So it was about people getting too easily offended over things nowadays?
VERY SHORT TREKS...
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Pretty much.
But in a completely over-the-top manner.
It’s like… 3-4 minutes long. Why bail at all? There are longer commercials than this little story on YouTube.
It was alright. Fun enough. I look forward to the others.
It was a joke that went on too long. Cut it in half and I think it would've been better.
Heh ... Then it would have been an EXTREMELY Short Trek.
It’s not even really a very good joke…
I think we have to just enjoy these as the inconsequential VAM that they are. I’ll most likely never watch it again, but I don’t regret the 4 minutes I spent with it.
This was the makeup version of the Kobayashi Maru test Starfleet Academy was going to give Kirk.
PENNYWISE: You want to cut me in half!?!?!?
Like most Saturday Night Live skits this went on too long. It was funny about half way through and just strangled the joke.
I almost thought that Nimoy was the voice then realized it was Peck. Great job.
I almost thought that Nimoy was the voice then realized it was Peck. Great job.
The whole thing was basically some comedian doing his stand-up routine in the form of a 3 minute TAS short. And it was pretty stupid.
I really enjoyed "Skin a Cat," and thought it was funny. Several laughs and few giggles, including calling HR, the irony.
It was fine. I just question why they'd even bother making something like this and spending money on it.
Al Pacino! Make it so.
Which seems very accurate to the world we live in today.
They made it I think because it was cheap to make for the most part and because it was funny as in really funny. You don't need to be a Trek fan to find it funny because the idea of people being easily outraged over innocent offenses is very much a part of the modern world. They just went with a over the top example of it. It's not that different from how modern Trek characters now speak in modern lingo. It's about trying to reach modern audiences. People shouldn't take it to serious. It's basically just a 3 to 4 minute skit. It doesn't take away from any of the current shows. It's just this small funny thing that exists.
I loved it. It reminded me of the Robot Chicken skits and I'd watch anything with Pete Holmes in it.
Exactly this.
I went back and watched the rest. Instead of working one figure of speech for the whole thing, they switched it up and ran through a list of other figures of speech, for which each had someone on the bridge to take offense. It was like Star Trek, as interpreted by the writers of sitcoms like Married With Children or Three's Company, with the captain being the character always finding himself in an embarrassing situation.
Maybe good, if that's a type of humor you enjoy, but not so much, if you don't.
Yeah, they already managed expectations on these shorts in the trailer, saying something like "All but canon", or something like that. They have officially disavowed this miniseries from canonical Trek (in a somewhat clever way, IMO), so they can pretty much do whatever they want with it. I say bring mooooaaaar!!!
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