Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek (1973)

Better than most people think

Beautiful, moving film.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Without a doubt this film is the funniest Turkish film ever made. I wish you guys knew Turkish so you could understand the funniest scenes like Turist Omer breaking down the main computer by asking him silly questions, or getting on Spock's nerves. Many people think this is like "Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam (aka Turkish Star Wars)" but it's not. Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam was also OK but it was a ripoff and not intended to be a comedy. "Turist Omer Uzay Yolunda (Turkish Star Trek)" on the other hand is asking the question "what if a Turk was among the crew of Star Trek". Another great thing about the movie is, especially Captain Kirk and Mr Spock look and act exactly like in the TV series, not a single exaggeration. Love this movie. It's the funniest Turkish movie ever made, and Sadri Alisik is the funniest Turkish actor ever lived.

Turkish filmmaker Hulki Saner brings the highly popular "Ömer the Tourist" film series to a clumsy conclusion by turning Sadri Alışık's beloved comic creation into a self-insert anti-Sue for this po-faced re-enactment of the first broadcast classic Star Trek episode "The Man Trap" with results as unimpressive as a PVC-clad papier-mâché-headed Gorn.When an Enterprise red shirt is murdered while on an away mission the culprit transports a bumbling Turkish hobo from his shot gun wedding to act as a scapegoat, but Kirk and co. fail to fall for the ruse and Ömer the Tourist joins them on the hunt in the uninspired set-up for this clumsy parody of series achieving great popularity in Turkey at the time.Sadri Alışık is on top form in his swansong performance in the role with quick fire Turkish gags and wordplay with superb support from straight man Erol Amaç as Mr. Spak but the too are all too often eclipsed by Cemil Şahbaz, Ferdi Merter, Kayhan Yıldızoğlu and the rest of the cast as they struggle to keep to the original script.The filmmakers seem for the most part to have forgotten they are making a comedy as they plough through a sub-standard re-enactment of the original, replete with orange tinted ripped-off effects, which relegates the star to little more than an interfering nuisance as they build up to a frenetic conclusion which throws in scenes from other classic episodes.Turkey provides some fantastic locations for the planet scenes which the makers of the original could barely dream of but in all other respects the production values fall short calling into question the whole rationale for the re-enactment which overwhelms the comedy elements and leaves the feeling that Sadri Alışık deserved better."You see captain; an illogical creature."

This was apparently made by some resourceful Trek fans in Turkey around the same time as the Star Trek animated series, during the Trek drought of the seventies between the original series (ended in '69) and the 1st Trek movie in '79. One can look at it as a lost episode of the original series, composed of Trek bloopers, discarded scenes, and an overabundance of the ridiculous. It begins with the standard Trek visuals of the Enterprise zooming about in space, but as if shot thru a red filter, and quite blurry. This also uses the standard Trek background music and FX sounds from the sixties show (the music, however, doesn't always fit the action in the scene). Unfortunately, my version doesn't have an English vocal track or subtitles, but I could figure out within a few minutes that this aimed for a remake/parody of "The Man Trap" episode of the original show, featuring that salt-sucking monster (since that was the first episode of the original series to air, this makes me wonder if they intended to remake later episodes - next would have been "Charlie X"). This comic version also included some androids, including a male model-type dressed only in a loin cloth. Overall, it's an intriguing precursor to other Trek spoofs such as the famous "Saturday Night Live" episode with John Belushi.About 15 minutes in, the plot abruptly diverts to some Turkish dude from present times suddenly whisked (beamed away) from his low rent (shotgun?) wedding into the Trek adventure, where he interacts with all the main characters - kind of a wish fulfillment dream of all the Turkish fans, I guess. In the meantime, the salt creature takes the identity of several characters, though the way it sucks the salt out is portrayed a bit differently from the original episode. The costuming accurately copies that of the original series, with the same style uniforms. This also reminded me just how sexy those mini-skirted uniforms were on the female crew members - there's a few of 'em here - in one amusing scene where they train their 'phasers' on the visitor. Check out, also, the hairdo emulating the Yeoman Rand character - trippy. The sets also attempt to copy the Enterprise interior, though less successfully; the exteriors in the ruins are better realized. The humor really kicks in during the last half, with the salt creature terrorizing the tourist and other action stuff copying scenes from the "Arena" episode and, even better, the Kirk-Spock fight from "Amok Time." The scenes with the multitude of loin-clothed androids is a bit too bizarre, but the conclusion is appropriately amusing. The whole thing's just over 70 minutes long on my version. Maybe this helped in getting a new Trek series greenlit, then the motion picture, when it was realized that the whole planet was desperate for new Trek.

This movie,in my opinion,is even better then "Dünyayý Kurtaran Adam".Every moment of this movie is funny,from begining to the end.Especially the dialog between Ömer and Spock is really fun.Every Star Trek fan should watch this movie,at least just to see the excellent Turkish version of Mr.Spock-KabaKulak!