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Saturday, October 21, 2006

Turkish Star Trek

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I love parodies. Unintentional parodies are the best parodies. That's why I like the Turkish version of Star Trek. Keep in mind I haven't actually seen it. I've seen fandom versions of Star Trek, and have even read Star Trek fanfic. This is probably better than any other Star Trek out there, with perhaps the exception of TNG.

By now, you’ve hopefully heard of Turkey’s proud history of stealing American films and remaking them with no money and their own unique set of production values. When they remade Superman, Superman became a homemade doll dangling on string in front of a black and white TV, and when they remade Star Wars, Luke Skywalker fought an army of Cookie Monsters on a field of trampolines. And even if you do speak Turkish, their remakes of films are confusing madness, but invariably end up being twice as entertaining as the original.

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To me, adventures with Mr. Spak and Dr Makkoy are more interesting than adventures with Mr Spock and Dr McCoy. Certainly, there is something to say the original is irreplaceable, and the imitation, but nature, must therefore be inferior. My response is that this is Turkish Star Trek.

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