STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS
SEASON 2, EPISODE 5
SEASON 2, EPISODE 5
Ephraim and Dot
Series: Star Trek: Short Treks - (2018 - current)Season: 2
Episode #: 5
Original Airdate: December 12th, 2019
Writer(s): Chris Silvestri & Anthony Maranville
Director(s): Michael Giacchino
Starring
Kirk Thatcher as the Narrator
Jenette Goldstein as the Voice of the Enterprise Computer
William Shatner as James T. Kirk
George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh
Stardate: Unknown
Synopsis
Ephraim the tardigrade is flying through the mycelial network, minding her own business and looking for a place to lay her eggs, when none other but the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 warps into town and destroys her asteroid. Ephraim is curious about the ship, and flies around, looking in the windows at the crew. And she happens to see Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy and Khan Noonien Singh in sickbay.
Ephraim is trying to get inside the ship, but doesn’t know how. And that’s when Dot, a repair bot, appears, sounds an intruder alert, and zaps poor Ephraim. But after Dot returns to the ship, Ephraim follows. As the pair rockets through the corridor, they encounter a vat of blue goo and several laundry piles of red, blue, and gold tunics. Dot threatens to zap Ephraim again, but she escapes through the ship’s conduits, and eventually finds the perfect warm, safe place to lay her eggs.
Just as she lets her guard down and relaxes, Dot’s found her once again. This time, their chase through the Enterprise involves a storage hatch full of tribbles before Ephraim is ejected into space, and Dot snarkily (for a robot) says: “Live Long and Prosper.”![]()
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But Ephraim will not leave her eggs. As the Enterprise goes to warp, Ephraim travels the mycelial network to keep up with them. Ephraim follows the Enterprise for countless months through, watching as the ship encounters various anomolies in space, such as a massive Doomsday Machine, a Tholian Web, a floating Green hand, and even a huge projection of a bearded human sitting on a large chair.
Ephraim is finally able to catch up with the ship and peek inside the window to see that her eggs are still safe, right where she left them… but the ship us under attack from the Klingons!
Ephraim gets inside through a breach in the hull, but Dot spots her. While she’s checking on her eggs, Dot attacks and zaps Ephraim yet again, before sending her out at airlock. As Dot gets back to her business of literally putting out fires, she finally notices the eggs. And that’s when the ship’s computer announces, “Self-destruct sequence completed and engaged.”
Ephraim’s flying back to the ship once again when she sees the Enterprise explode. In the debris, she finds Dot, and is about to attack… until Dot opens her torso to reveal eight newly-hatched tardigrade babies.
Ephraim hugs Dot, and the new family jumps into the mycelial network together.
Trailer
Episode Poster
Poster courtesy of J.J. Lendl
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