Star Speck: A Parody of "The Next Generation"
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| Title: | Star Speck: A Parody of "The Next Generation" |
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| Editor(s): | Dan Lopez |
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| Date(s): | not dated |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TNG |
| Language: | English |
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Star Speck: A Parody of "The Next Generation" is a Star Trek: TNG zine of cartoons by Dan Lopez.
From the Editorial
On that fateful Saturday Night oh so long ago, on Saturday Night Live, I heard Billy Shatner blurt out those words, and I instantly knew how true they rang. Having attended a few conventions by then, I saw the lengths that fans went to in order to shove their drab wretched lives into the Star Trek Universe, a time that was still more than three hundred years away.
I sat in my living room and watched the Star Trek Blooper Tape, and laughed hysterically at the cast and crew of Star Trek flub their lines, make intentional blunders, and generally ridicule their work. I was in tears as I watched them do a conga line down the corridor. I rolled when 1 heard Bones say "God Damn Indians”.
It looked like so much fun that I had to get into the act. Slowly, one by one, I produced the cartoons presented in this book. I used the real names of the characters because I knew that anyone associated with the series had to have a sense of humor to keep with it.
I also kept my hand in on other pursuits. I was told once that I was not hopeless if I could still laugh at the Saturday Night Live skit, with Bill Shatner, and not take it as an insult. I laugh, so there is hope for me.
I guess I am a Trekker. I have read the Star Trek Technical Manual. I have a working Idea of how the warp drive works, the holodeck, and the replicator. I know how the numbers work on a navigational heading, and I understand how the console works. Ultimately, all for nothing, because none of it is around now. Sadly, I was born three hundred years too soon. But for now. Star Trek is not my life, and not my first love, but 1 get a heck of a lot of enjoyment at everything connected with it.
