Trey Parker and Matt Stone Save Enterprise 188
maotx writes "Paramount has agreed to permit Star Trek Enterprise to run for the fifth season which under normal circumstances, the sci-fi show would be impossible to produce with the reduced budget. Enter Star Trek fans Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, to save the day. The two will rename the show to "Team Enterprise" and will keep the voices of the original actors. With the lack of a budget for CGI effects the two will use a model of the Enterprise NX-01, thus reviving an old Star Trek tradition. "We prefer the look of physical, tangible models over CGI ships any day," Parker said. "Of course, we have no visual effects budget whatsoever, so we won't be painting out the strings. You'll get used to it. Still trying to figure out where to put the propeller." They then went on to comment: "We're also gonna re-do the opening title sequence," Stone revealed. "Record a new theme -- something bombastic, action-oriented. Y'know, something that isn't, like, totally gay.""
+5 Funny (First one today!) (Score:3, Insightful)
That's the funniest shit I've seem all day! Kudos to StarTrek.com!
cmon now (Score:1, Insightful)
April Fools. (Score:1, Insightful)
Countdown to the flood of anti-April 1st posts (Score:2, Insightful)
OMG (Score:5, Insightful)
what would have been cool.... (Score:3, Insightful)
["OT"] making April 1st a public holiday (Score:3, Insightful)
It's just too much hassle (and too expensive) to persuade everybody that everything that was publicly announced on April 1st was meant completely seriously (if it was).
Ok really, just knock it off. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:It's amazing... (Score:2, Insightful)
It's amazing the number of people that feel the need to point out that these stories are jokes.
Come again now?
Slashdot on April Fools.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Wow. (Score:1, Insightful)
ugh... (Score:1, Insightful)
ugh, this is so frustrating.
Re:Special Effects (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe you meant that sarcastically, but I've always wondered why people just have to use CGI over models for space shows. Isn't it just possible that a metal and plastic model looks a lot more like a metal and plastic spaceship than something you cooked up with Lightwave? To me, Babylon 5, Voyager, and all the other crappy CGI shows looked even more ridiculous than the original Trek.