STAR BLECCH: DEEP SPACE SWINE

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
1993-1999 SYNDICATION

STAR BLECCH: DEEP SPACE SWINE
MAD #321, December 1993
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

This Star Trek series took place around the same time as The Next Generation, in a station of the Gamma Quadrant of the Milky Way with the goal of the United Federation of Planets being the peacekeepers between the Cardassians and the Bejorans. The crew was Capt, Benjamin Cisco (Avery Brooks), Major Nerys (Nana Visitor), Engineer Miles O'Brian (Colm Meaney), Quark (Armin Shimerman), Dr. Bashir (Alexander Siddig), Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell), and Jake Sisco (Cirroc Lofton).

Lots of Star Trek and Star Wars characters in the background, and coincidentally Worf from TNG would later be in this show as well.

Odo (Rene Auberjonois), a shape shifter, is absent from the two-page spread, but appears in the first panel here.

References in the last panel are made to Time Trax, Space Rangers, and Babylon Five.

Cover to the Mexican edition. This actually should have been yesterday or maybe it was a movie tie-in but what can you do.

STAR WRECK: DEEPLY SPACED-OUT NINE
Cracked Collectors' Edition #103, July 1995
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan

I think the other character in this parody is Louise Fletcher, whose series, VR5 was canceled by Fox. Sometimes these caricatures are too rushed to identify.

Joey Buttafuocco was famous for an extra-marital affair with a teenage girl who shot his wife. The screen has Dukat (Marc Alaimo), leader of the Cardassians, the hostile race occupying the Bajorans.