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Quark is the commander of a garbage disposal spaceship for the United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol and reigns over a small crew consisting of two Betties (Patricia Barnstable, Cyb Barnstable), where one's the clone of the other, but nobody knows which one, a transmute, Gene/Jean (Tim Thomerson), who's male and female at the same time, or rather switches from one to the other with every other line, eminent scientist Dr. Mudd (Douglas Fowley), who's just not as clever as he ought to be, and horny robot Andy (Bobby Porter), who doesn't seem to have much of a function.

That all said, the rulers of the galaxy Palindrome (Conrad Janis) and Head (Alan Caillou) learn a giant enzyme cloud is heading for them, and the only one who can stop it is Quark, by blowing his own ship up - and it seems both Palindrome and Head would be rather happy to get rid of Quark and the cloud in one go. But before this can happen, Andy has emmitted the whole garbage load of the ship as he fell in love with the control panel, thus sending the enzyme cloud off into another direction after all the garbage, and thus not only saving the ship but also the galaxy in the process.

Now basically this is a very hit-or-miss sci-fi comedy, with only very few jokes hitting the mark while the humour's a weird mix of really childish sight gags and some definitely not childish sexual innuendo, with this pilot failing to really finding its tone. What's interesting though is that even though this one hits the typical 1970s space opera look, it was released roughly two and a half weeks before Star Wars hit the big screen and opened the floodgate for a whole plethora of space operas that Quark (the pilot at least) seems to spoof. Quark of course went into the series only after Star Wars in 1978 but wasn't blessed with too long of a screenlife.

An interesting side note, a line in this one about the "sacrifice of the few for the sake of the many" somehow anticipates a similar quote by Mr. Spock in 1982's Star Wars II: The Wrath of Khan by some 5 years.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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