Imagine a Star Trek parody shot as a traditional, live audience, 3 camera sitcom. See, I'm a trekkie, and when you've watched as much Trek as I have, you start to see it's flaws, probably more so than people who don't like the show, and find a lot of fun in making fun of it. Here's some ideas:
- All of the techno babble would be words like "doohicky" and "whatchamacallit".
- In one episode, they encounter a race of aliens who all have extremely large breast, regardless of sex. The traditional greeting is motor boating each other. They are baffled by the flat chested males (pointing out the exception of the one fat guy), and assume that a low ranking crew member is the Captain because of how well endowed she is.
- The redshirts all have the same name, Johnson, and are all played by the same one or two actors. In one scene, after the landing party returns to the ship, one person reports that Johnson died a violent horrific death, just as another redshirt (same actor) walks by, who starts to freak out. ("What? Johnson's dead?" "I'm afraid so, Johnson." "Permission to inform the other Johnsons, sir." "Yeah, whatever.")
- In contrast with the way it's done in Star Trek, where everything is randomly pushing buttons and using voice commands, these guys actually have to do things to make the ship work. To go to light speed they have to pull levers and turn cranks. The ship's engineer is a stereotype of scum bag mechanics; he does everything half assed and the ship runs poorly.
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