🧃 Bigly Malodorous Ego meets budget-shattering reality

🧁 Clarkcore Tribute

The reason I’m reviewing this today is pretty personal. Last summer (2024), my dad’s brother Clark—one of my favorite uncles— passed away. I’ve still not gotten over it. Every Thanksgiving, back when I lived in California, Uncle Clark would come down from Boston to be with us. We had this tradition: he and I would drive to Berkeley to pick up tons of pies. Thing about uncle Clark, he let me talk nonstop, and he actually paid attention. I really miss that. Wish I had taken more pictures of those days. That’s a regret.

One of his favorite breakfast places was this place in Berkeley called Lois The Pie Queen. That’s where got our Thanksgiving pie.

If you ever find urself in Berkeley California I highly recommend checking this place out, they have delicious breakfast and of course delicious pie.

So Uncle Clark—this one’s for you.

🎬 Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we?

🌌 What’s This Film About?

Galaxy Quest is basically a satire of Star Trek. Makes sense, right? We already have Spaceballs as a Star Wars satire.

Here’s the crew:

Jason (Tim Allen)

Sir Alexander Dane (Alan Rickman)

Fred Kwan (Tony Shalhoub)

Tommy Webber (Daryl Mitchell)

Gwen DeMarco (Sigourney Weaver)

Jason, the star of the show, is this egotistical douchebag actor. His co-stars are getting sick of him—especially Sir Alexander Dane, who clearly has zero patience for his behavior. Dane, the show’s “serious actor,” is kind of the Spock stand-in, and yeah, he’s over it.

One day, Jason overhears his castmates trashing him at a comic con, and the illusion shatters. He goes home, gets drunk… and then gets picked up by aliens. Wait, what?

🛸 The Thermians Are Real, and So Is the Drama

Enter the Thermians—the kind hearted aliens—led by Mathesar (Enrico Colantoni) and Laliari (Missi Pyle), who believe in the power of science. They saw the Galaxy Quest show and—get this—thought it was a documentary. They think Jason and his crew are actual space heroes and that he’s their only hope in a real interstellar conflict. Yup. Simple minded. Bordering on stupid. But lovable.

The Thermians ask Jason for help, believing he’s the fearless commander they watched on screen. They pull the crew onto their spaceship. At first, the actors think it’s just a gig with some die hard fans in costumes and agree to help launch what they thinks is a fake attack against the Fatu-Krey, led by General Roth’h’ar Sarris (Robin Sachs).

But then someone gets vaporized. 

And the alien doo doo hits the fan.

⚠️ Spoilers Ahead – You’ve Been Warned

That General Sarris? Ugly. Violent. The definition of “not here to play.”

Obviously there are deaths on both side.

There’s a moment that kind of broke me a little. When Dane finally sees a Thermian die—and the Thermian says Dane’s famous cheesy catchphrase back to him, thinking it’s noble and real…

“By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Warvan… you shall be avenged.”

And Dane—who’s hated that line for years—finally gets it.

It hits. Because in that moment, the joke isn’t a joke anymore.

🎟️ Oh—and that Comic Con ending?

While the crew crash-lands the ship and defeats the real alien threat, the nerds in the audience just think it’s all a super elaborate hologram show.

They cheer. They laugh. “Oh ha ha ha,” they say.

And the Galaxy Quest crew gets a standing ovation for literally saving the world.

🎯 Final Socre and Thoughts

10/10

What starts as a send-up turns into something that somehow feels real. Like, Galaxy Quest might be one of the only parodies that loves its genre enough to make fun of it and still make it matter.

Also: Alan Rickman is a gift. I miss him.

So is Tony Shalhoub -Love MONK!

So is Sam Rockwell.

And the scene where the teenage nerd at the convention realizes the ship is real—and uses his encyclopedic fan knowledge to save the crew? That might be the most 2000s sci-fi comedy moment of all time.

Would get beamed up again.