It does seem weird that she wouldn't know what a tardigrade was right away if she had a stuffed one as a kid, doesn't it?
Spoilers Star Trek: Short Treks 2x04 - "The Girl Who Made the Stars"
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It does seem weird that she wouldn't know what a tardigrade was right away if she had a stuffed one as a kid, doesn't it?
Who cares?
I want one.
I want one.
I have, others have, but it's no big deal (like the sickbay window in Ephraim)
It's a tardigrade. Tardigrades exist in the real world. It's only a continuity mistake if you really struggle to look for mistakes.
Just imagine if Star Wars had gone ahead and done a spin-off series about Jedi Younglings featured in an episode of Clone Wars. And entire series devoted to a cast we knew would be slaughtered by a man they likely idolized in a few years.
Oh, that so totally has me triggered. I'm so triggered, I might as well be considered a gun. Such blatant and flagrant disregard for continuity, canon and human decency has my blood boiling right now it's unbelievable.
The Clone Wars has it's own little ecosystem that kids can spend days and days watching and thinking about without touching "Revenge of the Sith", due to the sheer number of animated episodes. Star Trek doesn't really have that, unless you count the Animated Series (which I suppose counts...) Although TOS is pretty kid friendly too.Just imagine if Star Wars had gone ahead and done a spin-off series about Jedi Younglings featured in an episode of Clone Wars. And entire series devoted to a cast we knew would be slaughtered by a man they likely idolized in a few years.
Oh, that so totally has me triggered. I'm so triggered, I might as well be considered a gun. Such blatant and flagrant disregard for continuity, canon and human decency has my blood boiling right now it's unbelievable.
In fact, the question of why Kirk's mission was so historic "in-universe" I think was due to Federation marketing, and that Kirk's missions were relatively kid friendly compared to his peers. As we see with Pike, a lot of missions were classified or not kid friendly.
I'm assuming that the legend has some basis in the "real" history of the Star Trek universe. We may never know exactly how much, but the idea of aliens visiting prehistoric Earth has been used more than once in Star Trek canon.
The alien from the story reminded me of Vendorians from TAS. It's not an exact match, but if you wanted to redesign a Vendorian to fit into a kid-friendly Pixar-inspired cartoon, it might look something like that.
Michael having a plush tardigrade doesn't violate any continuity, but it is a weird coincidence. But weird coincidences happen in real life, too.
Fun little short. I gave it an 8.
The alien from the story reminded me of Vendorians from TAS. It's not an exact match, but if you wanted to redesign a Vendorian to fit into a kid-friendly Pixar-inspired cartoon, it might look something like that.
Michael having a plush tardigrade doesn't violate any continuity, but it is a weird coincidence. But weird coincidences happen in real life, too.
Fun little short. I gave it an 8.
Burnham's parents were super-scientists working on top secret stuff no one knew about even thirty years later. They probably learned about mycelial-based tardigrades and experimented on them and fabricated the stuffed animal for their precocious daughter because they were so enamored by the physiology of it all.
You can buy plush tardigrades on Amazon right now. They're based on the microbe, not the fictional space creature.
They were working on time travel tech. Did Mike Burnham actually travel back in time to ancient Africa and witness the story he told firsthand?? :O
Although, after watching "Ephraim and DOT" my daughter wants a plush Ephraim.
A quick google search for 'plush tardigrade' actually comes out with results. Here's one: https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Tar...ocphy=9032538&hvtargid=pla-457752965921&psc=1
HOLY CRAP!!!
NOBODY MENTION THIS TO ABDIN !!!
https://www.amazon.com/GIANT-MICROB...XYYV0XPEZW1&psc=1&refRID=2PJG8E9Q5XYYV0XPEZW1
lolHOLY CRAP!!!
NOBODY MENTION THIS TO ABDIN !!!
https://www.amazon.com/GIANT-MICROB...XYYV0XPEZW1&psc=1&refRID=2PJG8E9Q5XYYV0XPEZW1
I had the same thought.
A wonderful and powerful story, and I was impressed with the animation. It looked like live action when it started with the bed shot. I give it a 10. Loved it.
No, not really. I would imagine seeing a human size one is a bit different than the tiny ones she might have read about.
This was my only real complaint... I found the story charming, but that face animation was rough. The expressions all felt so frozen and inhuman, it was creepy and worked against the tone they were going for.
So I thought of the first batch of Short Treks -- cute little one-off stories to be appreciated as such -- and then they tied in so strongly to the main Disco narrative that clips from them turned up in the previously-on's. Anyone speculating on main series tie-in's here isn't missing the point, they've just paid attention to what happened before.
We might not hear of any of this again, but I also wouldn't be surprised if we do, these aliens surfacing at some point is well within the realm of possibility. And "Ephraim And Dot" seemed to establish the mycellial network has more time-travel uses than previously known, I could see that working it's way back onto "Discovery" proper as well.
I loved this. I can't wait to show this to my younger cousins when I see them over the holiday break. I just wish it was a little longer and some of the animation on the father was a little better but other then that I thought the performances were really good. Love the design for younger Michael both in and out of the story. Love the designs and sound/music.
Maybe she didn't know it was a tardigrade.
Mike could have bought the doll, not knowing what it actually was, but nevertheless thinking it's cute so he might as well give Michael something to play with.
She probably DID connect the dots after she saw Ripper and thought "hey, that looks like a plushie I once had".
That said, I thought this ST was pretty lame. Only things I liked were the plushie and the final scene with Crouching Tiger Hidden Queen shooting the big snake.
