Courtney and I have been watching Stargate SG-1 on Hulu for the past several months and have really taken a liking to the show’s irreverent, self-effacing style. We are on the last season, and in the show’s 200th episode, the main characters were sitting with a movie producer, brainstorming hilariously bad ideas for a movie based on a fictional TV show based on the Stargate operation in the show (not confusing at all). One of the ideas, devised after the lead actor for the movie backed out, was to recast the movie with a younger, sexier cast. Here’s the result:

Sound familiar? It should. It’s basically a dead-on impression of that abomination of a Star Trek film last year, and what makes it even funnier is that this came a couple years before that Star Trek film, and then J.J. Abrams went and did exactly what Stargate was making fun of. You can’t even make up stuff like this. To call this clip a parody of the Trek movie would be to deny the eerie resemblance between the two, except one was meant to mock and the other actually thought this was a good idea.

One of the other reasons that we love Stargate is how it constantly rips off old Star Trek plots and admits as much with not-so-subtle tips-of-the-hat to Trek (not to mention a procession of former Trek actors as guest stars on the show). In the same episode as the previous clip, they also did a Star Trek parody:

Once again, the portion after the parody clip makes fun of so many of the things that made the last Star Trek movie so horrible. I wonder if the planning meetings for that Trek movie were anything like this, except not in jest.