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  Star Wreck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Star Wreck relates the adventures of James B. Pirk (named after the Star Trek character James T. Kirk), Captain of the starship C.P.P Potkustart (English C.P.P. Kickstart).
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning was downloaded over 600,000 times during the first week after its release and the current estimates by the hosting service, Magenta sites, are between 3.5 - 4 million copies including mirror sites.
Star Wreck III: Wrath of the Romuclans (1995)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Star_Wreck   (569 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a 2005 direct-to-DVD motion picture produced by five friends in a two-room flat with a very small budget and the support of a few hundred fans and dozens of acquaintances.
Star Wreck takes these established translations and twists them: for example, a phaser is conventionally translated as vaiheinen ("that which has phases"), while the Wreck equivalent is tuikutin (literally, "a thing that can cause twinkling").
"Star Wreck VI: In The Pirkinning (in Finnish)"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Star_Wreck:_In_the_Pirkinning   (2096 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning: Introduction
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is not your run-of-the-mill parody aimed solely at Star Trek fans.
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning begins with Captain James B. Pirk of the starship Kickstart shipwrecked on the 21st century Earth with his crew.
The quality of Star Wreck is largely thanks to their expectations, the meeting of which became a point of honour for the creators.
www-fi3.starwreck.com /introduction.php   (519 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
Star Wreck - In the Pirkinning is a parody made by fans of Star Trek® and Babylon 5®.
Star Trek and Babylon 5 are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Star Wreck -In the Pirkinning- is an independent parody and is not endorsed by trademark owners mentioned above.
www-fi2.starwreck.com   (217 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning: The Crew
Samuli is responsible for the editing and special effects in Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, as well as financing the project and keeping the team together.
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is his first feature-length film, although he has been seen in a few independent movie productions as actor or director before.
Rudi is a veteran writer of the Star Wreck series, being responsible for the storylines and poor excuses for humour in almost all the films so far (the exceptions being Star Wreck 1 and 4½).
www-uk.starwreck.com /crew.php   (746 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning finally has a release date. - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning has reached the point, when we finally are ready to set the release and premiere date:
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is an epic science fiction parody.
The biggest star was the special effects which were amazing for a fan made film like this.
www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?p=1477380   (646 words)

  
 Samuli Torssonen's Star Wreck - Star Wreck V
As Star Wreck V: Lost Contact was actually made before SW4½, it was the first time we used real, live actors instead of animated cartoons.
In Star Wreck V: Lost Contact, the effects could be rendered directly into the scene using 3D Studio Max.
Star Wreck: Lost Contact was also the first Wreck to use real actors, so we needed either real bridge sets, or "virtual" sets.
oldies.starwreck.com /sw5.php   (1171 words)

  
 Samuli Torssonen's Star Wreck
Star Wreck is an animation / live action movie series that parodies Star Trek.
Long before Samuli Torssonen started to work on Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning feature film, the basis of the movie was established.
The latest news on Star Wreck can be found at Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning website.
oldies.starwreck.com   (146 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
Star Wreck was honored with a cultural achievement award by the Arts Council of Pirkanmaa.
The council awarded two awards for cultural achievement, to Star Wreck and the Portti science fiction magazine.
Update 15.12.2005: Star Wreck was also among the four finalists for the Valopilkku culture award given out by YLE TV1.
www-us.starwreck.com /index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1134107288&archive=1136066496&start_from=&ucat=2&   (308 words)

  
 Hampton Union Sports: Star wreck leaves crowd breathless
For the second time in their last two appearances at Star Speedway, the NEMA midget club had the fans holding their collective breath after a spectacular wreck Saturday night.
The advantage of the Cantor wreck was the slow evolution that made it bearable, as Glen Cabral rolled into and over the stalled car of Mark Buonomo, while Cantor’s took a hard shot as a pile-up ensued around him.
I was focused on the aftermath of the initial wreck when Morton came piling in and have no idea what got him involved, but it was hard to miss his entrance.
www.seacoastonline.com /2003news/hampton/07152003/sports/39546.htm   (1038 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005) (V)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005) (V) Home
To be noted that this is the 6th Star Wreck film made.
The effects are excellent, the war scenes actually do work in spite of the comedy nature which is never made cliché or a boring repetition, a pitfall of many parodies.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0472566   (360 words)

  
 IMDb user comments for Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005) (V)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is (roughly) the seventh film in a series of Star Trek / science fiction spoof films, following the adventures of the space ship CPP Potkustartti.
More than ten years after the first Star Wreck film which was nothing more than a few minutes of simple hand drawn computer animation plus some school boy humour spoken on top of it, In the Pirkinning is the culmination of the series.
Having seen all the earlier Star Wrecks, I was intrigued by what I saw in the trailers for the new one.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0472566/usercomments   (2523 words)

  
 Dive Locations - Palawan
The main deck is at 52 ft. A good wreck for penetration and wreck diving courses, The Taiei Maru has everything, it is well covered with good corals particularly very large lettuce corals, sponges and schools of fish including fusiliers, snappers and batfish, plus the ubiquitous lionfish and scorpionfish.
A shallow wreck, lying from the surface to 33 ft, this is equally good for snorkeling and wreck photography, and is often used as a relaxation between main dives.
Large groupers hover inside the wreck, while lionfish, scorpionfish, schools of barracuda and batfish and snappers are outside it.
www.intas-travel.com /diving/dive_locations/palawan_1.html   (1306 words)

  
 Star Trek: TOS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Star Wreck - these are the misadventures of the Starship Denterprise.
Star Trek - The Original Series - the actors, directors, and writers that made it all possible.
Star Trek Logbook - with a synopsis for each Original Series episode as well as the first six movies.
www.starfleetlibrary.com /tos.htm   (235 words)

  
 InformationWeek | Star Trek | 'Star Trek' Spoof Gaining Internet Fame | October 5, 2005
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, took seven years to make on equipment in the living room of one of the Finnish filmmakers.
Oct 5, 2005 05:40 PM A 'Star Trek' spoof made by a group of Finnish filmmakers is traveling the Internet at warp speed, drawing hundreds of thousands of downloads in less than a week.
In the case of "Star Wreck," the movie is riding on the popularity of the original "Star Trek" films, which have generated billions of dollars in revenue and have millions of hardcore fans around the world.
informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171203412   (959 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning - The Film Guide
Great-great-great-great-grandfather of the original Fukov in Star Wreck 1, 2 and 3.
Team's service provider, Magenta sites, reported over 2 petabytes of data transfers and estimated that actual amount of downloads, including all mirrors, would be in the range of 3.5 to 4 millon.
The original article was at Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning.
filmguide.wikicities.com /wiki/Star_Wreck:_In_The_Pirkinning   (2019 words)

  
 New Zealand's source for technology news on Stuff.co.nz: Star Trek spoof prospers on internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SPACE SCREAM: A scene from Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning, a Star Trek spoof that took a group of Finnish students seven years to make.
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a full-length feature in Finnish with English subtitles.
The makers of Star Wreck said on their website (www.starwreck.com) that they "take legal issues very seriously", and noted that "the world is full of parodies that look very much like their targets."
www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3434940a11275,00.html   (583 words)

  
 Finnish "Star Trek" spoof prospers on Internet - RPGnet Forums
The makers of "Star Wreck" said on their Web site (http://www.starwreck.com) that they "take legal issues very seriously," and noted that "the world is full of parodies that look very much like their targets."
According to the Finnish Internet hosting firm Magentasites Oy, which is helping to distribute "Star Wreck," about 450,000 copies have been downloaded from the film's Web site since October 1, and an estimated 250,000 copies have gone out through various mirror sites.
The Star Wreck humor worked better in smaller, short-film doses, and I got the feeling that the majority of the jokes don't really translate to other languages and cultures, but the film is certainly a commendable effort in a very difficult genre.
forum.rpg.net /showthread.php?p=4706924#post4706924   (1030 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning - Cinematical
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a loving Finnish Star Trek spoof, made over seven years by a group of very patient students and Star Trek fans.
Since completing their film, the makers have offered it for download and sale on their website, and you could say things are going pretty well: 450,000 downloads (not counting mirror sites) since starwreck.com went live on October 1.
If things continue at this rate, Star Wreck will soon become one of the top three Finnish films of all time in terms of total viewers - not bad for a bunch of kids with too much time on their hands.
www.cinematical.com /2005/10/05/star-wreck-in-the-pirkinning   (870 words)

  
 RobRohan: Star Wreck - the first (?) creative commons film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Star Wreck - the first (?) creative commons film
Star Wreck is a full length (1 hour 43 minutes) film made by a few Finnish artists (and over 300 extras) over seven years.
The special effects are amazing - these guys made this thing at their house with a PC render farm.
www.robrohan.com /client/index.cfm/2005/11/27/Star-Wreck--the-first--creative-commons-film   (178 words)

  
 Star Wreck: Another Failed Enterprise - Laughing Gas
The Star Wreck has been traveling on a five year mission to boldly go where no one would want to go before.
Confronted by a variety of interstellar problems and domestic wrecks, the crew conspires and switch allegences looking for a way to survive this interstellar nightmare.
Star Wreck: Another Failed Enterprise is only available at Laughing Gas Improv during special shows.
www.laughinggasimprov.com /star-wreck.htm   (293 words)

  
 Rogers will wreck All-Star vibe
Real All-Stars understand that without the media and the fans, they're playing sandlot ball for free between shifts at the local factory.
Only in the coddled world of baseball could something like this happen: You attack someone at work, joke about it with your teammates, get a slap on the wrist, and a few days later take the mound for your regularly scheduled start.
Selig needs to act as tough as Rogers thinks he is. Then there would be no All-Star debate.
www.recordonline.com /archive/2005/07/06/mlba06.htm   (517 words)

  
 MilkandCookies - Star Trek
Dennis was a Star Trek stunt coordinator before he made it big.
This is the video that should have been made for the song that should never have been recorded.
Meld the futuristic Universal society of Star Trek with the incessant stone quary puns of the Flinstones and you get the unlikely lovechild of Joe Barbera and Gene Roddenberry: Stone Trek.
www.milkandcookies.com /keywords/startrek   (787 words)

  
 Ritualistic Forums: Major Bug (?)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Star Trek Elite Force II >> EF2 Single Player Help
In the Drull Ruins 3 Boss Level (objective is to "Stop the Renegade Romulan Commander") when I've killed the exomorph boss and shortly after reached a big door the "exiting level" sign appears.
Even if I walk into the dorr and walk to the left and right I don't exit the level, thus I can't continue with the game.
www.ritualistic.com /forums/showflat.php?Number=145735   (516 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Star Wreck V: The Undiscovered Nursing Home: Books: Leah Rewolinski,Harry Trumbore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An unauthorized parody of the Star Trek television and motion picture series, the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, and the Star trek: Deep Space Nine television series.
This book of the hilarious Star Wreck series is the funniest volume by far.
If you had to pick out any of the Star Wreck books, I would suggest you pick this one.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312951221?v=glance   (363 words)

  
 FOXSports.com - NASCAR- Riding with Junior: Nextel All-Star Challenge
Martin outran Elliott Sadler in the final 20-lap segment and became the fifth multiple winner of this non-points all-star event.
The big wreck on lap 35 left the Bud team with damage, although nobody was sure how much.
It's an all-star race, and in all-star races there are usually pretty big wrecks, and tonight we got caught up in one.
msn.foxsports.com /nascar/story/3631866   (1109 words)

  
 Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning - Screenhead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Star Trek fan film/parody Star Wreck has been floating around p2p sites for a while in its various short film infant stages, it has now become a feature length and fairly well polished CGI-enhanced affair called In the Pirkinning.
Star Wreck may be a fan film, but it could well be the Citizen Kane of fan films… well, if Orson Wells was funny, and from Finland.
Perhaps Star Wreck is the Mallrats of fan films.
www.screenhead.com /funny/humor/star-wreck-in-the-pirkinning-139177.php   (157 words)

  
 TrekToday - 'Star Wreck' Triumphs On the Internet
Star Trek episode writer and novelist studied screenwriting, ruffled feathers.
Gay rights are a human rights issue, Sulu actor insists, saying his friends from Star Trek learned of his orientation years before his fans.
October 7, 2005 - 12:16 AM A Finnish Star Trek spoof, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, has drawn hundreds of thousands of downloads in its first week on the internet.
www.trektoday.com /news/071005_01.shtml   (751 words)

  
 Complete Starfleet Library - 1992 Star Trek Books
Star Trek's first expensive original hardcover graphic novel and still the best, this was followed by a less satisfying sequel in the pages of one of DC's Star Trek comics.
Star Wreck II: The Attack of the Jargonites
Created for syndication, Star Trek: The Next Generation was free of some of the network restrictions of the earlier show, yet problems abounded in the form of staff conflicts.
www.well.com /~sjroby/lcars/1992.html   (7802 words)

  
 The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning finally has a release date.
The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning finally has a release date.
- - Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning finally has a release date.
05-29-2005 04:05 AM Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning finally has a release date.
www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=81347   (414 words)

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