Galaxy Quest
If you’re going to simultaneously revere and skewer the cultural frenzy surrounding Star Trek, you need to walk a delicate line among many tropes. When director Dean Parisot tackled the previously mentioned device of Kirk getting with sexy alien ladies, he did so simply and brilliantly. By shifting the human-alien romance to a laconic Tony Shalhoub, who is not the captain, and an eccentric, affection-initiating Missy Pyle, whose tentacles betray typical conventions of human beauty, Parisot’s parody shifts into hyperspace.