I'd love to see someone do something like "Space Quest meets Wing Commander."
Wouldn't matter if its a cheaply done game or just a text game or even just a short story.
Imagine; Roger Wilco, grade-A janitor and part-time adventurer travelling about in the WC universe.
---- Name parodies ----
- Prince HalfWhak (he's half crazy >> Thrak-hath > hath-thrak > half-whack
- TCS Constipated (cause the toilets keep backing up, so teh crews on pills to keep them from going until they really really need to)
- Retros > Retro-Afros (their faith is based around the "afro" hair style?)
- Firrekans > Fire-we-cans ... the fire-obsessed bird species. Or Fired-me-mans ... the entire species is on unemployment (none of them can hold down a job). Or the Fried-chikens (they look like roast chickens. Or maybe they have a death-ritual of pulling out all their feathers and tossing themselves into a deep-fryer).
- Kilrathi > No-bathi ... these cats dont like water, so they never have a bath or shower. They also have no real sense of personal hygene, so the No'bathi armada is proceeded by a horrible stench. So bad is this stench that when a No'bathi ship jumps into a system the locals immediately know cause they can smell it (even if the No'bathi are hours away, inside sealed ships. Yes, despite the thousands of klicks of distance and teh fact that space is a void with no air (an therefore, like sound, it has no means to allow a smell to travel, the No'bathi can still be smelled). (okay, bad example, I wouldn't really use the No'bathi parody idea, but you can see how funny or stupid you can make stuff in Space Quest.)
---- You could have Roger doing all sorts of stuff like ----
- saying "polly want a cracker" to a Firrekan
- trying to scare off a Kilrathi by dressing up a dog (and probably failing to scare them. LOL, maybe it happens to him by accident, or he's at a costume party or something... but on the lighter side, the other humans get killed and he gets spared cause the cats think he's an alien)
- Roger observes Prince Thrakhath getting groomed with a hairdryer (akin to something that was written about a number of times in Larry Niven's Man-Kzin novels)
- Roger running into someone's quarters, and there's a female Kilrathi there (multiple possibilies... maybe she's in heat and it turns into one of those "funny death scenes" like him dying from too much mating. Or maybe she's "an unspoken-of younger sister of Thrakath, unspoken of cause she's developed a rare genetic condition that caused her to loose all her fur, and cause Roger said something nice to her to avoid angering her she's now ga-ga over him and moments later the Prince walks in and the narrator says something like "well you've really done it now Roger. You can either insult her, and be gutted/castrated, or you can stay alive by keeping her happy (leading to Roger being dragged down the aisle for a wedding, after which the pair of them get carted off to a mansion-like prison).
- Roger maybe getting into a Kilrathi fighter (escape bit of plot) and he's like upside-down in the cockpit, using his knees to steer (somehow dodging the cats in ways that make them comment that he's either "the best fighter pilot in the galaxy, or really really really lucky"), and he manages to fire off some new experimental shield-ignoring torpedo (killing the ship he just escaped from, possibly saving a Confed planet or carrier in the process (plot can have it as the only torp on the fighter or maybe there's a second torp for terrans to study or maybe he down's a second cat ship with it)
---- Roger Wilco in WC funny death bits ----
- "well, you've done it now. You've stopped an interspecies war by getting involved in an interspecies marriage. Unfortunately this means you didn't get married to Beatrice Wankmeister (as fortold in SQ4), which means you never fathered a son, which means your son didn't grow up and travel back in time (from SQ22 to SQ4) to save your sorry butt, which means you died." (or however that "undid a critical moment in your own timeline" bit goes in SQ4)
- (or if you chose "get castrated" instead of married) ... some brief joke gets made about Roger thinking that "castrated" meant something else, like maybe "cast-rated" ... this is followed by the Crown Prince tearring Roger's manhood off. Unfortunately for the Prince, you're a real bleeder, and the Prince slips in your blood (or an over-waxed floor if they parody the bit in WC5); but in the end you ended up a hero. As the Prince slips and slides about, he inadvertantly throws one of the ceremonial daggers he was holding, and it kills the Emperor. Moments later the Prince goes down (either resulting in his own death, or by irony, causng the Prince to self-castrate). OR if its set post WC3, instead of it being Prince Thrakhath it could be whatever Fleet Admiral or whatnot who was causing the problems.