Star Trek (American Dad!)
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| American Dad! Episode |
| "Star Trek" | |
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| Episode no.: | 15 |
| Prod. code: | 1AJN15 |
| Airdate: | November 27, 2005 |
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| Headline: | "Bush Appoints Stephen King As Ambassador To Terror" |
"Star Trek" is an episode of the animated series American Dad!. The title is the same as that of the TV series Star Trek.
[edit] Plot summary
The action shifts to a few weeks ago, when Roger was reading Us Weekly and yearning to be a celebrity. Steve Smith tried to trick his father into signing his report card by claiming his teacher wanted Stan's autograph. But Stan doesn't fall for it and learns that Steve is flunking the creative writing class.
To inspire Steve, Stan shows him his Patriot Pigeon children's books. Stan has written over a thousand of them and gotten almost as many rejection letters. Then, Stan sits Steve down at a desk and glues his right hand. At this time, Roger comes in and does something clumsy, inspiring Steve to write about him.
The creative writing teacher sends Steve's story, Roger the Alien, to a publisher. The publisher buys Steve's story and Stan opens the acceptance letter, thinking that Patriot Pigeon Poops on Planned Parenthood has been picked up.
Steve quickly becomes a success, and soon Stan and Francine proceed to use him for their own needs. Distraught, Steve is convinced by his new agent to divorce his parents and moves into a mansion with his best friends. But eventually he comes to distrust his friends too, and kicks them out of the mansion. Steve's agent shows up with Spike Baltar, an actor who will play Steve in the movie.
Meanwhile, Roger opens a shipment of Roger talking dolls and becomes enraged that Steve's book portrays him as clumsy. Roger goes to the mansion and attempts to kill Steve, but instead kills Spike Baltar by tossing him into a pool of cherry Jello. In a voiceover, Steve admits the opening scene was a ploy.
[edit] Cultural References
- Steve's attack dogs are named Sulu and Chekov, after Hikaru Sulu and Pavel Chekov on Star Trek.
- The opening shot of "Steve" lying dead in a swimming pool is lifted directly from the film Sunset Boulevard.
- Spike Baltar, the actor to play Steve in the movie, is probably a reference to Count Baltar from the series Battlestar Galactica.
- In Steve's "Pleasure Dome", Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite is seen.
- Roger's entrance and consequent behaviour at Steve's mansion are very similar to the frequent secret entrances of Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons, most notably his emergence from a gumball machine that is shaped like his head.
[edit] Notes
- Steve is right handed, forcing him to write with his left after Stan glues that hand to the desk.
- Steve is disgusted by the old supermodel woman from the '50s Stan brings him in this episode, but in Con Heir, Steve has an affair with an old woman from the retirement home that Stan's supposed father lived in before he died.
- When Francine is trying to convince Steve to go on that talk show, she tries to use her c-section scar as guilt, even though Hayley was actually the one born that way, but technically this isn't a goof because if Hayley was born from Caesarian section, then Steve would be too, since a woman who gave birth to her first child via C-section can't have her section by natural birth because there's a high risk of the woman suffering from a ruptured uterus and death by sepsis if she has had a C-section for her first child and chooses to give birth to a second child naturally.
| Preceded by: "Stannie Get Your Gun" |
American Dad! Episodes | Followed by: "Not Particularly Desperate Housewives" |
