Star Tresh - The De-Generation
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| Original title | Star Tresh - The De-Generation |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1997-1999 |
| length | 7 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 |
| genre | Science fiction parody |
| idea |
Kai Borchardt , Stefan Kantor , Sigrid Kantor , Wolfgang Siebers |
| First broadcast | 4th October 1999 |
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Star Tresh - The De-Generation is a parodic German science fiction - television series , in which Wolfgang Siebers Director led.
action
The incompetent, self- loving and drunkenness-prone Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Godard is given command of the rundown spaceship Enterprise and the task of going where others have already been to see if it is still the case .
The competent, but know-it-all first officer Sir Winston-T (whose first name is Sir ) will assist Godard for this mission ; the tricorder-addicted ship's doctor Dr. Pelle Eriksson , whose diagnoses and therapies are limited to medical platitudes ; communications officer Ariane Clouseau , who is compulsively brewing coffee ; the speed- obsessed helmsman Takahashi Hakamara and the permanently resigning marine engineer Hagen O'Battery .
When leaving the space dock, Captain Godard immediately orders a start at Warp 9 speed , which leads to the Enterprise creating a rift in the space-time continuum due to the excessive acceleration and, it seems, to be thrown to the opposite end of the galaxy . The arduous return journey with its numerous obstacles forms the storyline of the series. Among other things, the occupying it with is Darth Vader , a amüsierwilligen Stephen Hawking - clone and a rebellious Coke machine faced.
background
The series, which in addition to Star Trek occasionally parodies 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars , was mainly filmed in the building of the Open Canal in Kassel ; the control room of the station set without any major changes in the navigating bridge of the spacecraft is, the auricle with three low-placed round skylights the transporter space and the corridors represented the course of the Enterprise . In addition, the Fuldaaue represents a hostile planet, and a Kassel bar represents the ship's bar .
The low film budget is reflected not only in the choice of locations , but also in the props used : the ship's doctor's tricoder is the center console of a Volvo and the control panel of the transporter is a synthesizer . For the exterior shots of the Enterprise in space, commercially available plastic models were used, some of which make their way in front of planets made of painted greaseproof paper .
Considerable misjudgments regarding the effort required to complete a thirteen-part series meant that the shooting, initially estimated to be a few days, dragged on over a much longer period of time: after eight weeks, eighty percent of the scenes were shot, but the completion of the remaining scenes lasted nearly two years.
Television and video
The series was first broadcast on weekdays, beginning on October 4, 1999, on the Kassel Open Channel . In the following year, the video label Astro Film , which had supported the shooting with technical equipment, released the entire series on VHS . The DVD was released in 2001 , for which some of the participants recorded an audio commentary with background information about the production.
Web links
- Star Tresh - The De-Generation in the online film database
- Star Tresh - The De-Generation (archived March 4, 2016)