History Headscratchers / GalaxyQuest

** It's a goof in the credits leftover from the original script. During pre-production, Alan Rickman noted the disparity between his knighthood and his stalled career, so asked for it to be removed. There a no mentions of it during the film.

** We are also assuming that it's the equivalent of Spock's "Long life and prosper", but it might be the equivalent of "The needs of the many..." and so on, so yes, there's a more extended version that was said iconically during a very emotional death scene.

* Tommy is black. Gwen DeMarco is a blonde. So why does every single Thermian, in their human form, appear as a black-haired, white-skinned person, if they based their appearance on the people from the show?

* Sarris [[EvilIsHammy loudly exclaims his demands]] to a drunken Jason. He seemed oblivious that Jason wasn't listening to him and ordering the Protector 2 to fire at him. We don't hear him for the rest of the scene, and nobody even seems to know if he's still alive after the ship starts firing. Was he really so into his speech he didn't notice Jason was giving the order to fire?

** Even as they don't have the concept of outright lying they do have the concept --to some degree-- of trickery as they obviously saw the episode when Taggart and Dr. Lazarus "faked" to fight to beat up a mook, and they bring Jason!Taggart to negotiate with Sarris because they know he's clever and astute, they must know that he's going to deceive Sarris somehow. Also the previous leader has to be tortured to speak, so they do understand the concept of hide key information.

** [[BeamMeUpScotty Everyone doesn't always get quotes exactly correct every single time]]. (Also, pretty sure it's "suns" of Warvan.)

** He originally believed that the Thermians knew what the Omega 13 did. In his list of demands is a technician, presumeably to operate the device, but when he realizes that no one knows how it works, he seems to decide that it's not worth his time to remove it from the obstacle course that it's housed in and play around with it.

* Tommy is black. Gwen Madison is a blonde. So why does every single Thermian, in their human form, appear as a black-haired, white-skinned person, if they based their appearance on the people from the show?

** It just now occurred to me, that the reason why fans would actively think of the universe destroying possibility may very well be a semi-joke between fanboys. The show was cancelled after the button was pushed after all. Therefore, until the new episodes showed up, it can be jokingly assumed by fanboys that the universe was destroyed.

** It's also possible that they didn't recognize him because he had aged since then. The show was cancelled at least ten years before after all. Or maybe all humans just look kind of alike to them. Hell, could be a combination of both.

** There are more than a few struggling actors who had a small-but-fandom-significant role on a cult TV show or film then basically end up milking the lower rungs of the convention circuit for all its worth. My personal guess is that Guy had a small role in one episode, most likely as a RedShirt, but it was one that became a bit of a meme among the fandom. Like, his death scene was particularly over-the-top and people enjoy acting it out, or he had one cheesy line that people like to quote back to each other (kind of like how ''Series/DoctorWho'' fans love quoting "No! Not the mind probe!" back at each other). It probably wasn't enough to kickstart his career to any great heights, but it was enough to get people to invite him along to a few conventions, which he then parlayed into a career as a professional 'crewmember' to make up the numbers.

** The movie did emphasize that the show only lasted a few episodes.

* Shouldn't everybody hate the cast now? They destroyed a convention, and totalled many, many cars with their little stunt, causing millions of dollars in property damage.

** Except that even our own modern RealLife processors are so insanely complicated (they're even laid out almost entirely with computers), with humans only that no one could conceivably reverse-engineer them. And those are presumably even more advanced and complicated. On the other hand, there's probably all sorts of other tech that's mundane to the Thermians but unheard of here on Earth. After all, it's presumably only the interfaces that they made to be true to the show. Maybe our physicists will even have some mindblowing breakthroughs from studying it.

** Destroyed a convention? The convention ''centre'', maybe, but the convention-goers got to see the ''Galaxy Quest'' crew land a real spaceship and defeat a real evil alien overlord right in front of them. Never mind putting up with getting their cars totalled; they'd have probably willingly eaten their own flesh for the privilege of seeing that.

* The Thermians at one point state that their entire population is on that ship, and many of them begin suffocating at one point. Even assuming they all survived (which, due to the "Taggart has saved us" may very well be the case), Laliara leaving to stay with a human with whom she most likely cannot reproduce is not particularly smart considering their species needs as large a gene pool as it can get.

** Considering Laliara is apparently okay with the whole idea of acting (and, ergo, lying), the Thermians may have kicked her out.

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* What are Lalaria and Fred going to do when whatever energy source powers her Appearance Generator runs out? They hinted (during the two's first makeout session, when the appearance of tentacles does nothing to diminish Fred's ardour) that Fred won't mind a little tentaclesecs, but the two will have to go from 'well-known couple that appear on tv together' to 'well-known man that appears on tv and his hideous girlfriend whom he keeps in the basement'.

* Isn't Laliara (aka "Jane Doe") going to question why they're filming new "historical documents" on a soundstage?

** Presumably Laliara, being of the younger generation of Thermians, is less set in her ways than her father, and ergo is able to be more gradually brought into understanding of concepts such as 'acting' and how it differs from straight-up lying over a given period of time.
** I guess is up to the viewer whether Mathesar meant with "It was a model, as big as this. A very clever deception indeed." that he now understand the concept of fiction or if he thought that Jason lied about everything been fake to trick Sarris (I personally took the second of the movie) but either case is likely that Laliara does grasp the concept of fiction at that point.

** I can recognise episodes of quite a few shows by [=SxEx=] designation (most notably ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}''), partly because the British model hasn't always provided readily available onscreen episode titles. Recognition by P-codes is normally the domain of fiction, though.

** ''slowly raises hand'' I do this all the time with my favorite shows. Interestingly enough, I mostly only do it with sci-fi shows in general (one of my favorite episodes of Series/BabylonFive is episode 315, "Severed Dreams", ferinstance), otherwise it happens when I download shows from [[BlatantLies perfectly legitimate and legal sources online after purchasing them in accordance with the copyright holder's wishes]], and the episodes are of course numbered in the file names.

** Odds are, the mines are only magnetic when they're activated. As we see in the first minefield scene, the Protector set off some sort of sensor that activated the mine and caused it to arm and become magnetic.

** In addition, the "plasma armour" probably has as much to do with plasma as the beryllium sphere has to do with beryllium (namely, none).

** Unless they're playing villains (which is unlikely if they're typecasted) the Thermian would just assume they're on some sort of mission or in a post-military service profession.

** You just kind of answered your own question there; it was probably considered cheaper in the long-run to just CGI it and use the same sort of models they were using for the rest of the movie, and they probably didn't have the time or money to spend working on it. Anachronistic it may be, but it's also footage that only takes up only more-or-less a minute of the entire movie right at the beginning, and spending more time, effort and resources on that would mean less time, effort and resources were going to something else that may have been more important. The makers clearly wanted to get things as close to accurate as possible, but they also have to draw the line somewhere. They gambled that most of the audience wasn't going to be picky or pedantic enough to argue the point or let it ruin their enjoyment.

* The catchphrase for Dr. Lazarus is "By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged!" as shown when [[spoiler: he avenges Quellek]] and other times. Yet when Alexander Dane is introduced at the convention at the beginning, the scene shown behind him has him saying "By Grabthar's hammer, you shall be avenged!", and when a fan who cares about the character enough to wear a headpiece like him and ask for the actor's autograph approaches, the fan quotes it as "By Grabthar's hammer, I shall avenge you!" Is there any explanation for this other than screenwriter error?

** Thats assuming it worked like a compass. Remember that this is a device that imitates a device that follows television logic. The original prop probably didn't act like a compass, and just had lights pointing in a single direction for each shot, so the thermian tech probably only works in one orientation.

* If the computer of the Protector II only responded to Tawney Madison's voice commands, how did the Thermians operate it before Gwen got onboard? And how will they under Mathezar's command?

** It's entirely possible that, to the Thermians, humanity is as much a PlanetOfHats as Thermians (and most other sci-fi species) look to humanity. So all the Thermians are based off one human template because that's all they can really distinguish. After all, they're massive octopus-lizard creatures, why would they notice things like hair colour and skin tone? Who says their eyes even register things like colour in the same way that a human's does? And vice versa -- in-universe, there could be all kinds of ways of distinguishing between different Thermians than humans are completely unable to notice.

* When Jason activates the Omega 13, why is he the only one who remembers the events thirteen seconds later instead of everyone? Because he pushed the handle? What on the handle only worked for him?
** Presumably Jason or his consciousness or whatever is the only one who actually travelled through time. We don't really know enough about what the Omega-13 does to know for sure, but that seems the likeliest possibility.

** If you listen closely, you can hear him demanding a technician, presumably to run the Omega 13, when Jason orders to fire and the Thermians immediately comply. Sarris may have had a momentary shock that these incredibly naive aliens were being told to fight back, and then his ship got pelted. Remember that he executed his lieutenant for failing to engage the shields fast enough.

*** I'm not confused by anything. The special effects in the clips of the Galaxy Quest TV series at the start of the movie are *way* in advance of anything that was possible on TV budgets in the very early 80s. The dialogue allows the inference that the series was cancelled in 1982 after 92 episodes, so it would have been in production from 1978; the closest real-world comparative would be Battlestar Galactica. The Galaxy Quest effects are stunning in comparison, utterly anachronistic. They make no attempt to make the effects look like the physical miniatures they would actually have been, they are plainly 1999-era CGI.

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*** If indeed,this is the case, then Alex would probably have been better off leaving the title off of his name. As it really makes him seem like a loser compared to all of the British actors who earned their "knighthood" but came from humble backgrounds. It also seems like his family lineage didn't leave him much in the way of wealth if he has to humiliate himself in a role that he hates in order to pay the bills.