The Thief
A few weeks back I stumbled across Voyage Trekkers, a 3 to 5 minute webseries, that lampoons the formula of Star Trek and its derivatives. There is so much material to be parodied in the sci-fi genre that films like Galaxy Quest, which I love, only scratched the surface. The humor in Voyage Trekkers benefits from modern developments in social networking that were not as well established in the mainstream back when Galaxy Quest and Spaceballs were produced. It’s an impressive production for the still young medium of live action webseries. Not every episode left me in stitches, but I was certainly entertained and endeared to the characters.
Voyage Trekkers is a production of Squishy Studios. You can follow Squishy Studios on FB.
Voyage Trekkers is a comedy web series that follows the exploits of the worst crew in the Galactic Union. Lead by the charismatic but impulsive Captain Sunstrike (Adam Rini), with the unfazed first officer Commander Powell (Logan Blackwell), and the exasperated Doctor Rena (Gabrielle Van Buren).
Created by writer and director Nathan Blackwell and his Squishy Studios, the show is produced with Tray Goodman’s Inside Creative Minds Media. The episodes are two to three minutes long in length, with ten weekly episodes in the season.
The production was truly a labor of love. Everyone involved, from cast and crew, volunteered their time. What budget we had went to creating costumes, props, and feeding everyone. We hope you enjoy watching the show as much we enjoyed making it! — Voyage Trekkers website
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The cover is quite misleading, instead of a Star Trek like parody it looks like a Flash Gordon like parody
First to Comment!! You are doing a good job. I like how Leia and C3P0 are sitting in the background laughing at Han in the forth frame.
Must’ve been awhile since I’ve seen Chewie talk; I was expecting a growl, but got thrown off when I saw the text. Maybe it’s because it’s morning.
Anyway, I know what it’s like to be in the negative with the comic. I’d like to make a profit from it someday, though I’m finding that unlikely (only because of pursuing other careers). Perhaps in the near future, I can contribute to your site as well; I’d really like to in the efforts of seeing more forciness goodness. Best wishes with that endeavor. Until then, I’ll keep sharing episodes, and clicking those ads.
And no disrespect to Miss Fisher, but BMS Leia is WAY sexier.
I love Voyage Trekkers! not as much as BMS though! And as for Chewing stealing lines, I think it’s a shame he didn’t get more in the movies. The whole saga is really all about the wookies!
Chewie saved Yoda from the Clones when they turned bad and found the Ewoks to help defend the Empire! And he gets no credit at all!!!
WTF?
Chewie is about to get a lot more attention in BMS. I’ve been waiting for this sequence in TESB for a long time now. 🙂
I’ll have to remember Voyage Trekkers next time I’m home and looking for something to do. I love how the web enables so many small projects to find an audience.
Looking forward to more Chewie in the upcoming strips. He could have used a little more screen time by the end of the trilogy.
I agree. Too bad the Star Wars Holiday Special probably put them off the idea of it being Kashyyyk and not Endor in ROTJ.
I think your next voting thing should be: Who was your favorite character in the movies? So Biggs would be out, and darth vader might be a little less famous. I think it would be interesting to have that as a voting thing. How long do you keep each voting thing up?
It depends. If lots of votes keep coming in, then I’ll leave it up. If votes slow down, I’ll usually put up a new one. Sometimes it’s hard to think of a compelling question. I think the new one should be about the Blu Ray edition.
I wish I could donate more, I can only afford that small amount, sorry.
Funny strip, the expressions (especially in the last panel) make it!
Harrison Solo has a bit of a bruised ego there!
Also loved Galaxy Quest, ‘By grabthar’s hammer…..’, lol
Alan Rickman was hilarious.
Hey! guess what? I just checked up the newly aired first episode of the 4th clone wars season, which is about the EU struggle between the quarrians and mon calamari. Anakin Skywalker speaks to the leader of the Mon Cala security force. How does he adress him? Captain ACKBAR 😀 yay!
Other great comedy/action web series include:
Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveller Who Can Also Travel Through Time
Journey Quest
Standard Action
League Of STEAM
and
Space Hospital