Few remember Buck Henry's sitcom, but those who know they have access to a very special cult TV. The series was set on trash in 2226, and the crew was tasked with sailing around the galaxy used waste. Captain Adam Quark (Richard Benjamin) specified his job and strives for greater things, but the constant turns of bad luck kept him stuck. "Quark" was a slap cheat that laminated scientific television in the same way as Henry's Get Smart deceived spy films.

In particular, "Quark" was sending "Star Trek" and regularly satirized specific stories and conspiracy points taken from single episodes "Star Trek". He also had fun with other era pops, including "2001: Space Odyssey" and space adventures with old times, such as "Flash Gordon". Recall that Star Trek was canceled in 1969, but became immensely popular in repetitions, becoming a well -known institution for pop culture until 1977. "Old Trek: The image of movement" was only two years away. It can only be theorized that the writers of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" named Their character Ferengi After the title of Quark.

The series of Buck Henry lasted only eight episodes, aired from February 24 to April 7, 1978, before being deleted from air waves and in Trivia's books. However, fans of science and the lovers of the vague, however, were looking for him and happily telling you that this is actually a good show. He even tried (with meager success) to include a gender-fluid character named Ein, or Jeanan (Tim Thomson), the series. It is a progressive notion, but it is not terribly acting. The character "turns" unexpectedly between male and female figures, ultra-macho one moment and gentle in the next. Gene/Jeanan rely on many gender stereotypes and a certain amount of queer panic.

Captain Quark worked for an organization similar to the federation called "United Galaxy", though it was more awkward and bureaucratic than anything on Star Trek. The head of the quark was half-evel Otto Palindrome (Conrad Isenis), who hated Quark's views. Palindrome, meanwhile, responded to Nasty, the Great Master's Great Master only ever called head (Alan Kiilu). Head is the main mind behind the petty tasks of the quark.

The quark's trash ship is Ein/Jeanan, as mentioned, as well as the first Spack -like officer, named Fikus (Richard Celtton). Ficus was a humanoid plant, a Vejeton, incapable of feelings that responded coldly to every scenario. He is not so fraudulent of "Old Trek Spack" (Leonard Nimoy) as a parallel version of the universe with the same character. The ship's pilots were a pair of attractive navigators called Betis (CYB and Patricia Barnstable). One was a clone of the other, but they seem to have lost a trace of one. Betis had been playing fond of feathers with feathers since the 1970s, wearing costumes and had an insatiable lust of Captain Quark. Quark, a professional, rejected his progress - Buck Henry certainly invested in how horny was born Born Borni when he did Star Trek. Fitu also had a crazy scientist on the ship in the form of Douglas V. Fuli), but only for the cockpit episode. There was also a neurotic robot named Andy (expressed by Bobby Porter).

"Quark" essentially had the same premise as the recent "Star Trek: Lower decks", a series set on the high-tech hipwar ship, which was always a task with the most boring, boring workplaces in the galaxy. Quark was set up in a super-advanced future of science, but the one who still needed truck drivers. Captain Quark was proof that even scientific utopias contained extraordinary, unidentified work.

As mentioned, Quark has raised several episodes directly from "Star Trek", only with a comical turnaround. The third episode of "Quark", called "the old and the beautiful" (March 3, 1978), is for the captain Quark to find a polluted piece of space that accelerates his aging two years every hour. This is the direct lift of the Old Trek episode "Deadly Years" (December 8, 1967), in which Kirk and other crew members of the enterprises conclude a virus that makes them older over several days.

The next episode, "Good, Poor and Ficus" (March 10, 1978), saw the trash of the quark's trash, entering a black hole that mysteriously pampered the crew in their good and malicious halves. Ficus, like a plant, had no wicked half, but KPC did, and the couple went into the fight. This episode is a clear respect for the "Star Trek" episode "The Enemy in In" (October 6, 1966), where Kirk is accidentally bifurcated by the company's transporters, separating his "good" and "evil" sides. It also lends from "Mirror, Mirror" (October 6, 1967), the famous episode in which Kirk and Co. Visit a parallel universe where everyone is wickedand the federation is a tyrannical conqueror.

In "Goodbye, Half -Mobos" (March 17, 1978), Quark and his team travel to a mystical planet in a deep space where fantasies are manifested. This is reminiscent of multiple episodes of "Star Trek" staring at "Shore Leave" (December 29, 1966), where the company encounters a planet reading their minds and manifesting their fantasies like Androids. The two stories, however, are reminiscent of Stanislav Lem's novel in 1961 "Solaris" (Adapted himself in two feature films), so this may be the case of both shows that draw inspiration from the same source. It's nothing to say about many other "Star Trek" references seasoned through "quark". The series is not available to follow nowhere, but resourceful scouts on the Internet can be able to find it. Fans of science should surely get a blow.