Watch Stewart & Dorn TNG Gag In Family Guy Star Wars Spoof + MacFarlane Indicates Star Trek Spoof Is Next December 31, 2010
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Celebrity, Humor, TNG, Viral Video/Mashup/Images , trackback
Just in time for Christmas, Fox released their third Family Guy/Star Wars spoof movie, "It’s A Trap", a parody of Return of the Jedi. And just like with past spoofs, Seth MacFarlane worked in a Star Trek gag, this time with voice cameos from Michael Dorn and Patrick Stewart. Plus MacFarlane has indicated he might finally be doing that big Star Trek spoof he wants.
Star Trek works its way into "It’s A Trap"
Michael Dorn and Patrick Stewart reprise their (voice) roles as Jean Luc Picard and Mr. Worf in "Family Guy: It’s A Trap". Here is a clip.
MacFarlane indicates Star Trek spoof might be next
Over the last few years Family Guy creator (and huge Star Trek fan) Seth MacFarlane has indicated that he wants to follow up his Star Wars spoofs with one from Star Trek, possibly Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (see TrekMovie’s suggested FG/TWOK recasting). However, MacFarlane later said he didn’t expect to be able to do Star Trek because Paramount wouldn’t give him the same cooperation he has had from LucasFilm for the Star Wars spoofs. Yet now a new interview with MacFarlane indicates that maybe there is a new hope (see what I did there) for Star Trek. Here is an excerpt from TV Squad’s interview:
Next, MacFarlane and company might take on the ‘Star Trek’ movies — but not right away. "These are very tiring to do," he told us. "It’s like doing a movie at the same time you’re doing a TV series. Particularly with animation, that’s a lot of work. We’d like to take a break first."
TrekMovie will keep an eye out for any new developments for Family Guy and Star Trek.
And for more on "It’s A Trap", here is the official promo for "It’s A Trap", available now on DVD and Blu-ray (it will also be aired on Fox sometime in 2011).
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Can’t wait to see a Trek spoof Family Guy style!!
If they move into “Star Trek” spoofs, it should be after a couple of years. Stacking the 3 “Star Wars” spoofs up next to each other, its clear the quality of the writing waned as the series went on.
Ehhh…Seth and Star Trek.
Well, I guess another Star Trek spoof by a Star Wars fan (see what I did there) is par for the course at this point.
Nearly two weeks for this?!??!
Hmm… odd, their Star Trek spoof MIGHT be okay, personally I think that Star Trek should stay dignified and not officially spoofed, but maybe he can pull it off.
If he’s gonna spoof Star Trek do it with American Dad cast. Would be funnier because Patrick is a regular on that show.
As long as it is funny…..
Hopefully there is more than that!
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As for a “Star Wars” fan doing a “Star Trek” spoof… Seth is just as much a Trek fan… the man hired Patrick Stewart for crimin’ out loud
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I know… the lack of updates was vexing me, too… but i’ll shut up now about that.
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Star Trek cannot be seen as “dignified” after some of the crap Enterprise pulled.
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No, he should do it as a “Family Guy” thing… American Dad has neither the big-name appeal nor the quality of writing to handle spoofing “The Wrath of Khan”.
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That’s my worry, too.
3. Seth was in a few episodes of Enterprise. Taking that into consideration, he’s more of a fan that 90% of the people who claim to be Trek fans…
Seth is a Big Time trek fan like all of us. I for one being the hard core fan i am would love to see Seth do a Trek Spoof. This Star Wars spoof was a lot of fun.
Now ain’t everyone glad that I let Lt Cdr Anthony Pascale out of the Agoniser Booth.
OMG, I would love to see Seth how handles WHY Admirals or Captains MUST beam into hazardous situations!
to all yall wanting to get all pissy about no updates, you have to realize that the guys who run this site have lives outside of the site. They do, trust me. I know it is hard to believe, but it is….alright, that’s enough, I’m done. Anyways, I was a little bummed myself to see no updates for a couple of days, seeing as this is my favorite site on the Good Old Web. However, I do know that there has been nothing about going on hiatus or stopping the site, so it will continue to go.
Thanks to Anthony and the gang for putting up a few articles after so long a dry spell.
@14. Dude, you are jumping to conclusions here. I think all anybody wanted was just a quick post announcing that the site staff would be taking two weeks off so folks weren’t left wondering what was going on.
Welcome Back Anthony! While you were gone we posted the script of “Super 8″, the x-rated spoof “Sex Trek” and had a toga party. Oh and by the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!
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you don’t know what you’re talking about.
@14
read the whole post before you respond. homeboy was being goofy.
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too bad the it’s a trap wasn’t that great. hopefully trek would be a lot better with fresher material.
Actually, I was just ‘aving a go at what JJ did with STAR TREK.
A Family Guy spoof of Trek movies should start with the obvious candidate: The Final Frontier. Even though I love all Trek movies, as well as all Trek in general, the multitude of options available would make TFF a terrific choice for satire.
For example, the “God” entity could be played by the “God” character (the one who tries to impress a girl in a bar, for example). Family Guy’s “Jesus” character could play the role of Sybok (literally in search of God, his father).
By the way, everyone: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
“If you ask me, and you didn’t”, MacFarlane has the one up on Abrams….at least he’s a bloody fan. Bring on the spoof.
@ #17
You know, I was just having a laugh, but the idea that I don’t know what I’m talking about? I’ll tell you what, I’ve been watching STAR TREK since the age of four, and I’ll be forty in April. I can count among my friends and acquaintances some of the VERY people who helped make the original show, one in particular without whom there wouldn’t have been even a third season of The Original Series, and some who are continuing the original series in their own and very accurate way. So be for we go off and tell people that they don’t know what they’re talking about, maybe we should stop and concider that someone might just actually know what they’re talking about.
LLAP & Happy New Year!
John
By the way, where is Beverly Crusher in that It’s a Trap Trek scene? They included Wesley Crusher but not his mother? They couldn’t decide between Crusher and Pulaski? She’s camouflaged as the computer display in the empty space between Data and Worf? What gives?
For that matter, what happened to Tasha Yar?
Seth, explain!
I’d forgotten how many players there were in the TNG ensemble.
With those third season uniforms and judging by Rikers beard…Tasha’s long dead.
John
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Maybe it was a reverse version of the TNG episode “Remember Me”. In that episode, everyone kept disappearing until Dr.Crusher was the only one left. Maybe Seth McFarlane just wanted to do the opposite. :-)
Happy New Years!
Cue loads of people agreeing with me and others arguing the invalidity of my message because of the lack of an apostrophe in the word “let’s”.
#9 – “Star Trek cannot be seen as “dignified” after some of the crap Enterprise pulled.”
Spock’s Brain. Star Trek V.
Don’t hate on “Enterprise”, nothing on that show reached those lows from the TOS crew.
Got it for Xmas. Haven’t figured out what “digital download” is all about. Do I have to register for crappy emails? Why can’t they just sell DVDs that play in my computer? And don’t tell me this fights piracy, because the Chinese not only have this online for free, they’ve used scenes to make 234534089452435095 other movies.
If you listen to the commentary for “It’s a Trap,” one of the producers talks about doing “Khan” very eagerly, so much so that he stops himself (or gets stopped by someone else) a couple of times since he (paraphrasing) “Shouldn’t be talking about ‘Star Trek’ so much while doing a ‘Star Wars’ show.”
Seriously, TrekMovie, listen to it and transcribe.
I’ll hate on Enterprise all I want. Spock’s Brain at least had the charm of a 1950s B-movie. And for all the hating of Star Trek V, that movie had the best motion picture depiction of that friendship between Kirk, Spock and Bones. Story? Yeah, it sucked, but I missed that friendship in the movies.
I will not like Enterprise, though. Sorry if that ruins your goal to have everyone in Trekdom enjoy it. I just won’t enjoy it. Entitle me to my opinion and embrace IDIC.
(PS – I never said TOS didn’t suck in parts… every series had LOUSY episodes. They just didn’t call them seasons.)
23, but the memory lingers on. Besides, I don’t think canon applies.
24, now there’s an idea, and what a good episode that was. I certainly do remember her, too.
Ironic, isn’t it, that Beverly was one of the most dignified, tea-and-crumpet-partaking characters in the show, and yet Seth somehow forgot about her. (Then again, there’s my theory that she’s just camouflaged somehow….)
Hey, the Rose Parade is about to start. I almost forgot about that. I wonder what kind of aircraft they’ll have fly over. These days it tends to be the B-2, I think. Anyway, I just turned on KTLA.
All right, who else remembers the giant Enterprise-D float they had in the Parade?
More beautiful than any flower, that ship was. :-)
A trek Parody would be nice but i doubt that paramount will let them do it.
Oh, Paramount can be pretty flexible. Look at all the fanfic productions on the ‘Net.
Some of them have actual Trek stars in them (e.g., “Of Gods and Men”).
By the way, I suspect that even though Anthony was “off the grid” for a matter of weeks, this site was never unmoderated.
Call it a hunch.
;-)
Still watching the Rose Parade, live from Pasadena, and yes, I was right — it was a B-2.
You know, one of these days I’d like to see a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental or Airbus A380 do a flyover. Truth be told, either of them would be much larger than the B-2. I’m getting a bit tired of the militaristic connotations of the B-2. Yes, it’s a Stealth aircraft. Ho-hum.
Or make it a C-5M Galaxy, at least. Biggest aircraft in the U.S. Air Force and one of the largest aircraft in the world.
Better still, have the 747-8, A380, C-5, and Antonov An-225 fly together in formation. Together, they’d cast quite a shadow and wow the crowd. Peace and harmony, and all that good stuff.
Oh well. Back to watching the Parade.
Nice to see everyone is back to trashing each other and other people’s particular view of Trek in the comments.
The only time I like Family Guy is when they’re spoofing Star Wars, so I suppose I’d be okay with a Star Trek spoof.
Anthony runs a fantastic site. I love it.
In my opinion Anthony should have written one or two sentences saying there would be a break from the site. I am sure many people were left wondering if our favorite site might have been gone forever. It was uncomfortable and unnecessary. I hope in the future Anthony would consider writing that sentence.
That said, Anthony, thank you for this wonderful site.
@30 “I’ll hate on Enterprise all I want. Spock’s Brain at least had the charm of a 1950s B-movie. And for all the hating of Star Trek V, that movie had the best motion picture depiction of that friendship between Kirk, Spock and Bones. Story? Yeah, it sucked, but I missed that friendship in the movies. I will not like Enterprise, though. Sorry if that ruins your goal to have everyone in Trekdom enjoy it. I just won’t enjoy it. Entitle me to my opinion and embrace IDIC”
Well said — I could not agree more R. Dawson!!!!!
@34 “You know, one of these days I’d like to see a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental or Airbus A380 do a flyover. Truth be told, either of them would be much larger than the B-2. I’m getting a bit tired of the militaristic connotations of the B-2. Yes, it’s a Stealth aircraft. Ho-hum.”
You’ve got be kidding me, right? Maybe you folks in Pasadena get to see a B-2 flyover every year, but many of us have never seen that. Contrary to that, I have seen all the other commercial jets and military jets many times now…Ho Hum, indeed.
And thanks to all of our servicemen out there for putting their lives on the line every day for us in Afghanistan and Iraq! I have not forgotten their sacrifice, and I welcome reminders of it through “militaristic flyovers” for the Rose Bowl parade, etc. I get to about one military air show per year and wish I could get to more…
Well, MJ, you’ve seen one B-2, you’ve seen pretty much all of them. They don’t look any different the second time around.
And admittedly, I’ve been to my share of airshows. Saw the famous Pugachev Cobra Maneuver in Kalamazoo, I think it was, way back when. Airshows are great.
But if you haven’t seen a B-2 yet, be my guest; next year will probably be a B-2 flyover again.
If we’re talking Stealth aircraft, I’d like to see a formation of Raptors and Lightning II’s next year.
No one is forgetting our people in Afghanistan or Iraq. We just had Veterans Day last November and there was plenty of coverage of that. A mild comment against over-militarizing a parade that has nothing to do with the armed forces isn’t a statement about our servicemembers. Pasadena as a city isn’t particularly military, unlike Oceanside, for example, or Lancaster.
Personally, I’m in favor of cooperation, peace and harmony over displays of our military might.
“Personally, I’m in favor of cooperation, peace and harmony over displays of our military might.”
Yea, but we can see “peace and harmony” aircraft that at LAX or any other major US airport any day, right? :-)
Again, I would love to see a B2 flyover — I don’t think a lot of us have seen this in person, but I would hazard to guess we’ve all seen a lot of 747’s.
I have seen the F-22 at an airshow — extremely impressive — so I am with you on that one at least….and I would certainly love to see an AN 224 as well.
Also, you may not be aware of this, buy the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena was once the leading developer of ballistic missile rocket technology in the U.S. and played a huge role in defense technology. Also, a little known fact is that many of the engineering and manufacturing personnel at Northrop who built the B-2 bomber in Palmdale in the 80’s and 90’s lived in Pasadena and made the one-hour daily commute to Palmdale.
I cannot stress enough how much I love JPL. It’s one of my ambitions to actually visit the place, which is bizarre because you would think that since I live within easy commuting distance of it, I would have done so long ago. But strangely enough, I haven’t.
I guess it’s like how the ice cream man doesn’t want to eat ice cream.
I’ve gone all the way to Edwards AFB to view the very first landing of the very first Space Shuttle, the Columbia, but I haven’t visited JPL. (I even have Super 8 videotape of the event, somewhere.)
As they say: Go figure. ;-)
As an educator, I get invites to JPL periodically, but again, I haven’t taken advantage of them. Again: Go figure.
For the longest time, I was a member of the Planetary Society, but sadly have let the membership lapse.
In any event, I’m glad we agree on peace and harmony.
The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental, by the way, hasn’t appeared at any commercial airport. It’s the largest airliner ever built in America, and longer even than the Airbus A340-600, which is currently the longest airliner in the world. (Yes, the A340-600 is actually longer than the A380 double-decker superjumbo jet.)
And I haven’t seen the A380, ever, so it would be new to me. Nor the Antonov.
It would be nice to see these flying overhead. It would be the closest would could ever reasonably expect to see to having the Enterprise overhead.
Speaking of which, am I geeking for actually looking at my odometer and passing landmarks as I’m driving at freeway speeds to get a sense of how incredibly large the NuEnterprise really is?
Somebody please help me….
;-)
^^ Super 8 film, not videotape. D’oh.
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I’ve seen a B2 Spirit fly over during an air show. They’re dead silent until they fly directly over you and even then they’re just a low hiss. Amazing.
Its about time, I loved the family guy star wars spoofs, can’t wait for the trek spoof.
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Paramount really isn’t that lenient. The web stuff is allowed because they aren’t making any money off of it. If for one minute, they thought they were losing money, they’d pull the plug faster than you can say “Viacom.”
Though, they have gotten better. There was a time when they threatened to shut down fan sites for using Trek images.
It could be done… as parody is fairly well protected. However, the images could not be as exact, nor could the music be used without Paramount’s cooperation.
Lucasfilm, on the other hand, is very lenient.
Paramount/CBS need to lighten up and smell the money that WILL be made if they allow McFarlane (and others) as much creative control over Star Trek as they have been given by Lucasfilm – It’s high time Par and CBS got off their high horses and got the BRAND NAME out into the public domain – one, two maybe three JJ Abrams films isn’t going to cut it. Nor is giving a license to produce shit to back-street company’s like DST and Playmates, spread the word, give the license to big, popular companies and come on, make the words Star Trek cool again.
They could learn a lot from Lucas about how to market Star Trek.
@42 While I am for the US to lead in aerospace, the 15 foot longer 747 that Boeing is building seems like kind of a gimmick to me so that they can just claim that their biggest jumbo jet is as modern and is on par with the Airbus, when in fact the Airbus A380 is still significantly more massive than the 747-8. But I think the primary business case for Boeing is to have a more attractive freighter option of the 747 to compete with the long delayed A380 freighter.
Anyway, I doubt most people seeing a flyover fairly high up over a parade would be able to tell the difference between a 747-400 and a 747-8.
BTW, if you ever use LAX airport, there is usually a Quantas A380 parked every day between late afternoon and late evening. I’ve seen it several times from the plane I was on which was taxiing around LAX to takeoff or land.
@47. Well that is assuming that we really that type of expansion…I’m not sure I really want to see that for Trek. I am kind of fine with where we are now.
We’ll never see a “Family Guy” Trek spoof because neither Paramount nor FOX would want to split the Blu Ray/dvd revenues. FOX wouldn’t want Paramount profiting off of “Family Guy” just as Paramount wouldn’t want FOX to make money off of “Star Trek”.
And Paramount may end up losing the “Star Trek” film rights in a few years if CBS has its way. Paramount may only have a limited number of years to make Trek movies according to the deal it signed.
@50 “And Paramount may end up losing the “Star Trek” film rights in a few years if CBS has its way. Paramount may only have a limited number of years to make Trek movies according to the deal it signed.”
Why “may”…is there a limit or not, and if so what are the details? Usually major studio lawyers won’t sign deals with nebulous conditions like this?
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I read somewhere that Paramount has only a certain number of years to make Trek films or they risk losing the property. CBS isn’t happy that a rival studio is making big bucks off of “Star Trek” and they probably want to ensure everything is legal.
There could be some ugly lawsuits and counterlawsuits filed a few years down the road.
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Sooooo… What does watching a lot of star trek have to do with you talking out the wazoo about Seth Macfarlane? Nice segue, pal. I see what you did there. :P
I’ll have you know, my second cousin is William Shatner… we used to call him billshat around the old neighborhood. He didn’t mind, he was pretty chill back in the day. As a matter of fact, he used to invite me and Seth down to the lot during filming of Star Trek V and we would smoke out between takes. One time we even got busted letting the air out of George Takei’s tires. Let me tell you, homeboy was PISSED! Also, I personally funded the entire fourth season of Enterprise out of my own pocket. The funny part is Scott Bakula didn’t even thank me! Can you believe that? Blah blah blah I’m so awesome…
There’s nothing wrong with being misinformed. Hell, its expected these days… just admit it and move on. Skip the BS, you’ll be happier.
ps. happy new year and GFY! (google it, first link)
@53
You’re the MAN!!
@52. Hmm, interesting. I tried doing a web search for this, but did not get anything. Bob, do you know anything about this?
So, does Family Guy ever do anything original?
RD Ryan, just found this on Wikipedia:
“In 2005, Viacom, which owned Paramount Pictures, split from CBS Corporation, which retained Paramount’s television properties, including ownership of the Star Trek brand. Gail Berman, then president of Paramount, convinced CBS’ chief executive, Leslie Moonves, to allow them eighteen months to develop a new Star Trek film before CBS would re-earn the rights to develop a new television series (in return, CBS would keep merchandising rights). Berman approached Mission: Impossible III writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman for ideas on the new film, and after the film had completed shooting she asked their director, J. J. Abrams, to produce it…….”
So this sounds to me like this has been worked out. I think what you were getting at though is what happens in the future is Paramount stops producing movies….based on this, perhaps CBS could then produce a new TV series?
@55 I am both embarrassed and proud to say I have never seen Family Guy. Not even sure what channel it is on? I am not bid on cartoons…not my cup of tea.
57. I think the Family Guy SW things are kind of funny, but it bugs me to think they’re making money off of popular movies and things and just stealing ideas from other people.
58. Agreed
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Thanks for the info, though I would have preferred that Paramount had kept the whole franchise. Lessens the chances of us getting screwed over by two companies who hate each other.
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Rest assured… if George Lucas is signing off on these spoofs (and he is) you can bet your khyber crystals he’s getting a cut, officially or otherwise.
#58. Seth is doing on a series what Mad Magazine did in print for many years. For those of us who grew up reading Mad, we recognize the old jokes that never seem to get old.
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I’ve been thinking the same thing. These are at least flattering parodies, where as Mad ripped stuff a new one. I think Seth only went to Lucas about the “Star Wars” spoofs because he wanted to do them shot-for-shot (in most instances) and use the original music and sound effects. If he wants to do “Khan” bad enough and Paramount will play ball, he’s entitled to go ahead with it anyway. The right to parody is in the constitution (somewhere).
So I just watched the clip and it’s funny — the space is there to have put in Beverly Crusher. It’s like they forgot or her likeness wasn’t good enough or something and they pulled her. It’s something they didn’t comment on during the audio commentary for “It’s a Trap!”.
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And yes, I do know they had Gates McFadden, in voice and likeness, in an episode of Family Guy. It’s just a more sensible suggestion that they weren’t happy with what the drew then they set the clip during the events of “Remember Me” or some techno-jargon bullcrap.
61. Yeah, that’s what bugs me. They’re making money off stuff they didn’t even create.
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Yeah, Orci and Kurtzman should be asha………..oh, wait. Never mind.
67, Get a new act. Yours is getting old.
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Oh, yes, and yours is SO original.
Sometimes Paramount can be so Frakin’ stupid. Wake up Paramount execs… doing this will give you money. Lots and lots of money. Duh!!
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That’s the price of being in the pop culture light. Others will want to either imitate or mock you. Either way, they’re entitled. Just as you’re entitled to mock them. CIrcle of life or something.
It’s also funny when Pop Culture steals you stuff but isn’t afraid to slam it later.
um…
This is pretty much like an update of that old Saturday night skit…in this case, Trekkies feeling slighted because Gates McFadden wasn’t included in a cartoon spoof of the show. LOL
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59. The reason they did a Star Wars thing with Family Guy is that Family Guy is a show that packs in as many cultural references as they can find excuses to, and the creators clearly are fond of Star Wars, having made a good number of Star Wars references in the show before they ever did a Star Wars “movie.” It was a natural extension of the direction the show was already going.
“It’s A Trap” was NOT funny!
O would relish ANY Trek Family Guy spoof!!!!!
MJ, it’s gone beyond Gates McFadden now. It’s now a debate over who has the right to spoof something and when. Still an SNL sketch in the making, just a different topic.
And for the record, were Wesley not on the bridge, I’d suspect she was in her quarters with her Ronin the rogue Scottish ghost candle.
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A few gags aside (the TNG tea party, the use of footage from Caddyshack, and the Seth Green bashing), it was a rather tepid 57 minutes or whatever it ran for.
At least that’s my opinion. I welcome yours.
Thanks to everyone for their responses.
I think it’s very odd that Dr. Crusher was either forgotten or omitted. It’s almost like not having McCoy but having Nurse Chapel in a scene with Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Sulu, and Chekov. Something ain’t right.
Dr. Crusher never had any lines anyway.
@81. Agreed — let’s be realistic, she and her son were like glorifed extras who were not really central to the main cast. I mean they tried to replace here for a season with the prune-face looking scaring lady, and WIll Wheaton is now taking his poorly drawn character of Wesley Crusher to the bank on The Big Bang Theory. These characters are forgettable IMHO.
McFarlane and Green are already stretching themselves too thin – the Family Guy Empire spoof wasn’t very funny and the last Robot Chicken Star Wars show recyled material from the previous one.
IMHO, let the Futurama guys take a shot at a new Trek spoof.
But Dr. Crusher was the best-looking Starfleet doctor ever! How could they have overlooked her?
I’m officially pouting about this. Hear me, Seths McFarlane/Green?
BTW, I just noticed that both guys have the same first name. Which isn’t even a very common one (unlike, say, “John” or “Bob.”) How weird is that? And they’re probably not even related. (Not that they would be just because of their first name. It’s a trap — er, I mean, a joke.)
In the credits they could just have “SETH” on the screen and then flash “McFarlane” and “Green.” From what I’ve read, that would be the funniest joke in their new movie. :Rimshot”
BTW, the “prune-faced” Pulaski was played by Diana Muldaur — a Trek alumna of impeccable pedigree even before she played Pulaski. Pulaski always gets a raw deal, prolly because of Doctor Crusher’s better looks. ;-)
For some reason, I thought she was in original “Planet of the Apes” but I cannot find any references to her in that on the Internet. Strange.
Aside from saying “Hey, I got an idea” , I am fairly certain that Seth Green has little to nothing to do with the actual production on “Family Guy”. He simply voices characters. He’s neither a producer, nor a writer, nor a director, so blaming him for the omission of Dr. Crusher is pointless. Kinda like whining about it for 85 posts on the internet.
But hey, who am I to criticize — it helps us pass the time til the next time Shatner hurts George Takei’s feelings and George sobs about it on Howard Stern.
@56- Regarding Paramount vs. CBS– it is all trivial anyway, Sumner Redstones owns 80% of both companies and is chairman of both companies. There is only so much fighting that could occur between them.
Paramount will go on making Trek movies, and at some point if Redstone is convinced they can make as much money making movies and make a new series and make even more money, there will be another series – but for now, I would just look forward to the movies because they really rake in the profit.
Hat Rick
I think you’re getting Muldaur mixed up with Kim Hunter who was in the original Planet Of The Apes. Both women have deep voices and sound alike. Kim Hunter won the Oscar in 1951 for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire. Another little actor named Marlon Brando was, of course, in it as well.
@86 “I am fairly certain that Seth Green has little to nothing to do with the actual production on “Family Guy”. He simply voices characters. He’s neither a producer, nor a writer, nor a director, so blaming him for the omission of Dr. Crusher is pointless. Kinda like whining about it for 85 posts on the internet.”
So I guess we cant thank him for omitting her either then? :-)
@84 “But Dr. Crusher was the best-looking Starfleet doctor ever!”
I am with you there!
@85 “BTW, the “prune-faced” Pulaski was played by Diana Muldaur — a Trek alumna of impeccable pedigree even before she played Pulaski. Pulaski always gets a raw deal, prolly because of Doctor Crusher’s better looks. ;-) ”
Yep, I know. She was actually a more meaningful doctor in TNG role I thought, but for some reason the writers and directors had her come across as kind of cold and cranky…my opinion anyways.
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I recently rewatched TNG and found myself so sexually drawn to Beverly Crusher. I think she’s a gorgeous woman. That’s right, Gates. I said it. Now come get me!
first of all Anthony I hope you you had a good rest. you deserve it. and hope Santa was good to you.Welcome back. American Dad might be fair game for a trek parody. it would be differant. And Commodore Mike congradulations on your permotion. who did you assasinate? or maybe that stargrahm I sent to the empire head telling them who realy trashed Gorlan rebel home planet. It was you not Kirk, poor Kirk. your on top now.Best luck to you.
i disliked both crushers. what a lame family.
For the benefit of future Trek parodiers:
Star Trek memes / tropes / sayings / etc.:
1. “Scotty, beam me up!” (Often rendered as “Beam me up, Scotty!”) — Kirk.
2. “Fascinating.” — Spock.
3. “I’m a doctor, not a brick layer!” — McCoy.
4. “Don’t call me ‘Tiny!’” — Sulu.
5. “Nuclear wessel.” — Chekov.
6. “Hailing frequencies open.” — Uhura.
7. “It’s still regulation, Admiral.” — Saavik.
8. “Engage!” — Picard.
9. “Resistance is futile.” — Locutus.
10. “Resistance is futile.” — Data.
11. “How small you’ve become.” — Borg Queen.
12. “Maybe today IS a good day to die!” — Worf.
13. “You guys must be way down on your quota for the month!” — Kirk.
14. “I am relieved.” — Pike.
15. “Arf!” [translation: "Why don't I ever get to pilot the ship?"] — Porthos (apocryphal)
You could be right about Kim Hunter, Harry. Though, I have in mind an actress who played an evil overseer who basically rounds up human males.
Come to think of it, how could that have been in POTA? The overseers were all apes! My mind must be playing tricks on me. (I hate it when that happens.)
Oh, it was “Planet Earth,” with John Saxon. Researched it and found it on imdb.com. Gene Roddenberry connection, too.
Hat Rick
glad we could put that one to bed!
#93. It was a Combination of things. I did lose my promotion for a bit. But got it back quickly. Also making sure that the post on the SCi fi movies Friday got over 1,000 post. I put of post of my Top Trek List. From Top Eps to most Shocking Eps to Funniest to Time Travel and Etc.
I think South Park and Mad Magazine can do much better parodies.
In Living color did a great spoof of Trek as well.
I’m not sure what people expect in terms of updates. There’s no news right now. People complain about what they see as filler posts, and then they complain when there are no new posts. Anthony can’t win, apparently.
I REEEEEEALY want to say that the worst spoof of “Trek” ever was “Enterprise”, but I’ll hurt someone’s feelings.
Though in typing the above, I kinda just said it. Bless the internet.
#103. You hurt no ones feelings because your lone opnion simply does not matter to anyone.
#103. You hurt no ones feelings because your lone opnion simply does not matter to anyone.
Well said Mike. In the case of the Dick with the ruffled shirt, the opinion means LESS than nothing to me.
I liked Enterprise despite what some people say. Too each his/her own. Bashing something you don’t like just because someone else does is childish!
Man, it’s a bit tenserer than usual lately.
The jj is a Star Wars fan stuff grates on me – it reminds me of the drunken uncle making snide comments about some woman’s behind not being his cup of tea.
I find family guy funnier when they bleep out the filth – nothing against filth, but it’s just usually not that funny, at least on family guy. I kind of like that Trek, like star wars, before fg, Harry potter, bond, lor etc, hasn’t ever had the f-word or the c-word. And I’m no prude, I swear like a $&&&&&$&@@, but I like the idea of a world where folks are a lot more civilized. Even in parody. What do I know?
And now I’m that guy who posts on sites commenting on things I haven’t seen yet. Some of TWOK is really hammy — “kaaaaaaaahn!” — and how’d you improve on the comedy? Suggestions? I’m sure McFarland will give you a cut.
I think a lot of people that worked on Trek are Star Wars fans. Hell, ILM worked on the best Classic Trek movies.
#99 cmdr. all I can say is you done good. Keep it up. you just may make Ceaser . Have fun
What’s wrong with liking both Star Wars and Star Trek. The should be no need for elitism here. Heck, this website cover comics books and horror for Christ’s, and I tolerate that even though I really don’t like these genres all that much..we should have big umbrella folks! Posts like @106 above makes us as Trek fans look a tad petty and elite.
I apologize for my candor in my previous post. I did not know that voicing my opinion in a (admittedly ATTEMPTED) manner would hurt feelings. I recant my statement and hope that someone will delete post 103 so that it doesn’t offend anyone else.
103 and 105
That said, if I am the ONLY person who disliked the series “Enterprise” and it is indeed a lone opinion that it was a lesser series than those that came before it, I will recant my remarks and never speak of the series at all ever again on these boards. However, I doubt that mine is a “lone opinion”.
My intention was never to “bash” the series. Had I intended to bash it, I would have typed up a lengthy message tearing it apart on several levels with mildly unsubstatiated accusations and snide remarks about the actors personal live, not giving the impression that I had watched the series twice through before forming my opinion.
Again, apologies all around. My opinion should never have been voiced in such an offhanded, cavalier manner. I will make the effort in the coming new year to structure my statements and give supporting details to back them up.
Peace and Long Life All!
@110. While I will not bash any shows, I did not like Enterprise, but I thought it was at least watchable. Voyager was unwatchable to me — again, my opinion, no bashing here. TOS and DS9 are my favorite Trek series that I really liked a lot. TNG was decent, but not great — it was generally watchable and did have a few top-flight episodes, especially during years 3-5 of its run.
MJ –
Actually, while we’re both in the same camp somewhat, I feel the opposite of you: I found Voyager at least watchable, but not always good. They really dropped the ball early on when they had the Maquis dress up like Starfleet. I feel that choice robbed the show of some real tension. Eventually, after season 3 I believe, there was no remarking about the meshing of the two crews, stand-alone episodes like “Worst Case Scenario” and a handful of others. I also believe the Borg were poorly handled, but that’s an entire other can of worms to digest and regurgitate.
On Enterprise, however, what really offended me was the the simple fact that the people responsible for the series did not seem understand the Vulcan race. I have a hard time believing that the xenophobic racists from “Broken Bow” that wanted to keep Archer from taking Klaang back to Qu’nos would evolve into the revered, noble race that I saw Leonard Nimoy portray (half portray since he had a human mother?) on the original series. Yes, I remember that Ambassador Soval changed his philosophy and was punished for it, and that T’Pol’s views of IDIC and logic also changed, but those were two characters out of an entire race that had been solely depicted as arrogant and untrustworthy. I am also aware that the introduction and eventual rise of the Syrannites in the “Kirshara” trilogy went lightyears to turn Vulcans into the TOS prototype, but while an interesting story by the excellent scribes Gar and Judy Reeves-Stevens, the three-parter felt like it was a “patch” to make things come out alright in the end, just like some of the fourth antics on “Battlestar Galactica” to resolve the Final Five and their true identities and just how it worked out.
But, as you said, “my opinion – no bashing here”
Agreed that they ruined the Vulcan race Enterprise. The racism, combined with the showing all the skin they could get away with on T’Pol was a bad direction to take Trek.
One could say it was…….. (wait for it)……….. illogical.
109 – what? Petty and elite? Dude, I was saying I was tired of a few people constantly complaining about jj saying, long ago, that he likes star wars, like the comments at the start of the thread referring, yet again, to Trek 09 being a spoof made by a sw fan. It was a joke, I know… but, yeah, i’m tired of them. But, yeah, Just like the 2-year old gripes about the ibridge and beer-gineering, no matter what the topic — they get tired and, yeah, sound petty and elitist.
I’m a big star wars fan. I’m a big trek fan. I liked trek 09. I like marvel and dc. Cheech and chong. I like to think I’m neither petty nor elitist, at least not about this.
@115, Ah, OK. We are on the same page then!
why are their no new articles- do they not make enough from this site to pay someone to keep things going ?
Trekboi…
The scarcity of fresh news every 10 seconds is probably the result of the fact that there are no new series being produced at Paramount, and the script for “ST09 II” is still in development, so there’s not much to report, other than one guy sits on a couch and the other guy sits at a computer and they talk about what they want to put in the movie.
And, Anthony, correct me if I’m wrong, but your reporters aren’t exactly paid newshounds like the folks at the Times or the Herald, right?
Well, the “Final Frontier” soundtrack just came out. Anthony could post a review.
It’s actually a very nice package. Some detailed liner notes, and two discs of incredible Jerry Goldsmith music.
Disc 1 is full of stuff that never made the soundtrack, including some nice variations on Jerry’s “Enterprise Theme” (the later-known-as-TNG theme song). I don’t have state-of-the-art ultraphonic equipment, but it’s a very clean sounding soundtrack – no hisses or pops in the music. It’s been carefully cleaned up. I’ve always loved Jerry’s scores for the movies, but this one has to be my favorite. I don’t know why, it just is.
Disc 2 is a re-issue of the original retail soundtrack plus some source music and extra bits that are real fun.. Personally, reissuing the original soundtrack onto Disc 2 is kinda weak, since that entire selection of music is on Disc 1. That aside, there are some real nice gems on this disc. First off, we get an alternate version of “the Mountain” and the original version of “A Busy Man”, which is just like the film version but without the Klingon theme. Behind the scenes time: seems Jerry improvised the insertion of Klingon theme into “A Busy Man” at the scoring sessions at the producer’s request to make musical reference to the appearance of the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Next, there are two versions of “The Moon’s a Window to Heaven”, one is the background “source” music from the Nimbus III bar and I personally LOVE it. The other is Nichelle Nichols singing and, I gotta say, it’s a sexy performance. I do wish they’d have included her saying “I always wanted to play to a captive audience” as a tag to the track.
The packaging is beautiful, with a nice thick book of liner notes going over every track on the two-disc set with lots of trivia and musical critique. My only real complaint is that they didn’t include the film version of “Life Is a Dream” (the end titles). The soundtrack version, both on Disc 1 and Disc 2, has the “The Motion Picture” march, then the Klingon theme, then the second half of the TMP march. In the film, it goes from TMP march to “A Busy Man”, to the Klingons, then back to the TMP march. Small nit to pick, I know, but if already putting the album version on Disc 2 with the complete original soundtrack, why not put the film version on Disc 1. Of course, the liner notes answer that: the film version was cut together by someone else to lengthen the music out to fill the credits, or something like that.
I own the soundtracks to all 11 films, including the “complete scores” of Star Trek II, III and “09″, plus I have the bootleg versions of TMP, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis, and I gotta say, this is one sweet collection. The best sounding disc I think I’ve gotten, although I’ve not listened to the complete score version of ST09.
So there’s a layman’s review of the “Star Trek V” soundtrack. Hope it helps people decide if they want to plunk down the $30 clams to get it.
Its nice–i also like my cd star trek astral symphonies–great clips–
I also have “star trek astral symphonies”, it was my first CD, before that i only had vinyl records of “Star Trek: the motion picture” and “Star Trek V”, and a tape record of “Star Trek III”. :)
I agree that the direction they took with “debunking” Vulcans in Star Trek Enterprise was not, perhaps, the best of all possible choices. Vulcans had always been a mentor race to humans in TOS, even though they themselves had an emotional past.
For the purposes of drama, making Vulcans the heavy might have been appropriate, but sometimes what is dramatically correct isn’t what is we’d like to believe of the (fictional) history of the future.
123. Yeah, it was a distasteful choice, Vulcans disgraced just to make that Archer dude more “rebellious”.
That makes the entire motivation for going into outer space less the desire for exploration, and more “let´s prove those bullies wrong”.
Turning him into a woman hater, putting poor T´pol as a punching bag for those bunch of old nerds was hard to swallow as well.
Too bad the redeeming fourth season arrived way too late.
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Thanks for the review! I wanted to read someone else’s opinions on the cds. I got my copy last week and have listened to it twice. Beautiful music.
This site has been really bad for news. I get more news from the other entertainment news blogs I go to. Unless Anthony is working on a new Trek site and that is why their hasn’t been that many updates?
#123 – Vulcans were never shown to be a “mentor” race to humans in TOS. Indeed, they kept to themselves information on their relations to Romulans (certainly at least SOMEONE on Vulcan would have suspected), or supported Federation – not human – interests. I found the Enterprise approach of casting them as semi-villains in the early seasons was refreshing and worked well within Trek’s “history”.
Also, consider: if Vulcans were so all-fired eager to help humans, why didn’t they have even ONE full-blood Vulcan in the mostly-human Starfleet in the 23rd Century? See how well having them historically suspicious of human actions dovetails with the rest of Trek?
Voyager and Enterprise both made the mistake of confusing a lack of emotions with being perpetually irritated when it came to Vulcans. It really turned me off of both series.
I thought the Federation Starship Intrepid had an all-Vulcan crew.
It did indeed, and Spock felt them die.