Galaxy Quest

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

Galaxy Quest landed in 1999 as a crowd-pleasing Star Trek parody that critics found disarming enough to work as a genuine comedy in its own right — not just a wink at Trekkies. The mild disagreement at the time was over depth: a few found it pleasantly lightweight where others saw sharper satirical teeth. Its reputation has only grown since, with retrospective voices placing it among the best sci-fi comedies ever made and fans routinely ranking it ahead of actual entries in the franchise it lovingly mocks.