Would Galaxy Quest have been a good Trek movie?

[ClayHefner]

Don't you think it would have been brilliant?

Of course the fan ridiculing would have needed to be toned down a bit, but we would have gotten two Star Trek "canons" not messing with one another: One of the fictional crew and one of "Shatner and gang becoming space heroes 'IRL'".
Thre could have been a lot of very funny scenes. Of course GQ is awesome as it is, but imo this would have worked out great and opened new possibilities for the Star Trek franchise.

 

[Neroon]

I've had the long-running opinion that Galaxy Quest was aleady the best Trek movie ever.

That said, this would have required a lot of nerve on Paramount's part .... nerve that I don't think they have. They don't want to mess with the franchise, as it's a still decent source of income. Laying aside that aspect, I'm not sure if this idea would have worked as a Trek film or not. Trek - and by extension the fandom -tends to take itself seriously, almost too much so for an outright parody to get a foothold.

 

[DontFeedPhil]

I agree...I think it was already one of the Better trek Movies...

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Galaxy Quest wasn't a Trek movie????

 

[Search4]

GQ = perhaps the best trek movie ever. Seems like a reverse version of 'far beyond the stars'. Just brilliant.

 

[Praetor]

Agreed wholeheartedly. It was a great Trek movie if it was. If only it were the crew at the advanced age they were at the time, sans makeup and satiring themselves, but on board the original Enterprise, built by the Thermians to 60s specs. Awesome!

 

[Nebusj]

I've had the long-running opinion that Galaxy Quest was aleady the best Trek movie ever.

I'd figured Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World was the best Trek movie, but I could be talked into your point of view.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Don't you think it would have been brilliant?

Of course the fan ridiculing would have needed to be toned down a bit...

There's no reason it should be; if anything, GQ does tone down Trek fandom" quite a bit - and there'd be a lot less fun to a GQ movie that deemphasized the ridicule.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Don't you think it would have been brilliant?

Wasn't there a short story published in one of the Bantam anthologies that did have Shatner and company find themselves on a "real" starship Enterprise?

 

[Kelso]

Don't you think it would have been brilliant?

Wasn't there a short story published in one of the Bantam anthologies that did have Shatner and company find themselves on a "real" starship Enterprise?

That was Visit to a weird planet, revisited from one of the New Voyages anthologies. It was a companion piece to Visit to a weird planet (which I believe originated in a fanzine).

Someone else will probably come along with a more accurate summation.

Visit to a weird planet

Visit to a weird planet, revisited

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

^Thanks!

 

[Nerys Myk]

It'sa funny commentary on Star Trek and fandom, but I'm unsure of how it would work in the context of a straight Star Trek movie.

 

[darkshadow0001]

Wasn't Galaxy Quest based on Star Trek?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Wasn't Galaxy Quest based on Star Trek?

The TV show within the movie was patterned after Trek and the actors loosely based on the cast. (Leading Man hated by his co-stars. Actor sterotyped by the character he played)

 

[Morphi]

Leading Man hated by his co-stars.

...and a drunk

 

[ClayHefner]

I wonder who would be the best choice for a Trek version of Guy.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

GQ could've been a funny Trek movie. And it was.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I wonder who would be the best choice for a Trek version of Guy.

Any actor who played a redshirt that died in his only appearance.

 

[ClayHefner]

I wonder who would be the best choice for a Trek version of Guy.

Any actor who played a redshirt that died in his only appearance.

Was there maybe a dude who played several redshirts?
Like the King of Redshirts who can smell danger on alien planets instictively lol.

 

[Kryton]

I wonder who would be the best choice for a Trek version of Guy.

Any actor who played a redshirt that died in his only appearance.

Mallory!

Was there maybe a dude who played several redshirts?
Like the King of Redshirts who can smell danger on alien planets instictively lol.

I give you Redshirt Blues.