What Makes Me Laugh

I am no Trekkie, so it’s surprising that I found myself sitting in a movie theater, wondering why you can never grab more than three kernels of popcorn at a time, and watching a creature with a gray walnut-head walk around the big screen.

When the credits started to roll, I turned to my friend and said, “Was that supposed to be a comedy or a drama? I couldn’t tell.”

What made the movie funny was the over-the-top cliches. Why do script writers always throw in a pregnant woman giving birth in a difficult situation saying things like, “James, the baby’s coming. It’s coming now!” It was like watching a satire of Star Trek.

I won’t spoil the plot for you, but I will say that a spaceship that looks remarkably like a giant black squid figures prominently, and some old cast members appear like tanned ghosts, and Spock continues the interracial or interspacial affair that made him famous in the first place.

If you don’t want to go to the theatre, I suggest checking out John Belushi’s 1970’s Saturday Night Live satire in Star Trek: The Last Voyage. It’ll make you laugh too.