# Jason Nesmith · Commander Taggart — the ego that becomes a hero

a carbon of the GQT (Galaxy Quest, 1999) film-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Jason Nesmith:GQT:82b4ce⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Tim Allen · the Shatner-esque lead — the ego that has to become real heroism

**who —** Jason Nesmith — the show's self-absorbed lead, who played Commander Peter Quincy Taggart and now milks the conventions; the Kirk/Shatner analog.
**what —** The arc of the whole film: a ham coasting on a catchphrase who, forced to actually command, becomes the hero he only ever played.
**where —** From the convention stage to the real bridge of the NSEA Protector.
**why —** Because the movie's central joke and its central heart is an actor having to mean it for once.
**how —** By being whisked aboard a real ship, blundering, and rising — leading the crew for real when it counts.

**the seal —** I said 'never give up, never surrender' a thousand times for a paycheck. Then I had to mean it, and it turned out I could.

> a catalogued personification of a character/element of Galaxy Quest (1999) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by the rights-holders (© DreamWorks Pictures).

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