As a Star Trek sketch, it’s pretty funny. Wilson gets to go goofy in a way he hasn’t gotten to in some time as Bezos dicks around with Richard Branson and the pair casually flaunts their wealth by crashing into space stations. Other than a pretty solid dig about Amazon’s well-reported poor treatment of its workers, the best moment comes with the cameo of Elon Musk (Mikey Day) and his SpaceX vessel. That weird twitch Musk has as he laughs is haunting.
Wilson’s other Amazon-related sketch is maybe too weird for its own good. It starts with him and a group of friends trying to evenly split their checks. Just as Wilson’s orders get bigger and stranger, things take a hard left turn and bring Nazis into the picture. It’s supposed to be a dig at Amazon Prime’s various TV shows, but the punchline takes a little too long to get there. So basically, it’s a standard SNL sketch.
Still, Wilson’s Star Trek sketch comes at just the right time. At the end of the month on October 28, Prodigy will hit Paramount+ and be the first kids show for the series. The following month on November 18, Discovery will return for its fourth season. Star Trek’s other two big shows—Strange New Worlds and the second season of Picard—will both land in 2022.
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