Star Wreck Trailer

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."

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Star Wreck?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought this story was about Enterprise.

Umm...

[Anonymous Coward]

'Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning', a very fascinating feature-length Finnish Star Trek satire

Not for anybody who has ever had sex.

Re:Umm...

[smclean]

Did you say sex?

Thought I heard someone talking about sex..

Awesome!

[Ryvar]

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

Oh no, a video...

[paul248]

Set your browsers to stun!

the final frontier

[g-to-the-o-to-the-g]

Its a Finnish film? I hope they're making it in enlgish, otherwise it wouldn't be much use to a lot of us here at /.

Besides that, some people must have a lot of time on their hands.

Re:the final frontier

[El_Ge_Ex]

Its a Finnish film? I hope they're making it in enlgish, otherwise it wouldn't be much use to a lot of us here at /.

You must be new here. This is slashdot, where Finnish is encouraged (silly linux docs...) english reading isn't (anyone ever rtfa anymore???) and spelling in either is atrocious.

-B

Re:the final frontier

[Nasarius]

Judging from the trailer, it's going to be subtitled in English.

Re:the final frontier

[AKAImBatman]

Those aren't translations. That's what they're actually called. Here's a list:

Mr Fuckov
Captain Pirk
Beta
Twinklers
Twist Factor
Light Balls
Mr. Spook
Romculan War Turkeys (My personal fav.)
SS Kickstart

There are a few others, but I've forgotten them by now. Go download the previous films. The first two are a bit crude, but they get much funnier after that. :-)

This will surely rank up there

[popo]

...with all the other great Swedish comedy...

Re:This will surely rank up there

[nacturation]

...with all the other great Swedish comedy...

Judging from the inspiration of the script, I'd say it'll appeal to a lot of fans here:

Captain Pirk: Uh, der bork bork vin de bork?

Lieutenant Pock: Vee der borken bork bork!

[cue fight scene music]

Captain Pirk: Der borken die bork borkester borken!

Doctor McPork: Der colden blooden borken bork!

...

Yeah, it just gets better and better.

Re:This will surely rank up there

[msgmonkey]

I dont think it will, since it's Finnish :-p

star wars?

[capt.mellow]

This was mistakenly assigned a star wars topic thingy. Please, let's keep those universes separate.

Re:star wars?

[Dr. Photo]

Absolutely. One is a great epic space franchise, later ruined by shoddy prequels with giant plot holes and wooden acting, and the other is....

Yegads, the two universes are merging!

DAMN YOU PIRARD!!!

[TheMonkeyDepartment]

Damn You Pirard! [from alt.stupidity, years ago]

That's what it reminded me of, anyway.

An underrated, extremely stupid internet classic.

Woah...

[pHatidic]

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 ;)

Direct link to trailer

[Anonymous Coward]

The site is quite slow (although they do have enough bandwidth), probably because it's all done in PHP. Mega-bandwidth doesn't help there..

Here's the direct link to the trailer: http://www.starwreck.com/media/itp/star_wreck_itp_ trailer_divx.avi

Re:Direct link to trailer

[whereiswaldo]

The site is quite slow (although they do have enough bandwidth), probably because it's all done in PHP. Mega-bandwidth doesn't help there..

So what's this, a troll against PHP users? What would you rather use? PHP is damn fast.

Re:Direct link to trailer

[hey]

In case you don't have DivX
all the other formats

Star Wreck, Capt. Pirk?

[DarkHelmet]

So does that make Star Wreck 2 be:

The Wrath of Don?

Swedish movie producers?

[physicsphairy]

A mOOse once bit my sister.

Swedish Chef vs. Babylon 5

[Dyvim]

All I could think about while watching it and hearing them talk was the Swedish Chef

Re:Paramount ain't gonna like this...

[arasinen]

If you look at the trailer at all, you'd notice that the CGI sequences are not clips from ST episodes. After all, how many times did we see B5... B13, I mean, in Star Trek?

The 3d models used could be a problem, though.

Weird

[NetGyver]

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. :)

Re:Weird

[arasinen]

As a Finn I can tell you that the trailer isn't funny even in Finnish :). But then again, it's probably not supposed to be. Sort of a parody of the usual Bruckheimer-trailers... "THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD" etc. etc.

Most people in the inteded audience (before the slashdotting, at least) already know what humor and the jokes are going to be like; after all, this is the group's sixth SW-production. They're just showing "this is what it will be like", and keeping all the jokes 'secret'.

If you have the time, look through their earlier work, for example the hilarious Star Wreck V: The Lost Contact. See http://www.starwreck.com/oldies/downloads.php for more details.

--Antti, a SW fan since 1998

PS. Well the fragfest-joke was actually quite funny.

Re:Paramount ain't gonna like this...

[Coryoth]

I think they rendered all that themselves actually - given that there are plenty of scenes with Babylon 5 ships and Star Trek ships together - so either they are stupendously good at splicing stuff together frame by frame (highly unlikely) or they did all the CG themselves. In which case, good on them - 'cause those are pretty nice effects considering the general look of the budget. Of course, that won't stop Paramount suing their ass into next week...

Jedidiah

Re:Star Wreck, truly,

[eclectro]

You would think so. Indeed, parody is part of the Star Trek Culture.

But that hasn't stopped Paramount from suing people anyway. There was one local production company that had to fold their production of "Star Wreck" because they couldn't afford the legal fees.

It's the corporate way to heavy-hand people into what they want done regardless of constitutional rights. Paramount is one such company.

If I ever I had the resources, I'd like to put on my own production of "Star Wreck" with the intention of letting Paramount take me to court so I could prove a point. But it would be like taking a heap of money and making a bonfire. At least with the bonfire you could warm your hands though.

Re:Paramount ain't gonna like this...

[AKAImBatman]

They did indeed render them CGI themselves. With Lightwave 7. And IMNSHO, it actually looks BETTER than the Nemesis.

Go Pirk! Just watch out for Mr. Fukov! And the Romculan War Turkeys! (Those can be a real pain in the twinkler!)

:-D

Re:Incredubly Childish?

[InfiniteWisdom]

On the other hand I'm very impressed with their server. With links the 25 MB videos on slashdot, I'm still able to dowload it and get 180 kb/sec.

I hate you

[the_Bionic_lemming]

Why do folks need to /. cool sites with big movies? All it does is cost them huge bucks that /. folks don't pay, and drive them offline.

Check out the recent victim -

Over this holliday weekend a very popular website called Slashdot.org put up an article about my site and provided a direct link (without my consent so I could prepare for it) to my CGI ATIS virtual ride-thru project. While this was very flattering it also turned out to be very expensive for me. On a single day on (Saturday November 30th) I received 11,000 users that downloaded 33840.220 MB worth of stuff from the site. Due to the high bandwidth used, the Atommobiles.com site was shut down and I was left with a huge $1000.00 bill to pay. I am still working out details about bandwidth issues and I am switching to a more expensive account to get the site back online. So for now, all movies will be removed from the site and the site is in danger of being taken down until these issues get resolved. I will try to keep this site online as long as I can but without the help of some donations this site might become extinct just like Adventure Thru Inner Space. A sad day for me and fans it will be, indeed.

Barely holding on.....

Steve Wesson
Webmaster of Atommobiles.com

Anyone interested in donating some money to the site I have a paypal link set up.
Just click the Donate button below. (Note paypal auto adds a $3.00 shipping charge to any donations so just subtract $3.00 from your donation amount that you want to send. Sorry about that. I have Paypal set up to charge $3.00 shipping to any orders and it can't be removed for the Donations.)

Thank you everyone for all your support.

Here is the link to the "little" article that killed my site if you care to read it.:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/29/231920 2.shtm l

Re:I hate you

[waferhead]

I'm VERY sorry for your problem, but I have a suggestion...

A .torrent file STILL gets you hits, and as long as its live, everyone gets decent bandwith.

You could even be the seed, and just limit that invocation of bts bandwith, and the bigger "hit" you get, the more bandwith there is--And you don't pay for it for the most part, save for the seed, and tracker traffic.

Bittorrent is included in Debian and Mandrake for sure, and certainly available for all other platforms, save possibly C64, and I'm not sure about that.

(As someone else suggested, with enhancements)

Re:I hate you

[barc0001]

Dear Site Owner:
There's this thing. It's called the Web. If you put things up on it, and they're interesting, people will share the link with other people. If you're putting up huge, interesting media files, at some point in your site's life, you can expect the traffic to start to rise, perhaps uncontrollably. That's why you should:
1) Get a hosting agreement at a place with a cap on your bandwidth/monthly transfer so they can't surprise you with 4 digit bills.
2) Think long and hard about the total size of anything you put up, particularily with a bent toward thinking "what if 1000 people decide to see this at some point?", especially since the only reason you're posting it is so that others can see it.
3) If only your selected pals are supposed to see it, put it in a restricted area.
4) Quit acting surprised when this type of thing happens. We've all seen the Slashdot Effect for years now, and considering the unlikely meme success of the Hamster Dance, Mahir, the Tourist Guy, AYB and more, we know that large flocks of people can descend on the most unlikely thing mercilessly.

Re:I hate you

[Knights who say 'INT]

You could always block access to your website where the "linked from" http header contains Slashdot.

Mirror

[Xanith]

In case it get slashdotted here is a Mirror.

I am amazed, people...do your jobs /.ers..

[kcb93x]

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.

Finnish Star Trek Films...

[Aardpig]

Some suggested titles:

• The Search for Santa
• First Reindeer
• The Undiscovered Kernel Bug
• The Wrath of Khlinus
• The Voyage Home to Helsinki

Re:DivX codec/player?

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Download the decoder at divx.com (here) It's there--Right in the link that says "Standard DivX Codec(FREE)"

2) Download Media Player Classic (it's official home is at sourceforge) Google for it. Unbloated, feature filled, Open Source.

3) Watch.

Re:Star Wreck, truly,

[NegativeK]

But that hasn't stopped Paramount from suing people anyway.

Paramount lawyer: And, as our final witness, Paramount will call.. Gene Roddenberry to the stand. Now, Mr. Roddenberry, what do you have to say about this alleged copyright violation?

[Pause..]

Judge: Umm.. I don't think your witness is particularly fit to testify. He just seems to keep turning over and over..

Re:About the whole George Bush thing...

[AtariDatacenter]

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.

Re:Thats the problem with americans...

[Fnkmaster]

Here in New York we self-deprecating humor about Americans all the time. The thing is we're generally good spirited about it. The problem is when the angry, enraged Europeans emerge on Slashdot and say things that are definitely not just in good fun. It really seems there is a contingent of ultra-liberal Euro Slashdotters who really believe that ALL Americans are ignorant of the history and culture of every other country, don't speak foreign languages, are raging, unthinking chest-thumping conservatives who aren't capable of and have never thought through a nuanced argument in their lives. It's just as wrong to hate all Americans because our President is a fucking moron as to say we should kill all the dirty Arabs because Osama bin Laden is a bad guy.1

It's one thing to make light of stereotypes, it's another to take them seriously, and go around frothing at the mouth about how awful and evil Americans are. I know all Europeans aren't complete gutless self-hating liberals. You should know that all Americans aren't like Dubya.

Re:Why is this modded "funny" ?

[n1nj4k3n]

Why is this modded "funny" ? Moose bites can be serious you know.

We apologise for the fault in modding. The moderators responsible have been sacked.

http://www.starwreck.com/oldies

[ansimon]

you might want to check out the old ones too...
this one is number 6.

www.starwreck.com/oldies
first ones r crap btw...