Star Trek (American Dad!)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may not meet the notability guideline for television episodes. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merge or ultimately deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.
This article has been tagged since December 2007.

This section called "Cultural references" does not cite any references or sources. (October 2007)
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

“Star Trek”
American Dad! episode
Steve in his pool of jello
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 15
Written by	Matt McKenna, Chris McKenna
Directed by	Mike Kim
Production no.	1AJN15
Original airdate	November 27, 2005
Newspaper Headline	"Bush Appoints Stephen King As Ambassador To Terror"
Season 1 episodes
American Dad - Season 1 May 1, 2005 – May 14, 2006
Pilot Threat Levels Stan Knows Best Francine's Flashback Roger Codger Homeland Insecurity Deacon Stan, Jesus Man Bullocks to Stan A Smith in the Hand All About Steve Con Heir Stan of Arabia: Part 1 Stan of Arabia: Part 2 Stannie Get Your Gun Star Trek Not Particularly Desperate Housewife Rough Trade Finances with Wolves It's Good to Be Queen Roger 'n' Me Helping Handis With Friends Like Steve's Tears of a Clooney

	Season 2 →
List of American Dad! episodes

"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

Steve is seen from below floating in a pool of cherry Jell-o.

The action shifts to a few weeks ago, when Roger was reading Us Weekly and yearning to be a celebrity. Steve 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 3,012 of them and has received over 10,000 rejection letters. Then, Stan sits Steve down at a desk and glues his right hand. At this time, Roger comes in and babbles incoherently in a drunken stupor, then passes out. Inspired, Steve writes 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 (which is actually an accurate portrayal of Roger). 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] 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.
The doorbell chime to Steve's Mansion is the exact melody tune used by the broadcasting company NBC.

[edit] Cultural references

The opening shot of "Steve" lying dead in a swimming pool is lifted directly from the film Sunset Boulevard.
In the beginning, Steve lists the things that he got during his rise to stardom, including the joke about the 10 inch pianist. The joke is popular adult bar joke [1].
Steve's attack dogs are named Sulu and Chekov, after Hikaru Sulu and Pavel Chekov on Star Trek.
Steve's "Pleasure Dome", Steveadu, is a reference to the mansion built by Charles Foster Kane, Xanadu, in the film Citizen Kane.
In Steve's "Pleasure Dome", Han Solo frozen in Carbonite is seen.
Roger's entrance and consequent behavior 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.
The Paul McCartney song that Stan sings as he leaves Steve's teacher's house is "Silly Love Songs".
When Roger is dropped from Stan's car, he is clinged in the same way Max Cady is in Cape Fear.
The ring tone of Steve's agent is similar to the main theme music of the Halloween franchise