Ironically, for complicated reasons I didn’t get to watch much of TAS when it was presumably first shown in the U.K., even though it was the first Trek actually released in my lifetime. I’ve since seen many of them, but not all…
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Non-canon indeed. Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Yeah, that was...not great.
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
Wtf did I just watch?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
“Just a bit of fun” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting on this one! Basically a Family Guy cutaway done in the TAS animation style. Though why they had Kirk looking and sounding so different, I don’t know. Rights issue? The exchange with screw guy was funny though. But I don’t quite get how the episode ended…
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
That was Pete Holmes voicing Kirk, so I guess they decided to have it look like him, too.
Posted by Brown_supahero (Member # 83) on :
That’s canon. Boom
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
It was pretty stupid. Basically it was Holmes’s stand-up routine in the form of a TAS skit. Except, unlike lots of stand-up I’ve seen, I didn’t actually laugh.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I'd never heard of the guy until y'all mentioned him.
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
I’d never heard of him either. Guess CBS couldn’t bother to get a more well-known comedian who is actually funny.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I men, Kevin Pollak's Kirk would've been a great fit.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Wow. Whoever's making these is just... not good at this, huh?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Hemmer & I are in agreement about drinks.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
It’s evincing any great fondness or nostalgia for the Animated Series, that’s for sure. OK we’ve only seen 40% of the complete event, but even if the remaining 60% absolutely knocks it out of the park, overall it’s still displayed less inventiveness and style than that fan-created Animated TNG clip.
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
+1 for Hemmer.
Bringing my score for "Holiday Party" to a grand total of... 1.
Posted by Zipacna (Member # 1881) on :
Didn't The Simpsons put out this most recent episode in 1995? Oh wait no, that was Hans Moleman's 'Football in the Groin'. Easy to get those two mixed up.
Posted by Brown_supahero (Member # 83) on :
I love the battle of the binary stars.
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
Wow, this is a new kind of lazy using the 32rd century uniform for Saru.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I think that’s the joke. That’s the blooper Spock is referring to.
Third one has dropped, or rather splatted. “Worst Contact,” and perhaps best not to watch it before a meal.
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
… though they obviously struggled to come up with a good way of ending it!
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Indeed, this is the first of the lot that I actually liked.
And it acknowledged Prodigy exists to boot! Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
What a waste of time & money these things are.
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: What a waste of time & money these things are.
Agreed. They got Connor Trineer to come back and do voice work after 20 years of not doing any Star Trek projects, and this is the material they give him.
Awesome 50th anniversary of TAS, guys. Nothing like making fun of the thing you’re supposed to be celebrating.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
What Dukhat said got me thinking. What IS this? Why does it exist?
... OK, we know why it exists. It's to commemorate the 50th anniversary of TAS. But they could have done that quite easily, done a bunch of the other shows in the TAS style much like that fan-made recreation of BoBW, and everyone would have been quite happy. But no, we got... THIS.
So really, who is this FOR?
And the answer is, students. OK, maybe not quite, but let me explain...
In the late 80s and into the 90s when I was a student, there developed these running jokes about the kids TV shows we'd grown up with.
Like, Captain Pugwash. A fairly innocent, sweet TV show about a sea captain and his crew. But then there developed these urgan legends that the crew's names were all these double entendres we were too young to get at the time - like, Roger The Cabin Boy, or Seaman Staines (think about it). All untrue, and before the Internet, impossible to verify or refute.
Or, to try to come up with another example that non-Brits might recognise, is Shaggy a pothead? There are varying schools of thought, like how he's never explicitly shown sparking up. But in the mentality I'm talking about, oh sure Scooby and Shaggy were totally lit at all times, and Velma's a lesbian, and Fred and Daphne are always "splitting up" from the rest to go off somewhere and shag.
Do you see what I mean? And that mocking sensibility persists. It's how you end up with film reboots of fairly serious TV shows like Starsky & Hutch, or 21 Jump Street, which are if not complete pisstakes do indeed focus on parodying their source material.
Or think of all the edgy, subversive "adult" cartoon shows there are nowadays.
Or, does anyone remember the Banana Splits film that came out a few years ago? Where the Splits are essentially demonic slasher entities who murder people? Where the fuck did THAT come from? From this exact same mindset, basically.
Or, Action Man. Which was like the UK's equivalent of GI Joe, I guess. Yes, in the 1970s we played with soldier dolls. But honestly and innocently and with none of the subtext that these edgelords apply to it now. Just, men being men, you know. We were kids, for fuck's sake, we didn't think of anything in terms of their sexual connotations. So, when, a few years ago, an advert used Action Man, did it just do it, er, straight? OHHHH, no, of course they didn't. Instead we got this:
So in a nutshell, Very Short Treks is what Lower Decks might have been... if Justin Roiland or even Dan Harmon had got that gig and not Mike McMahan.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
It's not funny, though. It's just stupid & surreal, & not eaven in a good way.
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: What Dukhat said got me thinking. What IS this? Why does it exist?
... OK, we know why it exists. It's to commemorate the 50th anniversary of TAS. But they could have done that quite easily, done a bunch of the other shows in the TAS style much like that fan-made recreation of BoBW, and everyone would have been quite happy. But no, we got... THIS.
So really, who is this FOR?
The only thing I could come up with is that some shithead producer thought that making animated shorts in the TAS style, but with LDS humor, would be a kewl thing to do. Not for any perceived audience, but just so they could pat themselves on the back for their great idea...even though TAS was rarely meant to be humorous. And because LDS's humor is far more stupid than it is funny, that's what these things ended up being.
God forbid these people do something like this for DS9's 50th anniversary.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
That’s 19 years away, not far off how long it’s been since the cancellation of Enterprise brought to a close an 18-year run of Trek TV. So that feels a bit too theoretical at this point, who knows what TV - if we even still call it that by then - will look like..?
Posted by Zipacna (Member # 1881) on :
I'll give 'Very Short Treks' one thing...it's made 'These Are the Voyages' and even *shudder* 'Shades of Gray' look like Shakespeare. Maybe cancellation and oblivion wouldn't be such a bad thing after all...
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
They didn't really even bother to pretend that it wasn't an ad for Lower Decks, huh?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Which is weird, because LDS is arguably the most-liked nuTrek show to date. Hardly needs to advertise really. Unless it’s just not getting the numbers internationally now it’s not on Prime. Which would account for McMahon’s warning the other day that nothing is set in stone, that LDS could all too easily be 5 seasons and out?
And which I suspect could be said for the other show that started elsewhere - DSC, obviously: it comes off Netflix after s3, s4 is, well, let’s say a bit of a Marmite season, and now it’s cancelled before s5 even airs.
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