‘Star Trek: Short Treks’
What started as a way to fill the gap between seasons of Star Trek: Discovery has become a fascinating experiment in online short-filmmaking. In Season 1, Star Trek: Short Treks mostly focused on individual members of the USS Discovery as they went on solo missions, or explored different aspects of their backstory. It seemed like just a fun romp, until those Short Treks episodes, with one exception, all ended up tying into the overarching story of Season 2, making them far more necessary than expected. And the second season of Short Treks has been a delight, with an episode throwing a young Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) on a stuck elevator, and an absolute classic riff on “The Trouble With Tribbles” starring Rosa Salazar and H. Jon Benjamin. Who knows if Season 2 will tie into Discovery Season 3; but it sort of doesn’t matter, since they’re so darn good on their own.