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* CreatorBacklash: The credited director, David Winters (whose other major contribution to the world of cinema was choreographing the dance routines in ''TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'') ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'') actually only directed a small portion of it, after which he quit due to family troubles. He wanted his credit changed to AlanSmithee, but found out the hard way that the Director's Guild doesn't really care about the credits on low-budget exploitation films.
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* EvilCripple: [=MacPherson=], co-conspirator of the mutiny, who needs a cane to get around and occasionally uses it to kill people.
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* InformedAbility: As the exchange directly below demonstrates, Lea is a doctor of some kind, but never does or says anything else to back it up.
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->''"Ahahah, good, good, back to the rusting septic system of this ''futuristic space ship!''"''
-->--'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]]'''
'''''Space Mutiny''''' (also known as ''Mutiny in Space'') is a 1988 legendarily bad science-fiction action film starring RebBrown about, [[SarcasmMode surprisingly enough]], a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the ''Southern Sun''.
The ''Southern Sun'' is a seedship, a spacefaring vessel full of colonists out to settle a new world. [[GenerationShips Its voyage has lasted generations, so many of its inhabitants have been born and will die without ever setting foot on solid ground.]] This does not please the antagonist, [[BigBad Elijah Kalgan]] (not be confused with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgon Calgon]]), who conspires with the [[SpacePirates pirates infesting the nearby Corona Borealis system]] and the ship's Chief Engineer [=MacPhearson=]. Kalgan hatches a plot to disrupt the ''Southern Sun'''s navigation systems and use the Enforcers, the ship's police force, to hijack the ship and direct it towards this system. At this point, the inhabitants of the ''Southern Sun'' will have no choice but to accept his 'generosity'.
Kalgan sabotages the vessel's guidance system just as an important professor's shuttle is on a landing trajectory, causing it to crash [[OffscreenCrash (offscreen)]]. The ship's pilot, [[TheHero Dave Ryder]], is able to escape, but the professor dies in the explosion. This sabotage seals off the flight deck for a number of weeks, allowing Kalgan and the Enforcers to hold the entire population of the Southern Sun hostage. Commander Jansen and Captain Devers enlist Ryder's assistance, aided begrudgingly by Jansen's daughter [[{{Loveinterests}} Dr. Lea Jansen]], to regain control of the ship.
''SpaceMutiny'' was filmed in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica during TheApartheidEra (a fact understandably not mentioned on the end credits - see also ''Prisoners of the Lost Universe'', ''Golden Rendezvous'', ''Hellgate'' etc), which some viewers think ties in to all the pseudo-fascistic goings-on (and explains the all-white cast, not that that was exactly unusual in Hollywood action movies of the time).
For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny episode recap page]].
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!!Tropes used in ''SpaceMutiny'':
* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: "Constellation" is used as a meaningful locational term.
* [[ATeamFiring A-Team Firing]]: Lea among others had poor aim. With both Kalgan and Ryder's "speeders" bearing down on her, she fires at Kalgan... and [[StopHelpingMe manages to hit Ryder's speeder]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero temporarily disabling it]].
* BackFromTheDead: Due to poor editing, a woman who was murdered reappears (as an extra) in the very next scene.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Steve Codell says he'd rather jump to his doom than join Kalgan (or be put on ice). He's just climbing over the railing when Kalgan gives him a push.
* BridgeBunnies: Some of whom are dressed so scantily they may as well be Hugh Hefner Bunnies.
* TheCaptain: Commander Jansen.
* ChaseScene: Done with ''floor waxers.''
* TheChosenOne: Ryder.
* CoolStarship: [[strike: The Galactica]] The Southern Sun.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Sort of. ''[[http://agonybooth.com/recaps/Space_Mutiny_1988.aspx The Agony Booth]]'' tells us that the VHS packaging claims the film features "''breathtaking special effects from the team that brought you StarWars''." This is ''technically'' true, in the sense that the team that worked on ''StarWars'' went on to do [=SFX=] for the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'' series, StockFootage from which was used for ''SpaceMutiny''. The rest of the film's special effects, [[SpecialEffectsFailure on the other hand]]...
* CreatorBacklash: The credited director, David Winters (whose other major contribution to the world of cinema was choreographing the dance routines in ''TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'') actually only directed a small portion of it, after which he quit due to family troubles. He wanted his credit changed to AlanSmithee, but found out the hard way that the Director's Guild doesn't really care about the credits on low-budget exploitation films.
** For an encore, Neal Sundstrom, the director who was ''actually'' responsible for the bulk of the film, wasn't very happy with the finished product either, and elected to have a "co-director" title which was buried in the end credits.
* CurbStompBattle: A Colony Ship that's old enough to have over a dozen generations of people on it can somehow take on three SpacePirate ships and win in a few seconds.
** Any time Ryder fights, he wins.
* DawsonCasting: Lea (very obviously), Ryder (less obviously, making the former example all the more glaring).
* DefrostingIceQueen: At first, Lea hates Ryder, blaming him for the death of her friend the professor. Of course, she falls for him the ''very next scene''.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "We keep this TOP CLASSIFIED SECRET."
** "And there wasn't time to go to the auxiliary backup system."
* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard On A Spaceship.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady (or is it Lady Looks Like A Dude?)
-->'''Crow:''' [[ThisIsSpinalTap She's got a' armadillo down 'er trousers!]]
* EyeAwaken - "I'm sitting in something wet!"
* FanDisservice: Leah's fake seduction scene with the balding, flabby guard. Thanks for the zoom in on his pasty chest, movie.
* FauxActionGirl: Lea.
* GetOnWithItAlready: The ending.
* GodivaHair: One of the [[BridgeBunnies female bridge crew]] had extremely long hair that just happened to cover [[{{Stripperific}} what little of a uniform she had on]].
* GreekChorus: The Bellerians
* GroinAttack: Repeatedly. On the same guard.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Kalgan is played by John Phillip Law, who starred in ''Film/DangerDiabolik'' and as the blind angel Pygar in ''{{Barbarella}}''. Reb Brown, AKA "He who has many names", also starred in ''YorTheHunterFromTheFuture'' as the title character, and played CaptainAmerica in a (mercifully) busted pilot movie. Let's not forget that the actor playing the Santa is Cameron Mitchell.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Verbatim from Ryder as he's [[WhatTheHellHero called out for letting Professor Spooner burn to death]].
** It doesn't even make sense, since he was teleported out of the fire by an automatic ejection system.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Daughter]]: The mutineers attempt this by capturing Lea. Unfortunately, she's savvy enough to get out on her own.
* IMeantToDoThat: The filmmakers claim that ''Space Mutiny'' is supposed to be a spoof.
** The people with the distribution rights to the film don't. The packaging for the [=un-MSTed=] version of the film clearly states "It's Hilarious... But Not On Purpose".
** Then there's the whole CreatorBacklash thing (see above). They ''meant'' it to be bad, but still didn't want the blame?
* InsistentTerminology
-->'''David Ryder''': Listen lady!
-->'''Lea''': ''Doctor!''
-->'''Ryder''': Doctor.
* JoinOrDie: Variant. Kalgan offers a technician who discovers his evil plot to either join or be cyrogenically frozen. The technician chooses a third option of dying. Kalgan obliges.
* LargeHam: Not only our hero Ryder, but Kalgan and his right-hand flunky [=MacPherson.=]
-->'''Kalgan:''' I'm surrounded by incompetence! I'm being undermined by my own disciples!
* LaughablyEvil: Kalgan
* MayDecemberRomance: The Bellarians giving a lapd-- ''ahem'', imparting the truth to the captain.
* MickeyMousing: When [=MacPherson=] stabs a dissenting crew member.
* {{Mooks}}: The Enforcers.
* MoralDissonance: Ryder's [[ManOnFire gruesome method]] of dispatching the helpless [=MacPherson=].
* NeutralFemale: Lea's attempts to help out in a firefight are marginally effective at best. At worst, she does more damage to Ryder than to Kalgan, because she shoots ''Ryder's'' go-kart.
* NoOSHACompliance: Averted, [[RailingKill big time]].
** Mainly because the spaceship's sets were mostly a real-world factory.
* [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness The Omniscient Coven of Vagueness]]: Oh yes -- a group of gauze-clad [[InSPACE Space]] Witches called Bellerians show up early in the film, and proceed to do nothing for the rest of the film except exposit [[FauxlosophicNarration Fauxlosophically]] about the plot and dance in gauze.
** Note that they have exactly no impact on the plot. It's fairly obvious the part was added after everything else was shot, since except for the one brief scene with Santa no-one they interact with ever shows up in the main story even as mooks.
* ParodyRetcon: Assuming you don't take Mrs. Cameron's insistence that this was a StealthParody at face value, of course.
* PeopleJars: Kalgan tends to freeze prisoners (or [[YouHaveFailedMe failure subordinates]]) in cryogenic suspension rather than kill them outright. This is actually a fairly canny move, as once he's taken over the ship he can thaw them out so they can still be useful to him. Unfortunately the movie didn't have a budget for a cryogenics lab so they just hung four or five guys wrapped in plastic up on a coat rack.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Not the actual pirates in the movie, who at least try to do something, but this trope does apply to Captain Devers.
* PunchClockVillain: The Mortuary Keeper is just there running the facility where failed Mooks are frozen until necessary. He may work for the villain, but when the heroes arrive he asks if they need help or would like a cup of tea. He also answers all their questions about the BigBad's EvilPlan. He doesn't really seem evil at all.
** You could arguably count Lobster Boy and the Enforcers as a whole, though they're at the very least openly mean-spirited.
* RailingKill: The TropeNamer, seeing as they appear in abundance. Hell, it even appears in the poster above.
* RedRightHand: [=MacPhearson=]'s limp.
* RelationshipReboot: Blast Hardcheese and Doctor Lady do this.
* RomanceOnTheSet: The awkward romance between Dave and Lea is a major contrast to real life - Reb Brown (Dave) and Cisse Cameron (Lea) fell in love during the Ted Knight Show back in 1979, and are still married today.
* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction. Lea on the doughy henchmen.
* ScreamingWarrior: What Ryder is supposed to sound like.
** [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Wuss Girlyscream]]: What Ryder actually sounds like.
* SexyDiscretionShot: After the final make-out session, the camera cuts to a shot of the whatever's engines flaring as it boosts upwards across the screen.
* ShapedLikeItself: Ryder mentions an "auxiliary backup system."
* SlasherSmile: For no readily apparent reason, Lea sports one of these while accidentally firing on Ryder's Enforcer kart... thus making her shooting at Ryder not appear accidental at all.
* SpaceClothes: An unfortunate double standard seems to be set: women often wear Space Leotards (though some do get to wear actual uniforms), the men mostly...don't. The captain wears a silvery muumuu.
* StealthParody: Again, taking Cisse Cameron's word for it, this film was still perhaps ''too good'' at emulating the films it was trying to spoof.
** If this is actually true, if this movie actually was intended to be a parody from the beginning, the simple fact that ''nobody buys that it was intentionally this bad'' is a testament to what an incredible job they did. This is a perfect storm of terrible, the entire cast is fascinatingly inept, mugging and stumbling and chewing the scenery over dialogue so awkwardly bad and yet so eminently quotable while the jaw-droppingly ridiculous special effects fight for screentime with laughable costuming and hilarious action scenes and impossible-to-ignore gaffs like a murder victim popping up as an extra in the foreground of the ''very next scene''. Everything about this movie is at the ''exact perfect pitch'' of SoBadItsGood, to the point where it becomes So Bad Its Brilliant. In essence, if this ''actually is'' a StealthParody, the makers of this movie are unsung and forgotten geniuses of film, worthy of mention in the same sentence as the likes of Mel Brooks in his prime.
** More of a parody of movie making itself than the sci-fi genre, though.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Female crewmembers besides Lt. Lamont all dress like AmericanGladiators.
* StockFootage: All the space footage was taken from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'''s stock footage.
** The Ship in this movie flies in the opposite direction from the original.
* StockSoundEffect: The movie used the same "red alert," sound effect used in StarTrek.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Kalgan's interrogation of Lea, which involves a whirring laser used to burn out her teeth. Lamest. Torture. Ever.
** And the laser sounds exactly like a dentist's drill. And it works "not unlike ancient dental equipment. Not that you'd know anything about that."
* TeleportersAndTransporters: This is how Ryder "ejects" from his crashing ship. It's also how they enable Reb Brown to leave a "ship" that's stock footage from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}''.
* ThisIsADrill: Yet it's supposed to be a laser, despite the loud drill sounds.
* TooDumbToLive - Engineer Parsons. At first the faction of mutinous engineers led by [=MacPhearson=] aren't actually that bothered by Parsons' refusal to join in the mutiny... until he says these words which, unsurprisingly, proved to be his last:
--> "This is mutiny! This is treason! Which I warn you I must report!"
** Also the engineers that [=MacPhearson=] kills in the big fight near the film's climax. Their response to a man shooting wildly in their direction is apparently to ignore him and hope he'll go away.
** Lea makes a wall-banger of a decision to go nip out from the bridge, ''after'' she and Big [=McLargeHuge=] have discussed the fact that the mutiny is ongoing. This allows Lea to grab the DistressBall and be held hostage for...about 10 minutes.
* YouLookFamiliar: The actress playing Lt. Lamont appears as an extra on the bridge... in a scene that immediately follows Lamont's death. Whoops.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Lea.
* {{Zeerust}}: The future looks a lot like TheEighties.
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->''"Ahahah, good, good, back to the rusting septic system of this ''futuristic space ship!''"''
-->--'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]]'''
'''''Space Mutiny''''' (also known as ''Mutiny in Space'') is a 1988 legendarily bad science-fiction action film starring RebBrown about, [[SarcasmMode surprisingly enough]], a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the ''Southern Sun''.
The ''Southern Sun'' is a seedship, a spacefaring vessel full of colonists out to settle a new world. [[GenerationShips Its voyage has lasted generations, so many of its inhabitants have been born and will die without ever setting foot on solid ground.]] This does not please the antagonist, [[BigBad Elijah Kalgan]] (not be confused with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgon Calgon]]), who conspires with the [[SpacePirates pirates infesting the nearby Corona Borealis system]] and the ship's Chief Engineer [=MacPhearson=]. Kalgan hatches a plot to disrupt the ''Southern Sun'''s navigation systems and use the Enforcers, the ship's police force, to hijack the ship and direct it towards this system. At this point, the inhabitants of the ''Southern Sun'' will have no choice but to accept his 'generosity'.
Kalgan sabotages the vessel's guidance system just as an important professor's shuttle is on a landing trajectory, causing it to crash [[OffscreenCrash (offscreen)]]. The ship's pilot, [[TheHero Dave Ryder]], is able to escape, but the professor dies in the explosion. This sabotage seals off the flight deck for a number of weeks, allowing Kalgan and the Enforcers to hold the entire population of the Southern Sun hostage. Commander Jansen and Captain Devers enlist Ryder's assistance, aided begrudgingly by Jansen's daughter [[{{Loveinterests}} Dr. Lea Jansen]], to regain control of the ship.
''SpaceMutiny'' was filmed in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica during TheApartheidEra (a fact understandably not mentioned on the end credits - see also ''Prisoners of the Lost Universe'', ''Golden Rendezvous'', ''Hellgate'' etc), which some viewers think ties in to all the pseudo-fascistic goings-on (and explains the all-white cast, not that that was exactly unusual in Hollywood action movies of the time).
For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny episode recap page]].
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!!Tropes used in ''SpaceMutiny'':
* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: "Constellation" is used as a meaningful locational term.
* [[ATeamFiring A-Team Firing]]: Lea among others had poor aim. With both Kalgan and Ryder's "speeders" bearing down on her, she fires at Kalgan... and [[StopHelpingMe manages to hit Ryder's speeder]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero temporarily disabling it]].
* BackFromTheDead: Due to poor editing, a woman who was murdered reappears (as an extra) in the very next scene.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Steve Codell says he'd rather jump to his doom than join Kalgan (or be put on ice). He's just climbing over the railing when Kalgan gives him a push.
* BridgeBunnies: Some of whom are dressed so scantily they may as well be Hugh Hefner Bunnies.
* TheCaptain: Commander Jansen.
* ChaseScene: Done with ''floor waxers.''
* TheChosenOne: Ryder.
* CoolStarship: [[strike: The Galactica]] The Southern Sun.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Sort of. ''[[http://agonybooth.com/recaps/Space_Mutiny_1988.aspx The Agony Booth]]'' tells us that the VHS packaging claims the film features "''breathtaking special effects from the team that brought you StarWars''." This is ''technically'' true, in the sense that the team that worked on ''StarWars'' went on to do [=SFX=] for the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'' series, StockFootage from which was used for ''SpaceMutiny''. The rest of the film's special effects, [[SpecialEffectsFailure on the other hand]]...
* CreatorBacklash: The credited director, David Winters (whose other major contribution to the world of cinema was choreographing the dance routines in ''TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'') actually only directed a small portion of it, after which he quit due to family troubles. He wanted his credit changed to AlanSmithee, but found out the hard way that the Director's Guild doesn't really care about the credits on low-budget exploitation films.
** For an encore, Neal Sundstrom, the director who was ''actually'' responsible for the bulk of the film, wasn't very happy with the finished product either, and elected to have a "co-director" title which was buried in the end credits.
* CurbStompBattle: A Colony Ship that's old enough to have over a dozen generations of people on it can somehow take on three SpacePirate ships and win in a few seconds.
** Any time Ryder fights, he wins.
* DawsonCasting: Lea (very obviously), Ryder (less obviously, making the former example all the more glaring).
* DefrostingIceQueen: At first, Lea hates Ryder, blaming him for the death of her friend the professor. Of course, she falls for him the ''very next scene''.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "We keep this TOP CLASSIFIED SECRET."
** "And there wasn't time to go to the auxiliary backup system."
* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard On A Spaceship.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady (or is it Lady Looks Like A Dude?)
-->'''Crow:''' [[ThisIsSpinalTap She's got a' armadillo down 'er trousers!]]
* EyeAwaken - "I'm sitting in something wet!"
* FanDisservice: Leah's fake seduction scene with the balding, flabby guard. Thanks for the zoom in on his pasty chest, movie.
* FauxActionGirl: Lea.
* GetOnWithItAlready: The ending.
* GodivaHair: One of the [[BridgeBunnies female bridge crew]] had extremely long hair that just happened to cover [[{{Stripperific}} what little of a uniform she had on]].
* GreekChorus: The Bellerians
* GroinAttack: Repeatedly. On the same guard.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Kalgan is played by John Phillip Law, who starred in ''Film/DangerDiabolik'' and as the blind angel Pygar in ''{{Barbarella}}''. Reb Brown, AKA "He who has many names", also starred in ''YorTheHunterFromTheFuture'' as the title character, and played CaptainAmerica in a (mercifully) busted pilot movie. Let's not forget that the actor playing the Santa is Cameron Mitchell.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Verbatim from Ryder as he's [[WhatTheHellHero called out for letting Professor Spooner burn to death]].
** It doesn't even make sense, since he was teleported out of the fire by an automatic ejection system.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Daughter]]: The mutineers attempt this by capturing Lea. Unfortunately, she's savvy enough to get out on her own.
* IMeantToDoThat: The filmmakers claim that ''Space Mutiny'' is supposed to be a spoof.
** The people with the distribution rights to the film don't. The packaging for the [=un-MSTed=] version of the film clearly states "It's Hilarious... But Not On Purpose".
** Then there's the whole CreatorBacklash thing (see above). They ''meant'' it to be bad, but still didn't want the blame?
* InsistentTerminology
-->'''David Ryder''': Listen lady!
-->'''Lea''': ''Doctor!''
-->'''Ryder''': Doctor.
* JoinOrDie: Variant. Kalgan offers a technician who discovers his evil plot to either join or be cyrogenically frozen. The technician chooses a third option of dying. Kalgan obliges.
* LargeHam: Not only our hero Ryder, but Kalgan and his right-hand flunky [=MacPherson.=]
-->'''Kalgan:''' I'm surrounded by incompetence! I'm being undermined by my own disciples!
* LaughablyEvil: Kalgan
* MayDecemberRomance: The Bellarians giving a lapd-- ''ahem'', imparting the truth to the captain.
* MickeyMousing: When [=MacPherson=] stabs a dissenting crew member.
* {{Mooks}}: The Enforcers.
* MoralDissonance: Ryder's [[ManOnFire gruesome method]] of dispatching the helpless [=MacPherson=].
* NeutralFemale: Lea's attempts to help out in a firefight are marginally effective at best. At worst, she does more damage to Ryder than to Kalgan, because she shoots ''Ryder's'' go-kart.
* NoOSHACompliance: Averted, [[RailingKill big time]].
** Mainly because the spaceship's sets were mostly a real-world factory.
* [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness The Omniscient Coven of Vagueness]]: Oh yes -- a group of gauze-clad [[InSPACE Space]] Witches called Bellerians show up early in the film, and proceed to do nothing for the rest of the film except exposit [[FauxlosophicNarration Fauxlosophically]] about the plot and dance in gauze.
** Note that they have exactly no impact on the plot. It's fairly obvious the part was added after everything else was shot, since except for the one brief scene with Santa no-one they interact with ever shows up in the main story even as mooks.
* ParodyRetcon: Assuming you don't take Mrs. Cameron's insistence that this was a StealthParody at face value, of course.
* PeopleJars: Kalgan tends to freeze prisoners (or [[YouHaveFailedMe failure subordinates]]) in cryogenic suspension rather than kill them outright. This is actually a fairly canny move, as once he's taken over the ship he can thaw them out so they can still be useful to him. Unfortunately the movie didn't have a budget for a cryogenics lab so they just hung four or five guys wrapped in plastic up on a coat rack.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Not the actual pirates in the movie, who at least try to do something, but this trope does apply to Captain Devers.
* PunchClockVillain: The Mortuary Keeper is just there running the facility where failed Mooks are frozen until necessary. He may work for the villain, but when the heroes arrive he asks if they need help or would like a cup of tea. He also answers all their questions about the BigBad's EvilPlan. He doesn't really seem evil at all.
** You could arguably count Lobster Boy and the Enforcers as a whole, though they're at the very least openly mean-spirited.
* RailingKill: The TropeNamer, seeing as they appear in abundance. Hell, it even appears in the poster above.
* RedRightHand: [=MacPhearson=]'s limp.
* RelationshipReboot: Blast Hardcheese and Doctor Lady do this.
* RomanceOnTheSet: The awkward romance between Dave and Lea is a major contrast to real life - Reb Brown (Dave) and Cisse Cameron (Lea) fell in love during the Ted Knight Show back in 1979, and are still married today.
* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction. Lea on the doughy henchmen.
* ScreamingWarrior: What Ryder is supposed to sound like.
** [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Wuss Girlyscream]]: What Ryder actually sounds like.
* SexyDiscretionShot: After the final make-out session, the camera cuts to a shot of the whatever's engines flaring as it boosts upwards across the screen.
* ShapedLikeItself: Ryder mentions an "auxiliary backup system."
* SlasherSmile: For no readily apparent reason, Lea sports one of these while accidentally firing on Ryder's Enforcer kart... thus making her shooting at Ryder not appear accidental at all.
* SpaceClothes: An unfortunate double standard seems to be set: women often wear Space Leotards (though some do get to wear actual uniforms), the men mostly...don't. The captain wears a silvery muumuu.
* StealthParody: Again, taking Cisse Cameron's word for it, this film was still perhaps ''too good'' at emulating the films it was trying to spoof.
** If this is actually true, if this movie actually was intended to be a parody from the beginning, the simple fact that ''nobody buys that it was intentionally this bad'' is a testament to what an incredible job they did. This is a perfect storm of terrible, the entire cast is fascinatingly inept, mugging and stumbling and chewing the scenery over dialogue so awkwardly bad and yet so eminently quotable while the jaw-droppingly ridiculous special effects fight for screentime with laughable costuming and hilarious action scenes and impossible-to-ignore gaffs like a murder victim popping up as an extra in the foreground of the ''very next scene''. Everything about this movie is at the ''exact perfect pitch'' of SoBadItsGood, to the point where it becomes So Bad Its Brilliant. In essence, if this ''actually is'' a StealthParody, the makers of this movie are unsung and forgotten geniuses of film, worthy of mention in the same sentence as the likes of Mel Brooks in his prime.
** More of a parody of movie making itself than the sci-fi genre, though.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Female crewmembers besides Lt. Lamont all dress like AmericanGladiators.
* StockFootage: All the space footage was taken from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'''s stock footage.
** The Ship in this movie flies in the opposite direction from the original.
* StockSoundEffect: The movie used the same "red alert," sound effect used in StarTrek.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Kalgan's interrogation of Lea, which involves a whirring laser used to burn out her teeth. Lamest. Torture. Ever.
** And the laser sounds exactly like a dentist's drill. And it works "not unlike ancient dental equipment. Not that you'd know anything about that."
* TeleportersAndTransporters: This is how Ryder "ejects" from his crashing ship. It's also how they enable Reb Brown to leave a "ship" that's stock footage from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}''.
* ThisIsADrill: Yet it's supposed to be a laser, despite the loud drill sounds.
* TooDumbToLive - Engineer Parsons. At first the faction of mutinous engineers led by [=MacPhearson=] aren't actually that bothered by Parsons' refusal to join in the mutiny... until he says these words which, unsurprisingly, proved to be his last:
--> "This is mutiny! This is treason! Which I warn you I must report!"
** Also the engineers that [=MacPhearson=] kills in the big fight near the film's climax. Their response to a man shooting wildly in their direction is apparently to ignore him and hope he'll go away.
** Lea makes a wall-banger of a decision to go nip out from the bridge, ''after'' she and Big [=McLargeHuge=] have discussed the fact that the mutiny is ongoing. This allows Lea to grab the DistressBall and be held hostage for...about 10 minutes.
* YouLookFamiliar: The actress playing Lt. Lamont appears as an extra on the bridge... in a scene that immediately follows Lamont's death. Whoops.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Lea.
* {{Zeerust}}: The future looks a lot like TheEighties.
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