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Trey Parker and Matt Stone Save Enterprise
maotx writes "Paramount has agreed to permit Star Trek Enterprise to run for the fifth season which under normal circumstances, the sci-fi show would be impossible to produce with the reduced budget. Enter Star Trek fans Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, to save the day. The two will rename the show to "Team Enterprise" and will keep the voices of the original actors. With the lack of a budget for CGI effects the two will use a model of the Enterprise NX-01, thus reviving an old Star Trek tradition. "We prefer the look of physical, tangible models over CGI ships any day," Parker said. "Of course, we have no visual effects budget whatsoever, so we won't be painting out the strings. You'll get used to it. Still trying to figure out where to put the propeller." They then went on to comment: "We're also gonna re-do the opening title sequence," Stone revealed. "Record a new theme -- something bombastic, action-oriented. Y'know, something that isn't, like, totally gay.""
But the new Trek producers can cut corners by utilizing existing props and sets from "Team America." So don't be surprised if Captain Archer looks suspiciously like Alec Baldwin, Trip Tucker like Matt Damon, Travis Mayweather like Samuel L. Jackson, T'Pol like Janeane Garofalo, and Malcolm Reed like Susan Sarandon.
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That's the funniest shit I've seem all day! Kudos to StarTrek.com!
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april fools jokes are getting a little worn now. time to call it quits i think
APRIL FOOLS! Too easy.
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I know it's a joke, but they totally should! For one thing, puppets with strings would have less wooden acting than the original cast. Second, Matt and Trey have the connections to do things like bring on Keanu Reeves's voice and have him be a red shirt that gets killed before he has a chance to actually say anything. I think if anyone could save the ailing Trek franchise, it'd be Matt and Trey.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
...is if they did all real news and 1 really good april fools joke that at least tricked some idiots into posting long diatribes about how they are going to contact their senator or never buy another Snickers bar ever again.
It's just too much hassle (and too expensive) to persuade everybody that everything that was publicly announced on April 1st was meant completely seriously (if it was).
Really. Enough is enough.
-- I have fans? Wow.
It's amazing the number of people that feel the need to point out that these stories are jokes.
Come again now?
Where funny goes to die.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
The jokes didn't even start all that funny, and here we have evidence of downward comic pressure.
it'd be nice if slashdot was at all useful today. like, if they had an option of "no jokes" mode...
ugh, this is so frustrating.
In other words, Star Trek's special effects get an upgrade.
Maybe you meant that sarcastically, but I've always wondered why people just have to use CGI over models for space shows. Isn't it just possible that a metal and plastic model looks a lot more like a metal and plastic spaceship than something you cooked up with Lightwave? To me, Babylon 5, Voyager, and all the other crappy CGI shows looked even more ridiculous than the original Trek.
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