WILLIAM
SHATNER -
Excerpt from StarTrek.com
Chat 11/ 8/2001
Shatner:
I thought it was very funny, and I thought
the audience that they portrayed was totally real, but the actors that
they were pretending to be were totally unrecognizable. Certainly I
don't know what Tim Allen was doing. He seemed to be the head of a
group of actors and for the life of me I was trying to understand who
he was imitating. The only one I recognized was the girl playing
Nichelle Nichols.
GEORGE
TAKEI - from SciFi.com
interview
by Patric Lee
Takei:
I
think it's a chillingly realistic documentary [laughs]. The details in
it, I recognized every one of them. It is a powerful piece of
documentary filmmaking. And I do believe that when we get kidnapped by
aliens, it's going to be the genuine, true Star Trek fans who will
save the day. ... I was rolling in the aisles. And [star] Tim Allen
had that Shatner-esque swagger down pat. And I roared when the shirt
came off, and [co-star] Sigourney [Weaver] rolls her eyes and says,
'There goes that shirt again.' ...How often did we hear that on the
set? [Laughs.]
PATRICK
STEWART - Excerpt
from BBC
Online
interview
Stewart:
I had originally not
wanted to see [Galaxy Quest] because I heard that it was making fun of
Star Trek and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said ‘You must not
miss this movie! See it on a Saturday night in a full theatre.’ And
I did and of course I found it was brilliant. Brilliant.
No one laughed louder or longer in the
cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our
heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans
who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked
was absolutely wonderful. And it was both funny and also touching in
that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.
WILL
WHEATON - Excerpt from
WillWheaton.net
Wheaton:
So I didn't want to do cons, because it made me feel
like a loser, standing there, talking about what I did so many years
ago...then I saw "Galaxy Quest".
I *loved* "Galaxy Quest". I thought it was brilliant
satire, not only of Trek, but of fandom in general. The only thing I
wish they had done was cast me in it, and have me play a freaky fanboy
who keeps screaming at the actor who played "the kid" about
how awful it was that there was a kid on the spaceship. Alas.
When I saw "Galaxy Quest", I remembered how much fun I
used to have at conventions, and I missed it. I missed the interaction
with the fans. I missed the chance to tell stories about my life on
TNG...but mostly, I missed the sex. The hot, Klingon-forehead-wearing
fansex.
WHAT?! Just kidding. I just wanted to see if you were skimming or
not.
BRANNON
BRAGA - Excerpt from
The
Mothership by Jeff Bond and
Anthony C. Ferrante
Braga:
“I loved it!” Braga says. “I
laughed all the way through it--Tim Russ and I watched that movie and
we absolutely loved it. It was definitely making fun of STAR TREK and
science fiction shows and science fiction fans and people who make the
shows, it poked fun at the genre, but it did it very well. And I have
to think if you’re a STAR TREK fan you’d find it even funnier than
a normal person. And of course it made me a little depressed because
the things they were making fun of were things we take far too
seriously. I saw TREKKIES and I enjoyed that, but GALAXY QUEST I think
is the best parody that I’ve seen done of STAR TREK. It was
well-done.”
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