Need a laugh? How about a laugh that pokes a little fun at J. J. Abrams’s Star Trek reboot?
The folks at HowItShouldHaveEnded.com have posted a youtube video depicting an alternate ending for Star Trek. Embedding seems to be disabled, otherwise we’d post it here, but the best we can do is to provide this link so you can watch the video on YouTube.com.
Now, we’re off to go check out their alternate ending for Star Wars IV A New Hope.
Remember in the first Star Wars movie, Princess Leah had that hairstyle that involved braids wrapped into little circles that hung right over her ears? I was going to post a picture here with a caption talking about her stylish looking portable home audio speakers, but then it dawned on me that Mel Brooks already beat me to that one in Spaceballs.
Oh well. May the Schwartz be with you.
There are probably hundreds of home made parodies of and tributes to Star Trek online if you search a little bit. One which we ran into several months ago was particularly well done. While the folks who put it together couldn’t necessarily afford “uniforms” per se, they went to the trouble of supplying all the actors with men’s polo shirts which had a realistic-looking insignia stitched onto the front.
The special effects were obviously home brewed, but well done, nonetheless. Unfortunately, the name and URL of this particular parody has been lost to the ravages of a failing memory. The only other bit that sticks in our collective consciousness is the fact that instead of a beagle, the captain had a pet iguana.
If anyone can remember what this was and where to find it, we would be very appreciative.
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Mel Brooks was known for movie parodies and his science fiction parody Spaceballs was a classic example of his work.
The movie primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, with characters like Lone Star and Barf who travel around in a modified Winnebago RV (which you just KNOW doesn’t carry any rv insurance). They rescue Princess Vespa and her gold-colored android android named Dot Matrix from the evil Dark Helmet with the aid of a wise old sage named Yogurt who teaches them the about a mysterious power known as The Schwartz.
Sprinkled through the movie are references to Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Indiana Jones, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Alien.
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Here’s an interesting parody of Star Trek. Made by YouTube user TinFoilChefDotCom, Phat Trek chronicles the adventures of Tiberius T. Crane as he embarks on the mission as captain of the starship Enterprise as part of a dream sequence that began in Troll Wars – Episode 2.
Without a doubt, this has got to be the most unique Stat Trek parody we’ve seen to date.
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