Star Wreck IV: Live Long and Profit : A Collection of Cosmic Capers [Paperback]

Leah Rewolinski (Author), Harry Trumbore (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1993

Star Trek: The Next Generation"" series follows Captain Jean-Lucy Ricardo on his quest to find the fountain of youth.

Product Details

• Paperback: 133 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper (April 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312929854
• ISBN-13: 978-0312929855
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,045,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY VERY FUNNY!, April 2, 2000

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Claire Hennessy (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Wreck IV: Live Long and Profit : A Collection of Cosmic Capers (Paperback)

For all "Star Trek" fans this book is a MUST! This is the first "Star Wreck" book I read and I was hooked! It's hilarious! In this volume, Starfreak have decided to keep only one Endrocrine crew, and so various members of staff are laid off, inlcuding Captain Smirk, who is not too happy about Ricardo getting the job. Guido becomes first officer while Piker becomes the doctor - it can only spell disaster! Meanwhile, on the other ship, Georgie LaForgerie and the rest of the "Have-nots" have decided to try and find the Fountain of Eternal Youth before the "Haves" get there, so that they will get their jobs back. It's brilliant, you have to read it!

5.0 out of 5 stars A hilarious parody based on wordplay and exaggerated plot devices, January 30, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Wreck IV: Live Long and Profit : A Collection of Cosmic Capers (Paperback)

This hilarious parody manages to lampoon just about every aspect of both the original series and "The Next Generation." It all starts with wordplay on the names of the major characters in both series. They are

*) Captains Ricardo and Smirk
*) Smock, Dr. McCaw, Mr. Snot, Checkout and YooHoo.
*) Piker, Dr. Flusher, Dacron, Deanna (Dee) Troit, Wart, Guano, Westerly, Mr. O'Brine, Georgie LaForgery and Guano.

Add in additional names such as Admiral Nonsequitur, Star Freak U. S. S. Endocrine and ten foreplay and the structure is complete.
The plotline is that Star Freak is broke and layoffs are necessary. They are generally random, leaving Captain Ricardo in command of the ship still commissioned with a crew selected from the crews of both series and Captain Smirk in command of one that has fallen victim to the budget knife and crewed by the leavings. They are both searching for the Fountain of Youth, the plan being that if Star Freak can find it and market the water, they will solve their budget problems.
The best section of the book is by far the first two paragraphs of page 62.

"But what a radical notion they're proposing - that the frakesonian spineroscopy technique can be fragmented across the sirtis and mcfadden modes."
Smock coughed, caught his breath, then coughed again. "But that must be considered - ", he broke off as another deep cough shook his chest and then subsided - "in light of the burton-wave theory, given the inevitable inaccuracies of the dornscope and he stewartometer in detecting goldberg variations."

The actual last name of all the major characters in "The Next Generation" are used in these two paragraphs. If you enjoy heavy, nonsensical parody based on wordplay and absurdity, you will like this book.