Is a parody always mocking, or can a parody be loving and kind without becoming an homage?
Well, there‘s Galaxy Quest, which manages to be both a homage to and parody of Star Trek, and also loving and kind. (Well, mainly of ST, with some other sci fi classics allusions thrown in.) I think no one hating ST could have written that movie. Also, it managed to take what was already known about arguments among the TOS cast (i.e. mostly Shatner vs everyone else) and put a kind and redemptive spin on it.
While we‘re talking Trek, in-universe, on DS9 Our Man Bashir works both as a Bond parody and an homage - I‘m not joking when I repeat that it was a better use of the Bond formula than the Bond movies ata the time (this was the Brosnan era) were, imo of course. Of course, other Trek shows did homages and parodies, but more diluted - A Fistful of Datas picks Westerns in general, not one particular franchise or work, and Voyager‘s Holo episodes similarly used tropes but not a direct take on one particular work of art/franchise. But Our Man Bashir uses James Bond, and manages to do both a character comedy for two DS9 regulars (Bashir and Garak) and a Bond homage-plus-parody at the same time.
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Date: 2023-06-03 09:28 pm (UTC)Well, there‘s Galaxy Quest, which manages to be both a homage to and parody of Star Trek, and also loving and kind. (Well, mainly of ST, with some other sci fi classics allusions thrown in.) I think no one hating ST could have written that movie. Also, it managed to take what was already known about arguments among the TOS cast (i.e. mostly Shatner vs everyone else) and put a kind and redemptive spin on it.
While we‘re talking Trek, in-universe, on DS9 Our Man Bashir works both as a Bond parody and an homage - I‘m not joking when I repeat that it was a better use of the Bond formula than the Bond movies ata the time (this was the Brosnan era) were, imo of course. Of course, other Trek shows did homages and parodies, but more diluted - A Fistful of Datas picks Westerns in general, not one particular franchise or work, and Voyager‘s Holo episodes similarly used tropes but not a direct take on one particular work of art/franchise. But Our Man Bashir uses James Bond, and manages to do both a character comedy for two DS9 regulars (Bashir and Garak) and a Bond homage-plus-parody at the same time.