Star Trek: Pepsi Generation

I must admit I have not heard of this movie. But am definitely going to check it out now.
Get this - Star Trek: Pepsi Generation was a fan film made in 1988 and it parodies Star Trek: Next Generation ( also taking time out of Trek Universe to joke about Dr Who, William Shatner and few others ). Storyline? "Ferrari" steals Pepsi from Starbase Seven-Up and Enterprise must save the day.

Ratings For Cool Factor?

Talk about super creative!
Made by fans, on a smallish budget, they did it for the sheer genius of it and not to reel in big bucks at the box office. Sure a worldwide hit would have been nice, but at least they were thinking of the story before they salivated about the moolah i.e. last Star Wars trilogy also known as Lucas with a Shylock Fix.
Check out this quote taken from wiki for example :

Having to shoot bridge scenes in a normal apartment living room was creatively explained as due to a "malfunction of the ship's interior decorating computer."

This is what Writing is all about
This is one of the reasons why I prefer small budget films - it's minus the red tape, hassles and propaganda of big budget Hollywood movies. You know what I mean - those awkward romantic scenes in a movie entirely based on survival to death against blood sucking goats. Laugh all you want but how many big budget action movies have got 5 seconds of an inappropriate genre squeezed into it? And since it is a parody, at least they will be making fun of cliches and not generating them. None of this awful catch phrases in an effort to look macho - Die now *expletive*, Take this *expletive*, How about that *expletive*, Welcome to Earth *expletive* - you get the drift.


And to continue their story of success, according to Wiki:

The film premiered at the Norwescon science fiction convention in March 1988, and won the convention's film festival, and when the film was played on the hotel's in-house channel, bootleg copies started circulating immediately, and the film has been a hit with fans ever since.

Plus BBC featured Star Trek:Pepsi Generation amongst its featured films for a piece they did on Star Trek parodies.

Check out the director's site here.


Source:
Wiki & Ryan K. Johnson's site ( he was writer & director).