Movies - Galaxy Quest

Home > Listing Index > Movies > Galaxy Quest

	Movies - Galaxy Quest

Galaxy Quest is a 1999 motion picture written by Robert Gordon and David Howard and directed by Dean Parisot, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and Tony Shalhoub.

The movie is about the washed-up stars of a fictional 1978–1982 TV series called Galaxy Quest (a parody of the original Star Trek series). In Galaxy Quest, the actors were the crew of the NSEA Protector. They now find themselves in a real intergalactic adventure, thanks to some highly intelligent extraterrestrials (from "Thermia") who, having no concept of fiction or even falsehood, believe the show is a set of "historical documents." Not realizing that the show's technology was the product of special effects, the aliens sought to emulate it, managing to actually create the Protector exactly as shown on the show.

The movie won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in the year 2000, beating the four other nominees: Being John Malkovich
, The Iron Giant
, The Matrix
, and The Sixth Sense
.

Portions of the movie were filmed in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, USA.

The DVD release of the film included an alternate audio track in which dialogue from the film is overdubbed with alien gibberish.

Plot summary

Between 1978 and 1982, the adventures of the crew of the NSEA Protector thrilled audiences of Galaxy Quest, a Star Trek-like cult science-fiction television show. Unfortunately for the actors playing that crew, it's eighteen years later, and they're now washed-up has-beens, reduced to convention appearances and store grand-openings to pay the bills. Variously resentful, embittered and resigned about their fates, the only one who gains any sort of pleasure out of the adoration aimed at them by their doting fans is Jason Nesmith, the egomaniacal star and 'Commander' of the crew, who laps up their enthusiasm—yet even he is unhappy, deep down aware that he is resented by his other stars and largely considered a laughing stock by the wider population.

At one convention, Jason is approached about what he thinks is a personal solo appearance for an amateur episode by a group of even-more-unusual-than-usual fans; everything goes as expected (although for an amateur effort Jason is shocked by the high production values) until, having cursorily ordered the destruction of the video representation of the 'evil alien overlord' Sarris, he leaves—and when he finds himself shooting through the galaxy in a gelataneous transportation suit, only then does he realise that he really was in outer space. It transpires that the 'fans' are Thermians, a peaceful and naive alien race who, having received twenty-year old transmissions of Galaxy Quest from Earth, have interpreted the show as 'historical documents' and have structured their entire society around the 'teachings' of the show, going so far as to build an exact replica of the Protector.

Jason, naturally, loves the idea of being the hero to a real alien race, and ropes his reluctant fellow actors into joining him as his 'crew'. Unfortunately, just as the Protector is real, so are the dangers it must face—and Sarris, not just a special effect, is a terrifyingly real nemesis, an evil and ruthless warlord engaged in a genocidal war of annihilation with the Thermians. The actors, in order to help their alien friends, must therefore adopt their roles on the show for real...

Galaxy Quest and Star Trek

The movie parodied everything from the technology of Star Trek to the Star Trek fan conventions. The parody is mostly friendly (some Star Trek fans refer to it good-humoredly as "the best Star Trek movie ever made") and was widely appreciated by science fiction fans.

As an acknowledged homage to Star Trek, there are a variety of correspondences between the world of Galaxy Quest and the world of Star Trek. The television program within the film, Galaxy Quest, is set around the starship NSEA Protector, an instrument of the National Space Exploration Agency: thinly veiled replicas of the USS Enterprise and Starfleet, respectively.

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Galaxy Quest ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Galaxy Quest; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Movies - Galaxy Quest

Plot summary

Galaxy Quest and Star Trek

Searches on eBay

Related searches on eBay