Animated and not relevant to the show. It's a fable told to, what could have been any little girl, that instantly helps her get over her fear of the dark.

It's an interesting piece of work, the animation was done well, nice story/fable, and although worth watching for what it is, it's not my preference for these shorts.

My preference would be to see more shorts showing the interactions between the characters in the show outside of the drama that occurs in the show. Fear of the dark is common to many children and adults. If the goal was to illustrate how Michael Burnham become the woman she is today, or even if it was meant to just show one small piece of her life on how she conquered a fear, this really missed the mark. 7 for the fable and animation, but a 3 for relevance.

Not too surprising. It seems this is the vehicle that will finally explain (after several decades of waiting) what planet Yoda is from. Given the secrecy that surrounded the first season it wouldn't surprise me if Disney isn't already prepared and doesn't have the story mapped out for 3 or 4 seasons. Then again, I thought Disney would have had merchandise out by Christmas.

If they continue the trend, the dialog will be pretty sparse and pretty basic. Writing grunts and one or two word responses doesn't require much time With a couple of exceptions the characters aren't very deep and the dialog for the characters that do speak is pretty predictable. This is an action series with lots of fights and shoot outs. That's what will eat up the time filming.

Once upon a time the F word was referred to as the F Bomb. But the shock value is long gone. Not sure if DC Universe is pushing boundaries to show they can or just catering to what they believe audiences want to see. Marvel used violence and humor in Deadpool and succeeded. Deadpool was violent and so is HQ but the difference is that Deadpool actually had good writing and actual humor and the violence usually had a point and moved the story along. HQ is violence for the sake of violence and swearing just for the sake of swearing.

As pointed out, Doom Patrol is violent and has some over the top (bizarre) humor but it stays within certain boundaries. Even Suicide Squad had its moments. I've never been a fan of slasher movies which are typically bloody, gory, with the point of shocking and horrifying audiences. The problem is that cartoons can take it a step further because they don't require special effects or acting skills and are much cheaper to make than live action shows so there really aren't too many violent acts that can't be shown in a cartoon.

While not true of everyone, many people find humor in others pain. Why do people slow down when there's an accident? Why was the 3 stooges with their physical humor so popular? Maybe it's just that we're glad we're not the one's going through the pain and we are so glad that it's not us we laugh about it from the relief. I don't know. But, for the same reason there's Taco Bell, KFC, and MacDonalds, everyone has different tastes and so HQ will appeal to some and not to others. If you're not into "adult" cartoon sex, violence, murder, and gore you may want to skip this one.

So far my favorite. The interaction between #1 and Spock takes them both out of their normal reserved "shells" which, interestingly, terrifies #1 more than it does Spock. It's not a musical, it just uses one comedic song by #1 towards the end that shows another side to her personality. One that she prefers, and normally, stays hidden.

Spock, is somewhat bemused during her singing. But when #1 finishes, he finally gets it and repeats the chorus with #1 chiming in. At that point they both share something you rarely see from either character, laughter.

The regular show and its drama and life and death situations, and the fact its a military crew can make most of the characters seem pretty dramatic and grim . I think that some of the Short Treks are meant to show regular characters "out-of-character". That's the point of the song.