Trek in Japan

[Beamer]

Hound's absolutely right. 新 (shin in our alphabet) means new. So it means New Star Trek.
I'm actually surprised they didn't follow the original Japanese name and name TNG, 新宇宙大作戦 (Shin Uchū Daisakusen) New Cosmic Operation or 宇宙大作戦次世代 (Uchū Daisakusen Jisedai) Cosmic Operation Next Generation. I'm guessing Paramount was more involved in the dubbing process and insisted on a more literal, katakana translation.

A Fairly direct translation would be something like スタートレック 次世代 (Star Trek Jisedai) which is literally Star Trek Next Generation, but I think jisedai wouldn't work in this context. You could also just write it out in Katakana like they do for all foreign words, but some of the meaning might've been lost on people in Japan during the 80's.

 

[Beamer]

Hmm, So I'm a month late on catching this, but apparently McDonald's in Japan released a parody film of Star Trek called "Yakki the Movie" in theaters. Talk about your weird marketing...

Here's a link to the article, but I can't really find the video they referenced.
http://trekmovie.com/2017/02/26/wat...alds-japans-new-star-trek-inspired-promotion/

 

[Miss Lemon]

Hmm, So I'm a month late on catching this, but apparently McDonald's in Japan released a parody film of Star Trek called "Yakki the Movie" in theaters. Talk about your weird marketing...

Here's a link to the article, but I can't really find the video they referenced.

Here it is:

https://twitter.com/McDonaldsJapan/status/832137543881728000

I would go see it.

 

[Beamer]

I think it stopped airing as soon as the promotional push for the new Yaki burger was finished. Still, it's very odd for a restaurant franchise to put out a movie. Also, I think it's worth pointing out that all the actors are english-speaking that are dubbed over, which potentially means they could show this in the US if they ever wanted to (doubtful they will though). Anyone here lipread?

Also, did you notice how the set looked like the Millennium Falcon and they had a character that looked suspiciously like a Wookie? I wonder if McDonald of Japan thought they needed a more popular franchise mixed in since Trek is kinda obscure there. I suppose we could technically count this as the closest we'll ever get to a Trek-Wars crossover.

 

[Beamer]

Oh, I totally forgot to mention this. Japan has 3 volumes of a TOS Manga and 1 of a TNG Manga that came out initially in 2006 and 2009 respectively. While I haven't read them myself, I hear they're really good!

Spoiler: TOS Manga

http://img.trekmovie.com/images/tpv3c4.jpg

Spoiler: TNG Manga

Apparently a story was written by David Gerrold that's based off of his original pitches for The Trouble With Tribbles that's included in the 3rd volume of the TOS Manga.

 

[Miss Lemon]

Also, did you notice how the set looked like the Millennium Falcon and they had a character that looked suspiciously like a Wookie?

I think Chewbacca might disagree.

The ST manga volumes are on my wish list, I haven't read them yet. I have some ST doujinshi magazines on my wish list too, but these are hard to get by since the JPQueen website went down.

https://www.doujinshi.org/book/492078/Eiyaku-Neko-Trek/

 

[Beamer]

Cat Trek! My Life has been made ^.^
It's so cool that fans have made their own magazines! Would you mind posting a few sample scans when you eventually get them? I think we'd all love to see them.

And I totally meant Chewbacca's race, shows how little I care/know about Star Wars XD

 

[Miss Lemon]

I will, but I highly doubt I'll be able to find this particular piece. There are some doujinshi sellers on Ebay, but their prices are just too high. If you search well enough, you can find some scanlations of Star Trek doujinshi magazines with English translation online. Be warned, not all of them are work safe.

Years ago I bought some pretty LotR doujinshi magazines, one could hardly tell they were fan made. Some well-established mangakas started out drawing doujinshi magazines, I believe.

If you want Cat Trek, check out: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/new-star-trek-cats-book.285176/

 

[Beamer]

Ugh, if only I wasn't a poor College student, I'd totally buy that!

Anywho, I actually found some more instances of the original Trek logo in Japan on those model kits that Publiusr mentioned.

They even had old TOS Enterprise models....with propellers
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/KSN_Midori

I also got super bored and decided to start working on Japanese logos for Star Trek Online.

Spoiler: Star Trek Online JP logo

Spoiler: STO Legacy of Romulus JP Logo

Maybe I should start another topic where I post these. I'd rather not clutter up the topic with my random stuff. What do you guys think?

 

[Shawnster]

They would work in the Art forum

 

[Nerys Myk]

The thread title keep making me think of this song!!! Cut it out!!

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[Beamer]

I'm starting to wonder if I'm running out of material for this thread :/

Here's two clips from the Japanese dub of Yesterday's Enterprise. I think they did a pretty good job capturing the essence of the characters with the voices.

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[publiusr]

Oh, I totally forgot to mention this. Japan has 3 volumes of a TOS Manga and 1 of a TNG Manga that came out initially in 2006 and 2009 respectively. While I haven't read them myself, I hear they're really good!

Spoiler: TOS Manga

http://img.trekmovie.com/images/tpv3c4.jpg

Spoiler: TNG Manga

Apparently a story was written by David Gerrold that's based off of his original pitches for The Trouble With Tribbles that's included in the 3rd volume of the TOS Manga.

I missed on the TNG version

 

[Beamer]

From what I gather, it's not as good as the TOS manga so it didn't sell more than one volume. It might also be that Japan is more familiar with TOS than TNG overall.

 

[NOVE9]

Indeed I have already seen the film posters, but I had no idea about the magazine. A shame there wasn't much demand in Japan.

A big reason why it wasn't successful was because it came out the same time Japan suffered that massive tsunami back in 2011 I think?

 

[NOVE9]

Sorry, dupe post

 

[Beamer]

A big reason why it wasn't successful was because it came out the same time Japan suffered that massive tsunami back in 2011 I think?

I can see that being part of the reason, but overall, Trek isn't all that huge in Japan. TOS aired on something akin to local station syndication in Tokyo and I have no idea where or when the other 6 were broadcast. Here in the US we at least had NBC run them first before being sold to just about every local station for syndication. It likely never built up a big enough fanbase and so today there aren't enough people to justify the costs of producing a magazine like that.