There are a couple of good lines in there, but they probably got in by accident when nobody was looking.Īlmost as inept are the special effects. The script is offensive to anyone who likes comedy. The man/woman is borderline offensive to gay people whilst the clones are offensive to women being only dumb blondes and the mad old scientist is offensive to old people. It's aimed at the most broad level of humour with the subtleometer set to zero. QUARK is a perfect example of this if this pilot episode is anything to go by. Science fiction comedy is extremely hard to do and almost impossible to do well. When an explosion sends a cloud of enzymes on their way to eat up the whole of civilisation, Quark's ship is the only thing between it and us. His crew consists of a woman and her clone (though he can't tell which is which), a mad scientist who is creating a robot that wants to marry part of the ship, a person who has all the male and female chromosomes and a gooey pet. QUARK is an aberration of nature and should be forgotten as soon as your scarred mind will allow.Īdam Quark is the captain of a spacegoing trash collector. The scripts are not funny, the acting is not funny and the special effects are beyond awful, certainly too bad to be funny. His companions are a first officer who flips from crass macho sterotype to crass female stereotype in the middle of a sentence, a science officer who is really a plant, a rubbish robot and a pair of twins whose only trick appears to be speaking in unison. It's anchored by Richard Benjamin, who is easily the best thing about it, but who wears a constantly bemused expression as if wondering how the hell he wandered into this mess. The idea of spoofing science fiction is a given and there are only a handful that get it right, but this is a spectacularly awful show. Only lasting eight episodes, it is eight episodes too many. It is the consideration of the SCI FI FREAK SITE that science fiction comedy is the most dangerous thing in the world and this show goes along way to proving our point. This doesn't stop him and his crew of misfits getting into serious trouble, though. It's a dangerous universe for space captains, but Adam Quark has it easier than most due to his job being the collecting of trash from spacestations and other ships. Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner QUARK Episode Guide and reviews on the SCI FI FREAK SITE
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