Captain April’s April’s Fool’s Day Article [UPDATED] April 1, 2008
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“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
- Scotty, Friday’s Child
Practical jokes are a serious concern for the crew of the Enterprise in the animated episode “The Practical Joker.” Luckily, practical jokes involving Star Trek on the internet are much less worrisome. Here are the Star Trek April Fool’s Day virtual pranks for April 1, 2008.
Picard is back?….played by who?
IF Magazine tells us that Paramount has approved reimagined prequels to every version of Star Trek, with the interesting casting choices revealed.
brilliant recasting
TOS is back too?
Firefox (not the Clint Eastwood movie) reports that Desilu is bringing Star Trek: The Original Series back to television…with the original looking actors in new episodes. Apparently they have solved the issue with the original actors being either in their 70s or deceased, Firefox quoting a Desilu exec
We feel that digital actors can at least match the talent of most of the original cast, if not exceed it. Anyway, Star Trek fans have shown a remarkable tolerance for bad acting over the years. We doubt anyone will notice that the actors are fake after the first few minutes. They’ll be too busy enjoying the stories.
Lucas Trek
According to Starpulse George Lucas is headed to the final frontier…and is bringing Jar Jar with him!
more brilliant recasting!
Virgin going to Mars
Want to visit the future site of the Enterprise D’s construction? Want to travel to Mars? Google and Virgin Galactic team up to make it so!
That isn’t the only Trekkish Google prank, Google Australia allows you to time travel by doing searches into the future.
UPDATE: more Trek pranking
Planet Fraggle?
Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki, have discovered little known Demon Class planet.
New Star Trek Trailer
A trailer from a new Fan film, just uploaded in time for April Fool’s
Shatner in ‘Star Trek’
TrekMovie.com has been ’scooped’ with the news that William Shatner will appear in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek…or at least that is what TrekToday and TrekUnited are both reporting.
And no…TrekMovie.com decided not to prank you all like we did last year.
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No Shatnet is / isn’t in the movie joke?
First!
D’oh!
I hear Shatner might be in this movie,,,,
I heard Shatner is playing Picard in the new movie!
I loved this animated trek adventure, its funny but they had a holodeck like in the next generation. It was fun watching the computer do the psyco practical joker thing.
#6—I hate holodecks, ship’s counselors, and children on starships…and that is no April Fools joke!
I haven’t seen the animated series in decades…I do remember that episode though. Hmmmmmm, guess I might have to invest in the DVDs.
At we can get our April Fools joke fix here since st.com does not do it anymore.
BTW, what is the deal with trying to be first to post? What are we, 10yrs old?
#7 Hm I do believe those elements you so disdain can be found in Next generation. yeah next gen probably could have done better with out those distractions on board the ship. A friend of mine refers to next gen as the Love Boat in federation space. i think Picard could have use an eye patch , a peg legg and a parrot on his shoulderand a beard and an occasional “arg Shiver me timbers ” pirate phrase would have made him a more interesting character, y
Love Majel as the Enterprise voice in “The Practical Joker”
She does hilarious laughter and banter with Kirk and crew. Really funny.
“You tricked me Kirk!”
One thing that truly is a joke is Branson and Virgin Mobile. Their phones and their service both blow. I switched to BoostMobile last week, and won’t look back. I hope to hell SpaceShip Two is more reliable, or it’ll be a one-way trip for quite a few people.
Finally! I’ve been waiting for an April Fools joke all day. :)
… And for some reason that ‘Kirk is a Jerk’ picture cracks me up every time. (I really need to see that episode sometime.)
The latest word is Beetlejuice from The Howard Stern Show is playing Balok.
Sean Hannity as Petri?
Thanks for not doing the prank thing, Anthony - although Vektor’s drawing last year was really, really well done.
Adam West as James T kirk and Burt Ward as Spock, hm now that cast had real possibilities
“KIRK IS A JERK…”
Last year, I finally watched all the Animated episodes on DVD over the course of a few weeks…
I remember the “Kirk Is a Jerk” gag made me laugh out loud!!! Probably the only time I burst out laughing while watching TAS! Great gag!
I’ll have to check out the TAS episode when my DVD set comes in. It really looks good.
How about re-doing the animated series with CGI. Using the same scipts and voice recordings to photo realistic animations of the original.
I hate the cheap look of the animated series, so I never realy got into it. Since, though, I read that the stories do hold up to the quality of the original, so I thing a CGI version would find an audience. How about it Paramount / CBS honchos?
Spell Check Version :
How about re-doing the animated series with CGI. Using the same scipts and voice recordings to photo realistic animations of the original.
I hate the cheap look of the animated series, so I never really got into it. Since, though, I read that the stories do hold up to the quality of the original, so I think a CGI version would find an audience. How about it Paramount / CBS honchos?
SHATNER TO BE IN NEXT TREK,,,,,
RE THIS LINK GUYS !!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LgHl4jUCfD8
surprisingly most of the animated episodes are better then many of the live action episode from the original series. Its too bad this version of trek had such a brief run , They could have done lots of incredible stories here. The episode that i like most was the one written by scif great Larry Niven, in which he brought his Kizinti into the trek universe, The concept of the stasis box and slavers and their weapons was quite impressive. this one episode stands out in particular because of the quality of the writing and the writer. But Im not knocking the rest, not at all.
I heard Betty White is playing an Orion slave girl in STXI, woohoo!!
A Golden Girl, turned green? Brilliant, Moogie!
Tom Cruise as Alexander.
Nice. I think we all got Rick Roll’d when we bought the HD DVD Season 1 discs. ;-)
TrekUnited.com made a “Shatner’s In The Movie” news story.
My own StarshipExcelsior.com made and released a fake episode.
But, overall, I was kind of disappointed by the low output of 4/1 jokes made in the TrekSphere this year. Seems to me there were a lot more last year–but, then, StarTrek.com was always the leader in them, and they are now kaput.
I heard Nana Visitor is going to be in the final season of Battlestar Galactica.
Well, that opens up immense possibilities…that the fleet led by Galatica could “jump” into Earth orbit during the time of DS9, and that Nana Visitor’s BG character turns out to be Colonel Kira and..Battlestar Galactica meets DS9. That would satisfy a lot of fans out there.
Happy April Fools Day Everyone!
The Valdez video was a RIOT!
“I believe that Human being….and fish can coexist peacefully”
Fraggle Rock joke … just awesome.
#31 S. John Ross — Thanks! :D
For everyone else, if you haven’t seen it yet, the Fraggle Rock article will be deleted in one hour, so better check it out soon. It’ll be up again next year, of course.
btw… LOVE that Valdez video. That was awesome :)
And it’s gone… :)
Did anybody else hear that Paramount have changed the opening date of Star Trek again to Christmas……………2009!
Happy April Fools Day (for yesterday) everyone! :)
Paramount Pictures Moves STAR TREK to May 2008.
Now there’s a headline.
Unlike Mr: Bailey, I think some of us were looking for a good April scare.
It’s quite a shame that the idea of colonizing Mars is ONLY a joke. Back in the ’60s and ’70s many people believed it would happen by the end of the century! Now, public apathy for space exploration has reached such an all-time high that even robotic missions to Mars are threatened by budget cuts. All this is proof we need a real vision for the future of space travel….and THAT is no joke!
#37 nice idea but there is no money left for space exploration or colonization of mars. The real April fools joke is that fact that our country is ceeding the lead in space to others. As to us being on Mars by the 2000 a lot of engineering visionaries and sci writers missed the mark on that one.
Iraq is, apparently, more important than Mars.
Garovorkin: To whom is our country “ceding” the lead?
China makes noise about a mission to the moon. Russia doesn’t seem interested. No EU efforts (they can’t even make their new airplanes fly).
Space has to be jointly targeted. We no longer have a cold war that breeds the sort of one-upsmanship we had in the 1950’s and 1960’s. And it’s expensive, as you mentioned, so sharing resources is key.
Maybe you could decorate the ship with corporate logos like an F1 car to defray cost (I worked for Pepsi when they had a direct link with the guys in the Mir space station, with logos, etc. Ecch. But it helped to finance the project).
I think colonization is a bit far-fetched for mars at this point. I’m still awaiting Moonbase Alpha.
“I know that human being and fish can coexist peacefully.” That’s awesome. Thanks for a great laugh.
#40 A J In all honesty we are becoming a bit complacent and i think that ultimately we will conceed the lead in spce these countries. Look at the fact that as a country we no longer manufacture the things we need,we out source manufacturing it the trend follows we we be out sourcing our lead in technology as well. unless things change drastically, don’t under estimate China< Russia or the EU or Japan for that matter. Probably corporations might be the once to take the lead in space but i m seeing any of that right now.
Corporations will take the lead if it adds to the bottom line from a long term strategy standpoint.
It would be a slam-dunk for any new President to say that space is a priority again. But why bother when healthcare isn’t fixed and people are losing their homes, and we’re in two expensive wars?
I suppose it would be a sign of of hope for the USA and the world that we’re still capable of greatness.
Do you know what projects are currently in the works?
#43 With regard to corporations I ment to say I am not seeing that right now, TYPO sorry, There was that man who took that plan way up to the edge of space But I agree corporations are the next once into space.
I just checked out that sketch from last year and it’s actually a pretty cool design. Looks like a good modernization of the Enterprise, with the exception of those pointy things on the front of the nacelles :)
There are corporations which can develop high-tech materials, AI and propulsion systems for space exploration, which will eventually filter down into more commercial uses like defense, and then into your living room, office or car.
There is also corporate sponsorship, where instead of calling, for example, a NASA ship “the Enterprise,” you call it the “Miller-Lite Enterprise,” (groan), and that loads money into the coffers of NASA, and gets Miller a heap of publicity.
Branson’s space tourism is not relevant.
45: Points are canon. Don’t mess with ‘em ;-)
#46 yeah the thought of the Bud Light shuttle launching into space sets my teeth on edge as well.
bahaha that episode from TAS was awesome, I remember watching it in the 70’s as a kid and thinking it was quite funny that the Enterprise would inflate a HUGE, fake version of itself to scare the Romulans off, then laugh maniacally. Spock’s eye rings were also classic.
I found the end of the Valdez video especially funny:
“Opening 2009 ish”
Too bad it’s true - opening date subject to change……..
Excellent faux trailer.
How about Verne Troyer as Ruk?
Yes I know it’s April 2 now. Sue me.
#39: Iraq is more important, apparently, than finding Bin Laden. Not to mention developing a sane long-term energy strategy for this country which would get us out of the middle east once and for all.
Don’t worry about the date, Lyle. I’m still holding out hope for April 11. That’s like double April 1. Pictures of Quinto as Spock riding a Harley for classe at Starfleet. Pine as Kirk playing guitar in a cover band for beer money. Pictures of Pegg and Urban fighting Zombies and Orcs. Oh, wait a second.
You know there is talk about them doing something really extra ordinary to revive the trek franchise I hear they want to make a Broadway musical out of Star trek the Motion Picture. i think that Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joe Schulmacher are involved in this. The musical is to be called Trekside Story. It’s the story of Captain Past his prime and out of his element because time and ship design have passed him by and a long lost space probe suffering from teen angst and growing pains return to earth in seach of his daddy.
Well, Mr. Regular, not much more time to wait.
Whoever becomes our next Prez will lose massive cred without a solution. 4000 dead, and an inside job.
Hell, why not invade Burma? Oppressively non-democratic and killing people on the streets-awwwwwww, no oil. Belarus? Easy-peasey. North Korea? Same. But big, bad China and Russia would get pissed off.
I was in Kiev yesterday listening to Bush yammer on about how you “folks” resonate with regular Americans because you are seeking democracy. That’s after millions killed during forced collectivization in the ’20s, and more millions killed in the next war. Most Americans have no idea that Ukraine exists, let alone discuss it over the dinner table. They would be horrified to examine its last 100 years.
If we as Americans actually paid attention, I think Conservatives AND Liberals would have more issues that unite them and we could clear away the smegma of gay marriage, stem cells, prayer in schools and abortion, and actually get the country focused properly. Find Bin-Laden.
And these are all Star Trek issues, potentially.
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21. Negotiator - April 1, 2008
…How about re-doing the animated series with CGI. Using the same scipts and voice recordings to photo realistic animations of the original.
I hate the cheap look of the animated series, so I never really got into it. Since, though, I read that the stories do hold up to the quality of the original, so I think a CGI version would find an audience. How about it Paramount / CBS honchos?
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Hey, “Negotiator”-
Someone’s trying to do just than, as a fan film-
http://64.225.237.28/Star_Trek_Reanimated/
It was going great, but it was derailed around New Year’s by a hard-drive crash.
I prefer the military / show no mercy side of the Federation( Terran Empire)
Oh, and April fools day is evil!!!!!!!!!!!
so, a holiday where ya joke and deceive one another? how lovely fur ya all… : ) I do me share o’ that as I wrote some crap1216 chat and above.
but I can’ta be as clever as tha fake trailer above… brilliant…
I never saw the cartoon version so i canna say ’bout that… an i guess tha laughs of ST4 have been done ta death…
Big baldy as tha new Picard?…. I guess Picard really did hit the gym as promised fur Riker’s nuptials! (someone say that yet?)
oh, no worries as Riker wasn’t gettin’ married ta big baldy!
Cheers… call me on MayDay and I’ll come runnin’…
AJ #43; I appreciate your view, but with a reminder; when the United States landed on the moon in 1969, there was civil unrest in the streets and an even worse war waging in Vietnam (far more casualties in a year than all of the Iraq war years combined), and still, it was done! Health care will never be “fixed”. It’s a nice talking and leverage point for politicians, and it’s been deadlocked for years. But you can’t put a hold on exploration and expansion because of social ills. Humans will always have earthbound problems. If we wait here to solve them ALL, we’ll never go anywhere as a species (one good asteroid impact and humanity is kaput!). Now, sending humans to Mars is very expensive (more than one nation can foot the bill for), but if the nations of the world combined their efforts on a visionary space program, it could happen (instead of simply circling the earth in an orbital albatross known as the International Space Station….boldy going nowhere, over and over). And perhaps a coalition of nations heading off into the unknown together will have far greater social benefits than fighting wars together! First comes vision, then the public support. Right now, there is NO vision.
wow i cant believe it has already been a year since you guys tricked us with those drawings… seems like not that long ago. but i guess time flies when you are having fun!
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Yes, I thought of that as well. In the ’60s, however, it was easier to insulate oneself from those riots and the war because their coverage was balanced on the evening news with coverage of the space program, which served as a distraction for Americans going through a time of change. Today, we are flooded with information, and it’s difficult to isolate the importance of space exploration from all the world’s other issues.
I agree that exploration of the solar system must be international. The UN should have a space program, because once you leave Earth, nations vanish in importance.
For the record, I had nothing to do with this thread, regardless of the title.
61: Again, I reiterate: How is so much of this information flooded to us? With the assistance of satellite/space technology. Greenhouse effects and global warming were more acutely diagnosed with observation of sister worlds such as Venus and Mars as alternative models. Whether the public acknowledges it or even realizes it, space exploration is so much more than a pride or prestige issue. Ultimately it is gathering information toward the ensured survival of our species. We get so caught up in wars and social ills that is very easy to take our eyes off the big prize. Our over-dependence on fossil fuels is an example. We use them extensively; knowing the supply is not only finite, but polluting the very air we need to breathe. As a Vulcan might say, “Where’s the logic in that?” I agree, AJ, that nations do vanish in importance when you see the earth in space. Earth is the cradle of all humanity. But, to paraphrase Tsiolkovsky, we cannot stay in the cradle forever; humanity’s survival and growth as a species depends on it.
63: The public does not realize it. We’re stuck in traffic half the time, or watching “American Idol” or taking the kids to soccer practice.
Fossil fuels create billions in profits for a small group of corporations whose absolute power actually allows our leaders to ask for “healthy debate” on the issue of warming rather than call for drastic action.
In light of this, it’s difficult to focus on the future of humanity.
BTW, that’s a quote from Dr. McCoy, not a Vulcan ;-)
#64……Uh, I was not quoting Dr. McCoy. FYI, I said, “As a Vulcan MIGHT say.” It was a hypothetical remark.
#63 Sebastian we may not survive to reach the stars anyways, There is nothing to be done about global warming because even if a solution is possible it would require sacrifices to our life styles which very few of us are will to make.The vast majority of us either because complaceny, denial or despair will not take steps of any kind. Few politicians are really going to stick their necks out for global warming or their environmental causes, other then maybe campaign lip service to the voters There is also the issue that there are over 6 billion people on this globe which if current trends continue will ultimately out strip our food supplies and our resources. How useful will space travel be in the short term not very, We would need to be able to transport vast amounts of people and then where are we going to put them what would could we possibly reach, ,we wont be able to solve all of these problems soon enough to doe ourselves any kind of good. Our future is looking more and more like the movie Soylent Green.
The more people make themselves believe they can do nothing, the more they will consciously CHOOSE to do….nothing. That’s defeatism. With that mentality, humanity would never have crossed the oceans. Forgive me, but I think defeatism is equivalent to moral cowardice. Soylent Green is a possibility, if we allow it to happen. Humanity has altered its ways before, sometimes for good effect. Slavery, an accepted institution for thousands of years, is virtually gone. In my own lifetime, the proliferation of the personal computer has brought boundless information to one’s fingertips. Many corporations and nations (the Kyoto Accords, for example) are slowly awakening to the dangers the world is facing. We may not see change fast enough in our lifetimes, but if we give up now, all progress (minimal though it may seem) will be undone. That cannot be the legacy of this generation. Do not accept defeatism because it is easier; live for a better world, have a little vision. Be brave enough to embrace change. Star Trek may be just a TV show, but it had some pretty good lessons about the choices we make for the future. May the future live long and may we choose to prosper in it!
#67 Reality Sebastian the Kyoto Accords which you mention will never be ratified by the United States for economic reasons and they exempt countries like India and China , Russia and other developing countries emition reductions, In other words they can keep on polluting and environmental concerns are not the highest prioty here so what good are the accords? Brazil,Equadore and other south american countires are going continue hacking down the rain forests because there is money to made and the homesteading is a way of getting the poor out of the cities. The only way thats going to stop is when the forest is gone, and top off with the fact that we are systematicaly driving whole animal specaies into extinction Also we have pretty well poisoned the this planet with all our industrail and nuclear wastes, im sure you’ve heard of Love Cannal,Nyanza Chemical in Ashland Mass Chernoble and god know what other industial pollution horrors have yest to come to light. Then there is Aids and the emergence of drug resistance diseases. To many problems with no easy or apparent solutions. To many and not enough time and minimal progress will not cut it. I am of course willing to conceed that i might be wrong, but i don’t think so.
#67 Sebastion one further point there is nothing wrong with being an optimist its just most of the rest of us aren’t, and you don’t have the right to fault us for that.
#68, 69 But you DO have the right to find fault with my optimism? I don’t believe the future (as we’re heading thus far) will be sunshine and roses, but I think giving up is tragic. Yes, I am familiar with Love Canal, and Chernobyl. Disaster and disease will always be with us(I lost my best friend from high school to AIDS, by the way); if we simply surrender to these conditions, then why go on? Why have children? Why get up in the morning? Why take care of oneself? Because of hope. Having hope and optimism in dire times to me is not naive, it’s necessary. And it takes courage! I’m done with this topic. Moving on…
#70 You’ll forgive me if i have a slight issue with the moral Cowardice definition,that does not apply me thank you very much and no I am not finding fault with your optimism, believe me im not. Giving up? No that would to easy. Things are getting worse, not better and I just cannot see light at the end of this tunnel for any of us. Sebastian I would loved to wrong here.