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ultramarweeni writes "'Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning', a very fascinating feature-length Finnish Star Trek satire is now nearing its completion. Today, December 13th, the trailer was published at 0:00 GMT after 14 hours of technical problems. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning tells the story of the crew of P-Fleet starship C.P.P. Kickstart, which was stranded on Earth after an accident after a battle against the Korg. With the help of the technology to come, their leader, Captain Pirk claims himself as the emperor of the Earth. He conquers the world and rebuilds the P-Fleet. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning has been in the making since 1999 and will probably be completed in spring 2004. Or maybe not. Time will tell."
I thought this story was about Enterprise.
Those are some real imaginative names they thought up. By golly.
'Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning', a very fascinating feature-length Finnish Star Trek satire
Not for anybody who has ever had sex.
Star Wreck: Last Contact?
Who knows.. might be a big hit...
Serously, this looks good...
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Hey cool! They even have a whole forum on their boards dedicated to spoofing those Trekkies who learn Klingon . . .
Oh wait, that's the Finnish-speakers board. Nevermind.
--Ryvar
Set your browsers to stun!
Besides that, some people must have a lot of time on their hands.
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This was mistakenly assigned a star wars topic thingy. Please, let's keep those universes separate.
I can ONLY download the DivX and it's in FINNISH!!! ;-p
I can't speak Finn... sounds cool though
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Damn You Pirard! [from alt.stupidity, years ago]
That's what it reminded me of, anyway.
An underrated, extremely stupid internet classic.
Finnish is a crazy language. Apparently in Finnish "Ha ha ha" translates into "No remorse."
;)
Also apparent is the fact that there are no black people in Finland or something, because all the black characters are just white people painted black...poorly.
Lastly, story dupes are bad enough but now topic dupes? Take a look at the icons for this story and you'll see what I mean
Is it just me or does Star Wreck's logo look a lot like the Famous Multi-Armed Indian Goddess of Vomit?
Here's the direct link to the trailer: http://www.starwreck.com/media/itp/star_wreck_itp_ trailer_divx.avi
The Wrath of Don?
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After paramount finishes suing finnish butts.
In space, no one can hear you scream.
I don't know what that babe was saying in finnish, but she sure is cute BTW.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
A mOOse once bit my sister.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
All I could think about while watching it and hearing them talk was the Swedish Chef
-A
Knowing how closely the Star Trek imagery is guarded, I can't imagine it will be too long before Paramount force this off the web, especially as about 25% of the trailer is made up of clips from ST episodes.
Worst...Episode...Ever!
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
The slashdotting.
Got the trailer, got the teasers, am i missing something? This is a spoof on star trek obviously, but i didn't laugh.
:)
It doesn't help that the whole trailer isn't in english. So that takes away from the humor for me. That, and the fact that they have really GOOD special effects in the trailer takes away from the humor.
Most spoofs i've seen are cheezy, hilarious knock-offs of the orignials with a heavy dose of humor. hell, make the actors a bit more convincing, and use real black actors, i would have taken this trailer as a trailer for a new star trek series, not a spoof.
Anyway, analysis complete.
A Penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off!
Those are some real imaginative names they thought up. By golly.
steve forbes: Well, that's one way to interpret it. I mean, the description of the character fits my profile as a verile, charismatic leader of men. But, then again, my name isn't "teve torbes" - it's steve forbes.. which is different! Maybe it represents somebody named "leve norbes".
Everything will be taken away from you.
I think I lost some IQ points watching this.
Not too mention Finnish isn't very funny. It's like trying to watch a pr0n in German... it just doesn't seem right.
Am I the only one who thought the "parody" was not clever, but rather juvenile and stupid? If this is what they come up with in 4 years, I'm distinctly unimpressed.
Leah Rewolinski has been writing about "Star Wreck" for years... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-ur l/index=books&field-author=Rewolinski%2C%20Leah/00 2-6613230-6192022
What's the name of the film again?
Babylon 5 and Star Trek. It really seems to take the Star Trek series dead on. Also, I believe I saw a bit of Crusade as well, but that was a B5 spinoff. (What ever happened to those B5 spinnoffs we were going to see on The Rangers or something?)
The graphics are beautiful. The parody is obvious. But I want to know how they get away with those very very very Paramount looking starships??!?
Now I know what Japanese here when American's talk.
Despite all the blah blah blah, Star Trek sucks BS that floats around the internet, you still can't take away from the fact that Gene Roddenbery's creation has been one of the biggest impacts to Science Fiction and that it's wildly popular. Satire is one thing, but I hope this project isn't some pathetic rip off of Star Trek that just makes lame shots at some of the stereotypical Star Trek elements. Spaceballs was a great movie, because though it was based off of Star Wars, it had an identity of its own, and all the satire was done in passing rather than being the primary focal point. I hope this is how this project works, rather than just being 90 minutes of "Look, the holoroom is malfunctioning, that's funny because that happens a lot in Star Trek. Uh oh, Counciler Ithica said something obvious, that's funny too".
I suppose they'll have that Episode 1 parody done in time for the release of the Complete Ultimate Expanded Special Edition Star Wars Sextrilogy Holographic Cube Box Set in 2019...
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
We are so disappointed we were not able to participate in this project!
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Holy Crap! Star Trek pitted against Babylon 5... I never thought I'd see the day (in a full-length feature film anyway). I CAN'T WAIT!
Here are the categories that Slashdot assigned to this story:
Sci-Fi , Star Wars Prequels , Entertainment , Media , Movies
We could give them the benefit of the doubt in that it could be a Star Wars Prequel in some fashion that we're not aware of.
Media and Movies are interesting categories. Aside from a good dose of overlap, they also share the same Slashdot icon, the movie sound marker.
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The special effects are fantastic. Here are some magnet links for P2P users of the DivX versions. Don't forget to remove the space.6 VAOEYWZQ FAD2YL.KH66BY3FQFYWAVNV4MYIZYFFYFXIPWMXIFIQ6CY&dn= star_wreck_itp_trailer_divx.avii tprint:MUU6EICDGLHXQ5YQVPE66TA67K EAXLVT.UPRYFT5PZPPENT4BEQK26G4AZIGBTJU7DZFXZHY&dn= SW6_teaser2_divx.avi
magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:NBL7X6W6VIXGOE6YX
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In case it get slashdotted here is a Mirror.
It's been posted for 45 minutes and the server is *STILL* *UP*? Come on guys...it's friday night. We should all be at home, surfing /.
Don't tell me someones on one of those d...d.....d......things with w....www...w....them.
I just couldn't take it.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Well, I feel like a luser asking this question, but where do I get a free usable DivX codec/player for Windows?
I went to divx.com, but they wanted me to download some adware player, and windows media player keeps giving me an error message when it tries to download the codec (it never seems to be able to download codecs it doesn't have).
And I got some install supposedly for the DivX 3.11a and the 4.x codec, but it still didn't play in Media Player. Though the help file says that it is the DivX Codec v. 4.x copyright DivX Networks, divxnetworks.com, which own and operates DivX.com, but there is still no codec download on their website. ARGH!
I just got the DivX adware player from divx.com and only installed the codecs and it's all good now.
Some suggested titles:
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
...they can't laugh at themselves and take everything too seriously. Chill out and partake in some self-deprecating humour, who knows, the rest of the world might actually stop hating you.
...we don't find it funny because it hits too close to home...
(and angry liberals don't find it funny because angry liberals don't find anything funny)
Maybe we don't live in same universe or something but actually Finland has never been a communist country.
Yes, there is a communist party in Finland but it never has been very popular (it didn't even make to the Parliament in the last elections). Also, Finland had to "bow down to" Moscow from time to time during cold war to ensure that we wouldn't become communist country. Maybe you just misunderstood that part of history?
"Have some light balls"
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Allthough swedish is an official language in Finland, I find it quite amusing that so many people think about the swedish chef.
/ The Arrow
"How lovely you are. So lovely in my straightjacket..." - Nny
I don't think Finnish history is really covered to any substantial degree (read: none) in American high schools. Those countries kind of blend together. A few of us throw Greenland in for good measure.
Neelix: ooom dee ooom dee ooom dee dee OOOM! BORK! BORK! BORK! - Der borken Meataballsa!
sing-song ala the Muppets swedish chef!
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
but here in the United States, we don't find it too funny
I guess Boston became part of Canada recently, because my friends and I thought it was hilarious.
We thought the Clinton sex jokes were funny too. Well, most of them. Believe me, angry liberals don't find anything funny. Wouldn't be surprised if they were accused of double-reverse racism and crimes against humanity tomorrow.
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"Have some light balls!"
...because everyone knows that odd numbered Star Trek spoofs suck.
Seeming as Finland is so overrun by dark-skinned people--97% are ethnic Swedes or Finns, with the remainder being distinctly non-african in origin, but for a few thousand Somali refugees--I think they can be forgiven for a little bit of improvising on racial representation.
Making this piece of crap in the first place, however, remains unforgivable. What more could they say that has not already been said better by Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman?
prepare to be assimilated!
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you might want to check out the old ones too...
this one is number 6.
www.starwreck.com/oldies
first ones r crap btw...
DOOOOOON!!!
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We have never been communists. In year 1918 here was civilwar between "red" communists and "white" whatever. White guys won. Then we went to weird arabian country and said there was some nukes there and sent 20 000 men to fight for oil. Oh, damn, i forgot, we didint do that, but someone others did...
...this one will be at least as amusing.
:-)
I mean, look at their Star Wreck 4 1/2. With a plot line that starts with "Those cheapskates have installed a shareware beta operating system on the ship's mainframe, and the trial expires in two days, so we need to go back to Earth to install a crack."
This is what the world needs: More geeks with too much time on their hands. This made my day.
Off topic, like what drug are you on dufus??
in my life God comes first.... but Linux is pretty high after that
Francis Smit
Nobody really finds this anything but unbelievably tedious, do they? Don't Finns have anything better to do with their time? Like, sit very still and not do anything?
Hey, all the other 'great men' there were European, including Hitler. So it's not very flattering for us either.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
oh, cmon... get over it...
try humor for a change..
Star Trek parodies? Come on. This is the lamest thing I've ever seen on slashdot.
Well, maybe one day you yankees might understand the reasons why pretty much everyone else in the world dislikes you ppl...
here.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
I'll have to disagree - at least personally I never (dis)like a person because of his nationatility, and I'm sure "pretty much everyone else" doesn't hate every american there is.
Now, quite a few people disapprove current US foreign policies and personally I find George W. to be as pleasant as herpes - that said, I don't have an issue with Americans per se.
Well, Star Trek is older than Star Wars, so ....
Lars T.
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StarWreck 2: the slashdotting
or.. the wrath of slashdot?
If trademarks are enforceable in the manner such as Microsoft Windows and Lindows, why isn't this film also in violation of trademark law? Why is this not 'product dilution' and other such unspeakable crimes?
Actually, the visuals are very nice... but Finish?! Terrible throath decease, give them some cough drops and lets redub it into english - it could be a whole new genre, spagetti space western :)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Other than a few moments where I hope there was something lost in the translation, this has a great deal of appeal to me. Visually, I found it quite impressive, especially considering the amount of money they are probably doing this on.
-- You don't shoot to kill, you shoot to stay alive.
At the end of Wierd Al's ingenious UHF movie (Out on DVD!) there is this long gag at the credits. Mind you, moose bites can be pritti nasti.
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It's also at the beginning of "Monthy Python and The Holy Grail", which is where Weird Al took it from, I suppose.
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so I downloaded the video and started to watch it. It was totally offensive to cast George W. Bush along with Napolean, Hitler and the like. I stopped watching the film, and I certainly won't say anything good about it if they are going to be so full of ignorant hatred.
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Author Leah Rewolinski has a series of paperback
- ur l/index=books&field-author=Rewolinski%2C%20Leah/10 2-4393073-2089732
books, all satires of the Star Trek franchise,
already titled "Star Wreck."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle
Star Wreck: The Generaton Gap
Star Wreck II: The Attack of the Jargonites
Star Wreck III: Time Warped: A Parody-Then, Now and Forever
Star Wreck IV: Live Long and Profit: A Collection of Cosmic Capers
Star Wreck V: The Undiscovered Nursing Home
Star Wreck 6: Geek Space Nine: An Extraterrestrial Example of Extreme Silliness
Star Wreck No 7: Space the Fido Frontier
-mrv
Most communist Finns fought alongside their countrymen instead of joining the Soviet Union, so no, it was not really a fight against communism.
(Most Finnish communists were disillusioned about the USSR in the 1930's, when their friends who had moved to USSR were treated harshly during Stalin's purges. And no, there has never been a communist government in Finland.)
Err. That just looked like a real movie. Where's the satire supposed to come in? I realise that I can't speak Finnish, but I can sure listen to the tone of voice and read the English subtitles, and I just didnt see anything remotely amusing there. It's like another Star Trek film but with some "funny names" stuck in. Perhaps the funniest part was the start of the trailer, and that didnt even raise a smile.
This is going to have to go a long way to meet the raw kind of humour we've seen in spoofs of space movies, most memorable being Spaceballs, which was crap but brilliant. As other people have mentioned, this is done TOO WELL, i don't know if it's going to be shown in theatres in Finland, but it certainly should be, the quality is incredible.
To give it it's due, I need an English translation by some competent English voice artists to really judge this film, because either all the jokes were lost in the translation, or Finland just doesnt have a sense of humour.
You're going to have to enlighten me, because I don't have a clue what you're talking about. :-)
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On P2P networks, forever being part of the culture that can be forced underground but can't be killed.
Lawyers can shut down their site, but at that moment "civil disobedience" sites crop up (hope) and the movie becomes one more symbol of big media corporations going after the individual creators. Which is in effect free advertising for the authors.
It is rather clear that the script has been lifted from this board.
Yes, let's kill millions of innocents because they dare making fun of our peace-loving leader by comparing him with various historic mass-murderers! That'll show them how wrong they are to make such comparisons ...oh.. wait...
Romuclan Warturkeys = Romulan Warbird spoof. What else could it be?
Some corrections, the contexts and additions Captain/Admiral Kirk Captain/Admilar/Emperor/Supreme Commander Pirk Mr. Spock Mr. Spook (Spoko) Mr. Chekov Mr. Fukov Miss Uhura Miss Puhura Scotty Shitty Geordi LaForge Hummer (connection unclear) Worf Dwarf (Wuh) Data Info(rmation Multimedia Superhighway) Phasers Twinklers Photon torpedoes Light balls Warp drive Twist drive Impulse drive Shove drive Main viewer Main telly Romulans Romuclans Klingons Plingons Warbirds Warturkeys The Borg The Korg The Old Series The Old Shit Miranda-class Sparrow-class USS Enterprise CPP Potkustart/Kickstart USS Excelsior CPP Ekselsseri Babylon 5 Baabel 13 Omega class Amigo class John Sheridan Joni Sherrypie Susan Ivanova Susanna Ivanovitsa
I know all about the Romculans. It sounded like the grandparent post was referring to something other than War Turkeys. He was talking about some skit involving "Giant Space Turkeys" and an angel mistaken for one.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Whoops, it appears that my previous comment was (star-)wrecked, accidentally clicked that "Submit" button instead of "preview" :P -- ok, here it is:
Captain/Admiral Kirk - Captain/Admilar/Emperor/Supreme Commander Pirk
Mr. Spock - Mr. Spook (Spoko)
Mr. Chekov - Mr. Fukov
Miss Uhura - Miss Puhura
Scotty - Shitty
Geordi LaForge - Hummer (connection unclear)
Worf - Dwarf (Wuh)
Data - Info(rmation Multimedia Superhighway)
Phasers - Twinklers
Photon torpedoes - Light balls
Warp drive - Twist drive
Impulse engines - Shove engines
Main viewer - Main telly
Romulans - Romuclans
Klingons - Plingons
Warbirds - Warturkeys
The Borg - The Korg
The Old Series - The Old Shit
Miranda-class - Sparrow-class
USS Enterprise - CPP Potkustart/Kickstart
USS Excelsior - CPP Ekselsseri
Babylon 5 - Baabel 13
Omega class - Amigo class
John Sheridan - Joni Sherrypie
Susan Ivanova - Susanna Ivanovitsa
The company hosting the trailer, Magenta, is no small webhosting company. They run extremely large consumer sites for Coca-cola, Habbo Hotel, McDonalds, BMG Music group and the like. I think Habbo hotel alone has over 10 million registered users. So the download speeds oughta be atleast decent. Let's see how the bandwidth is doing once the actual movie comes out - it's quite a different thing to download a DVDRip lenght file tens of thousands of times over than a 25MB trailer..
You're right. As someone said earlier, Magenta sponsors them and they don't have to pay a penny. About week ago they had still the old Peliportti which they paid a monthly fee. Then slashdotting was out of the question. Nowadays, when slashdotting was made possible by the "unlimited" bandwidth, they can be slashdotted three times in a row and still stand boldly on the web. That was why I was bothered to made this article anyway. Quote from Magentasites.com: "One of Magentas key assets is the true global networking. Even if one of the continents would sink in to the sea, we would still be hosting. This not just enables an unsurpassed level of availability throughout the world, but increases security to the third power. The chance of a major natural disaster occurring in three continents simultaneously is minimal (and if it does, it's called Armageddon and hosting is no longer needed.)"
If you don't have a sense of humour like every good grown-in-parents-basement-/.er has, no one is going to force you watch Star Wreck VI. Go and get a life instead. =)
Otherwise, if you're planning to be no-life, use the word "parody" and enjoy the trailer. :)