{"id":22248,"date":"2023-10-14T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=22248"},"modified":"2023-10-14T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T17:33:31","slug":"star-trek-very-short-treks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/star-trek-very-short-treks\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Very Short Treks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{1.5\/5} <strong>Star Trek: Very Short Treks<\/strong>, aired in 2023<\/p>\n<p>This is a series of 5 short animated videos that were made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of <strong>Star Trek: The Animated Series<\/strong>. Three of them will make you frown and two will make you smile. The 1st 3 videos are all distasteful in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Since they&#8217;re very short, they&#8217;re all jokes or surprises. They are not canon, though &#8212; they&#8217;re not stories that could actually take place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holograms, All the Way Down&#8221; and &#8220;Walk, Don&#8217;t Run&#8221; are the ones that are watchable &#8212; they are silly but at least they remind you of the real <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> shows. Whatever you do, please do not watch &#8220;Worst Contact&#8221; &#8212; it is disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>When you do something different you&#8217;re not going to please everyone &#8212; this did not please me. Although 2 of 5 videos are watchable, a better idea would have been to make more <strong>Short Treks<\/strong> &#8212; with real <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> stories.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to do something that&#8217;s funny that&#8217;s fine, but it should be in the spirit of <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> &#8212; on the whole, this missed that mark.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of actors reprised their roles including George Takei, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, and Armin Shimerman.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Casper Kelly (<strong>Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{1.5\/5} Star Trek: Very Short Treks, aired in 2023 This is a series of 5 short animated videos that were made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series. Three of them will make you frown and two will make you smile. The 1st 3 videos are all distasteful in different ways. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[68,16,5,8,59,11],"class_list":["post-22248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22253,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions\/22253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}