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Star Trek Spoofs

Which Spoof do you like the Most?   17 members have voted

  1. 1. Which do you like most?

    • Red Dwarf
      1
    • The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
      1
    • Space Balls
      4
    • Other
      9
    • None, Star Trek should not be made fun of
      2

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As a Star Trek fan who was introduced to Red Dwarf, Space Balls, and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy before Star Trek, I have a soft spot for parodies. Still, I do not know many, so please tell me about more Star Trek Spoofs.

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There's also Galaxy Quest with Tim Allen. Of all the spoofs that I've seen it's my favorite.

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Red Dwarf and Hitchhikers Guide aren't Star Trek spoofs.

 

Galaxy Quest spoofs aspects of Star Trek but stands on it's own very nicely.

 

Star Wreck and Stone Trek are flat out spoofs. Star Wreck: The Pirkening is what Star Trek would be if everyone was drunk, insane, and Finnish. Stone Trek is when the Star Trek and Flintstones Universe collide. Both of these can be found on the web along with tons of other true spoofs.

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Red Dwarf and Hitchhikers Guide aren't Star Trek spoofs.

 

Galaxy Quest spoofs aspects of Star Trek but stands on it's own very nicely.

 

As does Spaceballs, Kallah.

 

Star Wreck and Stone Trek are flat out spoofs. Star Wreck: The Pirkening is what Star Trek would be if everyone was drunk, insane, and Finnish. Stone Trek is when the Star Trek and Flintstones Universe collide. Both of these can be found on the web along with tons of other true spoofs.

 

Heh, love Star Wreck, since it spoofs both Star Trek and B5.

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Galaxy Quest is a spoof of Star Trek.

 

Spaceballs was marketed as a Star Wars spoof but it was really more of a The Wizard of Oz spoof.

 

The rest are more spoofs of Sci-Fi in general. I found the Hitchhiker's movie to be more of a spoof of corporate bureaucracy with the Vogons than really sci-fi.

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Red Dwarf and Hitchhikers Guide aren't Star Trek spoofs.

 

Well I was using a spoof and parody category, and since both Red Dwarf and Hitchhiker take out elements from practically all of the TOS-DS9 episodes I included them, but I see your point.

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Galaxy Quest is a spoof of Star Trek.

 

Spaceballs was marketed as a Star Wars spoof but it was really more of a The Wizard of Oz spoof.

 

The rest are more spoofs of Sci-Fi in general. I found the Hitchhiker's movie to be more of a spoof of corporate bureaucracy with the Vogons than really sci-fi.

 

Well, space balls, I first thought of as a Wars spoof but when I watched it again I saw the more Trek-like elements.

 

The Hitchhiker movie DOES NOT, I repeat, DOES NOT, represent the books, radio, or television series of the same name. In the actual books you can see references to tons of episodes of episodes, mostly TNG, such as the alien race with loses its memory, the alien race which talks telepathically, and there is an alien race in TNG, (I'll look up the name of the episode), that resembles the Vogons.

 

Red Dwarf did spoof some general sci fi, but if you watch it closely, you might feel like its Trek with jokes.

 

Along with that- Hitchhiker was also a parody of Doctor Who- Which Douglas Adams was writing at the same time who wrote Hitchhiker.

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While it is true that the Hitchhikers doesn't cover everything, or even most things, in the book / tV series / radio show / etc., it does include the major elements that the casual Hitchhiker reader / watcher will remember. Whenever you are trying to compress all that info into an hour and 40 minute movie you are going to loose some parts.

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Galaxy Quest is EASILY my favorite Star Trek spoof out there...that movie is FANTASTIC.

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While it is true that the Hitchhikers doesn't cover everything, or even most things, in the book / tV series / radio show / etc., it does include the major elements that the casual Hitchhiker reader / watcher will remember. Whenever you are trying to compress all that info into an hour and 40 minute movie you are going to loose some parts.

 

Yeah, I hate movies that were made from books. But it isn't just that. The movie didn't look or feel like it was from the same franchise. If it wasn't called hitchhiker I am sure that major fans would be sort of unsure whether it was even the same story.

 

The movie was completely different from the other hitchhiker media, as it came decades later after the death of Douglas Adams, and was made, like what I heard about the upcoming star trek film, for an audience who might have heard of hitchhiker but hadn't seen it. As a huge fan who has reread the five books dozens of times, listened to both of the radio shows, and watched the entire tv show again and again, I can say with some confidence that not a single joke was preserved.

 

Just have a look at the characters:

 

Arthur Dent: Helpless in the movie, while in everything else he's a smart man who just happens to be stuck in a terrible situation.

 

Tricia: Does not share any characteristics with her former incarnations, which is actually okay because her character changed a lot from the radio series to the tv show.

 

Ford: Is American. What's that about? Ford's gentleman character is so classic that when I saw him in the trailer and being such an action figure practically made me choke. Ford the Gentleman was such: (the improbability drive turns on and he turns into a penguin) [Ford: That's not the point. The point is I'm now a perfectly safe penguin] with Arthur telling him [Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it!] beforehand, which is replaced in the movie by turning them into a pair of sofa's: [Arthur: I think I'm a sofa. Ford: I know how you feel] Which is a good line but isn't as good as the original.

 

Zaphod: Has his second face under his throat and had it cut off. In the books there is an amazing mystery case about what is wrong with Zaphod's head throughout the entire series, and since the movie ended like it could have a sequel, they seemed to have taken it out of consideration.

 

Also, it does not share the hitchhiker theme. At the end of the movie when they are flying toward the restaurant at the end of the universe, Marvin says the line: "The end of the universe is the other way," something like that, which is a good line which a sane Adams would never have wrote, because he, unlike the writers of the film, was also a real sci-fi writer, who wrote some of the more technological episodes of Doctor Who, and gave great explanations to how the improbability drive actually worked and explained in detail that the restaurant was not an area in space but an area in TIME, and I do not believe who could have written that joke even though he is credited with a part of the screenplay.

 

Sorry to write so much, but when someone mentions the hitchhiker movie I can feel my blood boil. It wasn't bad by itself, but it was no comparison to the others, which were amazing.

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Well, at least you backed your claim up. You're lucky to get more then one sentence out of some people.

Edited by Travis Kroells

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Spaceballs was marketed as a Star Wars spoof but it was really more of a The Wizard of Oz spoof.

 

Like any good spoof, it takes shots at a lot of scifi films. The Planet of the Apes scene at the end is still my favorite. :D

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Well, at least you backed your claim up. You're lucky to get more then one sentence out of some people.

 

I like to give my two thousand cents. :D

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In the actual books you can see references to tons of episodes of episodes, mostly TNG, such as the alien race with loses its memory, the alien race which talks telepathically, and there is an alien race in TNG, (I'll look up the name of the episode), that resembles the Vogons.

 

Except that the Hitchhiker Trilogy (1979-1984) preceded TNG by several years (1987), so if there was any spoofing, it was the other way around. (It is true that Mostly Harmless appeared in 1992, but it was mostly Earth-bound, and frankly, I didn't like the ending.) There are a lot of H2G2 references in Trek - like Ira Grave's certificate signed by Ford Prefect of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation and at least 42 others, by my count.

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Except that the Hitchhiker Trilogy (1979-1984) preceded TNG by several years (1987), so if there was any spoofing, it was the other way around. (It is true that Mostly Harmless appeared in 1992, but it was mostly Earth-bound, and frankly, I didn't like the ending.) There are a lot of H2G2 references in Trek - like Ira Grave's certificate signed by Ford Prefect of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation and at least 42 others, by my count.

 

Oh man! I can't believe I've mixed it all up. Okay, I've recently been listening to the 2001 radio version of Hitchhiker which has such obvious references to Star Trek, but now I'm not sure anymore. If it turns out the fifth and sixth season are complete spoofs of the fourth book of H2G2, I might lose some respect for Star Trek.

 

Thanks for pointing that out!

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Galaxy Quest spoofs aspects of Star Trek but stands on it's own very nicely.

And was clearly written by people who knew and loved Trek, not just obnoxious anti-Trekkies.

 

Dr. Lazarus: I see you managed to get your shirt off.

 

Guy: I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm just "Crewman Number Six." I'm expendable. I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is. I've gotta get outta here.

 

Gwen DeMarco: Ducts? Why is it always ducts?

 

Brandon: But I want you to know that I'm not a complete brain case, okay? I understand completely that it's just a TV show. I know there's no beryllium sphere...

 

Guy: I know! You construct a weapon. Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?

 

Fred Kwan: Hey guys, I just wanted you to know that, the reactors won't take it; the ship is breaking apart and all that... Just FYI.

These writers should be simming with us.

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And was clearly written by people who knew and loved Trek, not just obnoxious anti-Trekkies.

 

Dr. Lazarus: I see you managed to get your shirt off.

 

Guy: I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm just "Crewman Number Six." I'm expendable. I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is. I've gotta get outta here.

 

Gwen DeMarco: Ducts? Why is it always ducts?

 

Brandon: But I want you to know that I'm not a complete brain case, okay? I understand completely that it's just a TV show. I know there's no beryllium sphere...

 

Guy: I know! You construct a weapon. Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?

 

Fred Kwan: Hey guys, I just wanted you to know that, the reactors won't take it; the ship is breaking apart and all that... Just FYI.

These writers should be simming with us.

And, of course, "Does the rolling help?"

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Galaxy Quest is THE definitive Trek spoof, but I consider it more of a tribute film. Its a good solid action adventure/comedy, that pays a cute tribute to Star Trek, but as Kallah mentioned, it totally stands up well on its own.

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Except that the Hitchhiker Trilogy (1979-1984) preceded TNG by several years (1987), so if there was any spoofing, it was the other way around. (It is true that Mostly Harmless appeared in 1992, but it was mostly Earth-bound, and frankly, I didn't like the ending.) There are a lot of H2G2 references in Trek - like Ira Grave's certificate signed by Ford Prefect of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation and at least 42 others, by my count.

 

Now that I think about it, although seven seasons of Red Dwarf were during and past the TNG run, the first episode was written before and slightly during the first season of TNG, and episodes like Confidence and Paranoia, and Future Echoes, seem to actually be used in TNG a lot later on.

 

Also, the theme behind Voyager is completely stolen from Dwarf, now that I think about it. The hologram, half the crew is wiped out, far away from home... And if you want to take it even farther, Neelix is Lister and Janeway is Rimmer, (mostly for making the crew wear uniforms 75000 light years from home).

 

Has anyone yet done this spoof:

 

(the doctor appears) This is an SOS distress call from the USS Voyager /or/ 75000 light years away from earth, the starship USS Voyager. The crew are dead, killed by a severe case of console explosion. The only survivors are the captain, the captains dog, who was safely on earth at the time, and a couple hundred members of the crew. Message ends.

 

 

I need to change the title of this topic.

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For eight years, I saw Galaxy Quest in my local library every time I went there, and always refused to check it out because I thought it would be a stupid Star Trek spoof movie. After reading this topic I decided to give it a go. For the first time in eight years, my library didn't have it.

 

But thats, okay. I got it somewhere else and watched it, and, to be honest, was stunned from the beginning. Just from the theme tune in the menu, it already captured the feel of Star Trek. I swear, there were some shots in which I was sure that it was William Shatner acting and not Tim Allen. But what really did it for me was that the movie could have been a Star Trek episode and that you could tell that whoever wrote it definitely knew their Star Trek.

 

Though, I can't help but feel that if Patrick Stewart was in the same situation, he would immediately tug on his shirt and take command. :P

 

Thanks guys! Loved the movie! :)

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IT was galaxy quest as for the others star trekking is a song spoof

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