"Galaxy Quest" TV show?

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Apparently the suits at Paramount are developing this.

What does this have to do with Star Trek? Everything.
And, in my opinion, none of it is good.

I liked Galaxy Quest.. it came out at a time when Trek could use a little roast. It was great little movie and a healthy satire of the franchise.

But we need Trek to return to TV, not a satire that will inadvertently devalue the 400 episodes already produced in the eyes of the public. This news makes me sick!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Apparently the suits at Paramount are developing this.

What does this have to do with Star Trek? Everything.
And, in my opinion, none of it is good.

I liked Galaxy Quest.. it came out at a time when Trek could use a little roast. It was great little movie and a healthy satire of the franchise.

But we need Trek to return to TV, not a satire that will inadvertently devalue the 400 episodes already produced in the eyes of the public. This news makes me sick!

You're kidding, right?

 

[Kemaiku]

Starquest is finally happening? or was that what they were originally going to call it back in the day.

Can't remember but this is pretty cool news, we'll see if it's happening and who they get for it.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

But we need Trek to return to TV, not a satire that will inadvertently devalue the 400 episodes already produced in the eyes of the public.

What TV studios need are successful programs; what TV audiences want are entertaining shows. This show will do nothing like devalue Star Trek. If it does anything in relation to Trek, it will enhance Trek's popularity and increase the likelihood that Trek will return to TV.

 

[Dukhat]

But we need Trek to return to TV, not a satire that will inadvertently devalue the 400 episodes already produced in the eyes of the public. This news makes me sick!

1. There are over 700 episodes of Star Trek in total, not 400.

2. A new Galaxy Quest TV show will devalue Star Trek: Enterprise any more than it's already devalued itself? Whoa is me!

3. What exactly is this "public" that you're referring to?

 

[Mudd]

But we need Trek to return to TV...

No, we don't.

Right now I'd rather have Galaxy Quest.

 

[BillJ]

Not sure a Galaxy Quest TV series (still haven't seen the movie) is something I'd watch, but I don't see how its existence would hurt Star Trek.

 

[urbandefault]

Color me cautiously giddy.

 

[uniderth]

They should have done this back in 1999. And they should have made it an in universe Galaxy Quest. It would be so fun to have watched the "original" Galaxy Quest TV show.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

My problem with it is this: It's really hard to make good Star Trek. Even having a huge budget.. or even a good idea doesn't mean you're going to get Star Trek right. It's easy, however, to make fun of Star Trek, and it's easy to it consistently. I think even those old episodes will be cast in a more negative light and new episodes or movies will have to escape the shadow of the satire in the eyes of the public. It's an awful idea all around for Paramount to squander what was once one of the crown jewels of the studio.

 

[HIjol]

Can hear the French Horns "singing" the "Galaxy Quest" theme music right now! But what I think would be more cool would be to bring back the original Questerians for a movie having to do with "where are they now?", after their original "Renaissance" in the first movie, and then put them in another predicament. A show within a show within a show, if you will. But not a TV series; a movie. See how it does, then maybe something more episodic. IMHO

 

[BillJ]

My problem with it is this: It's really hard to make good Star Trek. Even having a huge budget.. or even a good idea doesn't mean you're going to get Star Trek right. It's easy, however, to make fun of Star Trek, and it's easy to it consistently. I think even those old episodes will be cast in a more negative light and new episodes or movies will have to escape the shadow of the satire in the eyes of the public. It's an awful idea all around for Paramount to squander what was once one of the crown jewels of the studio.

Various entertainment has been making fun of Star Trek for as long as I've been alive. I don't see this as being anymore damaging to the brand as all those other pot shots its taken.

Star Trek was here long before Galaxy Quest and likely will be around long after its gone.

 

[Ithekro]

Would it be a "serious" parody? Taking the Galaxy Quest TV show as a show in a show, or as the show "as broadcast"? If the former, that it is a parody that makes fun of itself by knowing it is a TV show. If that later, than it is a TV show that might be a real setting, that might be funny, or might be serious.

 

[urbandefault]

Well, I like the idea of a Galaxy Quest series.

But for the naysayers, here's something you can print and stick on your car window.

 

[CorporalClegg]

My problem with it is this: It's really hard to make good Star Trek. Even having a huge budget.. or even a good idea doesn't mean you're going to get Star Trek right. It's easy, however, to make fun of Star Trek, and it's easy to it consistently. I think even those old episodes will be cast in a more negative light and new episodes or movies will have to escape the shadow of the satire in the eyes of the public. It's an awful idea all around for Paramount to squander what was once one of the crown jewels of the studio.

Bullshit.

 

[The Wormhole]

My only complaint about a Galaxy Quest TV series is that's it's likely to be similar to the TV series already in development based on John Scalzi's novel Redshirts, itself a rather obvious Trek parody with some equally obvious jabs at the franchise, and televised sci-fi in general.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

My problem with it is this: It's really hard to make good Star Trek. Even having a huge budget.. or even a good idea doesn't mean you're going to get Star Trek right. It's easy, however, to make fun of Star Trek, and it's easy to it consistently. I think even those old episodes will be cast in a more negative light and new episodes or movies will have to escape the shadow of the satire in the eyes of the public. It's an awful idea all around for Paramount to squander what was once one of the crown jewels of the studio.

Bullshit.

This is the internet, I'm glad I have a different opinion than everyone else.

 

[Mudd]

My problem with it is this: It's really hard to make good Star Trek. Even having a huge budget.. or even a good idea doesn't mean you're going to get Star Trek right. It's easy, however, to make fun of Star Trek, and it's easy to it consistently. I think even those old episodes will be cast in a more negative light and new episodes or movies will have to escape the shadow of the satire in the eyes of the public. It's an awful idea all around for Paramount to squander what was once one of the crown jewels of the studio.

Bullshit.

Elegant, succinct and Absolutely Right.

 

[fireproof78]

You know, Galaxy Quest is as much a story in of its own right, with its own world building, as it is a parody. There are implications, both big and small, that are presented by the film's events that could be explored.

Galaxy Quest: The Next Generation could be Jason Nesmith taking a young actor under his wing and introducing him to the wonders of the galaxy, while trying to balance the real life of work of continuing the show on.

There is potential here, but only if it gets treated as more than a parody by the studio.

I'm skeptical that it will be given such treatment though...

 

[FormerLurker]

Galaxy Quest as a series will only work if it's about Commander Taggart and his crew, not about the actors that played them in the eighties. At least IMO.