2001: A Space Travesty 2000

Marshal Richard “Dick” Dix is a sharp-witted special detective who plunges into action when a fast-food chain restaurant is seized in a terrorist hostage scenario. His daring rescue, while impressive, earns him the scorn of the city’s police chief, setting up a clash between unconventional bravado and bureaucratic procedure. He heads back to the police station, where his boss is talking with a police worker, Cassandra Menage. She recounts a baffling tale about the cloning of the President of the United States—an unnamed figure who becomes a central, shadowy thread running through the whole investigation.

Dix is then dispatched to the cloning facility, a Moon base known as Vegan. The journey is anything but smooth; he stirs up trouble along the way and finally arrives at the base, where he is met at the security checkpoint by Lt. Bradford Shitzu. Their destination is the heart of the mystery: the main suspect in the cloning operation, Dr. Griffin Pratt. As they move through the colony, Dix experiences a series of strange, almost surreal happenings that involve resident aliens who inhabit this peculiar outpost.

In the midst of one bizarre incident—an Alien on the brink of explosive trouble—Dix crosses paths with Capt. Valentino Di Pasquale, with whom he ends up sharing living quarters. Dix and Shitzu press on to Pratt’s quarters and engage the scientist in conversation. After Shitzu departs, Pratt offers Dix a guided tour of his cloning facility. Along the tour, Dix meets Dr. Uschi Künstler, and the elevator carries them toward an encounter with Cassandra Menage. Künstler unexpectedly withdraws from the scene, and Dix and Menage work their way toward a lively party where suspicions among the suspects begin to intensify.

Pratt and Menage dine together while Dix navigates a farcical moment—an escapade involving Pratt’s toupe—before retreating to his quarters with Valentino. In that private space, Dix reveals a vast array of disguises, hinting at the room’s playful yet unsettling potential. A phone call from Cassandra Menage alerts them that a raid on Pratt’s quarters is imminent. Dix proceeds to sabotage a Vegan model and covers the surroundings in paint, a chaotic act that culminates in a raucous moment when a radio begins blasting the cancan at full volume.

Pratt returns to his room only to find Dix has escaped. He then moves to his apartment and confronts Dix with threats, while Dix passes on the information to Menage. Soon after, Menage is abducted by Pratt’s goons, and Pratt pretends to help Dix locate the President and rescue his ally. The plot twists as Pratt’s henchmen trap Dix, Menage, and the vaunted President. In a swift turn of events, Menage unleashes her martial arts skills, enabling the rescue to break free and carry them back to Earth. The President they saved is revealed to have been swapped with a clone placed inside the White House, leaving Dix to grapple with the unsettling realization of his own involvement in the deception.

As the conspiracy unfolds, Dix discovers that his own boss is entangled with Pratt. The group—Dix, the President, Menage, Valentino, Shitzu, and Künstler—head to a concert featuring the famous Three Tenors, improvising their performance with Village People songs that add a surreal, carnival-like atmosphere to the chaos. The onstage confrontation between the Presidents erupts, and a moment of technical malfunction by Shitzu ruins the show in a flurry of distraction and disorder. In a dramatic reversal, Dr. Uschi Künstler is revealed to be an alien in disguise, and her double-cross ends when Menage defeats her. With Künstler neutralized, the President is replaced once again, and Menage and Dix step away from the spectacle to share a quieter, more human moment in a restaurant, signaling a tentative date and the possibility of an ordinary future amid extraordinary circumstances.