Star Trek: Ranking The Short Treks From Worst To Best

Composer Michael Giacchino of the Star Trek Kelvin Timeline films and Rogue One and Spider-man Homecoming and Doctor Strange and Inside Out and Up and Jo Jo Rabbit and a million other films you know directed "Ephraim and Dot". The story involves a DOT-7 repair robot (Discovery' s "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II") and a mycelial tardigrade ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For the Lamb's Cry") battling it out in a Tom and Jerry-inspired, slapstick cartoon.

To its credit, "Ephraim and Dot" does some interesting things with the Star Trek canon, using two elements recently introduced in Star Trek: Discovery (namely the titular characters) and mixing them with old school lore. Ephraim and Dot's comic struggle spans the history of the Enterprise, allowing them to dip in and out of classic TOS episodes like "Space Seed" and "The Naked Time" and even get involved in the action of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

The animation is crisp and the score Giacchino wrote for his directorial effort is appropriately wacky, but it's all a little shallow and (depending on your tolerance of cartoon antics) maybe even a bit annoying. "Ephraim and Dot" wants to be Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner but it would've been better off being Wall-E and Eve.