History Trivia / GalaxyQuest

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/AlanRickman took to disliking Creator/TimAllen due to the latter's easygoing attitude and frequent joking during the filming, which clashed with Rickman's seriou-minded approach to acting. As their characters had a similar dynamic, Rickman used this to help fuel his performance. Despite their differences, Rickman acknowledged Allen did good work when the cameras were rolling.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/AlanRickman took to disliking Creator/TimAllen due to the latter's easygoing attitude and frequent joking during the filming, which clashed with Rickman's seriou-mindeds approach to acting. As their characters had a similar dynamic, Rickman used this to help fuel his performance. Despite their differences, Rickman acknowledged Allen did good work when the cameras were rolling.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/AlanRickman took to disliking Creator/TimAllen 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 fuel his performance. Despite their differences, Rickman acknowledged Allen did good work when the cameras were rolling.

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

* QuoteSource:
** ColdBloodedTorture

* DoingItForTheArt: The film pays incredible attention to the minute details of the franchise and fandom it's poking fun at. For example, in the opening credits of the revamped ''Galaxy Quest'' show seen at the very end of the movie, most of the cast get brand new, properly fitted, uniforms that are seen for all of three seconds each.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: There were much-hyped plans to continue the film's story with an Amazon series and, miraculously, the entire cast was willing to revisit their characters. Unfortunately, Creator/AlanRickman passed away due to cancer and the project was put on indefinite hold.

* 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 Creator/JamesDoohan playing Scotty, a Scotsman. Kwan isn't even his real name. He visibly squints for the camera in an attempt to make his eyes look Asian, which doesn't really help as Shalhoub's eyes naturally curve ''downwards''.
* FanNickname: ''[[StarTrekMovieCurse Star Trek 10]]''.
* 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. [[EnforcedMethodActing As their characters had a similar dynamic, Rickman used this to help fuel his performance.]] Despite their differences, Rickman acknowledged Allen did good work when the cameras were rolling.

-->I had originally not wanted to see ''Galaxy Quest'' because I heard that it was making fun of ''Star Trek'', and then Creator/JonathanFrakes 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.

-->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.

-->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. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 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.

-->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.

-->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]

* 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 Creator/JamesDoohan playing Scotty, a Scotsman.
** Kwan isn't even his real name. He visibly squints for the camera in an attempt to make his eyes look Asian, which doesn't really help as Shalhoub's eyes naturally curve ''downwards''.
* FanNickname: [[StarTrekMovieCurse Star Trek 10]].

* PermanentPlaceholder: Dr. Lazarus' {{catchphrase}} "By Grabthar's Hammer" was written as a temp line in the script when filming started, with Robert Gordon planning to find a less funny word than "Grabthar", but the line stuck as the production crew started using the line around their offices and printed t-shirts with the saying.

* ActorInspiredElement:

** {{Stripperiffic}}: In the film we see Gwen's uniform undergo ClothingDamage. In a [[http://youtu.be/9b4s5CfPD4Y?t=2m58s Deleted Scene]], she uses it to her [[InterspeciesRomance advantage]]. Funnily enough, removing this scene leads to Gwen's shirt suddenly being unzipped for no apparent reason, just like the character type she's mocking.
** BizarreAlienBiology: Alexander's room on the ''Protector'' contains a toilet designed for his character's biology: it looks like a confusing mess of tubes. The toilet also involves some spikes. The bed consists mostly of spikes that rise out of a block or hard, smooth material. Since bathrooms are one of the things the ShowWithinAShow never went into, the plumbing is ''probably'' standard for Thermians.

** 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/KevinKline was considered, though he turned it down for family reasons. Other candidates included Creator/MelGibson, Creator/SteveMartin, Creator/BillMurray, Creator/TimRobbins, Creator/RobinWilliams and Creator/BruceWillis. When Creator/TimAllen was cast, Ramis left the project. After seeing the film, Ramis said he was ultimately impressed with Allen's performance.

* LoopingLines: The "chompers" scene features Gwen seeing the completely nonsensical hallway full of banging metal blocks and exclaiming, "''Screw that!''"--except that from the movement of her mouth it's entirely clear that she originally said "fuck". Presumably the line was looped to keep the film to a PG rating. There are also a couple of other lines in the film that don't disguise the dub as well.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/RainnWilson of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' fame has a bit part early in the film as one of the Thermians in the limo.

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

* MrFixIt: The Thermians believe, because of the "historical documents," that Tech Sargent Chen can fix anything wrong. Since Fred Kwan is really a stoner, he constantly asks that Thermian engineer "and what does that mean?" Fortunately, the engineer thinks that Fred is doing a bit of spot training and gives the correct way to fix each problem. The Thermian engineer has one of these during this ParrotExposition.

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

* RealitySubtext: Alexander Dane's resentment of being typecast following his famous television role reflects on Creator/AlanRickman similarly trying to avoid typecasting as a villain. Also, both Dane and Rickman came from Shakespearian acting backgrounds.

** PlaceboEurekaMoment: A Thermian crew member has one of these while being tested by Tech Sergeant Chen doing a ParrotExposition.

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

* PermanantPlaceholder: Dr. Lazarus' {{catchphrase}} "By Grabthar's Hammer" was written as a temp line in the script when filming started, with Robert Gordon planning to find a less funny word than "Grabthar", but the line stuck as the production crew started using the line around their offices and printed t-shirts with the saying.

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