# Can Paramount manage to get their shirt off? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2015, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262 "2015-04-22T05:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/1 "2015-04-22T05:47:26Z")
Rumor is Paramount Television [is sniffing around the idea of a _Galaxy Quest_ TV series](http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/04/paramount-reportedly-shopping-galaxy-quest-tv-series/). Does anyone think they could possibly make such a thing gorignak? The movie was excellent, but when it was done, it was a historical document. Where could they possibly go with it? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/2 "2015-04-22T06:59:06Z")
The problem I see is that Galaxy Quest was about a bunch of actors faking their way through being heroes. If it’s done as a series, it means they’ll be doing it every week. How long will it take before they’re actual heroes, not just fake heroes? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/3 "2015-04-22T08:54:38Z")
Okay, if it was about the show within the movie, I can see it as parody, possibly a live-action version of _Tripping the Rift_, with the occasional fourth-wall breaking, such as happened after every Roger Rabbit short. I watch too many cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/4 "2015-04-22T09:03:01Z")
For that matter, why not\* Galaxy Quest: The Animated Series\*? One problem I can see is that it was a joke in the movie that all the female character did was repeat what the ship’s computer said. If we actually _see_ that week to week, the bit will get old fast. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/5 "2015-04-22T09:14:33Z")
Should be about as good as “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.” ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/6 "2015-04-22T11:57:40Z")
If they do this, they should have Guy killed off every week with a new actor the next episode. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/7 "2015-04-22T12:46:47Z")
They can do it. They have to mix the earlier historic documents of the Galaxy Quest TOS with newer episodes following the contact with the alien species. It will just be a parody, pretty much a more comic version of Star Trek TOS. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/8 "2015-04-22T13:29:06Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > If they do this, they should have Guy killed off every week with a new actor the next episode. That’s probably just as well, because I don’t think they can afford to keep Sam Rockwell on the cast any more. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/9 "2015-04-22T14:49:01Z")
I don’t see doing this sort of series being possible with the original actors, just due to age. I’d expect a Next Generation setup, with maybe the others coming on for recurring roles occasionally. If they don’t go with the show in-universe, I could see it being a new crew for the show that gets taken up by aliens, like the old guys did. And so you have normal people trying to cope in a Star Trek setting on a continual basis. You’d have the humans unable to return home for a while. I think that would be more true to the movie than just making the in-universe show. And you still get all the parody. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/10 "2015-04-22T14:51:13Z")
[QUOTE=eschereal;18307042\*\*] Rumor is Paramount Television [is sniffing around the idea of a _Galaxy Quest_ TV series](http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/04/paramount-reportedly-shopping-galaxy-quest-tv-series/). \*\* Does anyone think they could possibly make such a thing gorignak? The movie was excellent, but when it was done, it was a historical document. Where could they possibly go with it? [/QUOTE] What’s their motivation? And will they get ILM to make a rudimentary lathe? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/11 "2015-04-22T16:02:57Z")
But the premise is inside out! ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/12 "2015-04-22T16:12:13Z")
Get Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman et al to sign on for a series? Ain’t gonna happen. They’ll all be recast. I’d like to see something like 30 Rock, a workplace comedy about the making of a cheesy sci-fi show, maybe with a scene or two from that week’s “episode” worked in. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/13 "2015-04-22T16:16:23Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Should be about as good as “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.” You take that back! Kolchak was _great_! ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/14 "2015-04-22T16:17:05Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > Get Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman et al to sign on for a series? Ain’t gonna happen. They’ll all be recast. > > I’d like to see something like 30 Rock, a workplace comedy about the making of a cheesy sci-fi show, maybe with a scene or two from that week’s “episode” worked in. Tim Allen is easily getable. Has his other show been cancelled yet? Weaver I could see doing it. She probably wants to do something else beside playing evil corporate bosses in genre movies (Cabin in the Woods, Chappie, etc). Rickman probably wouldn’t be into it. I like the idea of a 30 Rock style behind the scenes show but with the extra layer of the cast getting routinely kidnapped into space to deal with real sci-fi threats. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/15 "2015-04-22T16:24:34Z")
“I said take a lunch order, not a launch order!” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/16 "2015-04-22T16:26:35Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > You take that back! > Kolchak was _great_! I will not! Nyah-nyah! 😛 ::runs like hell, as if there was a cheesy looking monster on his tail:: ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/17 "2015-04-22T16:47:50Z")
You know…I could sort-of see it set up as a straight sf-show about the aliens doing their thing, where, every time they ran into a problem, they’d whip out their extensive “research library” of an incredibly cheesy 60s sci-fi show to tell them how to solve the weirdness-of-the-week. So you’d really only need the “young” versions of the humans, except for the guy from Monk, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/18 "2015-04-22T17:01:03Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > “I said take a lunch order, not a launch order!” Alas, [Bob Denver](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072499/) is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/19 "2015-04-22T17:09:15Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > I like the idea of a 30 Rock style behind the scenes show but with the extra layer of the cast getting routinely kidnapped into space to deal with real sci-fi threats. “Industrial Might and Logic”. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262/20 "2015-04-22T17:19:29Z")
By Grabthar’s Hammer - a show-within-a-show might be the best way to handle it. Production issues and backstage with some scenes from the show. They could explain the recasting by making “Galaxy Quest: the Next Generation” Brian [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-paramount-manage-to-get-their-shirt-off/718262.md?page=2)