Galaxy Quest - Planlessly through space

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Movie
German title Galaxy Quest - Planlessly through space
Original title Galaxy Quest
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Dean Parisot
script David Howard
Robert Gordon
production Mark Johnson
Charles Newirth
music David Newman
camera Jerzy Zieliński
cut Don Zimmerman
occupation
synchronization

Galaxy Quest is an American feature film from 1999 . It's a parody of Star Trek , the Trekkies, and several other science fiction films . The film opened in German cinemas on April 13, 2000.

action

Summary

The main characters of a science fiction television series are visited by aliens disguised as human beings who request an urgent interview because they believed the aired series of space adventures to be a documentation of real events. When the actor of the commander responds to the request of the strangely uniformed, supposed fans and finds himself in the midst of a warlike conflict within their space, he considers everything to be a backdrop game until the way he is returned to earth suddenly convinces him of the opposite.

After the "Commander" had his colleagues who were initially skeptical to catch up, they wanted to help the Thermians defend themselves against the threat posed by reptilians and were given a spaceship that was recreated for them in great detail after the television series. The leader of the aggressors demands the surrender of a mysterious on-board weapon, the function of which is not clear to the Thermians and the actors themselves. The latter soon realized the deadly seriousness of the situation. On their joint escape with the spaceship, the ship is damaged and the actors experience a series of adventures with its particularly exotic life forms while obtaining a new reactor equipment on a foreign planet.

Then they find their ship occupied by the reptilians. After a few liberation actions, the situation comes to a head, and at the last moment the situation can be saved by trying out the mysterious on-board weapon. After saying goodbye to the Thermians, they fly their way and the actors feel that they have grown together into a real team on earth.

Course of action

The popular and successful television series Galaxy Quest ran in the early 1980s . 17 years after it was abruptly ended, the five main actors only appear at fan meetings ( conventions ) and at store openings. Except for one, they are angry, bitter, jealous or resigned. Only Jason Nesmith, the selfish star and commander of the crew, enjoys his affluence and fan base worship.

At a convention in the usual costume, Nesmith is approached by four eccentric, uniformed people who claim to be one of the extraterrestrial "Thermians", led by Mathesar. They ask him to come with them on a matter of paramount importance, assuming it is an amateur project. Nesmith makes fun of her by pretending he takes her seriously. Shortly afterwards, he overhears some people at the convention making fun of him; he was just ridiculous. Deeply hit, he leaves the event and gets drunk. The next morning the Thermians come back in a limousine of his choice . On the way he falls asleep, badly hungover, and therefore does not notice the car rising vertically after a short stop. The Thermians turn out to be real aliens. On their space base, he is to negotiate with General Sarris, the warlord of a reptilian species who wages war against them.

Sarris demands the handover of Omega 13 , a device that was mentioned in the last episode of Galaxy Quest but was not used. Jason, who has not yet realized that he is not on a movie set, cheerfully orders the Thermians to fire at Sarris, assuming everything was just a pretense. Believing that he has done enough with it, he wants to go home and is transported from an "interstellar pod" in a gelatin-like, transparent cocoon through space to earth in front of his house at faster than light speed. Only now does Nesmith realize that he had a real encounter with aliens and enthusiastically tells his fellow actors about it so that they can help the Thermians with him. Since he accidentally exchanged the real communication device that the Thermians gave him for a fake fan, the others don't believe him, but come along with him and the Thermians because they believe they will get a paid performance. Guy, presenter of the convention and short-term supporting actor (" Redshirt ") of the series, joins them. The Thermians have returned to Nesmith with a request to continue negotiations with Sarris. Now all crew members experience a cocoon flight through space, to a spaceport on the remnant of a destroyed planet in "23. Quadrants of the Gamma Sector ”.

As it turns out, the Thermians are a sophisticated, peaceful, naive, octopus-like species whose society has been in disarray over the course of several million years. But they were then able to receive the television broadcasts of the earth and interpreted the Galaxy Quest episodes as "historical documents", since they had no idea of ​​fiction, theater or "pretense". Due to their study of the team's successes in the series, they began to model their society on the model of the series, turning the invented technologies into reality and rebuilding the spaceship of the series ( NSEA Protector ). They use "appearance generators" to people in order to look like people themselves.

In the spaceport, the team is presented with the Protector 2 and, by scraping along the dock, gets it going. During a subsequent meal together - with live Kep-mok blood ticks for Alexander Dane, who is playing an extraterrestrial crew member - a film is shown showing the torture of the former Thermian commander by Sarris. Only now does the earthly actors suddenly realize the deadly seriousness of the conflict, and they have to live up to their television roles in order to survive. Sarris, who survived the attack by Nesmith, attacks the Protector early on, thereby blocking its pods . The escape with the spaceship into a supposed cloud, which is a "Dojanic minefield from the Great War 12-1-85", leads to damage to the ship's reactor, which functions by means of a beryllium ball. Since there is no replacement beryllium ball on board, the actors fly to a nearby planet where useful beryllium has been located. When they roll the waist-high ball they need from a dormant mining operation to their lander, they are pursued by the goblin-like locals and, due to the hurry and confinement of the ferry, have to leave Nesmith in the hands of their pursuers.

After they struck Nesmith, who was lying on the ground, with a stone on the head, he regained consciousness when a pig-like but toothy animal licks his face on two legs. Surrounded by the locals, he faces the fight against the “pig dinosaur” while the audience chants “Gorignak!” From a safe distance. Fred is urged by the crew to rescue Nesmith with the help of the never-tested digital transporter . Fearing that he could injure Nesmith, Fred decides to try to “digitize” the “pig dinosaur” on board, but it arrives inside out and explodes shortly afterwards. Even though the animal is gone, the locals are still shouting in unison. When the ship's universal translator is switched on, it becomes clear that “Gorignak” is not a name, just means “rock”. Shortly afterwards, a very large, humanoid monster suddenly comes together from some of the rocks lying around and attacks Nesmith. When the monster is about to crush him, Fred manages at the last second to teleport the commander and beam it back unharmed .

Back on the ship, Nesmith suggests that they all fly home to their families. Mathesar then tells him that he and his people are the last of their kind. The next moment, Sarris' mercenaries, who have captured the ship, storm the room. Sarris learns his true identity from Nesmith and forces him to confess the fictional nature of Galaxy Quest to Mathesar. He then orders the reactor core to be “wired” so that it implodes , and the oxygen in the crew rooms to be released into space. People should also be "released" into space. With a ruse from the series, Nesmith and Dane fake a fight in front of the airlock and take their guards by surprise. The liberated split into three groups for further actions. Tommy, the pilot actor, is supposed to practice "driving".

Since the automatic emergency shutdown of the reactor core is inoperative and to manually switch off the reactor overload countdown - which Nesmith and Gwen lack the knowledge to do - Nesmith communicates with Brandon, a teenage fan of the Galaxy Quest series, whose fake communicator he accidentally at the last fan meeting exchanged for his real interstellar transmitter. Brandon, visibly excited that the series is real, as he has always suspected it, directs Nesmith and Gwen through the sometimes dangerous internal systems of the Protector to the central control center after he has networked his computer with those of his friends. When asked by Nesmith, Brandon explains that, according to fan speculation , the Omega 13 is either a matter collapse that destroys the entire universe in 13 seconds, or, as he suspects, a matter organizer that takes the user 13 seconds back in time; enough time to correct a mistake.

In the meantime, Alexander Dane and the Thermian Quellek want to force open the door to the crew, but are only successful when Quellek reminds Dane of an old ritual of his species. Fred has the idea of ​​teleporting the rock monster from the planet to the circle of some mercenaries; the monster runs into an outer wall of the Protector in pursuit of the fleeing mercenaries and floats with them into space. A remaining mercenary shoots Quellek. Nesmith and Gwen arrive at the control center and flip the switch to manually shut down the neutron reactor. However, the countdown continues and only stops a second before the implosion - as is common in the series. When Sarris learns of the shutdown on his ship, he orders the Protector to be destroyed immediately. Thereupon the actors flee with the Protector and the Thermians into the mine field, but then they turn back on course for Sarris' ship and destroy it with the help of the mines they sent, through Tommy's study of his role in the old episodes, with their magnetic field like a train behind the Protector .

As the actors celebrate their victory, Mathesar is amused by Nesmith's one-time admission that the original Protector is only a very small model, and now thinks it's a funny ruse . Nesmith prepares him for the humans to say goodbye and gives him command, but the Thermian Laliari stays with Fred. On the common flight to earth, after the passage of a black hole , Sarris enters the control room in a generated appearance as Fred and shoots one person after the other. Shortly before its triumph, Nesmith orders Mathesar to activate the Omega 13 and triggers it, whereupon it takes you thirteen seconds into the past like a time machine . There, to the horror of the others, he attacks the wrong Fred and snatches his weapon from him. When Sarris then pulls a knife in his true form, Mathesar knocks him out with his walking aid, which he has to use after being tortured by Sarris. The people separate from the Thermians and uncouple the lower deck in order to be able to complete the high-speed journey on earth with an emergency landing of the command deck due to the defective brake.

Guided by Brandon and his friends, who shoot fireworks as a landing marker, the spaceship thunders over a parking lot, breaks through the wall of a building and stops in the middle of the convention, where the actors have been expected for some time. They step out onto the stage one by one and see the fans adoring and cheering. Suddenly Sarris appears too, but Nesmith discovers and disintegrates him with a Thermian blaster pistol. The fans consider everything to be an effective show and cheer again. Now Jason Nesmith and the other crew members appear on stage as a team, unlike in the past, and they hold each other in each other's arms. Then the opening credits of a new television series appear at the end of the film: After 18 years, the show is back as Galaxy Quest - The New Adventures .

synchronization

The synchronization was produced by Berliner Synchron, based on a dialogue book and dialogue direction by Tobias Meister.

role actor speaker
Jason Nesmith / Cmdr. Quincy Taggart Tim Allen Martin Keßler
Alexander Dane / Dr. Lazarus Alan Rickman Lothar Blumhagen
Fred Kwan / Tech Sgt. Chen Tony Shalhoub Stefan Gossler
Gwen DeMarco / Lt. Madison Sigourney Weaver Karin Buchholz
Guy Flanigan / Sec. Off. 'Roc' Ingersol Sam Rockwell David Nathan
Sarris Robin Sachs Bert Franzke
Mathesar Enrico Colantoni Tobias Master
Tommy Weber / Laredo Daryl Mitchell Oliver Rohrbeck
Laliari / Jane Doe Missi Pyle Carola Ewert
Kyle Jeremy Howard John-Alexander Döring
Brandon Justin Long Vanya Gerick
Katelyn Kaitlin Cullum Kathrin Neusser
Lathe Wayne Pére Tilo Schmitz
Sourcek Patrick Breen Stefan Krause
Teb Jed Rees Gerald Schaale
Tommy at 9 years old Corbin Bleu Hannes Maurer

production

The film's locations included Goblin Valley State Park in Utah and the Stahl House in Los Angeles .

The music parodies the theme song from the Star Trek original series. There are also musical hints of the Space Odyssey theme The Foraging .

The film grossed more than $ 90 million worldwide at a cost of $ 45 million.

Originally, Harold Ramis was to be the director and Kevin Kline to star.

Allusions to well-known science fiction

  • The aliens introduce themselves as "Thermians from the Klaatu-Nebula", an allusion to the name of the main character in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still .
  • The omega 13 or its possible destructive power should be an allusion to the omega molecule in the Star Trek universe.

Planned continuation

In 2015 the online portal Amazon Prime Video planned a sequel to the film as a series. All of the main actors had already signed contracts. However, the sudden death of Alan Rickman in January 2016 put an end to the project.

criticism

"Enjoyable satire that satirizes the clichés and conventions of the genre and at the same time makes them the principle of its own dramaturgy."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards (excerpt)

The film was nominated for nine Saturn Awards in 2000; Tim Allen won one of them for Best Actor. The film also received the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gorignak. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Galaxy Quest - Planlessly through space. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Locations of the film on imdb.com
  4. ↑ Costs and box office results of the film on boxofficemojo.com
  5. ↑ www.mtv.com: 'Galaxy Quest': The Oral History . Retrieved July 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ Omega molecule. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Engage - The Official Star Trek Podcast: Episode 11 - Galaxy Quest Director Dean Parisot , July 27, 2016. ( Memento from September 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Galaxy Quest - Without a plan through space. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 27, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used