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Galaxy Quest

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

Seen at the suggestion of several friends, this gentle spoof of Start Trek and Trekkie phenomena is fun. A fine cast Tim Allen as the Shatner-clone, all ego, no sense of how to share with his costars; Sigourney Weaver as the beautiful space voyager on the ship who never does anything more than look good and repeat what the computer says; Alan Rickman as the Spock-like advisor who is appalled by the collapse of his career. They are taken into space by aliens who have been monitoring the show as historical documents and think them real space explorers. The aliens bring the crew up to help defend them from an evil empire-builder. B+ and I both liked this one, but. . deep it ain’t

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