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Star Wreck Trailer 301

Posted by michael from the crazy-finns dept.
ultramarweeni writes "'Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning', a very fascinating feature-length Finnish Star Trek satire is now nearing its completion. Today, December 13th, the trailer was published at 0:00 GMT after 14 hours of technical problems. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning tells the story of the crew of P-Fleet starship C.P.P. Kickstart, which was stranded on Earth after an accident after a battle against the Korg. With the help of the technology to come, their leader, Captain Pirk claims himself as the emperor of the Earth. He conquers the world and rebuilds the P-Fleet. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning has been in the making since 1999 and will probably be completed in spring 2004. Or maybe not. Time will tell."
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  • Star Wreck? (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I thought this story was about Enterprise.

  • Umm... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:02AM (#7708487)
    'Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning', a very fascinating feature-length Finnish Star Trek satire

    Not for anybody who has ever had sex.

  • Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Ryvar ( 122400 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:04AM (#7708491) Homepage
    Hey cool! They even have a whole forum on their boards dedicated to spoofing those Trekkies who learn Klingon . . .

    Oh wait, that's the Finnish-speakers board. Nevermind.

    --Ryvar

  • Oh no, a video... (Score:5, Funny)

    by paul248 ( 536459 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:04AM (#7708492) Homepage
    Set your browsers to stun!
  • Its a Finnish film? I hope they're making it in enlgish, otherwise it wouldn't be much use to a lot of us here at /.

    Besides that, some people must have a lot of time on their hands.

  • ...with all the other great Swedish comedy...

  • star wars? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by capt.mellow ( 613863 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:08AM (#7708502) Journal
    This was mistakenly assigned a star wars topic thingy. Please, let's keep those universes separate.

  • DAMN YOU PIRARD!!! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by TheMonkeyDepartment ( 413269 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:11AM (#7708517)
    Damn You Pirard! [mrcranky.com] [from alt.stupidity, years ago]

    That's what it reminded me of, anyway.

    An underrated, extremely stupid internet classic.

  • Woah... (Score:2, Funny)

    by pHatidic ( 163975 )
    Finnish is a crazy language. Apparently in Finnish "Ha ha ha" translates into "No remorse."
    Also apparent is the fact that there are no black people in Finland or something, because all the black characters are just white people painted black...poorly.

    Lastly, story dupes are bad enough but now topic dupes? Take a look at the icons for this story and you'll see what I mean ;)

    • Apparently in Finnish "Ha ha ha" translates into "No remorse."

      There's no such word as "ha", unless it's obscure slang. "Remorse" is "katumus", so "no remorse" would be something like "ei katumus". Or maybe I'm not getting the joke ...

      Chris

  • Direct link to trailer (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:18AM (#7708538)
    The site is quite slow (although they do have enough bandwidth), probably because it's all done in PHP. Mega-bandwidth doesn't help there..

    Here's the direct link to the trailer: http://www.starwreck.com/media/itp/star_wreck_itp_ trailer_divx.avi [starwreck.com]

  • Star Wreck, Capt. Pirk? (Score:5, Funny)

    by DarkHelmet ( 120004 ) <mark&seventhcycle,net> on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:18AM (#7708540) Homepage
    So does that make Star Wreck 2 be:

    The Wrath of Don?


  • After paramount finishes suing finnish butts.

    In space, no one can hear you scream.

    I don't know what that babe was saying in finnish, but she sure is cute BTW.
    • Well, there were subtitles. But perhaps you weren't paying attention to them.

      • Yup, just watching babe. Personally I think it needs less "Pirk" and more "babe".

        The subtitles were rolling a bit too fast for me. But there was something about power levels 96% (after my third viewing).

    • I dunno. I've been in a Star Trek punk band for pretty danged close to 11 years and we haven't been sued. Although Paramount did sue The Romulans, who weren't a Star Trek band, they just had that name. The Romulans won the lawsuit.

      Higher up muckity-mucks on The Next Generation knew about us, but they thought it was funny (at least a producer and a director). One bought me a fifth of Jack Daniels which I drank before a show for 7 kinds of wacky shenanigans. [nokilli.com] Of course, they weren't lawyers though.

      If we

  • Swedish movie producers? (Score:4, Funny)

    by physicsphairy ( 720718 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:21AM (#7708555)
    A mOOse once bit my sister.

  • Swedish Chef vs. Babylon 5 (Score:5, Funny)

    by Dyvim ( 621100 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:22AM (#7708559)
    All I could think about while watching it and hearing them talk was the Swedish Chef
  • the trailer was published at 0:00 GMT after 14 hours of technical problems
    And, after the posting of this story, it appears that they will continue to have many hours of technical problems.

  • Weird (Score:5, Insightful)

    by NetGyver ( 201322 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @12:31AM (#7708586) Journal
    Got the trailer, got the teasers, am i missing something? This is a spoof on star trek obviously, but i didn't laugh.

    It doesn't help that the whole trailer isn't in english. So that takes away from the humor for me. That, and the fact that they have really GOOD special effects in the trailer takes away from the humor.

    Most spoofs i've seen are cheezy, hilarious knock-offs of the orignials with a heavy dose of humor. hell, make the actors a bit more convincing, and use real black actors, i would have taken this trailer as a trailer for a new star trek series, not a spoof.

    Anyway, analysis complete. :)

    • Re:Weird (Score:2, Informative)

      by arasinen ( 22038 )
      As a Finn I can tell you that the trailer isn't funny even in Finnish :). But then again, it's probably not supposed to be. Sort of a parody of the usual Bruckheimer-trailers... "THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD" etc. etc.

      Most people in the inteded audience (before the slashdotting, at least) already know what humor and the jokes are going to be like; after all, this is the group's sixth SW-production. They're just showing "this is what it will be like", and keeping all the jokes 'secret'.

      If you have the time
    • Seeming as Finland is so overrun by dark-skinned people--97% are ethnic Swedes or Finns, with the remainder being distinctly non-african in origin, but for a few thousand Somali refugees--I think they can be forgiven for a little bit of improvising on racial representation.

      Making this piece of crap in the first place, however, remains unforgivable. What more could they say that has not already been said better by Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman?
    • and use real black actors

      What?

      Unlike say, Levar Burton or Whoopie Goldberg who are fake black actors?
      Are they not really black or not really actors?
  • Babylon 5 and Star Trek. It really seems to take the Star Trek series dead on. Also, I believe I saw a bit of Crusade as well, but that was a B5 spinoff. (What ever happened to those B5 spinnoffs we were going to see on The Rangers or something?)

    The graphics are beautiful. The parody is obvious. But I want to know how they get away with those very very very Paramount looking starships??!?
  • which was stranded on Earth after an accident after a battle against the Korg.
    They're fighting a keyboard company [korg.com]?!?! I was always suspicious of that old DSS-1 sampler [google.com] I used to have... Damn thing recorded everything I said I bet!

  • I hate you (Score:5, Interesting)

    by the_Bionic_lemming ( 446569 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @01:18AM (#7708783)
    Why do folks need to /. cool sites with big movies? All it does is cost them huge bucks that /. folks don't pay, and drive them offline.

    Check out the recent victim -

    Over this holliday weekend a very popular website called Slashdot.org put up an article about my site and provided a direct link (without my consent so I could prepare for it) to my CGI ATIS virtual ride-thru project. While this was very flattering it also turned out to be very expensive for me. On a single day on (Saturday November 30th) I received 11,000 users that downloaded 33840.220 MB worth of stuff from the site. Due to the high bandwidth used, the Atommobiles.com site was shut down and I was left with a huge $1000.00 bill to pay. I am still working out details about bandwidth issues and I am switching to a more expensive account to get the site back online. So for now, all movies will be removed from the site and the site is in danger of being taken down until these issues get resolved. I will try to keep this site online as long as I can but without the help of some donations this site might become extinct just like Adventure Thru Inner Space. A sad day for me and fans it will be, indeed.

    Barely holding on.....

    Steve Wesson
    Webmaster of Atommobiles.com

    Anyone interested in donating some money to the site I have a paypal link set up.
    Just click the Donate button below. (Note paypal auto adds a $3.00 shipping charge to any donations so just subtract $3.00 from your donation amount that you want to send. Sorry about that. I have Paypal set up to charge $3.00 shipping to any orders and it can't be removed for the Donations.)

    Thank you everyone for all your support.

    Here is the link to the "little" article that killed my site if you care to read it.:
    http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/29/231920 2.shtm l

    • Re:I hate you (Score:3, Insightful)

      by waferhead ( 557795 )
      I'm VERY sorry for your problem, but I have a suggestion...

      A .torrent file STILL gets you hits, and as long as its live, everyone gets decent bandwith.

      You could even be the seed, and just limit that invocation of bts bandwith, and the bigger "hit" you get, the more bandwith there is--And you don't pay for it for the most part, save for the seed, and tracker traffic.

      Bittorrent is included in Debian and Mandrake for sure, and certainly available for all other platforms, save possibly C64, and I'm not sure
    • Read the parent link.

      And anyone who mods it underrated is an asshole.

      Go ahead, rob me of 3 karma. This post is offtopic as is the one above, but both still need to be said.

    • Re:I hate you (Score:5, Insightful)

      by barc0001 ( 173002 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @07:49AM (#7709824)
      Dear Site Owner:
      There's this thing. It's called the Web. If you put things up on it, and they're interesting, people will share the link with other people. If you're putting up huge, interesting media files, at some point in your site's life, you can expect the traffic to start to rise, perhaps uncontrollably. That's why you should:
      1) Get a hosting agreement at a place with a cap on your bandwidth/monthly transfer so they can't surprise you with 4 digit bills.
      2) Think long and hard about the total size of anything you put up, particularily with a bent toward thinking "what if 1000 people decide to see this at some point?", especially since the only reason you're posting it is so that others can see it.
      3) If only your selected pals are supposed to see it, put it in a restricted area.
      4) Quit acting surprised when this type of thing happens. We've all seen the Slashdot Effect for years now, and considering the unlikely meme success of the Hamster Dance, Mahir, the Tourist Guy, AYB and more, we know that large flocks of people can descend on the most unlikely thing mercilessly.

    • You could always block access to your website where the "linked from" http header contains Slashdot.
  • The special effects are fantastic. Here are some magnet links for P2P users of the DivX versions. Don't forget to remove the space.
    magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:NBL7X6W6VIXGOE6YX6 VAOEYWZQ FAD2YL.KH66BY3FQFYWAVNV4MYIZYFFYFXIPWMXIFIQ6CY&dn= star_wreck_itp_trailer_divx.avi
    magnet:?xt=urn:bi tprint:MUU6EICDGLHXQ5YQVPE66TA67K EAXLVT.UPRYFT5PZPPENT4BEQK26G4AZIGBTJU7DZFXZHY&dn= SW6_teaser2_divx.avi

  • Mirror (Score:3, Informative)

    by Xanith ( 147024 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @01:30AM (#7708828)
    In case it get slashdotted here is a Mirror [gooystuff.com].
  • It's been posted for 45 minutes and the server is *STILL* *UP*? Come on guys...it's friday night. We should all be at home, surfing /.

    Don't tell me someones on one of those d...d.....d......things with w....www...w....them.

    I just couldn't take it.

  • Finnish Star Trek Films... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Aardpig ( 622459 ) on Saturday December 13, 2003 @02:03AM (#7708947)

    Some suggested titles:

    • The Search for Santa
    • First Reindeer
    • The Undiscovered Kernel Bug
    • The Wrath of Khlinus
    • The Voyage Home to Helsinki
  • "Have some light balls"
  • ...because everyone knows that odd numbered Star Trek spoofs suck.
  • you might want to check out the old ones too...
    this one is number 6.

    www.starwreck.com/oldies [starwreck.com]
    first ones r crap btw...
  • ...this one will be at least as amusing.

    I mean, look at their Star Wreck 4 1/2. With a plot line that starts with "Those cheapskates have installed a shareware beta operating system on the ship's mainframe, and the trial expires in two days, so we need to go back to Earth to install a crack."

    This is what the world needs: More geeks with too much time on their hands. This made my day. :-)

  • Sheesh (Score:2)

    by xihr ( 556141 )
    Nobody really finds this anything but unbelievably tedious, do they? Don't Finns have anything better to do with their time? Like, sit very still and not do anything?
  • I remember my friend writing a 3 page Star Trek parody "script". He changed the names similarly -- Captain Dirk, Comm Officer Hula Hoopa. We were 8. It wasn't funny then, either.

    Star Trek parodies? Come on. This is the lamest thing I've ever seen on slashdot.

  • here [66.90.75.92].
  • If trademarks are enforceable in the manner such as Microsoft Windows and Lindows, why isn't this film also in violation of trademark law? Why is this not 'product dilution' and other such unspeakable crimes?
  • Actually, the visuals are very nice... but Finish?! Terrible throath decease, give them some cough drops and lets redub it into english - it could be a whole new genre, spagetti space western :)
  • Author Leah Rewolinski has a series of paperback
    books, all satires of the Star Trek franchise,
    already titled "Star Wreck."

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle - ur l/index=books&field-author=Rewolinski%2C%20Leah/10 2-4393073-2089732

    Star Wreck: The Generaton Gap
    Star Wreck II: The Attack of the Jargonites
    Star Wreck III: Time Warped: A Parody-Then, Now and Forever
    Star Wreck IV: Live Long and Profit: A Collection of Cosmic Capers
    Star Wreck V: The Undiscovered Nursing Home
    Star Wreck 6: Geek Spac

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