included · Mechanical

Galaxy Quest

Dean Parisot · 102 minutes

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 Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe.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.

Comedy, Science Fiction, Adventure

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Limited time travel with a consequential outcome.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

The Omega 13 briefly reverses a fatal attack at the climax of the space adventure.

The Omega 13 device sends the user thirteen seconds into the past, allowing a fatal attack to be undone.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan29.6

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance2/10

high confidence

Quality consensus7.4/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 127.62 base × 23.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

21 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

4K UHD

Galaxy Quest 4K (1999)

Compare this edition’s specifications

Release date: Dec 03, 2024
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
Region / playback: 4K Blu-ray: Region free
Discs: 4K Ultra HD | Blu-ray Disc | Single disc (1 BD-66)

Galaxy Quest

What kind of time-travel story is this?

The scores

Research & sources

Releases & formats

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