The crew of the NSEA Protector returns for another mission, this time on Paramount Plus. A new galaxy quest series is in early talks at the streaming service, with one of the original film’s executive producers, Mark Johnson, attached to EP the new series. Not much is known yet about what the show might be about or when it might be released.
The original galaxy quest movie is a tell-tale tongue-in-cheek 1999 Star Trek spoof. It follows several cast members of a canceled space adventure show called “Galaxy Quest”, which happens to look exactly like the uniforms and vibe of Star Trekwho are unknowingly plucked from their lives of endless convention visits to help stop a real intergalactic conflict.
The original film starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, Tony Shalhoub and Enrico Colantoni, all of whom would return for a reboot series on Amazon Prime Video, in association with Paramount Television, in 2015. That project ran for a temporarily delayed a few months later, then hit another wall with Rickman’s death in 2016 and has been in limbo ever since. With this news of a new Paramount Plus series in the works, it seems unlikely Amazon’s version of the project will ever materialize.
There’s no official word yet on whether this new show will bring back members of the original cast. It’s also unclear if it will follow a similar plot to the movie, be a full-length sequel to the original movie, or even be a “real” version of the in-universe “Galaxy Quest” series.