Star Trek: Short Treks (TV Series) Q&A (2019) User Reviews

Getting Prof. Mordin Solus vibe here

[isabellacheng · 9/10 · 26 October 2019]

Please don't be foreshadowing. Please!

This episode is a testament that Number One is the most under-utilized bridge crew in the show. Pretty much the least screen time, yet the most intriguing character.

Even though the episode started out fun, it speaks of the weight of command, something that the Captain from the next episode should definitely take note of. Although personally, whether you mix with the crew or put a distance between them, I believe both ways of leadership have their merits. If the crew is self-disciplined, especially as in control as a Vulcan, there should be no harm reducing the distance.

Star Trek spirit returns!

[That_Random_Engineer · 8/10 · 17 May 2020]

Great episode! Just please, don't overdo the musical thing its cringe

Just perfect...

[WKYanks · 10/10 · 19 November 2019]

What's not to like?

Spock's first experience on Enterprise? Spock's first meeting with #1?

This is the most enjoyable 15 minutes of trek I've experienced in about 2 decades. I absolutely thoroughly enjoyed watching this all 5+ times I've watched it.

Una is AWESOME! Comes off as brilliant like Spock AND a talented singer as well? I wasn't aware that Rebecca Romijn was a talented singer!! She's just perfect in this part IMO. Gilbert and Sullivan's raucous operatic tale is captured in all its fun and glory here. Love her "freaky".

Ethan Peck was awesome as well. I really enjoy how effortlessly he brings us Spock. Your name is "Una"... #1 - (putting Spock in his place) "My name is #1" (lol)

Loved our Scottish Chief Engineer, nice little nod to Scotty I'm sure.

I'm one that thinks how Star Trek Discovery has brought us a plausible method for how turbolifts actually work on a Star Ship is outstanding. Not just magic anymore.

Pike's comment on the bridge when Spock enters and proceeds to his station for the first time... "This the new boot?" ... lol ... had me in stitches!

Then, the eye contact between Spock and Una was touching and priceless.

Not sure what there is to complain about. I don't even want to be a Trekkie here and nit-pic it.

Romijn and Peck play wonderfully off each other.

The only thing I could reasonable complain about is, that we still don't have an announcement from CBS informing us that we have a new Star Trek series centered on Captain Pike, #1 and Spock.

I am enjoying these Shorts

[evieze · 16 October 2019]

This one is my favorite so far. I love Number One and, of course Spock. Una begins to shape the young ensign as only a commander can tutelage a brilliant mind. Her mentorship of young Spock is interesting to ponder as now we can think of two brilliant people Spock had when he first entered Starfleet; Captain Pike and Number One. Kudus!

Intriguing, Smiling Ear To Ear

[weedlecrusher · 10/10 · 21 January 2020]

This was a very strong episode and could be used to pitch a new Pike show. Please?! It was absolutely perfect. Bravo!

The Sorrows of Young Spock

[Sermell_Sino · 10/10 · 7 October 2019]

We know the concept of Discovery-Spock is the beta version of Nimoy-Spock. Through Season Two we've seen it done decently, but now we get to see it without concerning the ego crisis caused by the much-derided red angel.

In The Cage, Spock smiled, which contradicts his Vulcan upbringing. In this episode, he also did. The pre-TOS Spock has not yet matured. As Sheldon Cooper is a freak of humans, this only semi-logical version of Spock is a freak to Vulcans.

In a dysfunctional turbolift, the freaks of two worlds meet each other. The two is a natural match, but in this case their relationship develops even faster. In a first-time conversation that cannot feel more Asperger-esque they explore the depth of each other, finding out how much they have in common.

Una and Spock are young, aspired people, but their aspirations drove them to hide their distinctiveness, namely their sentimentality(and diverse interest), their supreme intelligence that perhaps separated them from most people, and quite paradoxically a certain insensitivity to social cues. They are good, benign people, but are noticeably aloof--which I bet is not their choice. That's why the two are so connected and so complimentary.

Is that a spark of romance I see? The Nimoy-Spock was never the womanizer type, but in here the proto-Spock lets a woman delve into the soft spot of him. And lovely pair they are! Still, I would vastly prefer to see them develop into a platonic friendship, like Bashir-Jadzia. (Btw I will STRONGLY dismiss the Spock-Uhura affair, no offense to Quinto)

This incarnation of Spock hooks me not a little for the display of his human weakness. We see only a glimpse through his logical restraints, but it felt so genuine and moving. This young Spock has yet to become the strong, extremely refined Nimoy-Spock we knew, he is still unsure about the world around him. In his lovely conversations, we get to follow him as his curious mind puts everything in existence to test.

Now we can see the CBS lot can get pretty trek-y if they wish. I plead they'll keep it that way. This balanced expression of emotion and its blend with sci-fi & philosophical issues is so much better taste than the non-stop technobabble and temper tantrums of Discovery...

At last...I notice Spock gets some human cues and loves human art! Did Michael Burnham gave him those tastes? Well, I found that assumption... fascinating(lacks elegance?)

Short treks freaking awesome

[scottramjoue · 10/10 · 11 November 2019]

Wow what an awesome idea to try and save the discovery series the short treks I've been watching them since they first came out what a successful string of little shorts I really love them they're way better than the series although I will always watch Star Trek doesn't matter if it's good or bad I am a faithful fan and I will always watch it

Loved it!

[ghanima_atrieadies · 10/10 · 28 March 2020]

Her singing Modern Major General was fantastic. Got a Mordin Solis flashback and a Marcus Cole one. They need to keep these up. Lots of fun. Great job guys.

10/10

[belendakay · 10/10 · 24 July 2022]

The Short Trek Short Q & A is absolutely worth it's weight in gold. The wonderful maahup of Spock and Una stuck together in a turbo lift is the absolute best; this is why I still love Star Trek all of these years later! Yes, I have been watching Star Trek from the very beginning and it just keep getting better!

The transporters are...er..broken...

[nigeljthomasuk · 2/10 · 27 January 2020]

It's the only possible reason they don't just get beamed out of there.

There's also a LOT of empty hollow space in the Enterprise apparently, judging by the external shots of the turbolift. They should have filled that space with useful rooms, like they did on the original series etc.

Near the end Number One seems to be worried Spock is going to tell someone that she sung a short snippet of a song, something we all fear.

Oh and if you're being hauled up a vast tubolift shaft, don't worry about a harness - just grab the hand of the rescuer all the way up. You'll (probably) be fine.

The safety measures are missing.

[marianthenightman · 7 October 2019]

This was a good episode,although i would like to see Rebbeca's natural hair color,because she looks gorgeous ,if she will appear later in the series,because anyway her character had only one apparence in the original series so i don't think this will break the continuity already teared up in pieces by Star Trek Discovery.I think also they made her character way too excited (not in a sexually way) and a little too cocky and childish ,she doesn't act like a real millitary (or Starfleet) senior officer at all,i guess the writers don't have any kind of millitary experience at all,you can see that.I really don't understand why the devices for safety precautions are totally missing from the saving operation,because ,even in our days this kind of devices are imposed by the law ,even in small countries in course of development,but i guess a writer doesn't have how to know things like that sitting in the front of a writting table ,also i really don't understand why they used a such a weird and dangerous saving operation instead using the teleportation to beam the two officers from the turbolift. I hope my comments are not sounding too mean because this is not my intention at all.There are another scientific observations about the design of the decks ,but i will keep those observations for myself.This was a pretty good episode although i still cant get used with their uniforms,Enterprise ,for example, had great uniforms and that series ended almost 15 years ago.Sci-fi shows are supposed to be based partially on the science,but you can't tell that watching any actual Star Trek production ,excepting the canon breaker Star Trek Beyond and Star Trek Picard recent trailers.

Anson Mount does NOT deserve this burning dumpster fire!

[spasticfreakshow · 2/10 · 15 June 2020]

Romjin is miscast. That was already clear from her mercifully brief appearance on STD, but here her limited acting skills really shine through. She's appropriate in The Librarians, or any B-list series that can't afford real talent, but worse, costume and makeup have really failed her - she's normally much better looking than this horror movie sick look - is she meant to horrify us? I'm guessing yes and Number One turns out to be a serial killer, to be replaced by Spock early on in the spinoff, bc why else assign a singing role to someone who can't carry a tune to save her life? Or at least ask the address to consult on something she could potentially sing, rather than writing in something she can't pull off? It's worse than cringe-worthy, it's matchy match with her nightmare hair, makeup and ill-fitting costume - horror film appropriate only, but not for Star Trek, unless she's getting killed off in the same episode, for being an impostor, and that did not happen. She also is written poorly, but that's the understatement of the century. She states that Anson Mount's Captain is entirely unemotional and austere. Maybe she knows a totally different Captain than we do? Or she doesn't know him at all, bc she's a serial killer impostor, who is 'resembling' Number One to get close to her target? Unfathomable.

Because you like a Lollipop,sometimes you are satisfied just with the stick .

[captain_meatball · 27 October 2019]

-I'm a Star Trek fan since i've started to like the sci-fi genre,but i still cant understand why they bring us such weird uniforms, just try to remember we grow up watching those, cool uniforms from Babylon 5,Andromeda,Stargate Sg-1,way back in the 90's and for those like me the new mustard and ketchup colored uniforms are looking just like some circus uniforms from a 70's Batman movie,you should be ashamed by yourself,i would fire all the make-up team ,the FX team and all the costume designers at once,because they are certainly not fit for a modern sci-fi show ,Number One looks like her breasts and her bottom are just about to explode under so called millitary and exploration uniforms,her face is too white compared with that artificial black hair color making her to look just like a failed trek version of Harley Queen running from a prison kitchen ,this is just as horrible as the aesthetics of the Lower Decks animation with those skinny frog legs and those frog eyes.I know the old fans are hanging by anything which looks like something from the old times ,but this is too much,i think i will enjoy The Mandalorian more than these new Trek shows ,even if i still don't like to see the planets exploding.The characters are looking very unreal,and i'm wondering how much space is between two decks ,because the commander is looking like she is about to be lifted on the top of a mountain and she doesn't look like a person who can hang herself with just one hand for more than a minute. I just watched a doc from an Youtube channel ,The 5th Kind ,named The book of Enoch P.2-The Watchers and the Nephilim and i was stunned to see how great they design the space stations,the spaceships ,the future cities and the landscape from the space and planets and i invite the produces to see how a REAL pro is thinking and i bet those guys don't have your spectacular budget and i'm also more impressed by that Efrosian from the new Axanar production ,because they are still one of us and not just some old fans who are now selling their souls for this new shows. Those so called fans mocked the look of the Klingons and the look of the Tellarites and Andorians even if they know the old fans love the look of Shran and the look of Worf so please don't use this new aesthetic of the aliens in the next series if you are still care of us as long time fans.

Boo...bring back the same actor that played SPOCK in STD

[garabedian123 · 1/10 · 21 January 2020]

Different hair..different facial hair...giant enourmous elf ears that look like giant fish...gross ...Is this supposed to be spock...I cant stand to look at him and his eyes...oh god his eyes...Hopefully before we see him again in STD they fix those horrible crooked contact lens