It’s ripe for all sorts of ongoing gags: red shirt death toll, or a red shirt that gets horribly maimed but comes back from sick bay every episode South Park style. Plenty of room for plot twists and narrative shifts because neither the MacGuffin nor the true nature of the setting are revealed at the beginning.
Open planet-side. The away team beams in and starts taking readings and such.
Away 1: So, how many tentacles do you think the transporter chief actually has?
Away 2: At least 30, but that depends where in the branching you start counting.
Away 3: 30‽ More like 2,030!
Away 2: Oh I don’t count the little ones. I think of them as tiny fingers.
Away 1: Or octopus suckers.
Away 4: I think they are more like…tongues?
Away 1: Wait! So every time they shook my hand…
Away 4: Uh huh.
Away 1: Honestly, I’m not sure if I’m disgusted or aroused…
Away 3: dis-groused?
Away 4: I always thought they were 1 multi pronged tentacle, like… a hand… or, or, a starfish!
Away 1: A starfish? do you think if they were cut in half they’d become twins?
Disembodied voice: Away One, your communicator is still on.
Away 1: Ugggh! Not again! If I get another reprim…
Blaster fire hits a nearby red shirt and plot ensues
I would love to see this as a series of shorts
It’s ripe for all sorts of ongoing gags: red shirt death toll, or a red shirt that gets horribly maimed but comes back from sick bay every episode South Park style. Plenty of room for plot twists and narrative shifts because neither the MacGuffin nor the true nature of the setting are revealed at the beginning.
Open planet-side. The away team beams in and starts taking readings and such.
Away 1: So, how many tentacles do you think the transporter chief actually has?
Away 2: At least 30, but that depends where in the branching you start counting.
Away 3: 30‽ More like 2,030!
Away 2: Oh I don’t count the little ones. I think of them as tiny fingers.
Away 1: Or octopus suckers.
Away 4: I think they are more like…tongues?
Away 1: Wait! So every time they shook my hand…
Away 4: Uh huh.
Away 1: Honestly, I’m not sure if I’m disgusted or aroused…
Away 3: dis-groused?
Away 4: I always thought they were 1 multi pronged tentacle, like… a hand… or, or, a starfish!
Away 1: A starfish? do you think if they were cut in half they’d become twins?
Disembodied voice: Away One, your communicator is still on.
Away 1: Ugggh! Not again! If I get another reprim…
Blaster fire hits a nearby red shirt and plot ensues
A star trek: away with the charm of early RvB would be wonderful, you are right