The greatest Star Trek movie that isn’t a Star Trek movie may be getting a series adaptation—and on the same streaming platform that airs Star Trek. Variety reports that a Galaxy Quest series is in early development at Paramount+, with Mark Johnson, who produced the original film, attached as executive producer.
This isn’t the first time the world has tried to make a Galaxy Quest series happen: In 2015, Paramount was working with the film’s director and co-writer to create a series version. And as recently as 2021, Simon Pegg and Georgia Pritchett were reportedly working on a television adaptation. Will this one be the one to actually make it? Who can say?
But no matter what happens with this latest attempt to mine a great movie for more content, the original Galaxy Quest is brilliant. Written by David Howard and Robert Gordon, and directed by Dean Parisot (Bill and Ted Face the Music), the film was a genuinely loving send-up of Star Trek, fandom, sci-fi cliches, and so much more. Its incredible cast included the late Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen, Veronica Mars’s dad (I mean, Enrico Colantoni), Sam Rockwell in an early and quotable role, Tony Shalhoub, and Robin Sachs (better known to Buffy fans as the dastardly Ethan Rayne).
Variety notes that the adaptation is in the “nascent stages,” so there’s very little to go on. Never give up hope, I guess?
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