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"The End of the Journey"
Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues #4
IDW
Writer: Erik Burnham
Artist: Nacho Arranz
Cover by Nacho Arranz
April 2015 |
The
crew reaches the Drythan city of Kanwhey.
Story Summary
The
crew reaches the Drythan city of Kanwhey and must enter through
the alien sewers to get close to the control station for the
Ikaara beam.
Back on the Protector, Tommy is released from the
healing pod in the medical bay, to find that, besides healing
him, it rebuilt his body to perfection, giving him six-pack abs!
On Earth, the Drythans impersonating the missing actors at the
convention cause a bit more trouble for Guy.
Back on Dryth, the crew and Qint infiltrate the control station,
but Brandon gets tagged by a laser tripwire, allowing the Ikaara
beam satellite to lock onto his genetic structure and shoot him.
But he emerges from the aftermath relatively unscathed, finding
that the beam apparently is not capable of pulling apart humans
the way it does Drythans. Reaching the main control room for the
Ikaara beam, Brandon sets the built-in self-destruct and blows
the building up, while the Protector grabs them and all
nearby Drythans up by digitizer to prevent killing
anyone. The crew has repaid its debt to the Drythan rebels and
are able to return to Earth to resume their lives.
18 months later, Nesmith is visited
by representatives of the formerly-ruling Technocracy sect of
Dryth and they tell him they've decided to leave Dryth to the
rebel sect and settle a world of their own and they would like
to hire the Protector and its crew to find a suitable
world.
THE BEGINNING
Notes from the Galaxy Quest Chronology
This issue takes place immediately after the previous ("The Song of the Arbu")
and then has an epilogue taking place 18 months later.
On page 5, Alexander claims that his Lear made the queen weep. This
would be a reference to portraying King Lear in Shakespeare's play
of the same name.
Qint explains that to stop the Ikaara death ray that targets enemies
of the Technocracy in Kanwey, they must break into a guarded control
station and destroy the electronic brain of the targeting computer.
Nesmith sarcastically asks, "You sure we can't just shoot an exhaust
port or something?" The reference to shooting an exhaust port is to
the rebels' means of destroying the Death Star in Star Wars: A
New Hope.
The healing pod Tommy was placed into after his encounter with the
arbu in "The Song of the Arbu" is reminiscent of the bacta tank Luke
Skywalker was placed in after his encounter with the Wampa and extreme cold on
Hoth in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
Laliari refers to the healing pod as a "meditank" here.
On page 8, the Drythan impersonating Alexander pinches a nerve
cluster in the neck of an annoying fan, dropping him into
unconsciousness. This is borrowed from the Vulcan nerve pinch often
used by Spock in Star Trek, especially appropriate as Alexander's GQ
character of Dr. Lazarus is akin to Mr. Spock.
The dialog Alexander and Gwen use to distract the guards on page 12
is from the aforementioned King Lear.
On page 12, Alexander refers to Nesmith as Philistine.
"Philistine" has taken on a modern meaning of
someone who is uninformed or disrespectful of a particular area of
knowledge, in this case acting.
Inside the control station corridor, after Brandon sets off a laser
tripwire and gets shot by the Ikaara beam, he survives it and the whole
group continues down the corridor unimpeded. But shouldn't the others all trip
off the beams as well? There seems to be quite a number of them
crisscrossing the floor!
On page 19, Nesmith introduces himself to the Technocracy leader as
Commander Taggart. But
"The Journey Continues"
implies he is now a commodore in the context of his role on the new
TV series.
The issue ends with an epilogue set 18 months after the main story.
In it, representatives of the Technocracy sect of Dryth visit
Nesmith at his house and tell him they've decided to leave Dryth to
the rebel sect and settle a world of their own and they would like
to hire the Protector and its crew to find a suitable
world. Instead of ending with "The End", the story ends with "The
Beginning." Possibly, this meant IDW planned to publish another
Galaxy Quest mini-series, though another has not been
announced in the years since this series was published.
Unanswered Questions
Why can the Ikaara beam satellite not be shot by the Protector
in space and save a lot of trouble? Supposedly Qint has reasons they
can't do that, but it's never revealed!
In what year does this story take place?
Did Fred and Laliari ever have a baby together as they were trying
to do in the Global Warning
mini-series? It's not mentioned at all in the current series.
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