Star Trek sketch on Chris Pine-hosted SNL

[LocutusCrusher]

Chris Pine hosted SNL recently, and there was a sketch about Spock's engineer brother from Queens.

http://www.gossipcop.com/snl-star-trek-spoof-chris-pine-video-saturday-night-live-watch/

I guess we know who's wedding Picard attended, now!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Pine's Shatner impression was pretty good. And Sasheer Zamata made a good Uhura. Didn't think much of it as a sketch, though.

The coolest thing about it is that they used the same SNL crew member to play Sulu that they used in the classic "Final Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" and "The Restaurant Enterprise" sketches. Now THAT is devotion to a running gag!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

It's up on YouTube now:

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[F. King Daniel]

I thought the skit was awful, but seeing Pine in Shatner's uniform was surreal. I bet that picture of him is gonna be fooling a lot of people as "the first picture of ST4!" on Facebook in the next few months.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The coolest thing about it is that they used the same SNL crew member to play Sulu that they used in the classic "Final Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" and "The Restaurant Enterprise" sketches. Now THAT is devotion to a running gag!

He was also in the "Love Boat: The Next Generation" sketch that they did when Patrick Stewart hosted in '94...as Sulu.

 

[stardream]

Pine playing Shatner playing Kirk wasn't bad.

We've been watching Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke shows. Ever so often they would feature a musical number or a dance sequence because they just HAD to remind the audience that hey...these people can sing and/or dance too! I'm sure it was a treat for the audience at the time but now a lot of it is cringe-worthy. The random dance at the end reminded me that, yes, that's something they used to do on TV.

I wonder what future generations will think of the Flash/Fringe/Buffy etc musical episodes?

 

[alensatemybuick1]

I would not have caught that it was the same guy playing Sulu as in previous sketches, in fact never noticed it was the same guy in the "all you can eat" Greyfish or Belushi skits. 40+ years. Pretty amazing. Seems his name is Akira Yoshimura, and he's been a set designer on SNL for its entire run.

Only really good part of the sketch was the Tyson impression. My wife loves that guy. I do not (even though I'm the scientist). They got his awkward "I'm too cool for my school" vibe down perfect.

 

[Ronald Held]

Skit was poor but using the original Sulu Was good. Pine made a decent Kirk and Uhura was all right.

 

[1001001]

SPOCKO!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

He was also in the "Love Boat: The Next Generation" sketch that they did when Patrick Stewart hosted in '94...as Sulu.

Oh, I'd forgotten that he was in that one.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Only really good part of the sketch was the Tyson impression. My wife loves that guy. I do not (even though I'm the scientist). They got his awkward "I'm too cool for my school" vibe down perfect.

I thought that was awful. Kenan Thompson sounded absolutely nothing like Neil deGrasse Tyson and it had nothing to do with the rest of the sketch. Why do you need 40 seconds of Thompson droning on to introduce a Star Trek sketch, other than to give him a part? Just do a damn Star Trek sketch.

 

[Gaith]

^ Agreed, but when the alternative was the sketch itself... yeesh. Apart from Pine, that was some audio-visual puke.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I thought that was awful. Kenan Thompson sounded absolutely nothing like Neil deGrasse Tyson and it had nothing to do with the rest of the sketch. Why do you need 40 seconds of Thompson droning on to introduce a Star Trek sketch, other than to give him a part? Just do a damn Star Trek sketch.

Bam. That's it exactly.

Every second they spent cutting away to the host was time that could have been given to Sasheer Zamata, who is criminally under-utilized on SNL. In the whole history of SNL, she's probably the most talented and charismatic person who's ever been neglected so much.

 

[J.T.B.]

We've been watching Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke shows. Ever so often they would feature a musical number or a dance sequence because they just HAD to remind the audience that hey...these people can sing and/or dance too! I'm sure it was a treat for the audience at the time but now a lot of it is cringe-worthy. The random dance at the end reminded me that, yes, that's something they used to do on TV.

Like in "Charlie X" and "The Conscience of the King."

 

[Ronald Held]

Could have cut the Tyson segment to 15 seconds or less.

 

[Kamdan]

Who were they trying to fool with this "Sal Delabate" guy? That's obviously a Jackie Gleason impression.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Like in "Charlie X" and "The Conscience of the King."

I like Beyond Antares, though, a lot.

 

[Forbin]

Well, it's nice to see SNL hasn't gotten any better since we stopped watching it in the 1980s. Jeez, that was... actually painful to watch.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Could have cut the Tyson segment to 15 seconds or less.

Down to zero would have been nice.

 

[Push The Button]

Well, it's nice to see SNL hasn't gotten any better since we stopped watching it in the 1980s. Jeez, that was... actually painful to watch.

I haven't watched since the 2000 election. Like The Simpsons, I'm not sure why it is still even on the air.

I did enjoy the original skit with John Belushi as Kirk, but that was back in the dry years of the 70's where anything Trek related was welcome, especially on an extremely popular (at the time) network show like SNL.