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Galaxy Quest
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Directed by	Dean Parisot
Produced by	Mark Johnson Charles Newirth
Written by	Screenplay: David Howard Robert Gordon Story: David Howard
Starring	Tim Allen Alan Rickman Sigourney Weaver Tony Shalhoub Sam Rockwell Daryl Mitchell Enrico Colantoni Robin Sachs Missi Pyle Justin Long
Music by	David Newman
Cinematography	Jerzy Zielinski
Editing by	Don Zimmerman
Distributed by	Dreamworks SKG
Release date(s)	December 25, 1999
Running time	102 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$45,000,000 (est.)
Gross revenue	$71,424,000 (U.S.)
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Galaxy Quest is a 1999 comedy film directed by Dean Parisot; starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell, Tony Shalhoub and Justin Long in his feature-film debut. The original music score was composed by David Newman.

The movie is about the washed-up stars of a fictional 1978–1982 TV series called Galaxy Quest (a parody of the television series Star Trek). On the show, the actors played the crew of a spaceship, the NSEA Protector.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast & characters 3 Galaxy Quest and Star Trek 3.1 References to Star Trek 4 Reaction quotes from Star Trek actors 5 Trivia 6 See also 7 External links 8 References

[edit] Plot

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Between 1978 and 1982, the science fiction television series Galaxy Quest was viewed by millions. Seventeen years later, the stars of the show have been reduced to convention appearances and store openings. Most of the cast is resentful, embittered, jealous, or resigned. Only Jason Nesmith, the egomaniacal star and crew "commander", enjoys the devoted fanbase. However, Jason overhears comments that make him realize that non-fans consider him a joke, and that his co-stars resent him.

At one convention Jason meets an eccentric group of people claiming to be extraterrestrial beings called Thermians, led by one Mathesar (Enrico Colantoni), who ask him to appear in what he assumes to be an amateur episode. Jason humors them, disbelieving that they are aliens. The Thermians transport him to their ship to negotiate with Sarris, a reptilian warlord engaged in a genocidal war against them. Sarris demands the "Omega 13”, a device used in the show's final episode, whereupon Jason orders the Thermians to fire upon Sarris. Believing his job to be done, he asks permission to return home, and is sent through space in a gelatinous transportation pod. Only then does he realize that his adventure was, in fact, very real. Excited about the prospect of becoming a bona fide space commander, Jason enlists the help of his fellow cast members.

The Thermians--a peaceful, naïve, cephalopod-like race who disguise themselves as humans by use of hologram-like devices--have brought the Galaxy Quest ship, the NSEA Protector, to life, having mistaken the TV show episodes for "historical documents". Their society, inspired by the values displayed by the characters, revolves around the "teachings" of the series. Before they realize what is happening, the cast members find themselves on the command deck in control of the ship. Because Sarris has survived Jason's earlier attack, they must confront him. Later the Protector is badly damaged when they traverse a magnetic minefield.

A new beryllium sphere is needed to repower the ship; in order to obtain it, the actors resume their television roles to capture such a sphere from a nearby planet while avoiding death at the hands of the savage, goblin-like natives. After retrieving the sphere, the crew find the ship overrun by Sarris and his soldiers. Jason tries to save his fellow actors by admitting that Galaxy Quest is a fiction, which must be explained to the Thermians as "deception". Sarris is amused, as his war was precipitated by the Thermians' resistance, which was based on the "teachings" of the TV program. To destroy the resistance he causes the Protector' power source to overload, lets all supplies of air escape the room where the Thermians are confined, and attempts to expel the actors into space. Using a ruse from an episode of the show, the actors escape, then embark on a mission to rescue the Thermians and destroy Sarris: Jason and fellow actor Gwen DeMarco move to stop the core from detonating; second-fiddle Alexander and the Thermian Quellek, a hero-worshipper of Alexander's TV character, attempt to save the rest of the Thermians; background figure Fred and his sidekick Guy Fleegman defeat Sarris' soldiers; and Tommy Webber, who had played the pilot in the TV series, reassumes his role by practicing piloting.

To deactivate the core, something neither he nor Gwen knows how to do, Jason contacts Brandon, a Galaxy Quest fanboy with whom he accidentally traded communicators at a convention. Brandon, excited by the reality of his beloved story, guides Jason and Gwen through the Protector's dangerous inner systems to the core's control center. En route, Brandon reveals that the Omega 13 may either destroy the universe or send the user back in time 13 seconds — enough time to change one mistake. Gwen and Jason are unable to cancel the detonations of the power center; however, because the 'real' Protector is an exact replica of its fictional model, the detonation is averted of its own accord.

Meanwhile, Alexander and Quellek rescue the Thermians from asphyxiation. Quellek is killed by one of Sarris' soldiers, whereupon the grieving Alexander reverently quotes his character's trademark oath of vengeance, a quote in which he had grown to loathe over the years, then attacks Quellek's killer.

After the crew save the Thermians and free the ship, they confront Sarris. Anticipating the fight, Jason orders Tommy to fly through the minefield, collecting mines behind the ship. The Protector flies toward Sarris' ship, then suddenly veers away, sending the mines into it. Sarris' ship is destroyed, but its commander survives.

As the crew return to the command deck to celebrate their victory, Sarris, disguised as Fred, enters and begins shooting the crew. Most are killed, but before Sarris can complete his triumph, Jason orders Mathesar to activate the Omega 13, which sends Jason back in time 13 seconds. Jason then attacks Sarris, stripping him of his gun. When Sarris reveals a knife, Mathesar knocks him unconscious.

The humans separate the command deck from the ship to make a forced landing on Earth. It crashes into a parking lot, through the side of a building, and onto the stage of a Galaxy Quest convention, where the actors are late for a fan appearance. The crew step onstage, facing their adoring fans; this time, Jason shares the stage with his crew. Sarris emerges behind them, whereupon Jason anticlimactically disintegrates him. The fans perceive this as an elaborate staged scene. Meanwhile, the Thermians return home to rebuild their civilization, leaving behind Laliari, one of their females, who stays in order to be with Fred, whom she loves.

Some time later, the crew star in a sequel to their series called Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues. Laliari and Guy, as well as the rest of the actors, assume prominent roles. The film ends with the opening credits of this new TV series.

[edit] Cast & characters

• Tim Allen as Jason Nesmith / Commander/Captain Peter Quincy Taggart (both titles are used): Played as an analogue of William Shatner / James T. Kirk. Taggart has a reputation for losing his shirt at the flimsiest excuse, rolling on the ground during combat, and making pithy speeches at the drop of a hat, while Nesmith is an egomaniac who regards himself as the core of Galaxy Quest, and tells fans to "get a life", parodying William Shatner's famous appearance on Saturday Night Live. The other cast members attitudes towards Nesmith are similar to the widely reported dislike of Shatner among certain of the Star Trek cast members.
• Alan Rickman as Sir Alexander Dane / Dr. Lazarus of Tev'Meck: A member of an alien species renowned for vast and prudent intellect; he is deeply intelligent and has psionic abilities. Additionally, he has a non-standard weapon and a pretentious catchphrase: "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!". In these regards, he parodies Spock's "Live long and prosper" catchphrase. Similarly, his surname is that of a person who came back from the dead (Lazarus), as did Spock. In reality, Sir Alexander Dane is a tired ex-RSC actor who resents his typecasting and despises his role, both as a second-in-command overshadowed by Jason's character and in reaction to his signature catchphrase. In this regard, he combines elements of Leonard Nimoy and a rather skewed portrayal of Patrick Stewart, who was also RSC, or possibly a reference to Sir Alec Guinness who reportedly made similar complaints to George Lucas about having to say "that stupid line". Lazarus' speeches often reflect a pseudo-religious bent, in the manner of Benjamin Sisko, Kira Nerys and Chakotay. Humorously, during the events of the film, Alexander Dane is never seen without his prosthetic skullcap, even during a scene when he is alone at home. Near the end of the film, his hair begins to stick through as the prosthesis becomes damaged.
• Sigourney Weaver as Gwen DeMarco / Lieutenant Tawny Madison: The Computer Officer of the Protector and performs communications duties. Her job consists largely of communicating with the ship's computer, which no other crewmember can do. She is a composite of a number of Star Trek women, most obviously Lt. Uhura, who also was a communications officer. Like them, she also wears a form-fitting uniform, which causes her some embarrassment as a result of people's attention to her bosom. In this respect, she parodies Deanna Troi who, according to actress Marina Sirtis, existed to make the show sexier, and Yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney), who graced the set of Star Trek's original series and was referred to in an early TV Guide review as a "Playboy Bunny-type waitress". In the semi-canonical promotional material for the film at least, Gwen sees herself as a trailblazer, and defends the importance of her admittedly "stupid job" — her pronouncements are similar to some of Nichelle Nichols'. The role is an in-joke for Sigourney Weaver, who became famous playing the super-tough heroine Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series, the first of which was filmed at the same time as the fictional Galaxy Quest TV series (1979). Whereas Ripley was either the sole survivor or the sole-survivor-but-one of the Alien's murderous rampages, thanks to her intelligence, courage, and physical strength, Weaver described her Galaxy Quest character as the "anti-Ripley" - a stereotypical, stupid, golden-haired woman who has a needless task.
• Tony Shalhoub as Fred Kwan / Tech Sergeant Chen: Chen is in charge of the engine room, and is the operator of the "digital conveyor" (like Trek's transporter). His name, Chen, is a common Chinese name, even though Shalhoub is a Lebanese American playing a Korean actor. This parodies the often muddled national identities of Star Trek: the name Noonien Soong has a puzzlingly Hindi/Chinese/Korean sound to it, though its owner is demonstrably none of the above, while Jean-Luc Picard's northern English accent is somewhat incongruous with his apparently French origins. The most likely inspiration for the character was the original Star Trek chief engineer, Montgomery Scott, who was played by a Canadian actor, James Doohan, with a regionally-muddled but arguably authentic Scottish accent. Kirk's continual (though never actually spoken) line "Beam me up, Scotty!" finds an echo in Jason Nesmith's desperate plea, "Digitize me, Fred!". Actor Fred Kwan treats most situations with unusual calm (with one exception), in contrast to Scotty's often frantic warnings of impending doom. His relaxed approach also recalls DeForest Kelley; even when he has been transported bodily through the vastness of space, he says only "That was a hell of a thing". Chen's ambiguous nationality may also be partly based on that of Lt. Hikaru Sulu^{[citation needed]}.
• Daryl Mitchell as Tommy Webber / Lieutenant Laredo: A parody of "Boy Wonder"-type characters, similar to Wesley Crusher or Will Robinson, though now an adult. Webber could also be considered a parody of the many child actors who were unable to sustain their popularity as adults. Corbin Bleu played Tommy as a 9-year old-child.
• Sam Rockwell as Guy Fleegman / Crewman Number 6: Guy begins the story as a "Questerian" (Trekkie) and small-time actor who lives with his mother. His claim to fame is his appearance in one episode of the series, as a redshirt who was killed by a lava monster before the first commercial. Although he is at first "just jazzed to be in the show", when Sarris attacks and the Protector is threatened, Guy becomes convinced that he, as a glorified extra, will be the first crewmate to die, and he spends most of the movie fretting about his impending demise. Perhaps by design, in one climactic scene, Fleegman is the only major character not killed. When the series is revived at the end of the movie, a much more self-confident Fleegman becomes part of the principal cast - as Security Chief "Roc" Ingersol. This character is an homage to Guy Vardaman, who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation. [1]
• Robin Sachs as General Roth'h'ar Sarris: The evil reptilian villain, bears the name of highbrow film critic Andrew Sarris[2]. Sarris seeks to steal the Omega 13 device from the Thermians. After the initial battle with Taggart, he, like General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, has an eyepatch bolted into his skull.
• Justin Long as Brandon: A devoted Galaxy Quest fan who is first brushed aside by Jason Nesmith, then called on for help. His encyclopedic knowledge of the show allows him to provide vital assistance to Nesmith and the crew. On the DVD cast menu, the actor is erroneously identified as "Brandon Long." He is strikingly similar to real life Star Trek fan, Gabriel Köerner, who became a minor celebrity due to his prominent profile in the 1997 documentary, Trekkies.
• Missi Pyle as Laliari, a Thermian woman with whom Fred falls in love. When the spaceships are forced to separate for the Protector to enter Earth's atmosphere, she decides to stay on Earth with Fred. This was the first time Pyle appeared in a full-length movie.
• Patrick Breen as Quellek: a Thermian male who is a devoted fan of Alexander's character "Doctor Lazarus". Quellek is a young Thermian who idolizes Lazarus and views him as a father figure, though they have not met until the central story of the film has begun. He seems to view Lazarus almost as a god; whether or not this is true, Quellek is wholly devoted to Lazarus/Alexander and so follows him without question or consideration of his own personal safety. Quellek is ultimately killed defending Alexander, who when seeing the youth's devotion ceases to despise his role and assumes it (being the last of the actors to do so), quoting Dr. Lazarus' catchphrase with determination to fulfill it. Quellek, hearing this with the emotions of one who has desired such an honor for a long duration of time but who has never believed himself worthy of it, dies content.

[edit] Galaxy Quest and Star Trek

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The movie parodied everything from the technology of Star Trek to the Star Trek fan conventions.

Because Galaxy Quest is an acknowledged homage to Star Trek, there are a variety of correspondences between the world of Galaxy Quest and the world of Star Trek. The television program within the film, Galaxy Quest, is set around the starship NSEA Protector, an instrument of the National Space Exploration Administration: thinly veiled replicas of the USS Enterprise and Starfleet (or the United Federation of Planets), respectively.

This homage even extended to the original marketing of the movie, including a promotional website (Travis Latke's Galaxy Quest Vaults) intentionally designed to look like a poorly constructed fan website, with "screen captures" and poor HTML coding.

[edit] References to Star Trek

• The NSEA Protector is based on Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, but in opposite structural form. Whereas the Enterprise has a curved (saucer) command section and two cylindrical warp nacelles, the Protector has a cylindrical command section and two curved engines. The Protector also has at least one shuttlecraft that looks similar to those of the Enterprise (and which has markings in the same typesetting as the Enterprise’s shuttlecraft in the Star Trek movies). The underside of the Protector also has several technical markings (a series of multi-colored rectangles, circles, etc.) that correspond to similar markings on the original 11-foot U.S.S. Enterprise model that was donated to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum after the original Star Trek series was cancelled.
• The NTE part of the Protector’s registration number (NTE-3120 as opposed to the Enterprise’s NCC-1701), ostensibly alludes to some sort of similar space federation, but in reality stands for "Not the Enterprise", according to visual effects co-supervisor Bill George in a 2000 interview with Cinefex magazine.^[1]
• The Protector leaving spacedock, grinding and denting its hull as it goes, is a mock tribute to the lengthy sequence in Star Trek: The Motion Picture where Admiral Kirk first sees the refitted Enterprise. This "tour shot" and slow departure from Spacedock was repeated numerous times in Star Trek, including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the episode "All Good Things..." in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the launching of the Enterprise-B in Star Trek Generations. It was also repeated in the episode "Broken Bow" in Star Trek: Enterprise, which aired several years after the release of Galaxy Quest. During the Enterprise pilot, as an apparent tribute to the parody, the ship's engineer scrapes the paint with a shuttle pod during the captain's inspection.
• Galaxy Quest parodies the Star Trek fan descriptive term war between "trekkie" and "trekker", in that Galaxy Quest fans are referred to by the (derogatory) term "Questies" and the more accepted term "Questarians".
• The Protector can separate into two parts, in the manner of the Enterprise-D’s saucer separation of Star Trek: The Next Generation in "Encounter at Farpoint".
• The Protector is assisted by a network of service ducts, similar to the Jefferies tubes. Weaver's character even complains about the prevalence of the use of the service ducts in the movie: "Ducts, why is it always ducts?"
• The VOX communicators used by the Protector crew flip open, as did the original Star Trek’s communicators. On Star Trek, they flipped up, whereas in Galaxy Quest they flipped down.
• Portable scanners are used on a mission that look very much like the tricorders used in the Star Trek original television series. However, because of the ludicrous amount of bleeping lights and "technological" markers, Alexander is left to wonder whether he is holding it upside down.
• The Protector’s matter-energy technology, the 'Digital Conveyor', is a standard science fiction teleporter, and so is necessarily similar to the Star Trek transporter. As the transporter's activating verb was "Energize", the digitizer is engaged with the command "Digitize", The digitizer's malfunction also echoes a frequent Star Trek plot device, first used in "The Enemy Within" and particularly including the scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, where Yeoman Rand beams up the new first officer and his body is turned inside out.
• The Thermians take the Galaxy Quest TV show as the basis for their entire society, as in the TOS episode, "A Piece of the Action," where aliens copy gangland Chicago after a book describing it is accidentally left behind, and the TNG episode "The Royale" where aliens construct a false reality based on a casino-themed novel for an astronaut whom they accidentally stranded on their planet.
• The Galaxy Quest relaunch TV series ("Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues") takes place "eighteen years after the original adventure"; Star Trek: The Next Generation was launched eighteen years after the original Star Trek series was cancelled.
• The Galaxy Quest score is dramatic and brassy, parodying Star Trek scores, notably the theme for The Next Generation. When the series was re-released, the score was upgraded to a more orchestral rendition, as in the case of "Trek" movies and later series Deep Space Nine and Voyager. Ironically, the Galaxy Quest theme is used in the Internet video series Star Trek: Hidden Frontier.
• Facing an enormous rock monster, Nesmith is advised to "fashion some sort of rudimentary lathe". This echoes a variety of incidents in Star Trek, particularly the original series episode "Arena") in which Kirk constructs a rudimentary (and unlikely) cannon from a bamboo shoot, by stuffing it with raw coal, sulfur, and sodium nitrate. This could also be seen as an allusion to Tim Allen's comedy series Home Improvement.
• At the Galaxy Quest convention, there is a shy girl who imagines a romance between Madison and Taggart, referring to the common phenomenon of shipping. Also at the conventions are numerous aliens and costumes that are inspired by Star Trek. For example, three mock-Klingons are visible in the bathroom when Taggart enters near the beginning of the film. Near the end of the film, a Galaxy Quest fan can clearly be seen giving the famous Vulcan "Live Long and Prosper" salute.
• Jason loses his shirt during battle with the rock monster. In Star Trek, Captain Kirk frequently lost his shirt during battle with aliens and/or rogue crewmen. Di Marco comments that Jason loses his shirt in the series for no apparent reason and that he has had romantic relations with "every slave girl and moon princess" ever featured on the show. Similarly, Di Marco accidentally gets her shirt unbuttoned, exposing her bra, parodying the unnecessary and flagrant use of sex appeal in action scenes in Star Trek.
• The plot echoes the real person fiction fan fiction stories: "Visit to a Weird Planet", or the inside story behind the antagonism of a certain network toward a certain segment of the population" by Jean Lorrah and Willard F. Hunt^[2] and "Visit to a Weird Planet, Revisited" by Ruth Berman.^[3] In both of these stories the plot device includes a misadventure of the Star Trek-series actors (Shatner, Nimoy, and Kelley) when they are inadvertently beamed into the real U.S.S. Enterprise — exchanging places with the 'real' Kirk, Spock, and McCoy who are simultaneously transported to the set of the Star Trek series.
• Nesmith's warming up to the Galaxy Quest fans and embracing their dedication to the show, as well as his aura of apology to the cast mirrors William Shatner's own change of attitude. He has commented in interviews that he has apologised frequently to his castmates for his egotism during the original run of Star Trek.
• Darryl Mitchel's character Laredo takes the controls of the Thermian's Protector and exclaims, "Hey — this thing — and this thingy — I remember I had it all worked out!", alluding to several instances of the Star Trek original series characters insisting on working particular controls in established ways that they decided upon to maintain consistency and Gene Roddenberry's famous "believability factor", all as described in Stephen E. Whitfield's book "The Making of Star Trek".
• The constant rolling of Taggart corresponds to the rolling of Kirk, starting with the first aired episode "The Man Trap", where Kirk rolls between rocks whilst searching for Crater. TV Tropes, the media convention cataloguing website, titles this the "Unnecessary Combat Roll." [3]
• When Taggart is told returning to Earth will involve entering a black hole, he asks the crew if anyone has a problem with this, and they all casually say they don't. This is a reference to the famously dubious science of Star Trek, where complex spatial and physical phenomena are simplified and misunderstood for the sake of plot.

[edit] Reaction quotes from Star Trek actors

• I had originally not wanted to see Galaxy Quest because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said ‘You must not miss this movie! See it on a Saturday night in a full theatre.’ And I did and of course I found it was brilliant. Brilliant. No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful. And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans. — Patrick Stewart^[4]
• I've had flashbacks of Galaxy Quest at the many conventions I've gone to since the movie came out. I thought it was an absolute laugh-a-minute. — Tim Russ^[5]
• I thought it was very funny, and I thought the audience that they portrayed was totally real, but the actors that they were pretending to be were totally unrecognizable. Certainly I don't know what Tim Allen was doing. He seemed to be the head of a group of actors and for the life of me I was trying to understand who he was imitating. The only one I recognized was the girl playing Nichelle Nichols. — William Shatner.^[6]
• Yes, I have seen Galaxy Quest and no, it's not really like that. — Casey Biggs,^[7] about the film's portrayal of the fandom.
• I loved Galaxy Quest. I thought it was brilliant satire, not only of Trek, but of fandom in general. The only thing I wish they had done was cast me in it, and have me play a freaky fanboy who keeps screaming at the actor who played "the kid" about how awful it was that there was a kid on the spaceship. Alas. — Wil Wheaton.^[8]
• I think it's a chillingly realistic documentary [laughs]. The details in it, I recognized every one of them. It is a powerful piece of documentary filmmaking. And I do believe that when we get kidnapped by aliens, it's going to be the genuine, true Star Trek fans who will save the day. ... I was rolling in the aisles. And [star] Tim Allen had that Shatner-esque swagger down pat. And I roared when the shirt came off, and [co-star] Sigourney [Weaver] rolls her eyes and says, 'There goes that shirt again.' ... How often did we hear that on the set? [Laughs.] - George Takei^[9]

[edit] Trivia

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• The film employed an unusual technique involving the use of multiple aspect ratios. Although the entire film was shot in anamorphic, in theaters the first 20 minutes were framed and presented in the standard 1.85:1 aspect ratio, with the remainder of the film in the 2.39:1 "scope" ratio. The change occurs when the dome opens over Jason Nesmith and he realizes that he really is in space. For the DVD, the film was presented in the 2.39:1 ratio throughout. This is not unlike the color change in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. The technique was also very like the effect employed in the 1983 Douglas Trumball film Brainstorm where the "virtual reality" sequences were photographed in Super Panavision 70 with a wide aspect ratio of 2.2:1, while the rest of the film was shot in standard 35 mm with an aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
• Usually, as in the case of Star Trek, when there is an explosion, the camera would tilt to one side and the actors would fall to the other, creating the visual effect of the set rolling and the actors reacting (an effect often called the Irwin Allen rock-and-roll by film buffs). However, the Protector bridge set was built on hydraulic rams (or 'gimbals'), so when an explosion supposedly occurred, the set would actually (and very suddenly) rock to one side, vibrate wildly and throw the actors out of their seats. According to interviews on the DVD release of the film, the effect was so real that it actually frightened (and injured) several of the main cast. Although not used in Star Trek series or movie productions at the time Galaxy Quest was made, the technique was finally employed for the tenth Trek movie, Star Trek Nemesis, though many reviews of that film still made reference (erroneously) to the supposedly 'fake' visual effect as it appeared onscreen.
• Directly after Guy Fleegman was yelling about the crew not being able to recite his last name, Tim Allen orders the crewmate, using his last name "Fleegman."
• Portions of the movie were filmed in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, USA.
• The Region 1 DVD release of the film included an alternate audio track in which dialogue from the film is overdubbed in the aliens' "Thermian" language.
• The Region 1 DVD release also contains an "Omega 13" selection on the main menu. When selected, the Omega 13 device is seen activating and the opening sequence to the main menu is rewound and then replayed.

[edit] See also

• Trekkies, a documentary film about Star Trek convention goers.
• Wormhole X-Treme!, a similar show-in-a-show parody of Stargate SG-1.

[edit] External links

• Galaxy Quest at the Internet Movie Database
• Galaxy Quest at Rotten Tomatoes
• Downloadable model of the NSEA Protector
• Early script
• Original galaxyquest.com (Travis Latke's Galaxy Quest Vaults) via the Wayback Machine
• The Questarian
• Dalton's Galaxy Quest Site
• Galaxy Quest trivia at the IMBD

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