Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek
1973 film by Hulki Saner
Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek (Turkish: Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda) (also known as Turkish Star Trek) is a 1973 Turkish cult comedy-drama science fiction film, produced and directed by Hulki Saner, featuring Sadri Alışık as Ömer the Tourist, a Turkish hobo who is beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise. It is the last film in the Ömer the Tourist franchise. As a Turksploitation film, the film is a low-budget Turkish adaptation of Star Trek and uses unauthorized footage from it.
The film is a product of Turkey's cultural climate at the time. Ömer the Tourist represents a stereotypical lower-class individual who nevertheless manages to confuse and outwit higher-class, educated individuals—in this case, the ship's crew. The film also includes many distinctly Turkish stylistic elements.
Background
The film is the eighth and final in a series of films featuring Alışık as Ömer the Tourist. The plot and dialogue are almost verbatim from The Man Trap, with borrowings from What Are Little Girls Made Of? and I, Mudd (a collection of androids), Arena (Kirk battles a Gorn-like creature), and Amok Time (Kirk and Spak are forced to fight each other), as well as the unauthorized use of special effects footage from the series, a defining feature of Turksploitation films. Although unofficial and part of another franchise, it is the first movie taking place in the Star Trek universe, filmed six years before the official motion picture.
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