Best Star Trek parody

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By Gordon Lawyer on Monday, February 22, 1999 - 7:14 am:

In my opinion, it would be the parodies that appeared in Bloom County, but if you think there are other worthy candidates, do say.


By Charles Cabe (Ccabe) on Monday, February 22, 1999 - 12:01 pm:

I like the song "Star Trekin'" on Dr. Demento's 20th Aniversary album. "Star Trekin' across the universe/ boldly going forward/ still can't find reverse."

I also liked the Love Boat/ST:TNG parody on Saturday Night Live. It had Patrick Stewart (Guest Host) as Picard, Rob Schinder as Riker, Chris Farley as Data, and Tim Meadows as Geordi/Issac/Guinan.


By Todd Pence on Monday, February 22, 1999 - 5:11 pm:

The MAD magazine send-up. It never fails to make me chuckle.


By Rodnberry on Tuesday, February 23, 1999 - 4:15 am:

I like Dana Carvey doing Khan, owner of a rotating restaurant that's the Enterprise's saucer section.

Also, the first (ever?) ST parody that the original SNL cast did. It was very funny. All the parodies that show did were, yes, even Shatner's "Get a life!" skit.


By Jennifer Pope on Tuesday, February 23, 1999 - 12:25 pm:

The Star Wreck series.


By Matthew Patterson on Tuesday, February 23, 1999 - 9:40 pm:

My personal favorite is one I found on the Slightly Warped Trek page--it's a Spice Girls/ Voyager parody. Sample line:

Chakotay: People on the shiiiiiiiip…
All: TREK UP YOUR LIFE!!!!
Chakotay: We're gonna take a triiiiiiiip…
All: TREK UP YOUR LIFE!!!!
Chakotay: People on the shiiiiiiip…
All:TREK UP YOUR LIFE!! GO…WARP…NINE… HOLD TIGHT!
Janeway; Warpin' to the left…
Crew 'Cause we're havin' a good time!
Janeway: Dodgin' to the right…
Crew: And we know that we'll be fine!
All: Warpin' to the left cause we're havin' a good time, ah ah ah…
Janeway; Warpin' to the left…
Crew 'Cause we're havin' a good time!
Janeway: Dodgin' to the right…
Crew: And we know that we'll be fine!
Warpin' to the left
Crew: 'Cause we're havin' a good time…
All : GO…WARP…NINE… HOLD TIGHT!!

The cast's Spice names were hilarious too, but the only one I can remember is Janeway's, Hairdo Spice. If anyone could put up a link to the Slightly Warped page so I could download the parody again, I would be most grateful!


By A. Sinclaire on Wednesday, February 24, 1999 - 12:21 pm:

I think the best ones are Bloom County's, and Star Wreck.


By Mike Ram on Wednesday, February 24, 1999 - 7:20 pm:

"Farrakhan!!!"(In Living Color-Jim Carrey)
James..."Cahn!"(The Simpsons-?)
"Twix!"(Seinfeld-George)


By Gordon Lawyer on Saturday, February 27, 1999 - 9:49 am:

One Bloom County one I particularly liked was one where Steve Dallas replaced Opus as Spock. Here's the dialogue (BTW, in case you don't remember, Hodgepodge was the jackrabbit and Portnoy was the woodchuck):

Steve: Sulu, fetch me a martini.

Hodgepodge: Vulcans don't drink booze.

Portnoy: Or say "fetch".

Steve: I'm a Nouvoux Vulcan and I'm taking over the ship. We're now on a five year mission of cheap pleasures.

Portnoy: Sacreliege!

Hodgepodge: What do we do?

Portnoy: You humor him while I send out a discreet distress signal.

Steve: Sulu, beam up several drunk soriety girls with small noses.

Hodgepodge: Er...

Portnoy: GOD HELP US!


By Todd Pence on Saturday, February 27, 1999 - 3:01 pm:

Most younger people don't even remember Bloom County anymore. I remember a couple of years ago I mentioned it to a class of my high school students and not a single one of them had any idea of what I was talking about. Ah, how the cultural icons of one generation are so quickly forgotten by the next . . .


By Mike Ram on Saturday, February 27, 1999 - 8:17 pm:

Uh, whats Bloom County?


By Rodnberry on Saturday, February 27, 1999 - 11:48 pm:

Bloom County was a comic strip created by Berke Breathed in the early 1980's, and was sorta drawn in a style like Doonesbury, also with several offbeat characters, but was a different cartoon. It's very funny. Breathed stopped doing it after awhile and drew Outpost (which also features Opus, the big, squared-nose penguin) since then. I don't know if he still does or what he's up to today. If you have a used bookstore in your town, check it out, or search for it online. There are several oversized paperback compilations of the comic strip.Bloom County.

BTW, you do know the comic strip Doonesbury, don't you?


By Ben Jackson (Bjackson) on Sunday, February 28, 1999 - 9:57 am:

I liked the Simpsons' Star Trek: The Old Generation (is that what it was called? Can't remember) People who have seen it will know what I'm talking about


By Edward Jefferson (Ejefferson) on Sunday, February 28, 1999 - 10:55 am:

The Slightly Warped Star Trek Page

There you go!


By Todd Pence on Sunday, February 28, 1999 - 12:14 pm:

I think the name of Breathed's comic strip which was the followup to "Bloom County" is called "Outland." Hey may still be writing it, but few papers carry it nowdays if he does. In the last days of Bloom County, Breathed seemed to have lost his sense of humor and became instead increasingly bitter and cynical, which probably turned most of his readership off.


By Mike Ram on Sunday, February 28, 1999 - 12:40 pm:

Actually...whats Doonesbury...? :)

Ben, that was Star Trek 12: So Very Tired


By Matthew Patterson on Sunday, February 28, 1999 - 6:35 pm:

Thanks for the link, Ed!


By Dave Rod on Monday, March 01, 1999 - 4:25 am:

There was a good one on the cartoon Eek the Cat,
where a red-shirted cat was afraid to beam down
to a planet. He new he would die. Right when they were leaving and he thought it was safe, a
safe fell out of the sky on him for no reason!


By ScottN on Monday, March 01, 1999 - 11:36 am:

Not exactly a parody, but in the novel "Killing Time", the Romulans have altered the past, and Kirk is now a redshirt ensign... He's in the landing party, and his roommate hands him a blue shirt to wear on the landing party and tells him something to the effect of "live a little, and live a little longer".


By Rodnberry on Wednesday, March 03, 1999 - 2:58 am:

Thanks, Todd. You're right, it is "Outland." I knew it was one or the other.

Mike, "Doonesbury" is a comic strip since the late 1960's or about 1970, and is mostly political, or used to be. I've not read it for sometime. The artist, Garry Trudeau, is married to NBC's Jane Pauley, who, if you're not familiar with her, is a national news anchor, and host of the tv program, "Dateline."

You can find both cartoons on the web listed in pretty much any search engine, or most of them, at least.


By Keith Alan Morgan on Saturday, March 20, 1999 - 6:39 am:

Berke Breathed pulled the plug on Outland several years ago and since then has been doing illustrated books, such as A Wish For Wings That Work, The Last Bassalope and Red Ryder Come Home. Some of them feature Bloom County characters.

I loved SNL's Last Voyage Of The Starship Enterprise. What really surprised me the last time I watched it was when 'Kirk' listed a series of bad things and I realized they were references to actual shows and not something the writer had made up to sound Star Trekky.
I also liked the Love Boat/NextGen sketch.
The Mad, Cracked and Crazy parodies usually had one funny thing in them, but the best one of those was the one where they ended up on the planet syndication.
Now that I think about it there was a Tiny Toons parody with Plucky Duck as Kirk and an Animaniacs one as well.
For most obscure parody I would say Rock Trek. It was a comic strip that appeared 3 times in my rock club's newsletter in 1982, but the only parody element was the cartoonist had changed the "Space, the final fronter..." speech to 'Rocks, the frontier with polish...' and so on with rockhounding references.


By BrianB on Thursday, April 08, 1999 - 6:55 am:

The Mad/Cracked magazines way back when... Nowadays, both the artists and the writers don't even try their best anymore. I can do better cartoon parodies myself. The art ain't stellar, but the sight gags and jokes are at least more Star Trek. The mags just fill their cartoons with Americana and present political in-jokes. If anyone is interested in seeing my parodies, write me a note.
Animaniacs ripped Scotty a new one when Whacko gave Scotty donuts and in five minutes, he blimped into his movie frame.
There's also a bootleg MST3K does ST5:TFF video that puts all of the above to shame.


By rachgd on Tuesday, April 27, 1999 - 4:09 am:

*I just adore Peter Anspach's "light bulb" parodies (found at his page):
TOS: Who Shall Bring Us Light?
TNG: The Change
DS9: Beacon of Hope
VOY: Illumination
*And I love "Catcher in the Q" by Sarah Rasher, which can be found through The Slightly Warped Star Trek Page.
*Also, the best episode guides ever are by Warren Siegel, but I have no idea where I found them.


By Jon Wade on Tuesday, April 27, 1999 - 6:21 am:

Animaniacs had a very good parody. the warners beam onto the ship, their 5 minute mission is "to go where no warner has gone before", then they use the restroom across the hall from the transporters, exclaming "mission accomplished!"
Wakko gives doughnuts to squatty, who eventually becomes the large fat guy we know today. they use the classic "view scotty from above in the jefferies tube". they even meet a Kahn character, or as Yakko exclaims "Look, it's Ricardo Montaban and his big plastic chest!"
It was quite well done, and both the artist and the writer must have been big Trek fans.


By ScottN on Tuesday, April 27, 1999 - 9:57 am:

Actually, according to Leonard Nimoy's autobiography, that was Montalban's *REAL* chest!


By MikeC on Tuesday, May 11, 1999 - 3:22 pm:

Not a parody, but the Saturday Night Live "Star Trek Convention" sketch cracks me up each time. "I'd just like to say--GET A LIFE, WILL YOU PEOPLE!" There were some real references to Trek shows in there too, even one to "The Enemy Within", when Phil Hartman makes up the excuse why William Shatner is going off the handle.


By Todd Pence on Tuesday, May 11, 1999 - 6:33 pm:

A nit about that sketch: Victoria Jackson played convention guest actress Julie Cobb, who guest starred in "By Any Other Name". This is a nice touch that reveals the writers of the sketch knew their Trek trivia. Only one problem: Jackson is a blonde, Cobb a brunette.


By mpaterson on Tuesday, May 11, 1999 - 8:02 pm:

And Shatner's hair changed color and texsture and style between the end of TOS and the movies, but nobody said anything about that!


By Heather on Wednesday, May 12, 1999 - 9:26 am:

>Only one problem: Jackson is a blonde, Cobb a brunette.>

Anti-nit: in the 20th century we have hair dye. Which, according to my grandmother, can make a blonde a brunette.


By MikeC on Wednesday, May 12, 1999 - 1:09 pm:

Yep. That might have even been a joke, that this character who everyone wanted to see--looks nothing like the character in real life.


By M. Jenkins on Tuesday, June 22, 1999 - 1:41 am:

There's one that I loved, and so did my best friend, Crisa. According to her, it's on the old SNL (I just know it's SNL), where they're doing the landing party parody, and the security people have to throw the kicking and screaming redshirt, who's not wanting to go because he wants to live longer, and doesn't want to die. We both crack up at that one every time.


By Ron Albanese on Thursday, September 09, 1999 - 9:38 pm:

In 1980 or so, I recall a St parody on SNL where
the Enterprise is now a resturant. It was funny as
hell. Anybody know anything about this?


By Keith Alan Morgan on Friday, September 10, 1999 - 9:09 am:

I think it was later than 1980 because I believe Dana Carvey played Khan, I think Shatner played Kirk and Sulu was fat.

Now that I think about it, there was an SCTV sketch with Dave Thomas, I think he played McCoy, but I can't remember who was Kirk or Spock. This might have been when SCTV was a half hour syndicated show, before it became a 90 minute NBC show.

Do either of those jog your memory?


By Ron Albanese on Friday, September 10, 1999 - 12:58 pm:

I remember SULU being fat! There was a probalem.
Spock was a waiter, and ran out of Russiin
dressing. He asked Kirk for help. Kirk was like
"okay, we'll...mix...mayo....with..." It was funny
as heck, and I would die to get a copy.


By Jason on Tuesday, November 09, 1999 - 9:24 am:

there are parodies aplenty at sev trek. The website is www.sev.com.au


By Butch Brookshier on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 7:19 pm:

Another parody I enjoyed was by The Frantics. It was supposed to be every episode of Star Trek boiled down into one 3 minute sketch. One of the duo imitated the Enterprise with a sombrero & 2 plastic baseball bats.


By KAM on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 11:53 pm:

While not exactly a Star Trek parody, northwest comedy show Almost Live did a sketch with Bill Nye (yes, the Science Guy) doing a phony commercial for his one-man show Bill Nye Is William Shatner.
Bill does re-enactments of scenes from Shatner's various shows, including Shatner's favorite word [close-up] "Destroyed!"
(It's funnier to see than to read about.)


By rachgd on Thursday, November 11, 1999 - 12:23 am:

Well, it would pretty much have to be. ;)

Meanwhile, the movie Fight Club contains an amusing scene. Edward Norton is asked whom, out of everyone in the world, he'd fight -- to which he replies: "Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner."

Heh.


By KAM on Thursday, November 11, 1999 - 12:40 am:

Thanks, rachgd.

(Pulls knife out of back)

Here, I think this is yours.

(Collapses)


By Ccabe's Evil Twin, who is also a Star Trek fan, it must be genetic on Thursday, November 11, 1999 - 8:01 am:

KAM, that was mean. That was really low. That was pure evil

(You know you've been insuted when an Evil Twin calls you evil.)


By KAM, clinging to life after being stabbed in the back by rachgd on Thursday, November 11, 1999 - 12:37 pm:

*gasp*

E... excuse me?

W... what was mean?


By Kail on Thursday, November 11, 1999 - 2:12 pm:

There is a great Star Trek parody called 'Stone Trek'. It kinda crosses Star Trek with the Flintstones. VERY funny, and the original art is excellent. Check it out at....
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sapringer/STONETREK.html


By rachgd on Thursday, November 11, 1999 - 5:45 pm:

KAM: Cc'sET thinks you're evil. I find that funny.

And there was no stabbing in the back! I had that little winky smiley thing there and everything! Must you enact the Cheltenham tragedy?

Drama queen.

;) - Another winky smiley thing. So, a joke. Yes?


By Nick Angeloni (Nangeloni) on Thursday, November 11, 1999 - 10:09 pm:

Should I clean all of this up? It seems like it is just a simple misunderstanding.


By KAM on Friday, November 12, 1999 - 7:04 am:

Well, I was attempting to be funny with the backstabbing bit, but apparently CCET misunderstood what I wrote.

Nick, if you feel the need to delete this diversion, that's understandable. The joke bombed anyway.
(uh, oh. If that's the criteria, most of my Lines You Would Never Hear In Star Trek will disappear. Yikes!)


By Dr. McCoy on Friday, November 12, 1999 - 7:07 am:

He's dead, Jim.

(pause)

Wait a minute! This man is a Klingon!


JARSO reference ;-)


By rachgd on Friday, November 12, 1999 - 8:33 am:

KAM: I laughed at the back-stabbing bit, I swear! And I'm sure vcabe was laughing too.... that's if evil twins can laugh any way but maniacally...

Dr. McCoy (if that is your real name): Is nowhere safe from the scourge of JARSO? It'll be turning up in Religious Musings next... ;)

('Nother smiley winky thing here!)


By Keith Alan Morgan on Friday, November 12, 1999 - 9:20 am:

Well, now that JARSO (James & rachgd's Soap Opera) has been brought up, it had moments of Star Trek parody, or at least ST characters and things would occasionally appear.

The same could be said for the Phantom Returns boards and the League Of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions boards.

All three here at NitCentral.

Phil must be so proud.


By Callie Sullivan on Friday, November 12, 1999 - 12:23 pm:

Nick - leave it in! Where's your sense of humour?! It made me laugh, anyway, and if the moderators took out everything that had wandered off-topic, you'd lose half the contents of the entire board!


By Nick Angeloni (Nangeloni) on Friday, November 12, 1999 - 8:33 pm:

I was just wondering if there were any hurt feelings, that's all. And there appears to be none, so I wont!


By Keith Alan Morgan on Wednesday, December 15, 1999 - 11:17 pm:

A short lived sci-fi comedy named Quark. Surprisingly someone has created a website for it.
http://www.primenet.com/~luethy/


By D.K. Henderson on Tuesday, December 21, 1999 - 5:04 am:

I used to think that "Quark" was the sound a bionic duck would make....


By KevinS on Tuesday, December 21, 1999 - 4:10 pm:

Dilithium Rhapsody:
sung to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody

Scene one: The Engine Room

Geordie: Is this the warp drive?
Is this machinery?
Caught in a fast dive,
no escape from the gravity.
Switch on your probe,
look down at the globe and see.
I'm just a blind boy,
aided prosthetically.
Because I clearly see, clearly know.
Enterprise flying low.
Can you hear the wind blow?
Bashing through the bulkheads
to me, to me.

Scene two: The Bridge

Troi: The Klingon is in command.
Has a turtle on his head,
looks rediculous in red.
Klingons, I can sense it now
are not content to sit at ops all day.

Worfie, ooh.
Didn't mean to make you growl,
I'm glad you shot Picard and William Riker;
carry on, carry on.
(Let your navigating doom us.)

Scene Three: The Engine Room

Geordie: Too late, our time has come.
Sent Shivers through the hull,
all the readouts going dull.
Goodbye everybody,
we've got to go.
Got to leave the stars behind
and crash the ship.
Troi: Klingon, ooh.
I don't wanna die,
I sometimes wish you'd studied those •••• controls

A light lights up on a console.

Geordie: I see a little sillhouetto of a ship.
Red alert, red alert, will you answer my mayday?
Planetary lightning, very very frightening me
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo Shuttlecraft
I'd better go...
I'm just a blind boy, making a getaway.
Troi: He's just a blind boy, running for the shuttle bay.
Spare him his life from this mad mutiny!

Scene Four: The Shuttlecraft Galileo

Geordie: Tractor beam, locking on, will you let me go?
Worf: Quvatlah, no, I will not let you go!
Troi: Let him go!
Worf: Quvatlah, I will not let you go!
Troi: Let him go!
Worf: Quvatlah, I will not let you go!
Geordie: Let me go!
Worf: Will not let you go!
Geordie: Let me go!
Worf: Will not let you go!
Geordie: Let me go, oh!
Worf: No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Geordie: Oh Leah Brahms, Leah Brahms
tell me where I ought to go.
Doc Heisenberg has a theory put aside
for me, for me, for me!

He spins off into space and is lost forever.

Scene Five: The Bridge

Picard: So you think you can stun me and capture my craft.
So you think you can beat me and give me the shaft!
Oh, baby,
can't do this to my baby;
just gotta win out, just gotta get you out of here!

A battle; Worf is shot.

Epilogue: The Shuttlecraft Galileo

Geordie: Nothing's really matter,
anyone can see.
Nothing's really matter, nothing's really matter, but me.

Curtain.

--


By KevinS on Tuesday, December 21, 1999 - 4:17 pm:

I don't suppose anyone remembers a little 45 from 1976 or so called "Star Drek." It was advertised in Starlog back when their issue numbers were in the single digits.

Loved it at the time. Have no idea if I would today or not.

(p.s. The word censored in the previous post is d-a-m-n-e-d.)


By Captain Jerk on Tuesday, December 21, 1999 - 11:02 pm:

Here's what I remember from Star Drek...

Captain's Log... Stardate 4795, marked down from 50. We are currently in orbit around the planet Schwartz.

Intercom: Engineering to Captain Jerk! ENGINEERING TO CAPTAIN JERK!
Capt. Jerk: Jerk, here, what is it Snotty?
Snotty: Cap'n, we're losin' power in the warp drive. I tried stickin' a weenie up it, but it did'na work. Would you have any mustard on the bridge?
Jerk: Mr. Schlock?
Schlock: No mustard, Captain.
Jerk: Conclusions, Mr. Schlock?
Schlock: It would appear that Mr. Snot is about to eat a weenie without any mustard.
Jerk: As usual, Mr. Schlock, your logic is impeccable, but I was referring to the crisis at hand.
Schlock: It is too early to tell. I suggest waiting for further plot complications.

Computer: WARNING - THIS IS A PLOT COMPLICATION! WARNING - THIS IS A PLOT COMPLICATION!

Schlock: Plot complication coming on screen... It appears to be an enormous negative space wedgie of immense size, heading for us at warp speed... Estimated time of impact, 16.9 seconds... 15... 14...

Jerk: Snotty, get us out of here!

Schlock: 3... 2... 1... wipeout...

[sounds of dishes crashing, pots banging, etc...]

[more silliness deleted cuz my memory fails me]


By Nick Angeloni (Nangeloni) on Tuesday, December 21, 1999 - 11:40 pm:

Did anyone ever see the MadTV parodies? Their "Star Trek: Deep Stain Nine" and "Kirk and Spock Variety Hour" skits were pretty funny. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but Debra Wilson, in MadTV's cast, is a big Star Trek fan. She played Lisa Cusak's voice in "The Sound of Her Voice" and a background voice-over in Star Trek: The Experience. She did a pretty good Uhura in the "Variety Hour" sketch.


By Charles Cabe (Ccabe) on Wednesday, December 22, 1999 - 11:34 am:

Star Drek is also avalable on Dr. Demento's 20th aniversary album.


By John A. Lang on Sunday, February 20, 2000 - 11:40 am:

Dave Thomas also did a brilliant Shatner imitation on SCTV where he was portraying a coach
for a hockey team.

It's too good!


By juli k on Friday, March 03, 2000 - 7:57 am:

Star Drek rules! "Jerk here, what is it, Snotty?" cracks me up every time. I also like the "Star Trekkin'" song (Kirk: "Ah, we come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill..."). Also, the "Amok Time" parody in "Cable Guy" had me rolling on the floor with tears in my eyes.

Anyone remember another Doctor Demento favorite from about 15 years ago, "The Trouble With Klingons"? My memory on this is fuzzy, but I think it was a song, and they took actual dialogue from "The Trouble With Tribbles" and pieced it together to sound like the Klingons were multiplying like crazy:

Baris: Kirk, this station is swarming with Klingons.
Spock: They are consuming our supplies and returning nothing.
Uhura: Oh, but they do give us something, Mr. Spock, they give us love....

Anybody remember the rest?

I also have the following sound file on my PC desktop, I think from when Shatner was on Saturday Night Live, (unfortunately, I never got to see that one).

Shatner: Doctor McCoy, this man needs medical attention!
McCoy: Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a -- oh! Well, sure.


By Alan Hamilton on Tuesday, March 28, 2000 - 2:51 am:

What, no mention of "Galaxy Quest"?


By Dan on Friday, April 07, 2000 - 3:58 am:

I have original series bloopers on vhs and cd rom..please email me if you are interested..thanks, Dan
Penndj@aol.com


By Derf on Sunday, November 12, 2000 - 12:53 pm:

In Living Color did a "Star Trek: The VERY Final Voyage" parody where Jim Carrey was Kirk with a walker and a potbelly, David Alan Grier was Spock, "Bones" was a skeleton in a wheelchair, etc.

The exchange I remember:
Kirk: Spock what do you make of this?
Spock: I can't tell Captain, but as you know, Vulcans must spawn every seven years, and frankly, you're looking good to me.

Kirk: Scotty, what's going on down there?
Scotty: Cap'n, I can't seem to contain m'bowels!


By Jason on Saturday, February 03, 2001 - 8:21 pm:

There's a website called stonetrek.com It is a cross between TOS and The Flintstones. The best part is that they keep track of the number of Redshirts that die in each episode. :)


By Frank on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 9:25 am:

In this episode of the cartoon show "Garfield and friends" in the U.S. Acres portion of the show with the farm animals , they did a spoof of Star Trek, called "Swine Trek". I like Garfield!!! I want to see a Garfield movie on the big screen. Also on the Drew Carey Show , they sometimes do spoofs of Trek. That show is sooo funny but Mimi Bobeck is so Mean


By gcapp on Thursday, September 06, 2001 - 7:24 pm:

Wayne & Shuster (who got their start on the Ed Sullivan show) did a spoof called "Star Schtick". The President of Earth (who lives on a peanut farm, which tells you when this was made) sends the starship Frisbee (a sub-compact starship with the brand Toyota on it) on a mission to Alpha Yenta, a planet of super-women who are threatening to take over the universe.

Commanded by Captain James T. Quirk (Frank Shuster), first officer Mr. Spoof (Johnny Wayne), Bones, Sukei, Lt. O'Hara (black, born in Dublin), Mr. Popov, Scotty.

Scotty reports he's calculated their galaxy position, "I make it out as gamma seven fourrr eight J". Quirk tells him to check it out on the accuracy computer. "wrong, wrong, wrong!" it shouts as the word flashes on two screens and Scott has a shameful look. Quirk looks at the clipboard -- "Two and three make five, Mr. Scott."

Scott tries again, "Gamma 7 4 9 J". "Right, right, right, right!" the computer replies.

"There's no room for mistakes on a starship, Mr. Scott. Good thing one of us has brains."

"Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong..."
"And turn off the computer when you're done with it!"

When the president delivers a horrific piece of news, the crew, lined up, turn one after another to look at the next person down the line with an expression of incredulity. Lt. O'Hara turns to Spoof, who yawns. Quirk and the Pres go to berate him for his indifference. They stroll back talking, and the pres delivers a second line, and again the look of incredulity passes down the line. O'Hara looks down at Spoof sleeping in a hammock.

"He's talking about the end of the Earth!"
"Well, so what, it's not the end of the world!"

Before the president leaves, they sing the Earth anthem. The lead-in to "O Canada" is heard, but then they start singing a different tune:

"Hail to the Earth.... Planet of our birth.
You are the sphere.... all of us hold dear.
From the north pole to the south pole
spinning up there, in the blue!
Oh, you beautiful ball!" (same tune as "Oh, you beautiful doll") "You great big beautiful ball.
We do it all for you!" (an old McDonald's restaurant jingle)

Spoof comments, "Good thing they put that last line in. Now we can all get a free hamburger."

The president leaves, to the tune of "Happy Days are here again" as a burly Secret Serviceman with the words "Secret Service" on his shirt escorts him out.

Quirk tells Spoof to raise the microphone. The microphone heads right for Quirk's mouth and keeps going, fortunately, Quirk moved his head aside. Spoof apologizes, and lowers the mike a bit.

Quirk addresses the entire crew on ship's video, even the engine stoker (coal-fired). As he finishes, he tells the crew, "you have a captain who is intelligent, brave--"

"Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong..."
"Scotty, I thought I told you to turn off the accuracy computer!"
"I did, sirr. It just couldn't take that last rremarrrrk."

They're ready to leave orbit, Spoof shows off his "M-5" computer with all the launch programming automated. "You have ignition." "You have liftoff", a computer says.

"What are those buttons for?" Quirk asks. "Oh, those are for me." Spoof pushes a button. "You have a Coke", the computer says. Spoof holds up a bottle of Pepsi. "Incorrect, but then, it is not programmed for the Pepsi challenge."
"Alright, Mr. Spoof, you can tell the crew to undo their seatbelts."
"This is Mr. Spoof. You may now undo your seatbelts. However, seasoned travelers usually keep their belts done up, tightening them just before..." Quirk tells Spoof to follow him and they take the lift to the briefing room where an amusing encounter happens.

They encounter the Yentans' spaceship - Spoof figures out it is Yentan because all the fenders are dented. Quirk doesn't think that was very nice of Spoof. A Yentan beams aboard and warns them to stay away.

After the Yentans capture Quirk and Spoof (behind a cellophane forcefield), the sketch breaks for a commercial, "but we'll be right back", and Spoof says, "that's logical". They discover the President is also captive. Spoof uses an anti-matter gadget to blow a hole in the wall, Quirk says he ought to get one, and Spoof says, "Radio Shack".

They discover all the men in the Frisbee crew have beamed down and have been mesmerized or whatever by the Yentan women. Quirk knows Spoof, who has no emotions, wouldn't be affected, but why not himself? Spoof says, "The crew asked me to tell you about this," and holds up a bottle of Scope mouthwash. Quirk says he uses it, but thanks anyway.

The queen of the Yentas summons them to the throne room, then she introduces her three boys: Justin, Sacha and Zeppo. The boys have pointed ears and eyebrows, and look at Spoof with affection. Quirk looks at the boys and at Spoof, who looks away with near embarrassment.

"There must be an explanation for this, Mr. Spoof."
"Very well," Spoof replies, "let's hear it."
"It's clear that you've been here before, and there's been some... hanky panky between you and the queen."
Spoof goes and steps next to the queen. "We prefer to call it 'sovereignty-association'." (What Quebec's separatist government was seeking at the time)
"You mean you're--"
"Who else but the King of the Yentas!"

In the end, Spoof and the Queen reveal that they were worried about humans being conquerors with dreams of domination, but see that this is not so (with one exception - a broadcasting magnate well known in Canada at the time). They invite the crew to stay in their paradise, the crew is overjoyed, until Quirk reminds them of their duty: "Back to the mother ship." (sounds like a spoof of "This Side of Paradise").

After they leave, Spoof tells the boys, "it's time for Mork and Mindy!"

Flying away, the Frisbee crew is asking themselves if they did the right thing, or were they complete idiots.

"Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right..." (fade)

There's more than that, but that's a good hint of it.

I have the syndicated hacked-up version of it. It doesn't have Spoof yawning at the prophecy of doom, or Lt. O'Hara identifying her place of birth, and I suspect one or two other snips. It originally aired in 1979.


By BrianB on Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 7:36 am:

Star Warp'd (1999)
A Claymation parody fued between Kirk and Spock and Darths Vader and Maul and an all-star cast of surprise guests. I won't give away the plot or their parody names.
The claymation is somewhat primitive, but the special effects and quite state-of-the-art for an ameteur, unauthorized parody. It is also well-scored.
Available in convention dealers' rooms.
Also available Star Wreck Zone (1995) from the same people of Star Warp'd.
A TNG-TOS crossover. Claymation, SFX, score a little more primitive.


By KAM on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 1:46 am:

The Adventures of Mayberry Melonpool http://www.melonpool.com does a bunch of Star Trek stuff (as well as other SF). One storyline had him thinking he was Kirk, another they encountered a giant space amoeba, and he even managed to get Star Trek cancelled after 13 episodes and changed time.


By Mad. on Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 1:14 am:

MADTV did a parody of "Troubles With Tribbles" as a Hispanic version of the show. Will Sasso was a very heavy Kirk, Alex Borstein was a Klingon, the black chick whose name escapes me was Uhura, a black dude played Medico McCoy, Michael McDonald played Sulu (not looking anything at all like him) and that tall skinny dude played "Senor Spock", whose scope was the very same style of magnifying glass that Voyager's holodoc had, and that my former employer uses. And they even had Scotty, speaking Hispanic with, of course, a Scottish accent.


By LUIGI NOVI on Monday, October 22, 2001 - 12:28 am:

Rodnberry: I like Dana Carvey doing Khan, owner of a rotating restaurant

Luigi Novi: Khan was the owner? I didn't remember that. I thought it was Kirk. My favorite parts were when a customer starting choking, and Kirk told Bones to help him, and Bones said, "Jim, I'm a doctor, not a--oh yeah!", and then Spock (Kevin Nealon) made the guy upchuck the thing his throat with the nerve pinch.

Galaxy Quest was a great movie.

The one In Living Color did was good. Jim Carrey's Kirk was hilarious.

The bit from The Family Guy was hilarious too. My friend sent it to me, but I don't have the link. I'll try and find it out for you guys.

The Sev Trek cartoons are pretty cool. Some of the submitted punchlines are pretty funny. My favorite are the two where Scotty says "Captain, she canna take it no more" and "Captain, I canna break the laws of physics", and the punchline sumbitters had to come up with the set up. The submitted punchlines were great. The ones I sumbitted that I'm most proud of are the ones for the "Why is Paris in the brig" strip, based on the episode Thirty Days(VOY).

The three minute standup montage from the end of Trekkies had me and my two friends doubled over with laughter when we first saw it together in the theater. I challenge you not to laugh when you see it.


By Alice on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 3:54 am:

This isn't a parody as such, but I can't figure out where to put it...at the end of Toy Story 2, when Buzz and the gang leave the toy collector's apartment block, and the second Buzz decides to stay 'with my old dad' - Zurg (a moment of revelation in the movie that makes me laugh every time!)...when 'our' Buzz waves him goodbye, he gives him the Vulcan Live Long and Prosper salute.

I could be wrong, but I'm sure I saw it, and I watched the movie a second time on the Disney Channel just to make sure! Well, no actually I watched it a second time on the same day because I love it, love it....


By Sophie Hawksworth on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 5:10 am:

From one of the anniversary shows I recall a parody with Kate Mulgrew as Janeway, captaining the Enterprise-D. The rest of the bridge crew were the cast of Frasier.

Daphne (as Troi) senses strong sexual urges from an alien ship, then realises they are really coming from close by. She looks up to see Niles gazing at her...

Anyone else remember that?


By Electron on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 9:41 am:

Yes, that was the funniest Voyager episode ever. Not to forget the legendary chair...


By Sophie Hawksworth on Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 2:08 am:

Here in Britain, the sale of a power company used a well made Star Trek advert featuring Shatner, Doohan and space footage from Wrath of Khan.

The landing party is having trouble beaming up.
Kirk calls for more power.
Scotty opines that 'The man is power crazy!'
Eventually they beam up, but the transporter has put Kirk's head on a woman's body and vice-versa.

Kirk can't resist the urge to fondle his new 'assets' and gets his face slapped by the woman.


By Electron on Monday, June 24, 2002 - 3:44 pm:

The long lost home movie has been found!

Point your RealPlay at these URLs:
rtsp://62.153.249.11/ondemand/psdm/pro7/bully/staffel6/ut6_13_160.rm - low bandwidth and slow computer
rtsp://62.153.249.11/ondemand/psdm/pro7/bully/staffel6/ut6_13_320.rm - high bandwidth and fast computer

This clips comes from a very popular comedy show in .de and there will be even an entire movie dedicated to the adventures of Captain Kork, Mr. Brigitte Spuck, Pille, Mr. Solo and Schrotty. There is no need for a translation I think.


By King Mob on Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 3:47 am:

By Grapthar's Hammer!

Only one other mention for "Galaxy Quest"?


By Sven of Nine - if he`s there, he`ll give you the money himself on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 1:50 am:

I remember a sketch in the Russ Abbott Show where Russ Abbott played Spock to Les Dennis's Kirk, where Spock, in an attempt to be jovial to the crew by slapping them on the shoulder, accidentally gave all of the bridge crew the Nerve Pinch. By the end of the sketch, he had given Uhura (whose name he couldn't pronounce properly) the pinch, only to find he was all alone on the bridge, and started crying!

OK, so it's not the funniest, but I thought it deserved a mention.


By Sophie on Monday, October 21, 2002 - 8:38 am:

This one appeared in Dilbert (approximate quote):

Alice: Asok, the boiler is overheating. We need you to crawl through this ventilation duct and shut it down.
Asok: You can rely on me!
Asok gets his torso into the duct, then gets stuck. Alice holds up a board reading "Spank the Intern, 50c"
Alice: Today Asok learns that real life is not like Star Trek!


By Brian Kelly on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 6:20 pm:

I remember many years ago, "America's Funniest Home Videos" asked viewers to send in their Star Trek parodies. A few samples:

-Kirk orders the crew to raise shields. All the crew members hold up little shields.

-Kirk is giving one of his speeches, stops, leans over, breaks wind, and continues.

-Two crew members are seen on a planet surface. One says into his communicator "Beam us aboard." Just then, a board falls from the sky and lands on their heads.

-Kirk says into his communicator "Kirk to Enterprise". The response is "The number you have dialed cannot be reached at this time."

-Kirk gives his usual opening monologue as the Enterprise approaches a planet. Just after Kirk says "To boldly go where no man has gone before.", the crew beams down to the planet and says "Dangit, we've been here before."

Also, "Exposure" did a Star Trek themed episode a year or two ago. The first segment had a pair of redshirts wandering around on a planet discusing their problems. The second segment featured a Captain Kirk-type on a very cramped starship. His crew was described as being better off working at a burger joint. ("Gentlemen, we have a date with DESTINY!" "We're gonna do wha...?") The third segment was a film by Robert Duncan McNeil featuring Cupid as a gun-for-hire.

One more thing, has anyone thought of the "Space Quest" series of games?


By Mr. Mistie on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 7:15 pm:

Ooh! I love Space Quest. I can't wait for the unofficial sequel to come out.


By Chris Diehl on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 11:29 am:

The SNL Sketch with Dana Carvey as Khan, had Khan as a health inspector. Kirk and his people are running a decommissioned Enterprise as a seafood restaurant. Khan plans to cite Kirk for some violations and get his revenge that way, so Spock suggests they bribe him. Khan takes the bribe, but vows to return and nail them another day. I do believe this was from the somewhat legendary episode where Shatner hosted, in December of 1986. It contained the famed "Get a Life!" sketch where they parodied a Star Trek convention and the obsession of hardcore Trekkers.
Also, the person who mentioned the Love Boat TNG sketch transposed Rob Schneider (who played Data the Android Purser) and Chris Farley (who played Riker). Tim Meadows played Geordi as the bartender; Bernie Koppel did a cameo as the doctor and called him Isaac. Meadows did not play Guinan; Ellen Cleghorn did. The best part of the sketch was when Farley muffed his line "we can reroute power from the Aloha Deck to the uh, blenders." That episode also had Patrick Stewart show off his knowledge of Star Trek trivia, referring to Sulu as the first black woman on TV, and mentioning Dr. Spock's "cold Volcano logic." He also talks about the stars, William Shiner, Leonard Portnoy and Forest D. Kelley as Boney. Never forget, "the weak and the cowardly have no place in shuffleboard."


By Butch Brookshier on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 8:34 pm:

A correction Chris, Khan was not the Health Inspector in the sketch. Rather he was the person making a complaint about the restaurant. Jon Lovitz played the Health Inspector. I've got the sketch on tape somewhere.


By Captain Dunsel on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 8:08 am:

The "MAD" Magazine parodies were mentioned earlier, but my favorite was their 1976 spoof "Star Bleech: The Musical". It told the story of how ten years after the original series the cast reunites for a Broadway show based on their old adventures. Best lines:

Kirk: As your ship goes through the galaxy
To distant worlds, way past Mars;
Make sure that your adventures
Do not...kill off your stars!

And you can do it with a crew
That's Dis-pens-ible!
A crew that's dispensible!
Dis-pens-ible! Dis-pens-ible!

(Sung to the tune of "The Age of Aquarius")

This was accompanied by shots of Kirk pushing redshirts off a plank attached to the side of the ship!


By Influx on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 11:46 am:

MAD Magazine has a current issue out (with Alfred E. Shrek on the cover) that has a parody called Star Shrek. Didn't even know that when I bought it, and it's the first one I've picked up in years. The mag has changed somewhat but is still darn funny.


By LUIGI NOVI on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 11:21 am:

Hermann Mejia's art rocks.


By mertz on Friday, August 06, 2004 - 6:10 pm:

My friend talks about a parody she saw once where Kirk yells into his communicator "Scotty, beam me aboard!"
Suddenly a large plank falls out of the sky and hits Kirk on the head.
Aboard...a board...get it?


By KAM on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 2:37 am:

Have only looked at a little of this site, but Five-Minute Voyager takes Star Trek (& other shows) episodes & reduces them to their basics.


By KAM on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 4:55 am:

Okay, get thee to Melonpool (actually any Keenspot comic) today because it'll be gone tomorrow.

Scroll down to the Keenspot Newsbox and click the little pointer arrow for a Melonpool version of the Classic Trek title sequence.

It'll be gone Friday.


By ScottN on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 9:15 am:

That link consistently blows up Firefox.


By Butch Brookshier on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 4:54 pm:

Hmmm, works OK with Netscape 7.


By KAM on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 12:08 am:

ScottN, I use Firefox and I just double-checked the link now and didn't have any problem.


By KAM on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 12:54 am:

Me, 6 years ago - For most obscure parody I would say Rock Trek. It was a comic strip that appeared 3 times in my rock club's newsletter in 1982, but the only parody element was the cartoonist had changed the "Space, the final fronter..." speech to 'Rocks, the frontier with polish...' and so on with rockhounding references.
Hey! That's online now! That can be found here!


By ScottN on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 9:26 am:

Must be something in my FF config then.


By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 3:34 am:

That arm looks familiar. ;-)


By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 3:35 am:

That Rock Trek link is now http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/index.php?p=833


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