Is this accurate? If so, who does he play?

He was the narrator, that's what he sounds like. He was also the puppeteer of the whales in TVH and he directed one of the later Muppet films before Disney bought them. He played the punk because he was in a punk band at the time and just played one of his band's songs in the scene. If you ever check out the Jim Henson Creature Shop Challenge he was one of the judges.


This was the cutest thing I've ever seen. Another name for tardigrades is water bear, Ephraim is a water teddy bear.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I thought they were both super cute.