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This is a professional made Star Trek imitation with Turkish sense of humor.

Turkish Star Trek ?

In the seventies Marvel comics and Italian comics were very popular in Turkey. Turkish movie producers saw that they could earn some money from this opportunity. They made a lot of quick and low budget comic's movies as superman,zagor,phantom,captan America etc . All these movies had a simple story and bad casting. But this movie is different. First of all the production company was a powerful movie company. They knew what Turkish people liked. They knew that Turkish people like Star Trek. They knew also that Turkish people like Turist Omer character. If they could bring these two items together than the movie would be a great success.

Star Trek was a hit in Turkey. There were nobody on streets when Turkish TV was broadcasting Star Trek.

Turist Omer was a character played by Sadri Alisik. This character made this actor famous. You can compare with Charlie Chaplin.

It was a success. They earned a lot of money and they also sold this movie to foreign countries like Germany (where 3 million Turkish society living). The story is borrowed from an episode of Star Trek. Turist Omer was buzzed from earth to a planet by a mad doctor.

I can recommend this movie to all Star Trek fans and also to everyone who likes cult and foreign movies. If you like this movie try than also Yilmayan Seytan. .

This was apparently made by some resourceful Trek fans in Turkey around the same time as the Star Trek animated series, during the Trek drought of the seventies between the original series (ended in '69) and the 1st Trek movie in '79. One can look at it as a lost episode of the original series, composed of Trek bloopers, discarded scenes, and an overabundance of the ridiculous. It begins with the standard Trek visuals of the Enterprise zooming about in space, but as if shot thru a red filter, and quite blurry. This also uses the standard Trek background music and FX sounds from the sixties show (the music, however, doesn't always fit the action in the scene). Unfortunately, my version doesn't have an English vocal track or subtitles, but I could figure out within a few minutes that this aimed for a remake/parody of "The Man Trap" episode of the original show, featuring that salt-sucking monster (since that was the first episode of the original series to air, this makes me wonder if they intended to remake later episodes - next would have been "Charlie X"). This comic version also included some androids, including a male model-type dressed only in a loin cloth. Overall, it's an intriguing precursor to other Trek spoofs such as the famous "Saturday Night Live" episode with John Belushi.

About 15 minutes in, the plot abruptly diverts to some Turkish dude from present times suddenly whisked (beamed away) from his low rent (shotgun?) wedding into the Trek adventure, where he interacts with all the main characters - kind of a wish fulfillment dream of all the Turkish fans, I guess. In the meantime, the salt creature takes the identity of several characters, though the way it sucks the salt out is portrayed a bit differently from the original episode. The costuming accurately copies that of the original series, with the same style uniforms. This also reminded me just how sexy those mini-skirted uniforms were on the female crew members - there's a few of 'em here - in one amusing scene where they train their 'phasers' on the visitor. Check out, also, the hairdo emulating the Yeoman Rand character - trippy. The sets also attempt to copy the Enterprise interior, though less successfully; the exteriors in the ruins are better realized. The humor really kicks in during the last half, with the salt creature terrorizing the tourist and other action stuff copying scenes from the "Arena" episode and, even better, the Kirk-Spock fight from "Amok Time." The scenes with the multitude of loin-clothed androids is a bit too bizarre, but the conclusion is appropriately amusing. The whole thing's just over 70 minutes long on my version. Maybe this helped in getting a new Trek series greenlit, then the motion picture, when it was realized that the whole planet was desperate for new Trek.

This Turkish movie is the first motion picture on StarTrek. Although the story is the same as the classic "man-trap" episode, film inserts a Turkish man "aka. Turist Omer" into the story. Turist Omer is a funny poor Turkish guy wýthout a job and wýth a unique Turkish way of seeing things. His thoughts about the startrek universe makes a Turk (like me) have a lot of fun (eg. he warns Spock about the police control while Spock talks about the speed of the Enterprize). Unfortunately all jokes are Turkish type and very hard for a foreigner to have much fun as Turks did. However it is the most funniest movie a have ever watch and a must see for a Turkish movie fun.

This movie is a Turkish copy of the famous Star Trek. It a funny movie about a guy that gets transfered from the weddingtable to the Enterprise. He visit different places and the captain and Spock gets anoyed. Its a humorfilled movie. If you ever get a chance to see it...please then see it. Its a movie that you can walk away from and still have that funny feeling inside you.....

1. The character "Turist Ömer / Omer the Tourist" played by Sadri Alisik was first introduced as a sidekick in the movie "Helal Olsun Ali Agbi", starring Ayhan Isik. The character became very popular and 7 films were shot for this character between 1964-1973. This movie is the last one. 2. The 7 Turist Ömer movies are: - Turist Ömer / Omer the Tourist (1964) - Turist Ömer Dümenciler Krali / King of the Con-Men (1965) - Turist Ömer Almanya'da / In Germany (1966) - Turist Ömer Arabistan'da / In Arabia (1969) - Turist Ömer Yamyamlar Arasında / Among Cannibals (1970) - Turist Ömer Boga Güresçisi / The Bullfighter (1971) - Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda / Star Trek (1973) 3. Star Trek was very popular in Turkey at the time. Because of that, the crew of USS Enterprise were played by the dubbing artists of the show in Turkish TV channel TRT, which was the only channel at the time. 4. The adventure of USS Enterprise in this film (the story with the salt-monster) was taken from an episode of the original show. 5. The film contains multiple Turkish jokes. They're mostly shown as the funny clash between Omer's humorous character and Spock's rationality.

This is surely one of the biggest cult of Turkish movie history and also one of the biggest of science-fiction genre too. Although you would miss some great jokes if you are not familiar with turkish culture, you wouldn't miss the classic cult dialogues between Mr.Spak and Turist omer.

Try to catch this one!

This movie is a masterpiece among Turkish movies in the sense that it may be the first example of making fun of another movie or TV show. Foreigners will probably not understand that the movie solely intents to make you laugh, and that Turist Omer(Alisik) makes fun of and teases all that legendary Star Trek characters.Sadri Alisik is a true legend in Turkey, not a dirty looking 'Muslim' guy, who has great talent, not only in physical comedy but also verbally. The movie has no 'religious' motives, Omer's transfer to Enterprise is a coincidence which we can see any movie, anyway God won't be any peculiar in a science-fiction, either. opening hands and praying to God is gesture in Turkey which has no religious meaning. As it can be anticipated, you must be a Turk or good Turkish speaker to understand the simple but powerful humor in this movie. Insulting a dead legend and millions of people due to trendy "Islamfobia" and poor understanding is not fair. Here, I am saying that if you do not speak Turkish or have a Turkish friend to assist you through the movie, do not watch it, otherwise you will fall in the pit in which "one of the North American comments" is, the pit of prejudice..

Late Note: It is true that there are stolen scenes in the movie, then SUE the dead man. What could they do to show a spaceship in space? And do not forget that the movie is a free advertisement of the TV-series..

Most people describe this movie as a cheap Star Trek clone with a Turkish guy in it. Actually, Omer is the protagonist here so it's not a Star Trek movie. It's a Turist Omer movie taking place in the Star Trek setting. And like all Turist Omer movies, Sadri Alisik is the only thing good in it. He was an extremely talented actor. Maybe he was even better than most of his contemporaries in Hollywood. Yes, it's not a very good movie but blaming Sadri Alisik for that is just unfair. Producers knew anything with Sadri Alisik in it would make money, so they just let him be himself: most of the movie was actually improvised. Incredibly time and culture specific jokes do not help, either. Not for foreign audiences at all. Unless you are a Trekker and have to see everything Star Trek related, just pass this.

It's scary to think that this movie is considered by some to be "a masterpiece among Turkish movies"; that says a lot more about the state of Turkish cinema than I'd care to know. But the film, more commonly known as "Turkish Star Trek" in English-speaking countries, is one of the most enjoyable of the many Star Trek spoofs in circulation.

The viewer is treated to an outsider's view of the Star Trek universe, as a Turkish slapstick comedian (Turist Ömer) escapes a shotgun wedding thanks to the timely intervention of the starship Enterprise. Borrowing shamelessly from several classic Star Trek episodes (particularly Star Trek's first broadcast episode "The Man Trap") an ability to speak Turkish is not necessary for Star Trek fans to be able to follow the plot, although it may well baffle non-Trekkies. In fact, picking out the various homages (and deciding which characters are being depicted by the actors) may well be one of the most enjoyable aspects.

Interspersed with the familiar scenes are more bizarre sequences, involving a mad scientist (a dead ringer for Alfred Ryder, who played Dr. Crater in "The Man Trap"), as well robots in loincloths, bikini-clad alien girls, and some of the most hilariously bad pre-digital special effects ever committed to film.

It is probable that the dialog makes some sense of the goings-on, but until a subtitled version emerges (don't hold your breath), you're better off to just sit back with some wise-cracking buddies, pass the Romulan ale, and enjoy the show.

You're half right.

After finally finding a working subtitle file for a restored version of this movie, I was able to give it a watch. If Turkey is great at one thing, it's lifting intellectual properties and using them in their own works. I guess the phrase "plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery" would come up... though that statement is wholly not true as much as the often used and misunderstood "the customer is always right" (research it, it's just not true).

Obviously a rip-off of Star Trek, mainly 'The Man Trap', you can clearly tell they didn't just copy the look and characters, the essentially copied the plot, which actually makes this watchable to a certain extent because they're using the work of American writers, which is what made the original script this was based on so good (not saying other countries don't have good writers as well, just mean in this context). The addition of Turist Omer makes this more than just a simple rip-off of Star Trek, but continues on a series of comedic movies based on this character.

The similarities to this and Turkish Star Wars is that they blatantly lift footage and sound effects from Star Trek, but where it differs is that unlike Turkish Star Wars, this plot follows all the way through. If you're not familiar with Turkish Star Wars, they used movie footage, music and sound effects from Star Wars, along with music and effects from other sci-fi movies, but this only shows up for the first part of the film and a brief glance at the end. The rest of the movie is essentially an original plot.

A lot of the humor will probably be lost on most of the western audience as it ranks right up there with other such greats as Brazilian Star Wars, it's just comedy for a totally different audience.

A lot of the set pieces look like they took the 'rumored' idea that Star Trek was just cardboard stands and chicken wire and ran with it, but I'll give them credit that it look far better than most of us could do with lesser budgets (if this had one). If you want to see what a western "home made" movie looks like, go and check out "Space Trucker Bruce", these two movies would be best of buds at a convention awarding the 'worst sets ever' (although, Space Trucker Bruce was done by only a couple people, so props to them for doing all that work).

The acting is... well, fine. Being that I can't understand Turkish and had to get all the info through subtitles, so it's really hard to tell what makes a good actor in this movie or other foreign films for that matter. For a really broad idea, the actor playing Kirk had this very prominent "I'm better than you" attitude about him, especially in the way he walked. I'm not kidding, the instant you first see him step off the turbo lift, he struts in like he's God's gift to Star Trek and always, ALWAYS has his nose in the air. It's actually quite humorous to watch. Spock (or Spak) was hardly 'Spock' as he was always getting upset and frustrated and even angry enough to want to leave the ship at one point. To be fair, Omer was being a bit of an !@#$ to him. They would always zoom in on a closeup just so he could raise his eyebrow too, they did it over and over again multiple times. He was also kind of an a-hole. McCoy didn't stand out too much, but he came off looking more like Karl Urban's version of McCoy than Deforest Kelly, which is kind of funny when you think about how far apart those versions are. Most of the rest of the crew are secondary (and thirdary? Is that a word?) Uhura shows up for only a few shots, though you also get a nice panty shot because her skirt is so short. Scotty only comes in for a random voice over, Sulu only has two shots and there is no Chekov. Also, aside from Uhura, none of the other nationalities are there, just Turkish actors.

The effects are what you would expect from something like this, terrible and will make you cringe just knowing you've seen them. I can't help but love the man in the rubber monster suit... no, I don't mean Godzilla, I mean a literal rubber suit, complete with a zipper and huge inflated balloon glove hands. I think they were trying to make the Gorn... but failed.

Overall, a terrible but enjoyable rip-off set in the universe of another completely different series that will leave you shaking your head and wanting to see more.

Without a doubt this film is the funniest Turkish film ever made. I wish you guys knew Turkish so you could understand the funniest scenes like Turist Omer breaking down the main computer by asking him silly questions, or getting on Spock's nerves. Many people think this is like "Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam (aka Turkish Star Wars)" but it's not. Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam was also OK but it was a ripoff and not intended to be a comedy. "Turist Omer Uzay Yolunda (Turkish Star Trek)" on the other hand is asking the question "what if a Turk was among the crew of Star Trek". Another great thing about the movie is, especially Captain Kirk and Mr Spock look and act exactly like in the TV series, not a single exaggeration. Love this movie. It's the funniest Turkish movie ever made, and Sadri Alisik is the funniest Turkish actor ever lived.

This movie,in my opinion,is even better then "Dünyayý Kurtaran Adam".Every moment of this movie is funny,from begining to the end.Especially the dialog between Ömer and Spock is really fun.Every Star Trek fan should watch this movie,at least just to see the excellent Turkish version of Mr.Spock-KabaKulak!

Turkish filmmaker Hulki Saner brings the highly popular "Ömer the Tourist" film series to a clumsy conclusion by turning Sadri Alışık's beloved comic creation into a self-insert anti-Sue for this po-faced re-enactment of the first broadcast classic Star Trek episode "The Man Trap" with results as unimpressive as a PVC-clad papier-mâché-headed Gorn.

When an Enterprise red shirt is murdered while on an away mission the culprit transports a bumbling Turkish hobo from his shot gun wedding to act as a scapegoat, but Kirk and co. fail to fall for the ruse and Ömer the Tourist joins them on the hunt in the uninspired set-up for this clumsy parody of series achieving great popularity in Turkey at the time.

Sadri Alışık is on top form in his swansong performance in the role with quick fire Turkish gags and wordplay with superb support from straight man Erol Amaç as Mr. Spak but the too are all too often eclipsed by Cemil Şahbaz, Ferdi Merter, Kayhan Yıldızoğlu and the rest of the cast as they struggle to keep to the original script.

The filmmakers seem for the most part to have forgotten they are making a comedy as they plough through a sub-standard re-enactment of the original, replete with orange tinted ripped-off effects, which relegates the star to little more than an interfering nuisance as they build up to a frenetic conclusion which throws in scenes from other classic episodes.

Turkey provides some fantastic locations for the planet scenes which the makers of the original could barely dream of but in all other respects the production values fall short calling into question the whole rationale for the re-enactment which overwhelms the comedy elements and leaves the feeling that Sadri Alışık deserved better.

"You see captain; an illogical creature."

Last of the turist omer series of movies. (5 movies of local traditional comedy) Movie was made when star trek was airing on tv. Omer the tourist is a quick minded non wealthy guy of 1973 trying to escape from the wedding desk when by chance beamed up to the Enterprise mistakenly through time. Afterwards the story is taken from 1966 original series 'the man trap' with the comic interferences by turist omer. I was 10 years old and had fun that time. It's low level childish movie for today's standards and nothing significant to tell about.