11/20/2023 0 Comments Warp frontier switch"The Escape Artist" ( Short Treks, Season 1, Episode 4)Īfter two decidedly menacing outings as Harry Mudd, actor Rainn Wilson (who also directed) at last gets to delve into the more amusing aspects of the intergalactic con artist in this cleverly plotted ode to Mudd's boundless capacity for duplicity in pursuit of profit, with a novel payoff that's both funny and a fitting callback to Mudd's funniest TOS appearance.ġ5. All that and Iggy Pop as the Cardassian Big Bad!ġ6. "The Magnificent Ferengi" ( Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 10)īrilliantly casting the franchise's most notoriously scruples-free species, led by Quark, Rom and Nog, as a gang of misfits united Dirty Dozen-style for a heroic mission, this episode deftly juggles all its comedic elements, action beats, and plot-twists - it even unexpectedly but successfully veers into Weekend at Bernie's territory. "The Elysian Kingdom" ( Strange New Worlds, Season 1, Episode 8)Īmong the handful of Trek episodes that thrust familiar crewmembers - and the actors behind them - into alt-reality roles, none are as indulgently, deliriously silly as this one, which finds the Enterprise immersed into a Princess Bride-esque fairy tale narrative, one that allows the cast - in particular, Anson Mount as a fawning/scheming courtier and Christina Chong as a sing-song, tiny-dog-toting princess - to gleefully chew the scenery in their storybook personas.ġ7. The principal pleasures of this episode come from Jeri Ryan's wickedly spot-on impression of Robert Picardo's cranky EMH's tone and mannerisms whenever Seven cedes control of her form to him.ġ8. In a variation on the tried-and-true body-swapping genre, the Doctor's holographic essence is incorporated into Seven of Nine's Borg matrix when Voyager runs afoul of aliens with anti-photonic being sentiments. "Body and Soul" ( Voyager, Season 7, Episode 7) Jon Benjamin), whose misguided attempt to create a perpetually self-sustaining food source out of the adorably fuzzy aliens leads to darkly comic catastrophe.ġ9. Taking both a cue and plot inspiration from one of Trek's most legendary forays into humor, this Short Treks take adds its own quirky and daresay macabre twist on the venerable Tribble trope via Edward Larkin, a stubbornly single-minded, malcontent scientist on the USS Cabot (played to prickly perfection by H. "The Trouble with Edward" ( Short Treks, Season 2, Episode 2) Rosa Salazar, Star Trek: Short Treks Michael Gibson/CBSĢ0.
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