Enjoyable, but overdone
Short Treks is not a mainstream ST product. If you watch this episode, you'll believe it even more.
Star Trek overall has a serious undertone. The characters and stories do their best to pretend as if they are all real. Therefore, we don't see Star Trek telling too blatant jokes. But in this episode the "unthinkable" has happened: It satirizes itself and broke the fourth wall!
This episode is really funny. I mean really funny, albeit silly funny that completely feels out of place in Star Trek, in a even more blatant fashion than "The Escape Artist". The protagonist(I am not gonna spoil it) is totally a fool. He is the guy you see on TV who is extremely smart in his domain but otherwise, is...
Oh hell! How can I describe him? He's not Sheldon Lee. He is almost "sub-human" in his human capacities! Every word and every deed of him unwittingly becomes comedic relief. This kind of unrealistic characterization is definitely unseen in previous trek. I mean, he is fun. But this shouldn't be Star Trek, he'd be so much more fit in any comedy sci-fi cartoon.
The real blast comes post-credits. Still, i don't want to spoil what it is. I just want to say I laughed like a maniac and yelled"WHAT IS THIS???" so I had to get outdoors.
You may want to argue, if this ep was so interesting, why did I give this a 5/10? The episode had such interesting ideas and good production, but they were too much for Star Trek, which according to precedent should incorporate restrained humor. The moron prodigy character and silly-funny storyline would make a fantastic idea in Lower Decks. But now, they only made the ep felt like a fan movie that leaves us anxious about its potential harm to our trek legacy.
Star Trek overall has a serious undertone. The characters and stories do their best to pretend as if they are all real. Therefore, we don't see Star Trek telling too blatant jokes. But in this episode the "unthinkable" has happened: It satirizes itself and broke the fourth wall!
This episode is really funny. I mean really funny, albeit silly funny that completely feels out of place in Star Trek, in a even more blatant fashion than "The Escape Artist". The protagonist(I am not gonna spoil it) is totally a fool. He is the guy you see on TV who is extremely smart in his domain but otherwise, is...
Oh hell! How can I describe him? He's not Sheldon Lee. He is almost "sub-human" in his human capacities! Every word and every deed of him unwittingly becomes comedic relief. This kind of unrealistic characterization is definitely unseen in previous trek. I mean, he is fun. But this shouldn't be Star Trek, he'd be so much more fit in any comedy sci-fi cartoon.
The real blast comes post-credits. Still, i don't want to spoil what it is. I just want to say I laughed like a maniac and yelled"WHAT IS THIS???" so I had to get outdoors.
You may want to argue, if this ep was so interesting, why did I give this a 5/10? The episode had such interesting ideas and good production, but they were too much for Star Trek, which according to precedent should incorporate restrained humor. The moron prodigy character and silly-funny storyline would make a fantastic idea in Lower Decks. But now, they only made the ep felt like a fan movie that leaves us anxious about its potential harm to our trek legacy.
- Sermell_Sino
- Oct 11, 2019