Finns share model for 'Star Trek' spoof success

"Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning" has been watched online by 3.5 million people. Now its creators are building a business.

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[baisa]

...but how many *finished* it??

3.5 million people may have *started* watching it, but I wonder how many people finished? It was so awful I could barely sit through 2 minutes of it. The alleged "humor" was stupid (and not funny stupid), pedestrian, preditable, and cliche.

[Vurk]

The fans did.

You may have thought it was awful, but the true Star Trek fan watched it all the way through; groaners and everything.
It did have some moments of "oh, this is awful" but it was the kind of awful that makes a person watch a car wreck.
Personally, I thought it was great. Obviously not classic Trek, but a good parody; playing up the obvious gags that everyone takes seriously in the real show.

[Andrew J Glina]

I didn't mind it

I agree that it was weak in parts, but you can't say you gave it a fair chance if you only watched 2 minutes of it. As a B5 fan I thought it was a decent parady. I think "War of the Worlds" was worse!