Star Trek Beams Into Theater of the Absurd

Picard orders red alert, then launches into song.

The Ferengi dude is clearly stoned.

For some reason Geordi won't shut up about apple juice.

And I now know more about Riker's digestive system than I'm comfortable with.

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This absurd mash-up of Star Trek: The Next Generation and incomprehensible non sequiturs – which all match the lip movements of the on-screen characters – is random, ridiculous and utterly hilarious. And I sense here a format that could be replicated time and again, across various genres and styles.

Imagine a lip-synched farce of The Da Vinci Code (assuming, of course, that you didn't read the first draft as comedy), or an apologetic Battlefield Earth. Or how about a Shakespearean Plan 9 From Outer Space?

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