History Trivia / GalaxyQuest

* ActorInspiredElement: The Thermians' odd speech pattern came from Enrico Colantoni's audition. It is actually used as a vocal warm-up exercise.

* EnforcedMethodActing: When the crew first arrives on the ship and Guy screams in terror, Creator/SigourneyWeaver nearly jumps out of her skin in shock. Apparently the director (purposely) didn't tell her that that was about to happen.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Alan Rickman took to disliking Tim Allen due to the latter's easygoing attitude and frequent joking during the filming, which clashed with Rickman's serious approach to acting. [[As their characters had a similar dynamic, Rickman used this to help his performance.]] Despite their differences, Rickman acknowledged Allen did good work when the cameras were rolling.

** Creator/TonyShaloub insisted that Kwan should always been shown eating to play towards the stoner stereotype.

* ActorSharedBackground: Alexander Dane's [[IAmNotSpock resentment]] of being {{Typecast}} following his famous television role reflects on his actor Creator/AlanRickman similarly trying to avoid typecasting as a villain following his StarMakingRole as Hans Gruber in ''Film/DieHard''. Also, both Dane and Rickman came from Shakespearian acting backgrounds.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Although Creator/AlanRickman hated sci-fi as a genre, he could not resist taking part in this film as he found the material very funny.

* FakeNationality: Parodied with Lebanese-American Creator/TonyShalhoub playing Chinese-named Fred Kwan/Sgt. Chen, a reference to Japanese-American George Takei playing totally not Japanese-named Sulu on ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', Englishman Patrick Stewart playing French Jean-Luc Picard on ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'', and Canadian James Doohan playing Scotty, a Scotsman.

* FollowTheLeader: The ''Galaxy Quest'' TV show, from which the film draws names and tech nomenclature, is a close copy of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' because the show's creator hoped to replicate the older series' syndication power.

** Creator/HaroldRamis was attached to the film as director at one point, and wanted to cast Creator/AlecBaldwin in the lead role, which he turned down. Creator/SteveMartin and Creator/KevinKline were considered, though Kline turned it down for family reasons. When Creator/TimAllen was cast, Ramis left the project. After seeing the film, Ramis said he was ultimately impressed with Allen's performance.

-->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 Creator/TimAllen had that Shatner-esque swagger down pat. And I roared when the shirt came off, and Sigourney rolls her eyes and says, "There goes that shirt again". ... How often did we hear that on the set? [Laughs]"

** MarsNeedsWomen: When Jason Nesmith and Gwen [=DeMarco=] are attempting to shut down the reactor, they are held up by two of Sarris' men. One of them is strangely attracted to Gwen, which disgusts the other one, who claims that he'd sooner mate with an animal. ("Yes... I know.") Gwen is disgusted by the first one's attraction — and pissed off at the second one's insult, so she makes the ship's computer squash them underneath a blast door. Taking the scene out means that Gwen's shirt suddenly comes unzipped with no explanation, which actually can kind of work as a joke in itself given her character on the show.

** MarsNeedsWomen: When Jason Nesmith and Gwen [=DeMarco=] are attempting to shut down the reactor, they are held up by two of Sarris' men. One of them is strangely attracted to Gwen, which disgusts the other one, who claims that he'd sooner mate with an animal. ("Yes... I know.") Gwen is disgusted by the first one's attraction — and pissed off at the second one's insult, so she makes the ship's computer squash them underneath a blast door.

-->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 unrecognisable. Certainly I don't know what Creator/TimAllen 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 Creator/NichelleNichols.

* DeletedScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4s5CfPD4Y Several]]. Following tropes ended up on the cutting room floor:

* WordOfGod: According to Creator/TonyShalhoub, his FantasticallyIndifferent performance as Fred Kwan was inspired by rumors of David Carradine being constantly stoned during the production of ''Series/KungFu''.

* ThrowItIn: The scene where Brandon rushes to throw out the trash was in the script but cut prior to production to save on time and cost. Then a very brief free moment opened up in the schedule and the decision was made to shoot it anyway and everyone rushed to to film the scene in two takes at the very last minute.

* FakeNationality: Parodied with Lebanese-American Creator/TonyShalhoub playing Chinese-named Fred Kwan/Sgt. Chen, a reference to Japanese-American George Takei playing totally not Japanese-named Sulu on ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', Englishman Patrick Stewart playing French Jean-Luc Picard on ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'', and Canadian James Doohan playing Scotty, [[CaptainObvious a Scotsman]].

* ActorSharedBackground: Alexander Dane's [[IAmNotSpock resentment]] of being {{Typecast}} following his famous television role reflects on his actor Creator/AlanRickman similarly trying to avoid typecasting as a villain following his BreakoutRole as Hans Gruber in ''Film/DieHard''. Also, both Dane and Rickman came from Shakespearian acting backgrounds.

** ReliablyUnreliableGuns: Guy has to watch over knocked out Saris but when the baddie awakes his gun jams and he curses himself with "Oh yep, knew that was gonna happen. BIG surprise!"

* The plot of ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' (such as it is) centers around this.

* ThrowItIn: The scene where Brandon rushes to throw out the trash was in the script but cut prior to production to save on time and cost. Then a very brief free moment opened up in the schedule and everyone rushed to to film the scene in two takes at the very last minute.

* ActorAllusion:
** Creator/TimAllen once again plays [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory a spaceman-- only this time, it's for real]].
** [[Creator/SigourneyWeaver Gwen]] gives an irritated [[Film/{{Alien}} "Why is it always ducts?"]]

* BasedOnATrueStory: A Franchise/StarTrek fanfic with a similar plot, Jean Lorrah and Willard F. Hunt's "[[http://members.optusnet.com.au/virgothomas/space/trek/weirdplanet.html Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited]]", was originally published in [[http://fanlore.org/wiki/Spockanalia the zine ''Spockanalia']]' ([[http://www.startrek.com/article/spockanalia-the-first-star-trek-fanzine more here]]) in 1967, and was reprinted in the 1970s in ''[[http://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_New_Voyages Star Trek: The New Voyages]]'', an anthology of fanfics edited by Sondra Marshak, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, and Myrna Culbreath. In the story, Creator/WilliamShatner, Creator/LeonardNimoy, and Creator/DeForestKelley are accidentally beamed to the '''actual''' ''U.S.S. Enterprise'' in a crisis with the Klingons. [[note]]This was a sequel to [[http://fanlore.org/wiki/Visit_to_a_Weird_Planet Ruth Berman's original story, "Visit to a Weird Planet"]], which had Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] beamed to the ''Star Trek'' set.[[/note]]
* CastingGag: Creator/SigourneyWeaver, ActionGirl from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' film series playing a BridgeBunny.

* EnforcedMethodActing: When the crew first arrives on the ship and Guy screams in terror, Sigourney Weaver nearly jumps out of her skin in shock. Apparently the director (purposely) didn't tell her that that was about to happen.

* GeniusBonus: Sarris has put some of the Thermians to work in the gallium arsenide mines. Gallium arsenide is the primary component required for the production of laser diodes.
* NamesTheSame: A very different Jason Nesmith is a singer-songwriter, and son of Music/TheMonkees' Creator/MichaelNesmith.

** Sigourney Weaver stated that her role was a parody of her iconic role as [[Film/{{Alien}} Ripley]]. Gwen was the opposite of the progressive sci-fi heroine, being a "dumb blonde".
** Alan Rickman, who normally plays dark, emotionless characters and often villains, playing a sarcastic, dissatisfied (though ultimately heroic) actor in a comedy.
* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Crewman Daniels]] is one of the Thermians who welcome the crew on board before realizing that they "forgot about [their] appearance generators".
** Perhaps unsurprisingly, [[Series/TheOffice Dwight]] is also a Thermian (he's one of the first to meet Taggart).
* SlashFic: The one somewhat unrealistic element in the convention scenes was the fangirls desperately hoping Taggart and Madison had or would have a "thing". A very few years after ''Star Trek'' went off the air, the majority of its fandom had vectored off in the direction of Kirk and ''Spock'' having a "thing". Of course, you couldn't show that in a 1999 film, so they went with Roddenberry's original idea of hinting that Kirk and Rand had a "thing".
* SpiritualAdaptation: ''Series/TheOrville'' has a similar aesthetic, tone, and rude sense of humor. The bad guys even looks suspiciously like Sarris and company.
* TruthInTelevision:
** According to George Takei, the line "There goes the shirt again" was actually said fairly often by the original ''StarTrek'' cast whenever William Shatner (who Tim Allen parodies) took ClothingDamage.
** Dragging mines in hope of running them into an enemy was once a real naval tactic, in the form of Torpedo Boats (Torpedoes were originally named for an electric ray which preferred to lay still and zap the sin right out of anything stupid enough to get close). Seeing as how this was both very difficult and very dangerous, later designs moved the torpedo to a spar on the [[RammingAlwaysWorks front of the boat]], and eventually someone got the bright idea to just put the boat's engine on the torpedo and [[AttackDrone let the thing sail itself]] into the enemy without the boat attached.

** Creator/HaroldRamis was attached to the film as director at one point, and wanted Creator/KevinKline or Creator/AlecBaldwin as Jason Nesmith. He left after Creator/TimAllen got cast.
** According to Sigourney Weaver, the film was originally rated R, and included a ''sex scene''. All of this was taken out to make it a more marketable family-comedy, but if you watch closely, you can see the over-dubbed swears.
* WordOfGod: According to Creator/TonyShalhoub, his FantasticallyIndifferent performance as Fred Kwan was inspired by rumors of David Carradine being constantly stoned during the production of Series/KungFu.

* WordOfGod: According to Creator/TonyShalhoub, his FantasticIndifference performance as Fred Kwan was inspired by rumors of David Carradine being constantly stoned during the production of Series/KungFu.

** Alan Rickman, who normally plays dark, emotionless characters and often villains, playing a sarcastic, dissatisfied actor in a comedy.

** [[Creator/SigourneyWeaver Gwen]] gives an irriated [[Film/{{Alien}} "Why is it always ducts?"]]

* ActorSharedBackground: Alexander Dane's [[IAmNotSpock resentment]] of being {{Typecast}} following his famous television role reflects on his actor Rickman similarly trying to avoid typecasting as a villain following his BreakoutRole as Hans Gruber in ''Film/DieHard''. Also, both Dane and Rickman came from Shakespearian acting backgrounds.

** Prior to release, this movie was met with disdain by Trek Alumns, who assumed that this was going to be a mean-spirited parody of the show that made them famous and the fans of that show who love them. This perception quickly changed as it became apparent on release that this was instead an AffectionateParody. Some expressed regret that they did not participate on the film in retrospect. Particularly WilWheaton who suggested he could have had a cameo where he insults Tommy Webber for his TeenGenius KidAppealCharacter.