Star Trek has gone the animation route
before. I watched a few of the episodes
and didn’t care much for it, mostly because of the bad animation. That’s why I was a little nervous with Short
Trek’s two animated series. I’m glad to
see that each episode has some decent animation.
With Ephraim and Dot, we have two main
characters. Ephraim is a space
tardigrade looking for a place to lay her eggs.
She finds and selects the USS Enterprise. Dot is an automated cleaning bot on the
Enterprise who doesn’t take kindly to Ephraim’s presence. The two engage in a sort of cat-and-mouse
game where Ephraim enters the ship and Dot chases her off.
Despite the nine-minute run time, it
would appear to take place over several years.
It’s a little confusing, since it’s one continuous shot. For context, we see scenes from Star Trek
starting with Space Seen and going all the way to the destruction of the
Enterprise in the movies.
There’s no dialogue except from some
lifted from the various episodes. Dot
and Ephraim don’t communicate with each other.
Ephraim just protects her eggs and Dot does nothing except protect the
ship. There’s an antagonistic theme
common to a lot of old-school cartoons.
Stylistically, it almost looks like
something we might get before a Pixar film.
I almost wonder if, like The Trouble with Edward, this wasn’t meant to
be a little silly. It’s kind of
difficult to take literally.
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