Sinnlos im Weltraum

Sinnlos im Weltraum (Pointless in Space) is a German Language Gag Dub of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Created from 1995 to 1997 by Peter M. and a changing cast consisting of his friends, providing additional voices, it has by now reached a legendary status within the German internet community, spawning several Spiritual Successors.

Like its source material, it chronicles the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew on the USS Enterprise - except that Picard is dangerously violent, Riker incredibly stupid, and Worf overly child-like, to name just a few of the deliberate Character Derailments the humour mainly relies on.

The lip sync is often incredibly good for an amateur work.

Tropes used in Sinnlos im Weltraum include:

Accent On the Wrong Syllable: Some of the guest characters do this, combined with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
All Women Are Lustful: All female crew members seem to be horny all the time. Might have something to do with the fact that all the males consider them unattractive.
Deadpan Snarker: Picard.
Catch Phrase: Several.
- Riker: Raff ich net. (I don't get it.) and Ich will auch mal der Captain sein. (I want to be Captain too.)
- Geordi: Oder wie oder was? (see Verbal Tic)
- Worf (and apparently Klingons in general): Ihr seid alle so bös! (You are all so mean!)
Camp Gay: Daniel (Q)
Character Derailment: Deliberate. The main source of humour.
Cross-Dressing Voices: All voice actors are male, so this is the case for the female characters by default.
German Humour
Incredibly Lame Pun: Counselor Troi tends to be called the Kanzler (Chancellor). This is no allusion to Angela Merkel though, SiW was created long before her election.
Man Child: Worf.
Must Have Caffeine: Picard is crazy about black hot coffee.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: This is how the popularity of SiW started, before internet distribution was a viable option.
Ridiculously-Human Robots: In spite of being an android, Data can't even perform the simplest mathematical procedures (like adding together single digit numbers) correctly.
Reclusive Artist: Not much is known about the creators. Fans managed to make contact to only a few. Perhaps this is an Old Shame to some of them.
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Some of the guest characters do this, combined with Accent On the Wrong Syllable.
Spiritual Successor: Lord of the Weed, as well as the Harry Potter Gag Dubs by Coldmirror.
Talking to Himself: Often the case, given that there were only three voice actors maximum at the same time.
Techno Babble: Although the dialogues are much more silly and colloquial than in the source material, this trope also gets parodied sometimes.
Too Dumb to Live: Riker!
Trademark Favorite Food: Gummi bears for Worf, hot black coffee for Picard.
Trope Maker: For Gag Dubs, as least as far as the German Language internet is concerned.
Unbuilt Trope: What is so special about a Gag Dub, you may ask, there are TONS of these in the Internet. Keep in mind that this one was already created in the Nineties, only using a plain old (well, at that time cutting edge) VCR. It was initially just for the personal pleasure of the creators, with no plans for further distribution, internet or otherwise.
The Unintelligible: The female Cardassian.
Verbal Tic: Geordi's Oder wie oder was? (Or how or what?)
Violence Is the Only Option: Picard threatens just about everyone to beat him or her up. (Due to the restrictions given by the source material though, we never see him actually doing this.)