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Trey Parker and Matt Stone Save Enterprise

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the which-characters-will-dvda-in-season-five dept.

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.""

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  1. I say this every year... by Who+drank+my+chocola · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...But the "April Fool's Day" crap is old before 9 A.M. Then I grumble something about a "dead horse" and pledge to ignore Slashdot the rest of the day.

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  2. Troll? BZZT! WRONG ANSWER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think this moderator needs to be beaten with a clue stick. Perhaps you didn't read the post? Perhaps you have no clue who Parker and Stone are and what movie they made this past summer?

  3. These are really sucking by stlhawkeye · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    These jokes aren't funny, interesting, clever, or worth repeating. It's not even that they're not believable, it's that they're just stupid. The write-ups aren't funny or clever, they're getting VERY predictable. Add me to the chorus of increasingly annoyed /. readers who are losing patience with the 4/1 jokes this year. I don't mind that there's no/few legitimate news stories, but do the hoaxes have to be so obvious, uncreative, and simple-minded?

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  4. Re:so many mod points ... by Dizzle · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How ironic then, that your comment got modded +5 insightful.

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  5. Re:so many mod points ... by dr_dank · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Getting modded on April First is like getting laid, it feels pretty cool that you don't have to be an actual geek to get it done, but later on you're embarrased about just how low you had to drop your standards to accomplish that task.

    Standards? Hoo boy, are you in the wrong place.

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