History Film / GalaxyQuest

* DoorJam: Jason is left behind on the mining planet because the beryllium sphere takes up all the space. Subverted when he gets transported out during his HopelessBossFight with the RockMonster.

* IntroductoryOpeningCredits: The öast scene which shows the intro sequence of the new ''Galaxy Quest'' season with each character and their name.

* BeamMeUpScotty: {{Parodied}}. At the signing event, a fan comes to Alexander Dane for an autograph and recites his character’s {{Catchphrase}}... and gets the catchphrase wrong. ("By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Warvan, I shall avenge you," instead of "By Grabthar’s hammer, you shall be avenged.")

** Between Jason and Gwen on stage in the final moments of the movie. For one female fan this is too much and she [[{{Fainting}} faints]].

** The communicators that Brandon and Jason switch early on.

-->'''Brandon:''' No time for pleasantries, Kyle, we have a Level 5 Emergency!

* GetARoom: Guy says this to Laliari and Fred who are OvercomeWithDesire and start making out in the transport room. They pay no attention. It quickly turns {{Squick}}y for Guy.

-->'''Gwen:''' We're actors, not astronauts!

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Although mostly {{played straight}}, as the actors have to do all the work (and somewhat {{justified}}, as the Thermians are largely [[SurroundedByIdiots incompetent]]), at one point it's {{averted}} and {{lampshaded}} when it's pointed out that the only thing "Lt. Tawny Madison" actually does is repeat everything the computer says.
-->'''Gwen:''' Look, I have '''one job''' on this lousy ship. It's ''stupid'', but I'm going to do it. Okay?

'''Character tropes go on to the [[Characters/GalaxyQuest Characters Sheet]].'''

!!This film provides examples of:

** Creator/TimAllen once again plays [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory a spaceman-- only this time, it's for real]].

* ActorRoleConfusion: The Thermians' mistake. It didn't help that their culture had no concept of fiction.

** The UsefulNotes/{{Bluray}} has a feature called the Galactopedia, which expands upon the universe of ''Galaxy Quest'', much like--and written by the writers of--the ''Franchise/StarTrek Encyclopedia'', including {{backstory}} for the planets and characters, explanations of the TechnoBabble, and references to things that [[NoodleIncident happened during the production of the show]].

* AndTheRest: When the spaceship crashes at the FanConvention, the crew staggering out are introduced by the announcer. Having no idea who Guy is, he quickly announces him as "Another crew mate!".

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: The beryllium sphere--there's really no sane way that raw beryllium could be used as spaceship fuel, and it doesn't form massive blackberry-looking balls in any natural fashion. It's also quite brittle and its dust is highly toxic when breathed in, which means rolling a big ball around would not be a good idea. Obviously, they made all of its properties up. Doubles as a MythologyGag--the ''Enterprise'' uses "dilithium crystals," which were originally called "lithium crystals" until someone remembered that lithium is a real element.

--->'''Dane:''' By Grabthar's hammer...[[FlatJoy What a savings.]]

* BaitAndSwitchComment: Sarris' line "Release them... into space."

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Guy starts his appearance off as an excited fan greeting the main cast of Galaxy Quest as old friends telling them about the bit part he had in one episode as a Redshirt (since his part was so small and it's been 20 years, no one remembers him). From then on, he becomes the eager TagAlongKid and volunteers himself to go with the cast to what they thought was a job. When they realize that it's all real, Guy spends the rest of the movie freaking out that he's going to die like a real Redshirt.
-->'''Fred Kwan:''' "Maybe you're the PluckyComicRelief, you ever think of that?"
* BeamMeUpScotty: {{Parodied}}. At the signing event, a fan comes to Alexander Dane for an autograph and recites his character’s {{Catchphrase}}… and gets the catchphrase wrong. (‘By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Warvan, I shall avenge you’ instead of ‘By Grabthar’s hammer, you shall be avenged’.)
* BecomingTheMask: Over the course of their adventure, the actors become real heroes. Lampshaded by Gwen: "Gosh, I'm doing it. I'm repeating the darn computer."
** More specifically, they become the skilled space explorers they pretend to be, as Tommy learns how to actually fly the ''Protector'', Fred becomes adept at machinery and Alexander can read the ship instruments and becomes a fierce warrior. Played with in Guy's case, who slowly loses his cowardice but is otherwise not very good at being a security officer.

** [[spoiler: When Sarris forces Jason to reveal to Mathesar that ''Galaxy Quest'' was a fictional show and that Jason and the others were just actors.]]

-->'''Guy''': I think we're the green thingy.

* CoincidentalBroadcast: When Jason zaps through the TV channels on his home TV he comes across an episode of "Galaxy Quest" which he then tries to lipsynch to.

* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: The NSEA ''Protector'' is badly damaged, but no worries -- there's a conveniently close planet. Considering it's a Franchise/StarTrek parody, definitely intentional.

* ConversationalTroping: Constantly. It's part of the point of the movie to talk about Star Trek tropes.

* DeathIsDramatic: All strings are being pulled with the death of [[spoiler:Quellek]]: First he is [[TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath taking a moment to catch his death]], followed by a MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[CaptainObvious "I'm ... I'm shot."]] Alexander tries to assure him that it was JustAFleshWound, but already there is BloodFromTheMouth. [[spoiler:Quellek]] then breaks into an ItHasBeenAnHonor speech. Alexander is deeply moved and [[LetThemDieHappy wants him to die happy]], so he delivers a [[MeaningfulEcho heartfelt rendition]] of his CatchPhrase. Now [[spoiler:Quellek]] [[GoOutWithASmile goes out with a smile]] [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Alexander's arms]] with his [[DiesWideOpen eyes wide open]]. Cue the RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

'''Computer:''' [[AC:Negative. No reserve beryllium sphere exists onboard.]]\\

** Subverted with Fred, who's genuinely impressed by everything, but just seems to find it kind of cool rather than mindblowing.

* EmergencyRefuelling: When the Beryllium Sphere gets broken, the crew has to go down to a planet to find a new Beryllium Sphere. Just one problem, the planet is populated with cute looking but carnivorous creatures.
* EmergencyTemporalShift: The Omega 13 is eventually revealed to not be a doomsday device as initially suspected, but a time machine capable of reversing history by exactly thirteen seconds. [[spoiler: This comes in handy when Sarris infiltrates the ''Protector'' during the finale, killing most of the bridge crew, mortally wounding Jason and leaving the ship on a collision course with Earth; using the Omega 13 allows Jason to tackle Sarris before he can open fire.]]

* EpicLaunchSequence: PlayedForLaughs. The ''Protector 2's'' launch receives rather less than the gravitas it deserves, because Tommy has no idea how to actually fly the thing and ends up veering into the side of the spacedock, producing a horrible nails-on-chalkboard screech until they finally clear it.

* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The ''Protector'''s bridge and transporter room feature a lot of monitors displaying flashy visualizations of sorts.

** The convention attendees (convention duh) and the Thermians (built real life and functioning counterparts of the show).

* {{Fanfare}}: The show's leitmotif, and also the movie's theme, is a quick flourish of brass instruments.

* FantasticallyIndifferent: A justified case from Nesmith, when he thinks it's AllPartOfTheShow. Later, Fred Kwan displays fantastic indifference more directly.

* FreakOut: Alexander's panic attack at every convention. You can set your watch by it.

** By contrast Sarris' own defeats tend to come because he has zero chance of knowing something ([[spoiler:Omega-13, or that the Thermians had based their beliefs on another culture's entertainment]]), or because he's an actual military leader, not merely pretending ([[spoiler:and thus didn't expect a deft maneuver that'd be suicide for any but the best pilots, from a pilot who nearly crashed the ship as they disembarked. Plus said maneuver was CrazyEnoughToWork but would never be tried in real life; the actors did it because that would be the TV method of doing it]]). Sarris does succumb to it himself after finding out the cast's true nature, leading him to [[BondVillainStupidity toy with his victims]] rather than just kill them outright. He also learns from his mistakes, and deliberately suckerpunches the crew later on.
* GetARoom: Guy says this to Laliari and Fred who are OvercomeWithDesire and start making out in the transport room. They pay no attention. It quickly turns {{Squick}} for Guy.

** Alexander Dane bemoans that he was a 'proper' [[ClassicallyTrainedExtra Shakespearean Actor]] before ''Galaxy Quest''.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Tommy Webber at the helm and Fred Kwan on the Digital Conveyor. They are both justified because the controls were designed by the Thermians replicating them from the "Historical Documents".
** In Weber's case, he had worked out in his head what the controls did and applied that consistently throughout the original television show. Also a ShoutOut to Creator/WilWheaton, who played [[CreatorsPet Wesley Crusher]], as he did the same thing on the set of ''Next Generation''.
*** Does double ShoutOut duty; George Takei did the same thing on the original series, according to his autobiography.
** Inverted with digital conveyor. Teb's line saying the conveyor is more "art than science" implies that Fred didn't try to put any consistency in his movements.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: After the actors discover they're in a real space ship fighting in a real space war.

** In the next scene Alex has an empty glass with a twisty straw.

* IsThisThingStillOn: Jason makes a "cut transmission" gesture to Gwen, then turns around and describes Sarris as being "as stupid as he is ugly", and trying to think of a way to trick him. Unfortunately, [[NonverbalMiscommunication Gwen misunderstood the gesture to mean "we're dead," and the transmission kept running]] (even had she interpreted the instruction correctly, she still wouldn't have known how to follow it).

* MadeOfIron: The functional replication of the ''Protector'' that the Thermians made is one tough little ship, surviving an extended barrage by Sarris's warship before flying into a magnetic minefield leaving only relatively little exterior damage.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When the rest of the cast boards the ship, Quelleck can be seen in StunnedSilence, his mouth moving as he looks over Mathesar's shoulder - this is because his lifelong idol, Dr. Lazarus, is right in front of him.

* MonsterMunch: Played with. In the original TV show, Guy Fleegman played a OneSceneWonder RedShirt who "got eaten by a lava monster before the first commercial." Because of this, he spends most of the movie [[GenreSavvy freaking out that this is]] ''[[GenreSavvy precisely]]'' [[GenreSavvy what's going to happen to him]] (especially given that [[NominalImportance no one seems to know his last name]]). By the end, though, he's willing to make a HeroicSacrifice to save the ship and the Thermians, and Fred points out that [[WrongGenreSavvy maybe he was really the]] PluckyComicRelief [[WrongGenreSavvy all along]]. In the end, not only does he survive, but [[spoiler:when the show is UnCanceled, he's re-cast as the Security Chief]].
* MookLieutenant: Lathe to Sarris, who replaced the unnamed lieutenant who Sarris had beheaded for raising their defenses too slowly and lost him a hand and an eye.

* {{Narm}}: Invoked. The opening scene has the crew react in hammy, over-the-top fashion, reminiscent of the original Star Trek series.

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: We see species from at least four planets (humans, the Thermians, Sarris's people and the inhabitants of the mining planet) all coexisting comfortably in each other's environments (no issues with temperature, radiation level, atmosphere composition, atmospheric pressure, gravity...). Although this is the ''only'' sense in which anybody can 'coexist comfortably' in the same room as Sarris.

* NoEndorHolocaust: The ship at the end crashes into a parking lot and into a crowded convention center. No one being hurt in the process is brought up. Administrivia/TropesAreTools for the RuleOfCool.

* NonverbalMiscommunication: Between Gwen and Jason during their negotiations with Sarris.

** Gwen's comment to Jason "It was cute when I didn't know you" suggests they had an affair but that's all we ever learn of it.

* NowBuyTheMerchandise: In-universe. The commentator in the closing scene reminds the audience to buy a Galaxy Quest shirt on their way out.

* QuakingWithFear: Jason after being send home through the wormhole. Guy later has the same reaction after being transported to the Thermians' star port.

** Sarris gets one when he finally gets to see the "historical documents." Given the makeup, the actor's amazing at it, emoting from curiosity, to disbelief, to hilarious shock. The exultant sentence that follows just sells the whole thing:

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Guy offers to sign autographs alongside the main cast, and while some may question how in the world some background RedShirt could ''possibly'' have people who would even know who he is have never been to a Star Trek convention where, indeed, anonymous {{Red Shirt}}s ''have'' been autographers ''and'' celebrated. Just ask actors like Vince Deadrick and Mal Friedman.

** Similarly, Jason disappoints the fanboys around Brandon ("He did it again") but things get better when Jason finally gives them credits for their help.
* RecycledINSPACE: Actors mistaken for real heroes recruited to fight real villains? It's ''Film/ThreeAmigos'' [-IN SPACE-]!

* ScreenShake: Averted by the filmmakers ''really'' shaking the set when the cast go into space; played straight in the clips of the 'show' we get to see due to TheBridge having NoSeatBelts.

'''Jason:''' TheShowMustGoOn.\\

-->'''Guy:''' Red thingy moving toward the green thingy... I think we're the green thingy.

** Also seen with the hardcore ''Galaxy Quest'' fans and exemplified with the Thermians -- who don't understand the concept of ''not'' taking something seriously -- and have based their entire civilisation on the ShowWithinAShow.

** The two boys who mock Taggert and the show are known as "Mundanes" in the convention circuit - people who buy tickets to be amused by the slavish worship of whatever IP the convention is honoring. The opposite, of course, are the FIAWOL's[[note]]Fandom Is A Way of Life[[/note]] attending.

** The Thermians, in their quest to make their technology as true to the show as possible, made the ion nebulizer's shots look unconvincing, right down to [[spoiler:Sarris being 'vaporized' by vanishing with a puff of smoke and a small pyrotechnic charge]].

* TacticalReminiscence: The crew uses this trope a couple of times. Lines like "Go for the eyes, like in episode 22!", "You're starting to act like you did in episode 17, you scene-stealing hack!" or "Why does this sound so familiar? -- "Assault on Voltareck III," episode 81."

* TeleporterAccident: On his first attempt at using the 'digital conveyor', Fred Kwan tries it on a pig-lizard. [[spoiler:It turns the pig inside out... and then the poor creature explodes.]]

** 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.

* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Jason loses his gun while performing this acrobatic act.
-->'''Gwen:''' ''[exasperated]'' Does the rolling help?\\

* {{Unobtainium}}: The ''Protector'' runs on beryllium, a natural element - but extremely rare in pure, crystalline form. When the only beryllium sphere on board breaks under stress, the crew sets out to obtain a [[PlotCoupon replacement sphere]] from a nearby planet. They eventually succeed but the distraction caused by this side quest enables the BigBad to seize their ship.

* VillainousBreakdown: [*butterfly wings of doom snap open*] "FIIIIIIIIIIIIND THEEEEEEEEEMMMM!"

* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse, Sarris realizes that the Thermians have staked all their hopes on people who appeared in a ''television show.'' He is so delighted by this that he ''compliments'' the Earthlings for accidental cruelty that he can't hope to match.

* YouCanAlwaysTellALiar: During the final confrontation between ''The Protector'' and Sarris' ship, Jason notes that he can tell Sarris' cool demeanor to be a put-on because he is sweating.

* MagicCountdown: The [[spoiler:Omega 13's time reversal]] was much longer than thirteen seconds, even taking the slow-motion camera into account. Granted, the "13 second" thing was a fan theory.

* HollywoodDriving: During the climax, When Jason asks Tommy to steer closer to the mines, the latter looks concerningly long at the former all the while the ship is diving deeper into the minefield.

* ValuesDissonance: InUniverse example: The thermians have no concept of fiction and thus [[ActorRoleConfusion think everything from the show is real]]. When Jason explains it's not real the thermians consider it to be lying.

** Fred Kwan was easily the most laid back of the group and seemed to just go with everything. Much like James Doohan who not only enjoyed being recognized as Scotty, but definitely enjoyed meeting fans and going to conventions. His only real problem with ''Star Trek'' was William Shatner. Deforrest Kelley was also very laid back and reportedly got along with absolutely everyone.

** Fred Kwan was easily the most laid back of the group and seemed to just go with everything. Much like James Doohan who not only enjoyed being recognized as Scotty, but definitely enjoyed meeting fans and going to conventions. His only real problem with ''Star Trek'' was William Shatner.

** Jason Nesmith shares a last name with Mike Nesmith of Music/TheMonkees. Despite being a major talent in his own right (he won the first Grammy for a music video, has written famous songs and produced popular movies), he has an ambivalent relationship with his former cast mates and the incorrect rumors of
faking the music although he was already an established musician.

** Jason Nesmith shares a last name with Mike Nesmith of Music/TheMonkees. Despite being a major talent in his own right (he won the first Grammy for a music video, has written famous songs and produced popular movies), he's still most recognized for being in a boy band, lip-synching, and not playing his own instruments.

* MagicCountdown: The [[spoiler:Omega Thirteen's time reversal]] was much longer than thirteen seconds, even taking the slow-motion camera into account. Granted, the "13 second" thing was a fan theory.

* {{Fainting}}: Happens twice.
** Finally meeting Sarris in person is too much for Guy and he passes out.
** In the final moments, a female fan faints dramatically when witnessing TheBigDamnKiss between Jason and Gwen on stage.

* LetsGetOutOfHere: Courtesy of Gwen: "Let's get out of here before one of those things [[RedShirt kills Guy!]]"
** PlotArmor: Apparently, Gwen figures none of the main characters are in danger.

Released in 1999, ''Galaxy Quest'' is an AffectionateParody of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise. The film was directed by Creator/DeanParisot and written by Creator/DavidHoward and Creator/RobertGordon.

* ThePowerOfLust: Fred Kwan has to use the "digital conveyor" to rescue Jason from a planet's surface. His trial attempt to use the device results in a pig-alien reduced to LudicrousGibs. However, once the pretty alien girl enters the room, he appears to calm down and seems to have more confidence. He then flawlessly operates the device.