When Paramount launched very Brief Treks a few weeks ago, it did so with a brief that trod a really advantageous 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 seek 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 particularly that strikes the kind of factor Trek followers feared Decrease Decks might be earlier than it aired—the place Trek itself is as an unsightly joke, slightly than the medium for humor, that its beliefs of multi-species co-operation might 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 all the pieces needs to be so critical. However Decrease Decks already proved you might be very humorous in Star Trek and nonetheless be really good Star Trek. It’s additionally value taking into account that very Brief Treks was announced as a celebration of fifty years of Star Trek animation. As a substitute, 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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