STAR WRECK: IN THE PIRKINNING (DVD Review) - 26/5/09

A few years ago when I first went out onto the World Wide Web surfing the Internet in my ardent hunt for all things Trek I had originally come across this film and had watched a few scenes which obviously I couldn't understand as it was all in Finnish. Thinking nothing more of it we fast forward to now and suddenly I'm seeing adverts for it in various film magazines and being offered for sale on DVD. It turns out that a Film Distribution Company has picked up the rights for the UK and after some re-cutting of effects and sound due to copyright reasons has licenced it for sale. I did not wish to view the censored version first so got a copy of the original version direct from Finland. Following on from their previous outings "Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning" (Part VI) ups the ante again from this no-budget talented Finnish group of friends who have (although amateur) managed some quite astonishing effects when their Star Trek parody crashes into the Babylon 5 universe. Absolute chaos ensues as the piss-take starts all over again with the crew at each other's throats and all the genres faults get highlighted in some case's pedantically!

Captain Pirk now Emperor Pirk takes his new P-Fleet out to the Maggot Hole looking for new space to conquer; unfortunately once through the Maggot Hole with his fleet, he comes up against Captain Sherrypie of the space station Baabel 13 and a gigantic battle ensues for the control of Earth. For further hilarity check out the unintentional (So I think?) English subtitles which come over as slang English, slang American and that particular to Europe version of badly broken English with real English words in the mix and a lot of swearing. We also get an extensive Making Of on this disc, three Deleted Scenes and a couple of early Trailers.