Stupidly going where no Star Trek parody has gone before.

Remember that terrible Star Trek spoof done by accountants we showed you a while back? Well, we’ve got another awful Trek “training video” put together by frumpy people for you! This one was made by the staff of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and was actually filmed within the plant. Wait…what?

Oh, it gets worse. Apparently staff at San Onofre were too busy with Star Trek parodies to keep their plant from deteriorating into a clown show straight out of an episode of The Simpsons. In 2012 the plant was shut down for radiation leaks, employees have fallen into the coolant tanks and investigators found pipes “fixed” with tape, plastic sheets and broomsticks. Yeah.

Hit the jump for a Local Action News! report on the whole thing, with lots of footage from the spoof…

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“Oh God, it’s full of YouTube comments!”

We’re lucky to have a pretty swell bunch of commenters here at Uproxx. Hell, half the time you guys have funnier things to say about whatever I’m posting about than I do. Okay, let’s not go crazy — maybe a third of the time. You know what site doesn’t have a good commenting culture? YouTube. YouTube is your one stop shop for knuckle-dragging idiotic blather on pretty much any subject you can name.

A while back I posted a collection “YouTube Reacts” videos, featuring dramatic readings of dumbass YouTube comments, and the guys behind those earlier videos have just come out with a new one. Hit the jump for YouTube Reacts – Grant Theft Auto V…

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It’s been a while since seen or heard anything of Destiny, Bungie’s first big game since leaving Microsoft behind (which, shock of shocks, looks a lot like Halo). So far all we’ve been given is some concept art and lots of big talk about open worlds and Destiny being the “World of Warcraft of shooters”.

Well, today Bungie finally stopped holding back and has given us…a teaser trailer. Okay, well, it’s not gameplay footage, but it’s a pretty cool teaser trailer! Iron Man’s Jon Favreau directed it! And hey, we now know when we will get gameplay footage — June 10th. Mark your calendars.

Hit the jump for the teaser…

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Just when I think nothing new could possibly be done with the zombie genre Dying Light, a new game from the makers of Dead Island, pops up on the radar.

The game essentially looks to be Mirror’s Edge with zombies. You’re a very nimble survivor tasked with freerunning in first-person around a large open world on a search for supplies before it gets dark. Because zombies are more dangerous in the dark of course. Duh. From the look of things the game either won’t contain guns, or they’ll be quite rare, but the game is promising you can use pretty much anything as a melee weapon.

No trailer yet, but you can hit the jump for the screenshots…

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Star Trek is now a blockbuster action movie franchise. It just is. There’s no going back after the success of the bombastic Star Trek Into Darkness. Frequent explosions and gravity-defying action scenes are what the average viewer expects of the franchise now. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against action — action has always been a part of the Star Trek formula. Note I said a part of the formula.

But wait — would it be possible for future Trek movies to provide both big action and the more intelligent, character-driven stuff the series was once known for? Could both new and old school Trekkies walk out of a new Star Trek movie feeling totally satisfied? I think it could happen if the makers of the next movie look toward these 10 Trek episodes for inspiration…

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One of the unfortunate side effects of Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm was the cancellation of The Clone Wars cartoon series, which had been running on Cartoon Network in one form or another since 2003. Really, The Clone Wars was pretty much the best thing coming out under the Star Wars banner for nearly a decade, and it will be missed by a good chunk of fans.

But hey, did you really expect there wouldn’t be a new Star Wars cartoon series now that Disney owns the franchise? Come on. Hit the jump for information on the upcoming animated series, Star Wars Rebels…

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So, how about that Xbox One reveal, huh? I bet it was pretty exciting if you’re in the market for a new DVR — if you were hoping to play games on the Xbox One, well, hopefully something will be shown at E3. But hey, maybe I’m just being cynical. Sure, Microsoft only spent 10-minutes of their hour long presentation talking about games, but they were a pretty solid 10-minutes! There will be a game where you drive cars and, unlike the Wii U, Xbox One will actually be getting some sports games!

Also, they showed off the first trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts. Hit the jump to check it out…

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Holy crap guys! Less than a month until The Last of Us finally hits! Not feeling the hype yet? Jeez, my powers of persuasion must be failing me. Well, I bet you’ll be adequately excited after you check out a nice big chunk of very pretty in-game footage — a whopping 45-minutes worth of it to be exact.

Hit the jump to check it out (and beware sticklers, the footage contains minor spoilers)…

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