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- "Truly, it was a paradise."
- ―Leonard Nimoy
- "And all you had to put up with was one really annoying Star Trek fan."
- ―Fry
- "Let's get the hell out of here."
- ―William Shatner
Plot
The episode start with Zapp Brannigan holding a court trial in the Planet Express Ship.He arrested Fry, Leela, Bender and the actors from Star Trek for going to the forbidden planet,Omega 3. Zapp let Fry told the story.
The Professor said he's taking a brief nap so the crew went to the video renting store to only get six movies. Fry suggest to get the first six Star Trek movies. When Fry said the words "Star Trek" that triggered an alarm, everybody in the store (except Fry) got down on the ground. Leela whispered to Fry saying that the words "Star Trek" are forbidden. When they heard a patrol car coming, the crew stuff Fry into Bender and walked out of the door.
Zapp stopped Fry's story so he can learn more of these forbidden words. He let George Takei to explan why. He said the show was banned after the Star Trek Wars and that last copies of the episodes and movies were put into a rocket and sent to Omega 3.
Zapp then let Bender tell the next part of the story.
Fry ran to Head Museum to met Leonard Nimoy's head after what he heard about Star Trek. Nimoy tried to denied it but can't. He started to cry and tell Fry about what happened to cast members. He said they left Earth because the Earth doesn't need them anymore. Nimoy wanted to stay because he signed a six month lease for his apartment. Fry got mad and then took Nimoy' head so they can get the tapes back. Leela and Bender came to help them on their trip.
Whan got near the planet, Leela lost control of the ship and they crash landed on the planet. When they got out of the ship they found a lot of props from the show. Suddenly, the cast from Star Trek come out with bodies, plus a new actor name Welshy (actor who replaced James Doohan). They said they were on their way to Welshy's cousin's house until their ship was pulled down into the planet and crash landed. When they woke up, they had bodies and the power to never age.When Leela asked who's doing this for them, they said don't really know. Then a big, green energy being name Melllvar came out and said he was the one doing everything for them. Bender thought he was a cheesy effect and doubted his powers. He then showed his powers by zapping lightning and killing Welshy.
Zapp then let Leela tell the rest of the story.
Melllvar then showed his powers again by giving Nimoy a body. He explained that centuries ago the rocket that was filled with the tapes crashed on his planet and he watched them over and over and said he knows all about about Star Trek, Fry stepped up and said he knows more then Melllvar. This made him mad and zapped Welshy's body again. Melllvar stated that he's been waiting for Nimoy so he can start his Star Trek Convention that will never end. One part of the convention they had a trivia contest between Fry and Melllvar. Once Fry got more points than Melllvar, he got mad stopped the trivia contest. Next, the cast has to perform his fan script. Melllvar dosen't want to ruin the ending so ha made Fry, Leela and Bender to go wait in the ship. This was perfect chance for the crew to escape. When they were in space they had a plan to save the cast. But the plan backfired as Melllvar dragged the ship back to the planet and broke their engine. Melllvar then made the crew and the cast fight to the death. In one part of the fight Leela and Shatner were fighting on a cliff, but then they made out on the cliff. The fight was getting pretty brutal untill Melllvar's mother came out and said it time for dinner. This was a perfect time for the crew and cast to escape. Then Leela and George Takei both had the idea of putting the cast's ship's engines on the Planet Express Ship.
When they tried to escape,the ship was too heavy to launch, and the actor's lost their bodies and put their heads in jars but kept the tapes (instead of the much more obvious and intelligent idea of losing the tapes instead of their bodies). While in space, Melllvar got into his spaceship and started shooting at their ship. All had lost hope, until they come by the Nimbus. Leela thought they were saved, until Zapp arrested them.
And that was the end of the story. Zapp then asked what happens next and Leela said "you started this stupid court marshal" and that they were still being attacked by Melllvar. Right when Melllvar was about to finish them Fry told him that he shouldn't let a television show be his whole life. Melllvar took his advice and planned to move out of his parent's house, he then went back to his planet.
Memorable Quotes
Leonard Nimoy: I feel like hugging you!
William Shatner: Well, I would except you have no body.
Leonard Nimoy: Ha, ha, ha.
William Shatner: And we're both men.
Fry: All this time we thought he was a powerful super-being, yet he was just a child...
Melllvar's Mother: He's not a child. He's 34!
Fry: Melllvar's got a spaceship.
Melllvar: Yes, in mint condition... and you made me take it out of the package!
Walter Koenig: When we woke up, we had these bodies.
Fry: Say it in Russian.
Walter Koenig: [groans] Ven ve voke up, ve had these wodies.
Fry: [delighted] Eeeee! Now say "nuclear wessels".
Walter Koenig: NO!
Leonard Nimoy: Truly, it was a paradise.
Fry: And all you had to put up with was one really annoying Star Trek fan.
[Beat]
William Shatner: Let's get the hell out of here.
[Melllvar makes George Takei sign autographs]
Melllvar: Make it out to Melllvar. That's Melllvar with three L's.
George Takei: [crossly] I think I've done enough conventions to know how to spell "Melllvar".
Fry: Usually on the show, they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with a simple analogy.
Leela: Hmmm... If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and configure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure.
Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!
Fry: Of course! It's all so simple!
Leela: It's not working! He's gaining strength from our weapons!
Fry: Like a balloon, and... something bad happens!
William Shatner: Then George, you could give them a karate chop.
George Takei: I find that offensive. Just because I am of Japanese ancestry, you assume I know karate. Have I ever lead you to believe I have studied karate?
William Shatner: Well, no, but you never talk about yourself.
George Takei: Well, maybe if you showed a little interest.
Debut Appearances
Trivia
- The scene where all Star Trek memorabilia is fired to the Omega 3 planet is a parody of Spock's space burial in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan.
- The only original cast members to not voice themselves are DeForest Kelley, who had died in 1999, and James Doohan. In fact, the original title was, "We've Got Everybody Except Scotty". When shown the script and asked, Jimmy Doohan just said plainly "I'm not interested." DeForest's likeness, however, can be seen throughout the episode and is even referred to by name when the actors appear before Leonard Nimoy and the Planet Express crew.
- The episode's plot is a parody of the Original Series episode The Squire of Gothos, with Melllvar being a parody of Trelane, who also trapped the TOS crew on a planet and being revealed to be a child in the end. The episode is also loosely based on the two Part episode The Menagerie as Brannigan arrests the team from going to a forbidden planet (similar to Talos IV), and the court is similar to Spok's courtmarshal where Fry and Leela both used a chair similar to Christopher Pike's to communicate using beeps (Supposively Morse Code..which was evidently forgotten about in TOS episode).
- The original cast aren't the only "Star Trek" actors to appear. Jonathan Frakes, who plays Commander William T. Riker, also appears as himself.
- The phrase "He's dead, Jim", said by the officers throwing the Trekkies into the volcano, is a reference to McCoy's popular catchphrase.
- The opening starts with the Planet Express ship now sporting the nacelles, similar to those on TOS Enterprise.
- The establishing shot of Omega 3 shows props from the Star Trek episodes Spectre of the Gun, Who Mourns for Adonais?, The Gamesters of Triskelion, The Ultimate Computer and The City on the Edge of Forever.
- Shatner rips his shirt, something he does frequently on the Star Trek series that was often joked about.
- Melllvar's ship looks like a Romulan Bird of Prey.
- Nichols' fan dance was previously seen in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
- This is the only episode in which the title is the same as the opening credit subtitle.
- The spaceship that fires the casket containing all the copies of "Star Trek" into a sun is an Eagle Transporter, as seen in the TV series Space:1999.
Goofs
- Although the use of the words "Star" and "Trek" in the same sentence is forbidden, they are used frequently throughout the series, in Space Pilot 3000, Brannigan, Begin Again and That's Lobstertainment!.