Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning begins with Captain James B. Pirk of Those Star Ship Kickstart shipwrecked Around the 21stcentury Planet along with his crew. Originally Pirk and eventually became stranded and his team traveled back in time to rescue Earth from aliens, but lost his boat. Pirk's daily routine is made up mainly of stuffing his face at the regional fast food shop, and he is finding it hard to convince the ladies. Whilst the prospects for humankind's conquest of distance look increasingly bleaker, Pirk includes a questionable want to save humanity's future...