In the scene when the Protector is leaving the space station, we see that the port is built into a sliver of the Thermians' shattered home planet. The 'top' of the sliver sports a thin blue layer of atmosphere, with ocean and vegetation visible on the surface. Needless to say, I think any force great enough to smash a planet into chunks like that would probably evaporate the oceans and kill anything living there.

But I can forgive this movie, because I love it dearly. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

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On of my favotie movies of all time. I love the Engineer guy. He was definitely the funniest and most comical.

(Paraphrasing)
Guy: "Don't go out there! It's a alien planet, do you know if there is air out there?"
[Holds Breath]

Engineer: [steps outside] "Sniff..Snifff...Seems o.k."

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Yah Irony, i agree. What i am wondering is how they were even let to build the Protector and the spaceport. You'd think that the uber-General that the bad guy was supposed to be would of seen the ship being built and destroyed it. Go figure.

One thing that bugged me was the minefield. The minefield was a very week one. Tens, maybe hundreds of mines hit the Protector and all it did was destroy the power core and one engine. Sucky minefield.

One more gripe. When the aliens watched the "Historical Documents" What did they think commercials, opening credits, and closing credits were? They never discussed this.


added: As you can tell i really suck at remembering names. While i do own the movie, i am just too lazy to bring it out right now. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]


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I love "Galaxy Quest" and have watched it way too many times, and I'm usually too busy laughing to analyze. Love the scene where they pull the spaceship out of the "garage", scraping the hull along the way (yeah, it makes a scraping sound in space.)

I like the way it satarizes star trek, while at the same time setting itself apart a little, so that (I would think) even if you had never heard of star trek (mind if I have a look at your rock collection, mr. caveman?) it would still be entertaining.

I also get the feeling that the makers of it had alot more ideas than they were able to use. I say this movie deserves a sequel like the coworker who stole my lunch deserves a butt-kicking! who's with me?

Galaxy Quest II: Wrath of Con

Galaxy Quest Episode -2: The Profiteer Strikes Back

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441!!!! :)

Well, INSIDE the spaceship you would hear the scraping sound.

That bugged me a little. The engine nacelles stuck way out on either side of the ship, yet when the ship scraped against the inside of the dock, it was the bridge section (which was a tiny thing wrapped safely around the ship's centerline) that did the scraping, while the engine nacelles were untouched.

You have to remember in space that just because the nose is pointed one way doesn't mean the entire ship will automatically go that way. The nose looked like it was drifting over while the rest of the ship proceeded out. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Neat trivia about the film: http://www.questarian.com/Databank/gq-trivia.htm

My favorite part would have to be this:

124 INT. DIGITAL CONVEYER ROOM 124

Fred and Guy are now in the digital Conveyor room. Very quiet
compared to the mayhem in the bowels of the ship... Guy looks
down at the panel with great anticipation, then up at Fred with a
nervous smile. Fred gingerly takes hold of the digital conveyor
controls.

GUY
This should be Interesting...

ON THE digital CONVEYOR DISPLAY: We see crosshairs target an
object... The vague outline is that of a man, but blocky,
misshapen. We recognize it as THE ROCK MONSTER. Fred SMILES.

125 SHIP ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ROOM

DOZENS OF SARRIS' MEN continue to surround the oxygen valve when
suddenly THE ROCK MONSTER materializes right in the middle of the
room behind them. They turn, looking up at it Sarris' stunned
men CLICKS his transmitter button... The monster DESCENDS in an
instant...

126 DIGITAL CONVEYOR ROOM

Fred and Guy watch the mayhem on the a monitor, contemplative.

FRED
It's the simple things In life you treasure.


-Colt

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On the idea of a sequel? Absolutely! How about this...
Galaxy Quest: The Next Generation
With ...

• a bald captain
• a really irritating genius kid,
• a semi-violent alien that's one of the crew
• the Ship's Female Lawyer (who is half-psychic so knows when to take court action)...
• The ship's intelligent android Byte

In this one, the Thermians are invited back to Earth by the cast of the original Galaxy Quest, in the hopes of another real mission. Why? Because they've been replaced on TV with an entirely new cast, and need new purpose in life. A new danger does inspire the Thermians to enlist them, until they reveal that they are actually more interested in the new cast.

The sequel ends with the Original cast on the convention circuit once again... Roll End Titles.

[After some thought}:
I do want the original cast back, so am imagining the "Next Gen" characters to be foils for the 1st cast.

So maybe the next cast winds up on the convention circuit....

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actually, I was talking about beating up the coworker who stole my lunch...

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Speaking of "lunch", what was in that brown paper bag that mysteriously appered in what's-his-name's hands while they were rolling the Beryllium Sphere across the landscape?

Actually, I was going to acknowledge that with a tongue in cheek comment.

There'd be nothing stopping us from dealing with that in a scene in the movie.

The engineer seemed to have some kind of food at hand in just about every scene. He was eating one of those little cheese and cracker kits out of that same bag during the flight down to that planet. I was tickled that the gag kept running (with the bag) throughout the ensuing chase scene with the nasty little aliens.