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Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a 2005 motion picture produced by five friends in a two-room flat with a small budget and the support of a few hundred fans and dozens of acquaintances. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is the seventh production in the Star Wreck
movie series, the first of professional quality and feature length. It is a dark science fiction comedy about domination of the world and the universe, and a parody of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 universes.

Although the movie is a fan film at heart, many critics have favourably compared it with typical professionally produced science fiction films, in part because of the quality of the special effects and overall production. The film is available as an authorized and legal download on the Internet under a Creative Commons .

Plot

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning picks up where the previous movie, Star Wreck V: Lost Contact left off. Captain James B. Pirk (Samuli Torssonen) is stranded with his crew, Commander Dwarf (Timo Vuorensola) and Commander Info (Antti Satama), on turn-of-the-millennium Earth. Life is not good. Dwarf works in a small-time hot-dog stand, and Pirk is stuffing himself with hamburgers. Info's whereabouts are unknown.

During their stay on Earth the timeline is wrecked beyond repair, so Pirk decides to take fate into his own hands. Pirk locates the space ship of the Vulgars (a parody of Star Trek's Vulcans, whose first contact mission was corrupted by a hedonistic rock star who took them into his charge), which was sold to Russia, and incites the Russians at the Chanistanya nuclear research facility to a revolution and to build a new ship, the Potkustartti. With the help of the Russians and their president Ulyanov (Kari Väänänen), the P-Fleet is born again, as Pirk's empire. Earth falls quickly under Pirk's rule, however, the relatively primitive technology of the new P-Fleet's ships prevent them from expanding the new empire onto other habitable planets.

By Sergey Fukov's freak encounter with a maggot hole (a parody of a sci-fi staple, the worm hole), Pirk is given a new idea of conquest. Pirk's hunger for power and profound lack of reason drives him through the maggot hole, behind which he finds a parallel universe. In this universe, history has taken a completely different path, leading to Babylon 5-like technology. Hell-bent on conquest, Pirk unwittingly reveals his plans of invading the parallel universe Earth to the commanding officer of the Babel 13 (resembling the Babylon 5 space station), by which he commits himself into a mortal battle with Babel 13's forces.

Tide of the battle turns with the intervention of relief forces lead by Excavator, commanded by Festerbester. After a bitter fight, Pirk must flee back into his own universe where he will have his final brush with fate, being once again stranded on Earth, without a ship, during an ice age. There is some controversy over whether they are, as Info suggests, stranded 11,000 years in the past, or if they are actually far in the future without hope (as suggested by the appearance of space debris when the camera zooms out from Earth just before the credits).

Characters

Most of the major characters are obvious parodies of characters from Star Trek or Babylon 5.

Members of the P-Fleet

Captain/Emperor Pirk, played by Samuli Torssonen. A semi-independent character based on James T. Kirk, he amounts to an incompetent fool with incredible luck. He has an eye for tactics in ship-to-ship combat, but lacks any social abilities.
Commander Info, played by Antti Satama. A parody of Data. He is always correct, to the point of nausea. After running out of flesh colored paint, he's been around with silver skin.
Commander Dwarf, played by Timo Vuorensola. A parody of Worf. A psychotic Plingon alien who betrayed his people to join Pirk's crew. True to his Plingon warrior background, he never showers or bathes.
Sergey Fukov, played by Janos Honkonen. A semi-independent character based on Pavel Chekov. He is the great-great-great-great-grandfather of the original Fukov in Star Wrecks 1, 2, and 3. Before joining up with Pirk he was an abysmally incompetent nuclear engineer serving at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. He is the only captain of the P-fleet who manages to inflict more destruction to his own ship than the enemy.

Members of the Babel 13

Captain Johnny K. Sherrypie, played by Atte Joutsen. A parody of John Sheridan. He is the commanding officer of the space station Babel 13, and is fond of long-winded speeches and delayed decisions.
Commander Ivanovitsa, played by Satu Heliö. A parody of Susan Ivanova. She is the sarcastic Executive Officer of the Babel 13. Her daily duties consist of reporting parking violations and enduring Sherrypie's speeches.
Festerbester, played by Janos Honkonen. A parody of Alfred Bester. He is a psy-co officer with a habit of commandeering ships, as well as a good tactician.
Security Chief Mikhail Garybrandy, played by Jari Ahola. A parody of Michael Garibaldi. He is Babel 13's head of security, and tends to grab the bottle at the most inappropriate moments.

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