Aug 29 - Retro Review: Hero Worship A young boy who is the sole survivor of a disaster that killed his parents decides to emulate Data.
Aug 21 - Retro Review: New Ground Worf's human mother brings his son Alexander on board, insisting that she can no longer raise the boy.
Aug 14 - Retro Review: A Matter of Time When a visitor from a future era arrives on the ship, Picard asks for assistance about how to save a dying planet.
July 31 - Retro Review: Unification, Part Two Picard learns the reason for Spock's visit to Romulus: an attempted reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan races.
July 17 - Retro Review: Unification, Part One Shocked to learn that Spock may have defected to the Romulans, Picard and Data cross the Neutral Zone in to find him.
July 10 - Retro Review: The Game When an interactive game becomes addictive to the crew, Wesley Crusher and his new girlfriend must save the day.
June 20 - Retro Review: Disaster Troi must take command of the ship while Picard struggles to work with three children and Worf delivers Keiko's baby.
June 6 - Retro Review: Silicon Avatar A scientist pursuing the Crystalline Entity discovers that Data's brain holds her son's memories.
May 30 - Retro Review: Ensign Ro A court-martialed Starfleet officer from occupied Bajor is sent to help locate a terrorist leader.
May 23 - Retro Review: Darmok Picard is exiled with the leader of an alien race who speaks in incomprehensible metaphors.
May 9 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part One When Picard is asked as Arbiter of Succession to oversee Gowron's installation, Worf resigns from Starfleet to fight against the Duras family.
Fans are just getting used to Chris Pine as Captain Kirk, but how about Will Ferrell's face pasted on Captain Kirk's body?
As reported by Wired, Sputnik Animation has taken the heads of modern comedians, such as Ferrell, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carrell and others and put them onto the bodies of the 60's actors. Then dialogue, animation and music was added to make scenes with aliens such as Tribbles, a Gorn captain, Horta and Klingons that are, well, out-of-this-world.
Sputnik Animation Founder/Producer James LaPlante is hoping that Hollywood lawyers "have a sense of humor and that our animation falls under the fair-use clause. If they ask us to yank the video, of course, down it will go. We just wanted to share our funny idea with everyone, not infringe on anyone's rights."
LaPlante and company came up with the idea when a Sputnik Animation staffer "started to play around in Photoshop and created a still image of the Enterprise crew with Will Ferrell's head on Captain Kirk's body," according to LaPlante. "Once the Photoshop mock-up was done, we knew we had to produce a piece of animation for it, so we decided to do a fake trailer for the new movie."
Sputnik Animation used AfterEffects, Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, Sound Forge, Premiere and a program called Crazy Talk to create and edit the video, which has a three and a half minute run time. Sound clips and visuals from the original series were found online.
Not every role was easy to fill. "The roles we had the hardest time casting were Sulu and Scotty. You'll notice there really isn't a Sulu in our piece. For Scotty, we were torn between Jack Black and Seth Rogen. But when we put Jack Black into a Klingon [outfit] it worked so well we knew what to do."
