History Film / Moontrap

Col. Grant digs up the last unfired Saturn V launch vehicle and throws together an impromptu lunar mission. However, the aliens who built the artifact quickly capture him and trap him in a jail cell with a hot alien space babe. He eventually outsmarts the aliens, blows up their base, and saves the day.

* BoldlyComing: What else would a protegee of Captain Kirk do with a young alien babe who shows no ill effects after centuries as a HumanPopsicle?

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Grant tries speaking to the woman he finds on the Moonbase and realises how foolish it is, though they quickly learn to speak each others names. At the end of the movie Mera has been on Earth long enough to grasp English, though she still finds it confusing.

* AIIsACrapshoot: One of the theories as to what the Kaalium are is robots having [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned on the ones that built them.]]
* AlienInvasion: On seeing the Kaalium spaceship is packed with pods, Grant realises he's looking at an invasion force.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:After Ray is killed, the Kaalium salvage his body and build a SkeleBot9000 out of him. Grant gets a nasty shock on seeing his friend, face locked in a smiling rictus, staring through the window at him.]]
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Noting the templelike interior of the Moon base, Grant and Ray start speculating about what it's for--starting with religious ceremonies and ending with human sacrifice (given the skeletons they keep finding).

* ElevatorConference: When the Kaalium pod first activates it briefly shuts down the power. As Grant, Ray and the NASA officials are stuck in the elevator with Haskell, they use the chance to badger him into changing his mind about what he's going to recommend to the President.

* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:When Ray dies, Grant starts blaming him for dying and then ends up blaming himself, even telling Mera that he woke her up only to get her killed. She responds by having sex with him. Later we discover that Mera has her own SurvivorGuilt issues.]]

* GiveMeASword: Justified when Mera throws Ray his gun after it's knocked from his hand, because he's more familiar with it. Later when Grant is caught off guard [[spoiler:by the sudden appearance of Robot-Ray]] she just uses the gun herself.

* TheOnlyOne: After pitching the idea of going back to the Moon, Grant and Ray argue that since they already know the secret as to why, it makes sense for them to be the chosen astronauts. The President's advisor grumbles about it but they get their way.

* RagnarokProofing: Ray points out that Mera's spacesuit might not work given that it's thousands of years old, but Grant notes she doesn't seem concerned. Presumably it was preserved using the same stasis technology that preserved her.
* SchmuckBait: Grant and Ray find a base on the Moon which starts flashing a beacon light at them. They note the presence of skeletons and broken Kaalium pods outside, but have to go in anyway as it's what they're there to find. [[spoiler:However it's not a trap--there's a hot space babe inside that they were meant to make FirstContact with.]]

** Ray references the Honeymooners in a strip club.

* SpaceIsNoisy: Swings back and forth; when Ray and Jason are on the moon, their footsteps don't make noise, neither does the moon buggy or falling over, but the alien probe-bot things seem to make a few noises, as did Ray clapping. But that might just be the music. The guns sometimes make noise, and sometimes they don't.

->''"[[AC: We don't take shit from a Machine.]]"''

* KillerRobot: After everyone leaves the room, the alien pod that Grant brought back to Earth opens and starts building itself one out of lab equipment and body parts. More robots turn up on the Moon in various configurations from spiderbots to HumungousMecha.

* KillerRobot: After everyone leaves the room, the alien pod that Grant brought back to Earth opens and starts building itself one out of lab equipment and body parts.

* LightningGun: The Kaalium are packing these. Fortunately [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy lightning can't shoot straight]]--the {{Killer Robot}}s are move effective when they use blunt force.
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Grant and Mera are brought on board the Kaalium spacecraft and clamped to a wall in a room with their spacesuits neatly packed away in a storage unit for use when they escape.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Grant and Ray enter the Moonbase and, noting it's cavernous interior, start speculating about what it's for; starting with religious ceremonies and ending with human sacrifice, given the skeletons they keep finding.

* CoolCar: Moon buggy! As long as it has power, that is.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Grant tries speaking to the woman he finds on the Moonbase and realises how foolish it is, though they learn to speak each others names. At the end of the movie, Mera has been on Earth long enough to grasp English, though still finds it confusing.

* AIIsACrapshoot: One of the theorys as to what the Kaalium are is robots having [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned on the ones that built them.]]
* AncientAstronauts: They find one in earth orbit while looking for space junk. He's apparently 14,000 years old. and had been to the moon.
* BodyHorror: After [[spoiler:Ray]] dies, the Kaalium build a battle robot out of him. Also what happened to the aformetioned [[AncientAstronauts AncientAstronauts]] as Jason figures out before one comes in to do the same to them.
* CoolCar: Moon buggy!
* CoolStarship: They have an Apollo Lander.
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhovs]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Gun]]: Col. Grant destroys the self-assembled robot with a shotgun blast.
** Not entirely inappropriate, considering it's Walter Koenig firing that thing....
* EmbarrassingNickname: Jason 'Einstein' Grant and Ray 'The Penetrator' Tanner.
* HumanPopsicle: They find a woman in the moonbase in some kind of stasis pod.
* HumanSacrifice: One area of the Moonbase is theorized to be a temple for this. Probably due to the amount of skeletons around.
* KillerRobot: Alien probe thing (called a Kaalium) builds itself into one of these from lab equipment.
* LightningGun: The Kaalium are packing these.

* SpaceIsNoisy: Swings back and forth, when Ray and Jason are on the moon, their footsteps don't make noise, neither does the moonbuggy or falling over, but the alien probe-bot things seem to make a few noises, as did Ray clapping. But that might just be the music. The guns sometimes make noise, and sometimes they don't.
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* GeniusBonus: Col. Jason Grant is leader of the Argo Team. So.....JasonAndTheArgonauts?

* FamousLastWords: Repeating a phrase from earlier "We don't take no shit from machines".

1989 [[ScienceFiction SF]] movie starring Walter Koenig "of ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}''" (as stated on the movie's posters) and Creator/BruceCampbell.

While on a Space Shuttle mission, Colonel Jason Grant (Koenig) and Ray Tanner (Campbell) find an unidentified spacecraft in Earth orbit and, not being particularly GenreSavvy, investigate. It contains a strange alien artifact that they bring back to Earth, which quickly assembles a killer robot [[MacGyvering out of spare parts lying around]] and goes berserk, killing at least one lab tech before they can break it apart.

This film contains examples of the following tropes:

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash]] blasts into space with [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Ensign Chekov]]

1989 [[ScienceFiction SF]] movie starring Walter Koenig "of ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}''" (as stated on the movie's posters) and BruceCampbell.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[EvilDead Ash]] blasts into space with [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Ensign Chekov]]

** The Kaalium pods resemble those of another [[Film/{{Alien}} Alien menace]].

While on a Space Shuttle mission, Colonel Jason Grant (Koenig)and Ray Tanner (Campbell) find an unidentified spacecraft in Earth orbit and, not being particularly GenreSavvy, investigates. It contains a strange alien artifact that they bring back to Earth, which quickly assembles a killer robot [[MacGyvering out of spare parts lying around]] and goes berserk, killing at least one lab tech before they can break it apart.

* AncientAstronauts: They find one in earth orbit while looking for space junk. He's apparently 14,000 years old. and had been to the moon.]
* BodyHorror: After [[spoiler: Ray]] dies, the Kaalium build a battle robot out of him. Also what happened to the aformetioned [[AncientAstronauts AncientAstronauts]] as Jason figures out before one comes in to do the same to them.

* FamousLastWords: Repeating a phrase from earlier "We don't take no shit from machines."

* ShoutOut: Ray references the Honeymooners in a strip club.
** the Kaalium pods resemble those of another [[Film/{{Alien}} Alien menace]].

1989 [[ScienceFiction SF]] movie starring Walter Koenig "of StarTrek" (as stated on the movie's posters) and [[BruceCampbell Bruce Campbell]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[EvilDead Ash]] blasts into space with [[StarTrek Ensign Chekov]]