Hostile Trekkies?
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MaximumMadness — 13 years ago(December 26, 2012 05:27 PM)
I don't know a single person who dislikes
Galaxy Quest
. And, in fact, the Trekkies I know tend to be the people who are most vocal about
loving
the film. Your friend is the first Trekkie I've ever heard of who dislikes it.
And FURTHERMORE, this is my signature! SERIOUSLY! Did you think I was still talking about my point? -
Keelai — 13 years ago(December 26, 2012 09:04 PM)
I recommended this movie to a fellow Trekkie who then went ballistic. She said she would never watch this movie because it was making fun of Trekkies. She changed her mind and finally watched it a few months later and raved about how great the movie was. Of course, I couldn't resist saying "I told you so."
Another Trekkie friend just found out about this movie and asked me if I saw it and is it any good. Huge thumbs up from me so I guess "Galaxy Quest" is about to soon have another fan. -
klaatoo999 — 13 years ago(December 30, 2012 07:25 AM)
I'm a Trek fan and I like Galaxy Quest. It's a great parody of Star Trek. I didn't find it insulting at all. I think what's really insulting is J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot, which in many ways is a mockery of Star Trek.
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Captain_Augustus_McCrae — 13 years ago(December 30, 2012 04:21 PM)
an open-minded, observant person can learn more about Star Trek by watching Galaxy Quest than by watching any of the TV documentaries narrated by William Shatner.
"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
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HALs_eyeball — 13 years ago(December 31, 2012 05:26 AM)
A bunch of hyper-active absurdly good-looking actors take over the new Protector and try to defend the galaxy from an alien threat. It could be the Millennium Bug. They fail and are saved by Quincy Taggart (still played by Tim Allen) who has fallen through time from 1999.
No, that doesn't sound ridiculous enough!
Instant optimism with NASA Further Up Yonder: -
scribe1270 — 13 years ago(February 08, 2013 11:43 PM)
I grew up watching Star Trek in the 70's and have seen all of the spin off series and movies and I don't see anything wrong in a spoof of a well loved T.V. show. It's by knowing the show that you are best able to understand the jokes that are presented in the movie. Like how Guy is afraid he's going to be killed because he's the expendable one, or how Dr. Lazarus is holding his scanner (i.e.tricorder) upside down so when he's walking in one direction what he's scanning for is actually in the other direction. They actually had a guest star on one episode of TNG who held the tricorder upside down in one scene. She's seeing revenge against the crystaline entity for the death of her son and is scanning for evidence of it's recent presence on a planet.
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decroissance — 12 years ago(April 11, 2013 04:57 PM)
To my fellow Questarians: I love all these replies. Galaxy Quest is just a great movie.
After reading all these, I have to think that maybe she just didn't see GQ. And like someone said, she assumed it would make fun of Star Trek. Sometimes I see her aroundI'll ask her if I see her again!
I bet she hated the JJ Abrams movie. I liked it okay but not a ton.