(T)Raumschiff Surprise – Periode 1

(T)Raumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 ("Dream/Spaceship Surprise — Period 1") is a 2004 German comedy film by Michael "Bully" Herbig. It is a spoof of the 1960s American television series Star Trek and parodies several science fiction films. The film follows the eccentric crew of the spaceship Surprise in the year 2304, who must travel back in time to the year 2004 to save Earth from a Martian invasion. As a spiritual successor to Der Schuh des Manitu, the film is based on a recurring skit from Herbig's TV show Bullyparade, "Unser (T)Raumschiff". The title and plot allude to Raumschiff Enterprise, the German title of Star Trek. Raumschiff is the German word for spacecraft; Traumschiff means "dream ship", which was also a reference to Das Traumschiff, a German television se