{"id":21292,"date":"2016-07-05T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T18:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21292"},"modified":"2016-07-05T15:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T19:03:36","slug":"trekoff-the-motion-picture-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/trekoff-the-motion-picture-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Trekoff: The Motion Picture (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"trekoff1\"<\/a>For a second I thought \u201cTrekoff\u201d was going to be a grating experience, but eventually Justin Timpane\u2019s documentary about Trek fandom eventually won me over big time. I may not be much of a \u201cStar Trek\u201d fan, but I know what it is to be a fan, and a fanatic, and all around geek for something so much, that you want to spend all your time involved with it. \u201cTrekoff: The Motion Picture\u201d is a documentary and partly live action tour film about the raunchy Star Trek podcast that has managed to build a loyal following of listeners. Hosts Justin Timpane and Alexia Poe have an infectious enthusiasm that drips off of the film and will win over anyone that has ever sacrificed or expressed love for a particular kind of fandom.<\/p>\n

It also helps that Alexia Poe is kind of hot, but I digress. Timpane and Poe sought out to do a podcast that was different from the others, where they discuss \u201cStar Trek,\u201d and debate various captains all the while discussing who Alexia would sleep with, and why she\u2019d let William Shatner give her a golden shower. Admittedly, the dick jokes get kind of tiresome, but \u201cTrekoff\u201d is still a breezy and raucous documentary that is devoted to the way Timpane and Poe celebrate their love for \u201cStar Trek.\u201d They do so with a lot of laughter, a ton of joy, and endless sexual innuendos and double entendres that their audience seems to love when they\u2019re recording their podcast live.<\/p>\n

While \u201cTrekoff\u201d doesn\u2019t offer new or original insight in to the \u201cStar Trek\u201d fandom, the documentary succeeds in exploring the more surreal aspects of the fandom. As well we\u2019re given keen insight in to how rabid hosts Timpane and Poe are for \u201cStar Trek.\u201d While they deliver endless sex jokes, and argue about who\u2019d be better in bed Kirk or Picard, they seem to love the franchise, and get very emotional when the humor stops and their sincerity shines through. I wish we\u2019d seen more of that quality, to be honest. That said, \u201cTrekoff\u201d is a charming, funny, and unusual documentary about fandom and love for \u201cStar Trek\u201d that I had a very good time with.<\/p>\n

Now Available on DVD at Amazon<\/a>, and on Amazon Prime Instant Video<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a second I thought \u201cTrekoff\u201d was going to be a grating experience, but eventually Justin Timpane\u2019s documentary about Trek fandom eventually won me over big time. I may not be much of a \u201cStar Trek\u201d fan, but I know what it is to be a fan, and a fanatic, and all around geek for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[219,292,501,766,979,1020],"class_list":["post-21292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-documentary","tag-indie-film","tag-performance","tag-star-trek","tag-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21296,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292\/revisions\/21296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}