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Wow, fascinating. So a couple of guys who did a lot of dubbing work sort of created this gonzo style and got away with applying it willy nilly. I mean I get it. Sometimes you have to get weird to keep yourself awake at work. The Wikipedia article mentions further down that one of the editors they worked with “suspected a joke.” :D
The German dubbing of TOS was an embarrassment. For some baffling reason, they treated it like a comedy rather than the sci-fi classic it is. Spock was cracking jokes, plotlines were butchered - things didn’t make sense.
The comedic tone was a product of the era’s dubbing trends in Germany and a creative choice by the dubbing team, in a try to make the show more appealing to the German audience.Further reading: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/adventures-in-german-star-trek.275740/
The Guys and Dolls crossover that is inevitable.
