Star Trek Meets Monty Python
October 24, 2013 8:04 AM Subscribe
Star Trek Meets Monty Python. (SLYT). Extremely silly.
Agreed. Really, the only thing preventing Trekkie/Python mashups like this from surfacing sooner (i.e. prior to the year 2000) was the fact that you had to have access to an expensive video/film editing bay to pull it off, and then the only audience for your masterpiece would have been a handful of other nerds at the yearly sci-fi con in your town, and only if your town had a sufficient fan community to support one. The internet has really streamlined a lot of things for a lot of people.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:18 AM on October 24, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:18 AM on October 24, 2013 [3 favorites]
(But mostly for nerds.)
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:26 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:26 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
An oldie but a goodie.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 8:44 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 8:44 AM on October 24, 2013
I don't know how it is that I'd never seen it until today. Maybe it was so long ago that I'd forgotten about it.
posted by Optamystic at 8:50 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by Optamystic at 8:50 AM on October 24, 2013
Gowron: My dog has no nose.
Guy: How does he smell?
Gowron: [Bug Eyes] Terrrrrr-ible
posted by drezdn at 8:50 AM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
Guy: How does he smell?
Gowron: [Bug Eyes] Terrrrrr-ible
posted by drezdn at 8:50 AM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
I admit: Spock pushing Pike's chair on "I have to push the pram a looooooooot" got an outright laugh from me. Well done, nerds-of-Christmas-past.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:56 AM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:56 AM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
Did George Takei have an "I Get to Brandish a Sword at Least Once Every Season" clause? Because he should have.
posted by Curious Artificer at 9:15 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Curious Artificer at 9:15 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
confirms me in my thinking that the original Star Trek only really works (and only ever did work) as comedy
posted by philip-random at 10:35 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by philip-random at 10:35 AM on October 24, 2013
Just think how much harder it would be to do this sort of thing if the ST episodes "Plato's Stepchildren" and "I, Mudd" hadn't been made. There are good comedic visuals scattered throughout the show's run but there are signature scenes in those two episodes that provide about half the source material for these things.
posted by George_Spiggott at 10:47 AM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by George_Spiggott at 10:47 AM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
confirms me in my thinking that the original Star Trek only really works (and only ever did work) as comedy
The City on the Edge of Forever is a goddamn tragedy, as is Charlie X. And Balance of Terror is as good an episode as anything filmed at that time. We just had a great thread about English folk horror, and I think the episode titled Return of the Archons, in which the crew find themselves stranded on a weird, almost religious cult-like planet where the inhabitants go into a violent frenzy every night at 6pm, is as close as American horror has come to that sort of vibe.
In summary, Star Trek is a land of contrasts.
posted by Bunny Ultramod at 11:49 AM on October 24, 2013 [5 favorites]
The City on the Edge of Forever is a goddamn tragedy, as is Charlie X. And Balance of Terror is as good an episode as anything filmed at that time. We just had a great thread about English folk horror, and I think the episode titled Return of the Archons, in which the crew find themselves stranded on a weird, almost religious cult-like planet where the inhabitants go into a violent frenzy every night at 6pm, is as close as American horror has come to that sort of vibe.
In summary, Star Trek is a land of contrasts.
posted by Bunny Ultramod at 11:49 AM on October 24, 2013 [5 favorites]
Yeah, the original Star Trek series is pretty decent actually. We've been watching it on Netflix streaming and enjoying the high definition - much better than when I first saw these on a crappy TV as a kid.
the episode titled Return of the Archons, in which the crew find themselves stranded on a weird, almost religious cult-like planet where the inhabitants go into a violent frenzy every night at 6pm
Yes, we saw this one right around the time we were working on the H St. festival float. "Are you here for the festival?"
posted by exogenous at 12:17 PM on October 24, 2013
the episode titled Return of the Archons, in which the crew find themselves stranded on a weird, almost religious cult-like planet where the inhabitants go into a violent frenzy every night at 6pm
Yes, we saw this one right around the time we were working on the H St. festival float. "Are you here for the festival?"
posted by exogenous at 12:17 PM on October 24, 2013
I love early Star Trek: not just TOS but the first episodes -- there is a mythic SF golden age quality to it that slowly drained away as the series went on (and is utterly absent from all the sequel series). I just rewatched "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the first episode filmed after the pilot. I expected to laugh at it for its cornball unscience, but in fact did the opposite. That thing is goddamn epic, a joy to watch from beginning to end. Granted, much of that is due to Gary Lockwood and Sally Kellerman, but it's not just that you can't go far wrong with them -- it went almost magically right with them.
posted by George_Spiggott at 12:25 PM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by George_Spiggott at 12:25 PM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
More time has passed between the end of The Next Generation and now than passed between the end of The Original Series and the beginning of The Next Generation.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 12:31 PM on October 24, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 12:31 PM on October 24, 2013 [3 favorites]
More time has passed between the end of The Next Generation and now than passed between the end of The Original Series and the beginning of The Next Generation.
The day I realized this (sometime last year, I think) was the day that I realized that I was now OLD.
posted by Strange Interlude at 12:42 PM on October 24, 2013
The day I realized this (sometime last year, I think) was the day that I realized that I was now OLD.
posted by Strange Interlude at 12:42 PM on October 24, 2013
Think of it this way, Star Trek: Enterprise ended in 2005. It's been eight years. It was 18 years between the end of TOS and TNG. In good news, we should get a new Trek series sometime around 2023!
I was shown this video a couple years ago by a coworker, who sadly left for another job and left me in a wasteland of virtually all things Geek and Nerdish. I shout quotes from Star Wars at people and they blink at me. THEY BLINK AT ME.
...but at least Spock loves to push the pramalot!
posted by Atreides at 1:56 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
I was shown this video a couple years ago by a coworker, who sadly left for another job and left me in a wasteland of virtually all things Geek and Nerdish. I shout quotes from Star Wars at people and they blink at me. THEY BLINK AT ME.
...but at least Spock loves to push the pramalot!
posted by Atreides at 1:56 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
The City on the Edge of Forever is a goddamn tragedy, as is Charlie X. And Balance of Terror is as good an episode as anything filmed at that time. We just had a great thread about English folk horror, and I think the episode titled Return of the Archons, in which the crew find themselves stranded on a weird, almost religious cult-like planet where the inhabitants go into a violent frenzy every night at 6pm, is as close as American horror has come to that sort of vibe.
Let us never speak of "The Apple."
posted by DrAstroZoom at 6:21 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
Let us never speak of "The Apple."
posted by DrAstroZoom at 6:21 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
I recently watched the Original Series for the first time, and loved it -- the serious episodes like "Balance of Terror" and "The Doomsday Machine" hold up really well, and the cornball episodes are loads of fun.
"Whom Gods Destroy" is a personal fave -- i can't help but think that Paul Dini was subconsciously thinking of LORD Garth and Marta when he came up with the whole Joker/Harley Quinn thing.
Seriously, Garth and Marta = Joker and Harley.
Now i'm one of those people who ranks the Original Series above The Next Generation. I used to hate those people.
posted by ELF Radio at 6:26 PM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
"Whom Gods Destroy" is a personal fave -- i can't help but think that Paul Dini was subconsciously thinking of LORD Garth and Marta when he came up with the whole Joker/Harley Quinn thing.
Seriously, Garth and Marta = Joker and Harley.
Now i'm one of those people who ranks the Original Series above The Next Generation. I used to hate those people.
posted by ELF Radio at 6:26 PM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
"Wheels, Mr. Spock."
"A flivver, Captain."
An episode like A Piece of the Action just makes the whole series for me. An obvious parody of other episodes, in which the Enterprise discovered shadows of ancient Earth, played for comedy. Shatner and Nimoy seemed to be having a ball, and the chemistry of the two characters seemed just right. And, weirdly, it has a hint of menace that a later motion picture (hint! hint!) might follow up on: what if the Federation came upon a civilization that was a bit more clever than they were?
posted by SPrintF at 8:57 PM on October 24, 2013
"A flivver, Captain."
An episode like A Piece of the Action just makes the whole series for me. An obvious parody of other episodes, in which the Enterprise discovered shadows of ancient Earth, played for comedy. Shatner and Nimoy seemed to be having a ball, and the chemistry of the two characters seemed just right. And, weirdly, it has a hint of menace that a later motion picture (hint! hint!) might follow up on: what if the Federation came upon a civilization that was a bit more clever than they were?
posted by SPrintF at 8:57 PM on October 24, 2013
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