When Paramount launched very Brief Treks a few weeks ago, it did so with a brief that trod a really wonderful line between being crass and flexing some knowingly Trek humor. However because it’s progressed, issues have solely gotten a more in-depth to the previous.
This week’s entry, “Worst Contact,” sees Jonathan Frakes and Gates McFadden return as Will Riker and Beverly Crusher, because the Enterprise makes a primary contact assembly with a brand new alien species, solely to search out that their customs aren’t precisely essentially the most interesting for Federation membership.
Whereas the prior shorts had been of comparable low-brow humor, there’s simply one thing about this one specifically that strikes the type of factor Trek followers feared Decrease Decks may very well be earlier than it aired—the place Trek itself is as an unpleasant joke, somewhat than the medium for humor, that its beliefs of multi-species co-operation will be undone by snot and microwaved fish.
That may be a little bit of a excessive and mighty factor to say about what’s finally an inconsequential a brief cartoon about gross-out humor—not every part needs to be so critical. However Decrease Decks already proved you will be very humorous in Star Trek and nonetheless be really good Star Trek. It’s additionally price taking into consideration that very Brief Treks was announced as a celebration of fifty years of Star Trek animation. As an alternative, it’s beginning to really feel prefer it’s turning its snotty nostril up at it, if this the extent of its humor.
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