This was super cute and from now on it's canon that there's a DOT-7 repair droid chasing a micellial tardigrade through and around the USS Enterprise unnoticed for 15 years.
New *Animated* Short Trek: Ephraim & Dot
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I didn't care much for the other animated short (though I liked the animation style) but loved E&D.
I had remained spoiler free so all the TOS scenes were a delightful surprise.
The Khan scene with Shatner and Montalban voices took me totally by surprise.
I liked TWOK music being played for the scene from that movie.
I wish they had done a VGER scene too, TMP got shafted.
episode/movies reference by this mini-episode:
I had remained spoiler free so all the TOS scenes were a delightful surprise.
The Khan scene with Shatner and Montalban voices took me totally by surprise.
I liked TWOK music being played for the scene from that movie.
I wish they had done a VGER scene too, TMP got shafted.
episode/movies reference by this mini-episode:
Space Seed
The Naked Time
Who Mourns for Adonis
The Doomsday Machine
Tholian Web
The Savage Curtain
The Wrath of Khan
The Search for Spock
there were some tribbles , so maybe that episode too
Voices heard: Kirk, Khan, Sulu
The Naked Time
Who Mourns for Adonis
The Doomsday Machine
Tholian Web
The Savage Curtain
The Wrath of Khan
The Search for Spock
there were some tribbles , so maybe that episode too
Voices heard: Kirk, Khan, Sulu
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The tardigrade was out of phase with time, that's how its eggs were unseen, until later. Ephraim just lucked out with a spot that was unrefitted (maybe the internal core room was left untouched). She experiences ten minutes or so, but Dot experiences the full fifteen (or nineteen) years, but is a robot, so doesn't really matter. Ephraim and the eggs leave their partial mycelial existence and enter the main time stream during the destruction of the Enterprise, and that's when Dot finally sees the eggs.
Wow. The mapping on the refit saucer is all over the shop. The bottom has the registry and name facing inward instead outward and the whole top map gets rotated about 70 or so degrees counter clockwise in the overhead shot set during ST:TSFS.
I know it's a nitpicky thing to complain about but these seem to weird things to screw up. Especially the saucer top goof. If it was 90 degrees off it could be written off as a simple mapping boo-boo and they ran out of time to re-render it. But its like 70 degrees or so off. To get that angle you've got to manually rotate the UV mapping gizmo.
I know it's a nitpicky thing to complain about but these seem to weird things to screw up. Especially the saucer top goof. If it was 90 degrees off it could be written off as a simple mapping boo-boo and they ran out of time to re-render it. But its like 70 degrees or so off. To get that angle you've got to manually rotate the UV mapping gizmo.
Because in the Discovery continuity that's what the original 1701 looked like. Hence why they just re-textured the Discovery 1701 with toon/cel shaders.
That explanation makes sense.
Personally, I opt to think that the TOS Enterprise existed, and that Ephraim & Dot didn’t perceive it due to the timey-whimey mycelial time travel they performed. I can’t see a TOS era 5YM Enterprise without the balls at the aft end of the nacelles.
Thought: Baby Tardigrades grown up will appear in Disco season 3. If it takes almost 20 years for the eggs to hatch, a 900+ year lifespan isn't completely ridiculous.
Maybe DSC is in a close parallel universe, but not the TOS-VOY, one?
That theory would be blown if DSC and PIC ever somehow crossover through time travel. PIC seems pretty clearly intended to be a late follow-up to TNG/DS9/VOY. We'll see.
It was an "almost totally new Enterprise" according to Decker in TMP. Almost, except for the room the eggs were laid.
Well, as someone up thread said, the eggs could have somehow been slightly out of phase due to their connection to the Mycelial network, with the DOT's possibly having the necessary detection equipment built in to detect them, but if nobody asked or was looking specifically for something out of the ordinary, there'd be no reason for DOT to report them as they obviously weren't doing any harm where they were.
(DOT was very much honed in on the Tardigrade, not the eggs till the end)
Also, we've seen multiple episodes of Trek in which things have been "slightly out of phase" and not detected by standard ship equipment or able to be seen visually.
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.
oy, that storyline was truly one of discovery’s most embarrassing.
I suppose there is more than one tardigrade flying around
We already have the red archangel Michael, so more bible stuff would not surprise me XDThe name Ephraim is from a Hebrew word meaning "being fruitful".
So I guess it fits in this case.
(somebody must have studied the Book of Genesis from the Bible and Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
It was the most "trekkian", Roddenberryesque, mirror for society, kind of plot
Liked it but annoyed that even in animation they wouldn't do the original 1701. I will never understand the hate some have for it as it looks better then either the flying bathtub Excelsior Class or the absolute GARBAGE that is the 1701-D Galaxy Class design. I thought it was crap from the first day they revealed it in 1987. A modern art disasterpiece (IMO).