Stone Trek
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Stone Trek is an internet-based Flash animated cartoon series that presents episodes of Star Trek as it might have appeared in the universe of The Flintstones, complete with 1960s style laugh tracks and Hanna-Barbera cartoon sound effects.
The series takes place aboard the stoneship U.S.S. Magnetize, powered by its magma/antimagma engines. Characters include Captain James T. Kirkstone, the Vulcano first officer Mr. Sprock and ship's doctor Leonard "Fossils" RcKoy. The series also features a running count of redshirts killed in each episode, and fans can write in to nominate themselves to be caricatured as a redshirt in future episodes.
Stone Trek debuted in 2000 at Icebox.com, but the series soon moved to its own website and at Starland.com, which sponsored the later episodes.
The series is produced by Brian Matthews and Jim Jenkins, with the voice talent of Wally Fields, a professional voice artist who also provided voices for the official Star Trek videogame Birth of the Federation.
The series has proven popular with fans - Movie Magic Magazine called it an "innovative (and often quite funny) take on the original Star Trek" [1] in its September 2004 issue. SciFi.com calls it "a humorous cartoon masterpiece" [2], while the SFCrowsnest, an online European fan newsmagzine, calls it "fantastic, fantastic, fantastic!". [3]
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To date, nine episodes have been produced.
- The Deadly Ears (Part 1) - An accidental encounter with a pair of alien bees endangers the mission of the Magnetize.
- The Deadly Ears (Part 2) - It's ears vs. antennae as the Magnetize is attacked from a swarm of jilted alien bees.
- 20001 BC: A Space Oddity (Part 1) - The Magnetize crew is sent to discover the fate of a ship that set out to discover when the new epoch begins - 20000 BC or 20001 BC?
- 20001 BC: A Space Oddity (Part 2) - Captain Kirkstone runs into some "friends" inside The Big Black Thing, and starts to question his sanity.
- Star Trekkin'! - In 1987, The Firm released a claymation music video of their song, Star Trekkin' - this is the Stone Trek version...
- The Caveman Trap (Part 1) - The Magnetize crew confronts a monster on a mission to deliver cruise tickets to a scientist couple on a desent planet.
- The Caveman Trap (Part 2) - The monster gets loose on board the Magnetize. Is it deadly? Is it the answer to Kirkstone's dreams?
- Marooned on Tatooine (Part 1) - Stonefleet Command sends the Magnetize to rescue a fashion queen, and the bad guys don't like that one little bit.
- Marooned on Tatooine (Part 2) - Kirkstone and Sprock enter a contest to win prize money for spare parts to repair the Magnetize, but (as usual) things don't go as planned.
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