A remake of TNG for a contemporary audience.
Colin Farrell plays Jean-Luc Picard as a chain-smoking, expletive-ridden, Guinness-drinking, Shakespeare-quoting Frenchman. This Jean-Luc is much more of an 'action man' quite comfortable with getting his hands dirty torturing, kidnapping etc to keep the Federation safe from its enemies. At the end of every episode Picard will blast a foe with his rifle and then finish with a new catchphrase from Shakespeare every week.
Sarah Jessica Parker plays Commander Shelby as a strong, career-driven modern woman whose ambition in life is to find Mr Right, get married, live in a nice house, have 'kids' and live happily ever after.
Matt Lucas plays Dr. Beverly Crusher. A single mother of eight children - two Humans, a Martian, a Cardassian, a Klingon, a Jedi, a Romulan and one of an unknown species. Comes from a planet that is just one big enormous council estate. Wears tracksuits and is romantically linked to Picard.
Eddie Izzard plays proud Klingon warrior Lieutenant Worf as a tormented soul trying desperately to reconcile his warrior heritage with his transvestism.
Christian Bale plays the android Lieutenant Commander Data. His brain can perform 38 thousand trillion operations per second. He devotes all of his recreational time to playing World of Warcraft and updating his profile on Facebook. Due to an accident online Data's 'Angry Chip' was permanently and irreversibly infused into his neural net and as a result will often be heard threatening to kick Wesley's f^**in a$$. Christian Bale will bleach his skin to play Data. Data has no wish to be human whatsoever and finds the idea of being human physically, mentally, morally and spiritually horrifying.
Matthew Broderick plays Wesley Crusher as a cool, hip, fun-loving, rebellious, wise-cracking teen.
Selected episode summary.
The Drumhead.
Excessive use of internet porn causes a hull breach on the Enterprise. An Admiral is sent from Starfleet to investigate. CCTV springs up in every deck, all communication devices are monitered, everyone has to carry an ID Card and all Starfleet internet usage is recorded. Nobody seems to care except for Picard who valiantly stands up against this un-democratic, Soviet-inspired devastation of privacy, decency and civil liberties. Eventually Picard is put on trial whereupon information concerning a home-made adult film starring Picard is exposed...
Wesley Crusher's Day Off.
Wesley takes the day off from the comm and gets up to all kinds of fun hijinx...
Titan.
A few days in the life of the USS Titan's Captain Riker and Consellor Troi, played by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. Cameras follow the Riker family as they compete with each other to see who can degrade themselves the most...
The Best of Both Worlds.
Picard leads the Enterprise on a pre-emptive attack on Betazed in a desperate race against Betazed destroying the Federation. Betazed is rased and compassionately rebuilt with 24th century concentration camps, new oil infrastructure and fast-food restaurants. Eventually the Borg arrive and destroy this entire pathetic human being disaster, or does the indomitable human spirit prevail???...
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