"765874 - Unification" - A Quick Review
It is simple, touching, and feels to the viewer like the reuniting of old friends, not just between Kirk and Spock, but between Trek fans and the franchise.
This viral moment is a little bit like back when Gazelle Automations did the Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Animated series video, featuring the moment when Picard was abducted by the Borg. It was the Trek video which "broke the Internet." (To see it again, click here.)
This time, the animation isn't a cartoon. Instead it's the simple face-swap software which has been both a blessing and a plague upon entertainment and culture over the last three years. But it got used for good, for once.
The film doesn't rely solely upon CGI actors, as Robin Curtis, the actress who replaced Kirstie Allie as Lieutenant Saavik in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, comes back to reprise her Vulcan role.
On balance, this is a touching little short film. It is as as touching as it is mysterious, emotional as it is plotless. Honestly it isn't much. But it's just enough to warm every Trekkie's heart.
Even those who have forgotten how "woke" Trek always was.
(To see the short film yourself, click here.)
Eric
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