1 | ''Sinnlos im Weltraum'' (''Pointless in Space'') is a UsefulNotes/GermanLanguage GagDub of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Created from [[TheNineties 1995 to 1997]] by [[ReclusiveArtist Peter M. and a changing cast consisting of his friends, providing additional voices]], it has by now reached [[MemeticMutation a legendary status]] within the German internet community, spawning several {{Spiritual Successor}}s. |
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3 | Like its [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration source material]], it chronicles the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew on the ''USS Enterprise'' - except that Picard is [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption dangerously violent]], Riker [[TooDumbToLive incredibly stupid]], and Worf [[ManChild overly child-like]], to name just a few of the deliberate {{Character Derailment}}s the humour mainly relies on. |
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5 | The lip sync is often incredibly good for an amateur work. |
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7 | !!''Sinnlos im Weltraum'' features examples of: |
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9 | * AccentOnTheWrongSyllable: Some of the guest characters do this, combined with SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. |
10 | * AllWomenAreLustful: All female crew members seem to be horny all the time. Might have something to do with the fact that all the males consider them [[HollywoodHomely unattractive]]. |
11 | * DeadpanSnarker: Picard. |
12 | * CatchPhrase: Several. |
13 | ** Riker: ''Raff ich net.'' (''I don't get it.'') and ''Ich will auch mal der Captain sein.'' (''I want to be Captain too.'') |
14 | ** Geordi: ''Oder wie oder was?'' (see VerbalTic) |
15 | ** Worf (and apparently Klingons in general): ''Ihr seid alle so bös!'' (''You are all so mean!'') |
16 | ** Picard himself has a wide assortment of phrases (mostly of the vulgar kind), so it's hard to pick a specific catchphrase. However, he uses the word ''Junge'' (boy) several times in each episode. When talking to subordinates, superiors, males, females, alien entities - absolutely any- and everybody. |
17 | * CampGay: Daniel (Q) |
18 | * CharacterDerailment: Deliberate. The main source of humour.[[invoked]] |
19 | * GermanHumour |
20 | * IncrediblyLamePun: Counselor Troi tends to be called the ''Kanzler'' (''Chancellor''). This is no allusion to [[UsefulNotes/TheChancellorsOfGermany Angela Merkel]] though, [=SiW=] was created long before her election. |
21 | * ManChild: Worf. |
22 | * MediumAwareness: Data ranting about how "it's time this fucking scene comes to an end" right in the first scene. |
23 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Picard is crazy about black hot coffee. |
24 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobots: In spite of being an android, Data can't even perform the simplest mathematical procedures (like adding together single digit numbers) correctly. |
25 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Some of the guest characters do this, combined with AccentOnTheWrongSyllable. |
26 | * ShoutOut: The name of the series might be a reference to ''Film/SilentRunning'', whose German title is ''Lautlos im Weltraum'' ("Soundless in Space"). |
27 | * SpiritualSuccessor: ''WebVideo/LordOfTheWeed'', as well as the ''Film/HarryPotter'' {{Gag Dub}}s by Creator/{{Coldmirror}}. |
28 | * TechnoBabble: Although the dialogues are much more silly and colloquial than in the source material, this trope also gets parodied sometimes. |
29 | * TooDumbToLive: Riker! |
30 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gummi bears for Worf, hot black coffee for Picard. |
31 | * TropeMaker: For {{Gag Dub}}s, as least as far as the UsefulNotes/GermanLanguage internet is concerned. |
32 | * UnbuiltTrope: ''What is so special about a GagDub'', you may ask, ''there are TONS of these in the Internet.'' Keep in mind that this one was [[OlderThanTheyThink already created in the Nineties]], only using a plain old [[TechnologyMarchesOn (well, at that time cutting edge)]] [=VCR=]. It was initially just for the personal pleasure of the creators, with no plans for further distribution, internet or [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes otherwise]]. |
33 | * TheUnintelligible: The female Cardassian. |
34 | * VerbalTic: Geordi's ''Oder wie oder was?'' (''Or how or what?'') |
35 | * ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: Picard threatens just about ''everyone,'' to beat him or her up. (Due to the restrictions given by the source material though, we [[InformedAbility never see him actually doing this]].) |
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