All of this is captured in such a short amount of time and that is a credit to everyone who worked on it. You care for them, you laugh at the hijinks they get up to, and I found myself feeling really emotional towards the end. The director Michael Giacchino brought real warmth and joy to two characters that never speak a word. In the end, do we recommend Ephraim and Dot? Absolutely. A lot of these events are depicted in the same stylised version of animation but they were great to see again, even if they mixed up the –A towards the end. This is accelerated throughout the episode and we get a joyful jump through all the major events in the life of the USS Enterprise. Which means we get the joy of KHAN (Ricardo Montalban) and shirtless Sulu (George Takei) back to back. Indeed, when Ephraim first arrives on the Enterprise she jumps from Space Seed, to The Trouble with Tribbles, to The Naked Time all in the space of a few moments. Image Credit: CBS Studios.īecause of this abstract sense of space and time, we get events from all over The Original Series blending together into a delightful melting pot. We also get to visit some of the key moments of the life of the USS Enterprise. But in all of this oddness, there is a story of two creatures trying to protect something dear to them, Ephraim is trying to protect her eggs and Dot is trying to protect the Enterprise. To add to this the very nature of the tardigrade exists within a very flexible notion of space and time amping up charming oddness of it all. Also, a fun fact that the Narrator Kirk Thatcher is a producer that has worked in Trek before and you may know him as the “Punk on the Bus” in The Voyage Home. Part of this stems from there being a Narrator (Kirk Thatcher) and the overall presentation fitting into a style that is reminiscent of a nature documentary or a morality tale. When it comes to the story, it is one that is difficult to work out if it is a real story in-universe or a more abstract story that exists fictionally within the Star Trek world and I don’t mind which one it is. We get quite a lot of slapstick humour, including some laundry shenanigans, and it is all realised perfectly. It also helped sell the kind of Tom and Jerry or Wall-e and Eve banter between Ephraim and Dot. It is a very stylised form of animation, but that absolutely fit the tone and content of the story. It is charming right from the start as we see a slightly more anthropomorphised version of the tardigrade called Ephraim. There is so much to talk about this beautiful episode that it is hard to know where to start, so let’s first look at the animation.
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