STAR DREK: THE MOVING PICTURE

STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE(1979)
dir: Robert Wise

Like with most of the spoofs they did around this time, Cracked would use something more than once. They didn't do it as much with this, though.

STAR DREK: THE MOVING PICTURE
Cracked #169, July 1980
a: John Severin

One thing MAD's version of the movie didn't use was the exposition at the beginning showing the cloud devouring the Klingon ship or Spock (Leonard Mimoy) going through his final Vulcan conversion ritual. “What is the cloud?” you may ask. We shall see.

Kirk (William Shatner) is now an admiral. He is reunited again with crew members Scotty (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Sulu (George Takei), and Chekhov (Walter Koenig). He is taking over as command of the Starship Enteprise despite the protests of Captain Decker (Stephen Collins) who is already captain and doesn't think Kirk can run a ship that has been redesigned.

A sentient cloud is barreling towards the Earth as it did at the beginning and it is up to the Enterprise to see what it wants. “Bones” McCoy (DeForest Kelley) has been brought aboard to help in the crew.

Ilia (Persis Khambatta) and Spock have been brought aboard as well.

The mysterious cloud is swallowing up the Enterprise and has abducted Ilia.

There are Telly Savalas and Black Hole references in this just like in MADyesterday.

Ilia has been brought back but is now part of the cloud, known as V'Ger, in human form, to study human life, in order to gobtain knowledge of it before swallowing it up for its library of all knowledge in the universe. Spock goes out of the ship to see what it's all about.

Bones is making a reference to Alien

V'Ger, lacking human ability to make decisions or understand thought, has the mind of a child.

V'Ger has dust on its sign, and is actually Voyager, a space probe that was sent by Earth three hundred years earlier to gather knowledge and in doing so has acquired a mind of its own. The only way to defeat it is to have a human join with it so it can have human experience and thought, so Decker sacrifices himself.

CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE TREKKER KING
Cracked #169, July 1980
a: Bill Ward

They were accurate in that StarTrek fans hate the term 'trekkie', preferring to be called 'trekkers'.

USING STAR TREK LOGIC AND TECHNOLOGY TO SOLVE EVERYDAY PROBLEMS
Cracked #170, August 1980
a: Don Orehek

Here are a couple covers for Kaputt, the German version of Cracked.

Cracked used this same gag for their Battlestar Galactica parody.

STAR DREK: THE LAST HURRAH
Cracked #184, January 1982
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Severin

Non-spoof of any particular entity was done in between the first two movies.

There were characters from other science fiction movies and shows like Flash Gordon, Superman, Buck Rogers, Outland, The Greatest American Hero, and Battlestar Galactica behind this all along.