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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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3Like 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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5The 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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