'Worst Contact' reunites Jonathan Frakes and Gates McFadden from 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'.
The Big Picture To mark the 50th anniversary of Star Trek's first voyage into the second dimension with Star Trek: The Animated Series, Paramount is releasing Star Trek: Very Short Treks, a series of five Filmation-style animated shorts celebrating the length and breadth of the franchise. Don't worry, Trekkies — they're anything but canon.
In the latest short, "Worst Contact," we get a reunion of two of the most beloved characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation. USS Enterprise-D officers William Riker and Dr. Beverly Crusher beam down to make first contact with a race of bulbous-headed aliens, whose representatives are played by Dana Snyder and Saturday Night Live's Sarah Sherman. Unfortunately, their customs prove to be quite alien to the Starfleet visitors...and extremely gross.
What Is First Contact? Under the "Prime Directive" of the Federation, Starfleet cannot make deliberate contact with a newly discovered species until that species is capable of faster-than-light space travel. This is thoroughly explored in the Next Generation episode "First Contact," in which Starfleet officers go undercover on a planet that is nearing warp capability, to see if their society is prepared for contact with the Federation.
Star Trek: Very Short Treks is the brainchild of mad genius Casper Kelly, best known for Too Many Cooks, his surreal, nightmarish parody of sitcom intros, and the "Cheddar Goblin" commercial in Mandy. This isn't his first trip to Federation space — he previously filmed a commercial for Tribbles cereal as part of "The Trouble With Edward", a live-action Star Trek: Short Treks short, in 2020.
New Star Trek: Very Short Treks shorts air every Wednesday on StarTrek.com — beam over there to watch "Worst Contact" right now.
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