{"id":3238,"date":"2005-04-01T19:13:52","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T03:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/01\/best-april-fools-story-evar111\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T19:03:51","slug":"best-april-fools-story-evar111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/01\/best-april-fools-story-evar111\/","title":{"rendered":"Best. April. Fools. Story. EVAR!!!1!!11!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8575,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com\\\/startrek\\\/view\\\/news\\\/article\\\/10349.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100109072552\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com:80\\\/startrek\\\/view\\\/news\\\/article\\\/10349.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:05:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:05:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/news\/article\/10349.html\" title=\"StarTrek.com: Enterprise Saved ... With Strings Attached\">StarTrek.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  With Star Trek: Enterprise hanging by a veritable thread the last two years, a new direction for the show has recently been unveiled that is being hailed both as a triumph of corporate synergy for the Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures, and a way to keep the show on the air.<\/p>\n<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>  Enter the darlings of Viacom-owned Comedy Central, Star Trek fans Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park. Parker and Stone, you may recall, also made Paramount&#8217;s &#8220;Team America: World Police,&#8221; which ran in theaters last year and comes out on DVD in May. The movie grossed only $50 million worldwide, but it turned a profit for the studio due to its low production budget.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The pieces fall together brilliantly,&#8221; said a top Viacom spokesperson. &#8220;Matt and Trey take over Enterprise, and it&#8217;s all done with marionettes! It&#8217;s like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet all over. Gerry Anderson, watch out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>  Parker and Stone have already started making a shooting model of the Enterprise NX-01, thus reviving an old Star Trek tradition. &#8220;We prefer the look of physical, tangible models over CGI ships any day,&#8221; Parker said. &#8220;Of course, we have no visual effects budget whatsoever, so we won&#8217;t be painting out the strings. You&#8217;ll get used to it. Still trying to figure out where to put the propeller.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;We&#8217;re also gonna re-do the opening title sequence,&#8221; Stone revealed. &#8220;Record a new theme \u2014 something bombastic, action-oriented. Y&#8217;know, something that isn&#8217;t, like, totally gay.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Star Trek: Enterprise hanging by a veritable thread the last two years, a new direction for the show has recently been unveiled that is being hailed both as a triumph of corporate synergy for the Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures, and a way to keep the show on the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[924,6,4097],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-ent","tag-humor","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}