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Anagram 09/15/20 3:37:38 PM #119:	Webtrek I've watched quite a few TV shows in my time, but my experience with non-ironic generic family comedies is limited to Home Improvement and things that were on Nick at Night. I'd never even heard of Webster. It's about a precocious backtalking black kid who was adopted by a white family, but he's played by an adult with a medical problem that makes him look like he's permanently six? ... I thought that was just Different Strokes, I didn't realize it was an entire genre. It took me a second to even find this episode. The site I found said this episode isn't available commercially as of the upload four years ago, so I decided to check if it is now. Amazon only has seasons 1-4 on DVD. I have to believe that no one on Earth is willing to spend forty dollars on a Webster season 4 DVD, holy hell, how is this real? The plot of this episode, the final episode of Webster, is that Webster is playing a video game, he presses the joystick too far forward, and this transports him to the bridge of the Enterprise three-hundred years in the future, captained by Worf. No other main TNG characters appear besides extras. Worf asks Webster questions about 1980s Earth culture to better understand the human concept of 'fun,' and Webster explains using flashbacks to other Webster episodes where he dances in a theater, plays baseball, and takes a short helicopter ride. Not only is this a TNG crossover episode, it's also a clipshow?! There's only about six minutes of non-flashback footage in this 21-minute episode. I was going to treat this episode like a complete Star Trek work and make jokes about it that way, but really, I can't believe this. I have to believe that the family sitcom audience has almost no overlap with the space opera audience, right? If I was a Webster superfan in 1989, this would have to be the biggest betrayal of all time. None of the other main characters appear except in flashbacks, nothing is resolved as far as Webster's dynamic with his adopted parents goes, and they didn't even get Picard. They got Worf. This is like in Generations where DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy refused to be in the movie, so Kirk shows up with his best friends Scotty and Chekov. Aw hell, I lied, I'm going to criticize this like a serious Star Trek episode anyway. So Worf tells Webster that they cycle through the bridge crew on shifts, and everyone else is asleep right now, leaving him as the ranking officer. That makes sense, that's good. But when a small child from the 1980s teleports onto the bridge, Worf doesn't wake up Picard, doesn't ask Data for help, doesn't tell Troi to come up and make sure the kid is just a normal kid, doesn't do any of that? Data doesn't even sleep, dude. Worf also doesn't confiscate this clearly powerful and dangerous joystick from Webster, you'd think that a time travel device in the hands of a six year-old is only going to cause problems. Worf then just allows Webster to stay on the bridge while they travel through a space thingy, and tells Webster the way to return home is just to press the joystick forward again. How does he know that? Tell me, Worf! Why are you giving information about the future to this time-traveled kid you plan to send back to the past? And at 14:30, an engineer calls Worf to say the ship is safe, and it's clearly just some guy saying that, not a trained Starfleet engineer, you can just tell by the bad acting, it's different from Star Trek bad acting. Worf also criticizes Webster's clothing, saying "You look like an Earthling, but your style of dress is puzzling," but dude, even by 24th century standards, this is pretty unremarkable, Webster is just wearing a zebra-striped shirt, give him a break. Overall, Worf is shockingly irresponsible in this episode and needs to have, at minimum, a serious report lodged against him. ... and honestly, was "Webtrek" really the best they could do? Not "Live Long and Webster?" Not "Beam Me Up, Webby?" Not "Set Websters to stun?" Webtrek was the best they could do? I also need to specifically criticize the helicopter flashback, where Webster and his parents fly over San Francisco and talk about what they see. It's literally just two minutes of stock aerial footage of the Golden Gate bridge while the characters talk over it. And since that's a flashback, that means it happened in a previous episode! The Webster producers made their fans watch this lengthy footage of the Golden Gate bridge while three characters narrate over it twice. That's four minutes of life wasted. As a Star Trek fan, I'm appalled at Worf's reckless behavior, and as a Webster fan, I can't believe the series finale is a clip show with six minutes of actually new footage, in which Webster's family, the other main characters of the show, play no part. ---------------- Make it So Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise The Beginning of Wisdom The Mirror Universe The Neutral Zone The Rules of Acquisition Data & Picard The Doctor Geordie's Epic Maneuver Transporters Assimilate This Galaxy Quest Q Morn Combadges Tribbles TNG Warp Core Sound The Riker Lean Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet Chain of Command Torture Sequence Kirk is a Jerk Shirt Timescape The Chase Where No Fan Has Gone Before Duet Children of Time Ambassador-class Starship Wolf in the Fold Live Long and Prosper Enterprise s3 Escape Pods Gowron Worf's Baldric TOS Klingons Technobabble Gargoyles RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views Holodeck Episodes Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes Brent Spiner The Picard Maneuver Anagram Raemes T. Quirk Sanctuary Districts Highly Illogical Star Trek: Lower Decks Star Trek: The Animated Series Bajor STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association Prune Juice For the Uniform Sisko's Beard The Rock's Appearance on Voyager It's a Faaaaaaaaake! Naomi Wildman Valiant (DS9) Sisko Punching Q DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities Get the Cheese to Sickbay Harry Kim Rom Wil Wheaton ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges Night Terrors Flaunting Danger Clip Beardless Riker Star Trek Online Webtrek Wadi This is the Power of Math, People Riker's Pizza Warp 10 The Outcast God Aliens Not Respecting Consent Climax of Into Darkness Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw] --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005 <cite>Anagram posted [p:944640699] in Anagram ra... [t:78971322]...</cite> <quote>Webtrek I've watched quite a few TV shows in my time, but my experience with non-ironic generic family comedies is limited to Home Improvement and things that were on Nick at Night. I'd never even heard of Webster. It's about a precocious backtalking black kid who was adopted by a white family, but he's played by an adult with a medical problem that makes him look like he's permanently six? ... I thought that was just Different Strokes, I didn't realize it was an entire genre. It took me a second to even find this episode. The site I found said this episode isn't available commercially as of the upload four years ago, so I decided to check if it is now. Amazon only has seasons 1-4 on DVD. I have to believe that no one on Earth is willing to spend forty dollars on a Webster season 4 DVD, holy hell, how is this real? The plot of this episode, the final episode of Webster, is that Webster is playing a video game, he presses the joystick too far forward, and this transports him to the bridge of the Enterprise three-hundred years in the future, captained by Worf. No other main TNG characters appear besides extras. Worf asks Webster questions about 1980s Earth culture to better understand the human concept of 'fun,' and Webster explains using flashbacks to other Webster episodes where he dances in a theater, plays baseball, and takes a short helicopter ride. Not only is this a TNG crossover episode, it's also a clipshow?! There's only about six minutes of non-flashback footage in this 21-minute episode. I was going to treat this episode like a complete Star Trek work and make jokes about it that way, but really, I can't believe this. I have to believe that the family sitcom audience has almost no overlap with the space opera audience, right? If I was a Webster superfan in 1989, this would have to be the biggest betrayal of all time. None of the other main characters appear except in flashbacks, nothing is resolved as far as Webster's dynamic with his adopted parents goes, and they didn't even get Picard. They got Worf. This is like in Generations where DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy refused to be in the movie, so Kirk shows up with his best friends Scotty and Chekov. Aw hell, I lied, I'm going to criticize this like a serious Star Trek episode anyway. So Worf tells Webster that they cycle through the bridge crew on shifts, and everyone else is asleep right now, leaving him as the ranking officer. That makes sense, that's good. But when a small child from the 1980s teleports onto the bridge, Worf doesn't wake up Picard, doesn't ask Data for help, doesn't tell Troi to come up and make sure the kid is just a normal kid, doesn't do any of that? Data doesn't even sleep, dude. Worf also doesn't confiscate this clearly powerful and dangerous joystick from Webster, you'd think that a time travel device in the hands of a six year-old is only going to cause problems. Worf then just allows Webster to stay on the bridge while they travel through a space thingy, and tells Webster the way to return home is just to press the joystick forward again. How does he know that? Tell me, Worf! Why are you giving information about the future to this time-traveled kid you plan to send back to the past? And at 14:30, an engineer calls Worf to say the ship is safe, and it's clearly just some guy saying that, not a trained Starfleet engineer, you can just tell by the bad acting, it's different from Star Trek bad acting. Worf also criticizes Webster's clothing, saying "You look like an Earthling, but your style of dress is puzzling," but dude, even by 24th century standards, this is pretty unremarkable, Webster is just wearing a zebra-striped shirt, give him a break. Overall, Worf is shockingly irresponsible in this episode and needs to have, at minimum, a serious report lodged against him. ... and honestly, was "Webtrek" really the best they could do? Not "Live Long and Webster?" Not "Beam Me Up, Webby?" Not "Set Websters to stun?" Webtrek was the best they could do? I also need to specifically criticize the helicopter flashback, where Webster and his parents fly over San Francisco and talk about what they see. It's literally just two minutes of stock aerial footage of the Golden Gate bridge while the characters talk over it. And since that's a flashback, that means it happened in a previous episode! The Webster producers made their fans watch this lengthy footage of the Golden Gate bridge while three characters narrate over it twice. That's four minutes of life wasted. As a Star Trek fan, I'm appalled at Worf's reckless behavior, and as a Webster fan, I can't believe the series finale is a clip show with six minutes of actually new footage, in which Webster's family, the other main characters of the show, play no part. ---------------- Make it So Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise The Beginning of Wisdom The Mirror Universe The Neutral Zone The Rules of Acquisition Data & Picard The Doctor Geordie's Epic Maneuver Transporters Assimilate This Galaxy Quest Q Morn Combadges Tribbles TNG Warp Core Sound The Riker Lean Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet Chain of Command Torture Sequence Kirk is a Jerk Shirt Timescape The Chase Where No Fan Has Gone Before Duet Children of Time Ambassador-class Starship Wolf in the Fold Live Long and Prosper Enterprise s3 Escape Pods Gowron Worf's Baldric TOS Klingons Technobabble Gargoyles RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views Holodeck Episodes Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes Brent Spiner The Picard Maneuver Anagram Raemes T. Quirk Sanctuary Districts Highly Illogical Star Trek: Lower Decks Star Trek: The Animated Series Bajor STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association Prune Juice For the Uniform Sisko's Beard The Rock's Appearance on Voyager It's a Faaaaaaaaake! Naomi Wildman Valiant (DS9) Sisko Punching Q DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities Get the Cheese to Sickbay Harry Kim Rom Wil Wheaton ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges Night Terrors Flaunting Danger Clip Beardless Riker Star Trek Online Webtrek Wadi This is the Power of Math, People Riker's Pizza Warp 10 The Outcast God Aliens Not Respecting Consent Climax of Into Darkness Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw] --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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