# Galaxy Quest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 1999, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936 "1999-12-30T20:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_North](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Peter\_North](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_North)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 1999, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/1 "1999-12-30T20:24:00Z")
Go see this movie! I laughed from start to finish(and Sigourney Weaver looks hot with blonde hair). ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 1999, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/2 "1999-12-30T20:29:00Z")
I do like Tim Allen and Sigourney does look hot in the commercials, but I am still not sure if I will like it or not. Tell more about it without spoiling it. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 1999, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/3 "1999-12-30T20:29:00Z")
A glowing endorsement from someone who took his nick from a porn actor! * * * She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again. ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 1999, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/4 "1999-12-30T20:30:00Z")
It seems to be a spoof on other Sci-Fi shows. Is it like the Naked Gun movies, Dumb and Dumber, Hot Shots? What would you compare it to? Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_North](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Peter\_North](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_North)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 1999, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/5 "1999-12-30T20:35:00Z")
I don’t want to give away too much, so [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0177789.](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0177789.) I like the nick, it’s funny… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_North](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Peter\_North](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_North)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 1999, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/6 "1999-12-30T20:36:00Z")
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0177789](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0177789) Sorry about that ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 1999, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/7 "1999-12-30T20:48:00Z")
I saw it last weekend. It’s a hoot and it’s been a long time since I laughed so loudly and so often. The concept you know – a bunch of has-been actors from an old SF TV show suspiciously like STAR TREK are thought to be the real thing by an alien race, and asked to help defend them against the enemy. It does help if you know a lot about STAR TREK (there are parodies of specific shows) and the actors involved, but you can get a kick out of it if you are familiar with the various cliches they send up. The concept isn’t new (the same plot was used in THE THREE AMIGOS), but the jokes make it a lot of fun. My favorite line (without giving anything away): “I _knew_ it!” I especially liked “the crewman who was killed in episode 71.” Go see it. You’ll have a lot of fun. * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 1999, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/8 "1999-12-30T22:35:00Z")
I want to see this movie very badly. All I’ve seen are commercials, and it looks great. Someone please tell me, though…is that _Alan Rickman_ I saw in the commercials, as an alien? If it is, I’ll go see the movie twice, even if it sucks. I love Alan Rickman. ---
**Author:** ![Chinaco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@Chinaco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chinaco)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 1999, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/9 "1999-12-31T00:52:00Z")
Haven’t seen it but I’ve read some amazing reviews: [http://post.messages.yahoo.com/?action=m&tid=hv1800021959f0&sid=22198844&mid=1](http://post.messages.yahoo.com/?action=m&tid=hv1800021959f0&sid=22198844&mid=1) gotta go see the movie, definitely. * * * “Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” - Oscar Wilde ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 1999, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/10 "1999-12-31T01:05:00Z")
Same as Chicano, haven’t seen it yet but really want to, based on the talk show clips, reviews, etc. It look likes a complete hoot. Okay, I have a lowbrow passion for grade B science fiction movies and TV. But this looks like an affectionate, witty extrapolation of aliens replicating the cheesy TV set space ships in all earnestness and the has-been cast reacting to it. Gimme a break. I’ll rent Rashamon again sometime later, okay? Veb ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 1999, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/11 "1999-12-31T02:59:00Z")
We’ve already seen it twice-once with Ed’s family, then with mine. Funny,funny,funny, especially if you go with a Star Trek fan who can explain some of the jokes to you. Of course the best line is… * * * “That was a hell of a thing.” ---
**Author:** ![melanietarrant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@melanietarrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melanietarrant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 1999, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/12 "1999-12-31T03:04:00Z")
i took the kids to see it, it really was a fun movie. i can’t imagine anyone winning an oscar, but we all had a blast * * * I’m pink therefore I’m Spam ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 1999, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/13 "1999-12-31T03:13:00Z")
Yes, that was Alan Rickman. He was great. Hell, even Tim Allen was great, and I don’t like Tim Allen. ## “By Grapthar’s hammer, this will be avenged!” “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/14 "2000-01-19T03:09:00Z")
I’m another _Galaxy Quest_ fan. But I’d only give it three stars instead of four because the plot held virtually no surprises. Didn’t you know ahead of time that the squabbling actors would learn to work together as a team? That their deception would be found out? That certain aliens would turn out to be different from what they appeared to be? And don’t you think it would’ve been better if they’d gotten into space and found out it was a LOT different from the show and would have to adapt? (In other words, the physics would’ve been real instead of fantastic.) My favorite part: Alan Rickman’s character thinks Tom Allen’s character is nuts, but Rickman’s guy is still wearing his alien makeup at home! Besides _The Three Amigos_, the film also reminded me of _The Last Starfighter._ TRIVIA NOTE: In the 70’s, someone, I wish I could remember who, wrote a _Star Trek_ short story entitled “Visit to a Strange Planet” (Probably thinking of Gore Vidal’s play _Visit to a Small Planet_.) wherein Kirk, Spock amd McCoy accidentally get transported to 1960’s Earth where everyone thinks they’re actors from a Sci-Fi TV show… Years later, a sequel of sorts appeared, _A Strange Planet Re-Visited_, wherein William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley get accidentally transported to a parallel universe where everyone thinks they’re officers on the starship _Enterprise_… * * * \>\< DARWIN \> \_\_ **L\_\_\_L** ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/15 "2000-01-19T03:37:00Z")
This movie was excellent!!! I give it 9 on a scale of 1 -10. On the way out I wanted to turn around and go back in and see it again. I don’t like Tim Allen much, but he was very good in his role, all the actors were good. If you don’t laugh out loud at some point in the movie, there is no hope for you. ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/16 "2000-01-19T05:37:00Z")
This was a great movie. Don’t miss it. Jab, I think it was written to be predictable. It was a spoof, after all. Just like Loaded Weapon and Hot Shots - I thought they were really predicatable too. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/17 "2000-01-19T05:52:00Z")
This movie was great. Really, really great. It was one of the few movies I’ve ever seen get applause from the audience at the end. * * * Mayor of [Snerdville](http://fathom.org/snerdville), the home of Mortimer Snerd “I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.” –Wayne Knight ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/18 "2000-01-20T08:50:00Z")
a very well made film… really funny, lots of little things that are great and will really make you laugh dialogue is classic too ! go see it if you like scifi, or love a good comedy, you wont be disappointed… “it’s real!! i knew it!!!” 🙂 * * * Chief’s Domain - [http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi](http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi) ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/19 "2000-01-21T06:08:00Z")
while it is predictable, it was also done with much more care and attention to details than I would have expected. The aliens were great! All available thumbs up! * * * I am a redhead, you see, and I do not tempt. I insist. -Cristi ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936/20 "2000-01-21T06:46:00Z")
I got a few good laughs out of it, and I can’t stand Tim Allen. If you like Star Trek, you will like this movie. What I thought was funny was how the characters had problems separating their reality from the plot of the TV show in which they had acted. e.g. Guy, aka Crewman # 6 (Sam Rockwell) is persuaded he will die because the unnamed crew member is always the first to go. When they meet hostile aliens, Gwen (Sigourney Weaver) says “be quiet or else they’ll kill Guy!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-quest/12936.md?page=2)