One of the best Star Trek movies, 1999’s “Galaxy Quest,” is in early development as an Amazon series. No word on cast or story, but it seems that the original creative crew is onboard, which is a good sign. I doubt any of the major actors from the original would be gettable for a series, so I suppose they’ll all be recast.
Thing is, a Galaxy Quest follow-on, either a sequel to the movie or a reboot, could go in two wholly different directions:
- The story of actors from an old sci-fi series, abducted by aliens to run an actual spaceship
- The actual “Galaxy Quest” TV series.
I would be ok with either version, to be honest. And what might be neat… they could do *both.* Alternate episodes: one episode is set in, say, 2016 showing the washed-up actors out in space; the next episode could be a “vintage” 1985 (or whenever) episode of “Galaxy Quest,” complete with cardboard sets, cardboard acting and napkin-thin plotting and writing, with appropriately crappy special effects. Have, of course, the same actors playing both roles. Since it’s likely that the show would have to have the occasional callback to the original old crappy TV series, a lot of the sets and costumes and makeup and cheesy rubber-suit aliens and whatnot would have to be developed anyway. So might as well use ’em.
