Spoilers Star Trek: Short Treks 1x01 - "Runaway"

[omnirad]

It was good, I voted a 7.
If you added an A story about the bridge crew investigating a strange dilithium signal, and a C story about the hormonal space rabbit, you'd have a so so Voyager episode.
That sounds harsher than I intended, but for what it was, it was good to have any new Trek.

 

[Xerxus]

On a rewatch I caught that Tilly's got a new

It was good, I voted a 7.
If you added an A story about the bridge crew investigating a strange dilithium signal, and a C story about the hormonal space rabbit, you'd have a so so Voyager episode.
That sounds harsher than I intended, but for what it was, it was good to any new Trek.

This is like the A plot.

The B plot would be Pike and Discovery running out of Dilithium and needing to divert to Xahean space, and getting detained in an unspecified diplomatic crisis due to the recent death of a monarch.

The A plot is this short trek plus Tilly speaking with Po and convincing her to stay as the Queen is what gets them out of the mess.

 

[Push The Button]

New Trek, even Short Trek, is better than No Trek. I enjoyed it, looking forward to the next one.

Also, the dialogue about the Heisenberg compensator was neat.

 

[Jesse1066]

On a rewatch I caught that Tilly's got a new

What has she got that's new?! I want to know!

 

[Tosk]

Yeah, it was okay I guess. Not bad.

And I assume Tilly's "What the hell are you?" was them making sure we knew that their Predator homage was intentional?

 

[Xerxus]

What has she got that's new?! I want to know!

quarter

her quarter now has a bathroom. Initially, that space had a (clothing?) replicator.
It's now the same kind of quarter that Stamets and Culber had.

 

[The Scottish Nightmare]

She’s a officer now. That’s why she has her own quarters.

 

[Cyrus]

One thing I noticed is that the miniepisode seemed more widescreen than usual. The Ttekmovie site confirms that it had a 2.39:1 aspect ratio instead of the 2:1 of the first season. This is similar to cinemascope/anamorphic movies. If this is going to be used for second season then I like that, should make the series feel more cinematic (at least for the more ambitious episodes).

 

[Tosk]

Where are the "fill up the screen on the TV I paid good money for!" people?

 

[The Scottish Nightmare]

Where are the "fill up the screen on the TV I paid good money for!" people?

LoL! It does fill odd to do things like that for a TV show.

 

[Qonfounding Ghooool]

I could nitpick a few points in the following review of the short trip, but he's mostly not wrong where it counts the most...

Spoiler: Oh my!

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(heck, even TOS had a couple quirks he's forgetting about... just not nearly as bumper crop many...)

He should watch some episodes of "ElectraWoman and DynaGirl" from the 1970s. It clearly was an influence on television, just a few decades ahead of its time...

Where are the "fill up the screen on the TV I paid good money for!" people?

Hi!

 

[Qonfounding Ghooool]

CBS is clueless at times, but not crazy.
They know there's a whole world beyond the North American Continent.
I'm pretty sure They will make the Shorts available ASAP to the rest of the world in some Pay-to-See fashion.

We already pay for parts if not all of it. Called "commercials", the sponsors aren't going to spend a few million dollars to make a commercial without spreading the cost of its production into each unit of some product you may or may not buy, which is just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Ovation]

Where are the "fill up the screen on the TV I paid good money for!" people?

In a special circle of hell, where they belong.

 

[DaveyNY]

We already pay for parts if not all of it. Called "commercials", the sponsors aren't going to spend a few million dollars to make a commercial without spreading the cost of its production into each unit of some product you may or may not buy, which is just the tip of the iceberg.

I don't have or watch "commercial" TV so while I don't pay for it in that fashion, I do pay for my Internet Connection, so in a sense they get my money also.

We also have Netflix (which I pay for) and as I found out recently CBS All-Access (which she pays for).

 

[Tuskin38]

So they’re trying to take Scotty’s Achievements away now? This show is just evil.
I wish they would stop using those stupid holographic communications. It just looks wrong for Star Trek.

No and no.

 

[No Grave Dug]

A 3 from me.

My biggest question: When did a TOS era Transporter obtain the ability to Transport over Light Years? (From the dialog at all the effects shots as shown it was clear they were nowhere near the alien's home planet (And if they were Tilly comes across as more scatterbrained.)

Overall it came across like a lackluster fan film.

 

[Kemaiku]

A 3 from me.

My biggest question: When did a TOS era Transporter obtain the ability to Transport over Light Years?.

Gamesters of Triskelion. They could beam over 1100 lightyears from their end. Discovery knowing the coordinates in space of the planet coupled with the ships Spore drive lockon system would make the process a lot easier, and possibly only something the Crossfield class can do.

 

[DaveyNY]

A 3 from me.

My biggest question: When did a TOS era Transporter obtain the ability to Transport over Light Years? (From the dialog at all the effects shots as shown it was clear they were nowhere near the alien's home planet (And if they were Tilly comes across as more scatterbrained.)

Overall it came across like a lackluster fan film.

They may not have been near the planet, but they could have been in the same star system.
There's no way to use the episode info to actually prove either way where the ship actually was.
And as mentioned above, TOS did some really long distance transporting as well.

 

[The Scottish Nightmare]

No and no.

Yes and yes.

 

[Tuskin38]

Yes and yes.

We don't know how far away from the planet they were, they could have been in orbit or the same Star System, would explain how she got on board.

They were also not at Warp in any shots.

So no, we don't know if they 'stole' Scotty's achievement.