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It really helps to debut almost a decade after TheSixties were essentially over as well as not being contemporary with westerns which were long passé by 1978. So the CowboysAndIndians InSpace format that a signficant number of TOS ''Trek'' episodes took was definitely not on display in ''Quest''. The sexism that was part and parcel of the swinging sixties was an embarrassment by 1978, Galaxy Quest's year of debut. Gwen, for all her complaining about how her character's purpose seemed to essentially be FanService, is especially fortunate that the show came along when it did. It could have been a lot worse ten years prior to that. Star Trek TOS had it's share of faux pas such as ''Mudd's Women'', ''Spock's Brain'', ''The Enemy Within''[[note]] the cavalier attitude towards evil Kirk's attempted sexual assault of Yeoman Rand is considered cringe today[[/note]], ''The Paradise Syndrome''[[note]] an once lauded episode that has especially suffered from critical review due to being problematic on several levels including cultural insensitivity[[/note]], and especially ''Turnabout Intruder'', all of which ''Galaxy Quest'' can be proud to say would not have happened on their watch.
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It really helps to debut almost a decade after TheSixties were essentially over as well as not being contemporary with westerns which were long passé by 1978. So the CowboysAndIndians InSpace format that a signficant number of TOS ''Trek'' episodes took was definitely not on display in ''Quest''. The sexism that was part and parcel of the swinging sixties was an embarrassment by 1978, Galaxy Quest's year of debut. Gwen, for all her complaining about how her character's purpose seemed to essentially be FanService, is especially fortunate that the show came along when it did. It could have been a lot worse ten years prior to that. Star Trek TOS had it's share of faux pas such as ''Mudd's Women'', ''Spock's Brain'', ''The Enemy Within''[[note]] the cavalier attitude towards evil Kirk's attempted sexual assault of Yeoman Rand is considered cringe today[[/note]], ''The Paradise Syndrome''[[note]] an once lauded episode that has especially suffered from critical review due to being problematic on several levels including cultural insensitivity[[/note]], and especially ''Turnabout Intruder'', all of which ''Galaxy Quest'' can be proud to say would not have happened on their watch.watch.
[[WMG: The show ''was'' based on historical documents]]
The existence of things like actual ''naturally occurring'' beryllium spheres which actually function like they do in the show stretches the limits of plausible coincidence, and represents a factor that can not be explained away by the Thermians influence since they found it on a planet the Thermians had not visited. There is no explanation of this given, nor any hint of how the writers on the show knew to make their beryllium exactly like this sci-fi object that can only be found on distant alien planets.
Additionally we know that aliens can casually visit earth, speak english, and disguise themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from humans.It is therefore plausible that the original writers of the show had either made contact with aliens, or were in fact aliens in disguise themselves, and used their knowledge of the wider galaxy to craft a more plausible sci-fi universe, with embellishments to make it more exciting.
This would explain the existence of beryllium spheres, as well as why the Thermians would find it so easy to believe that it was genuine, as they would see plenty of things they ''knew'' were real. Even aspects of the ship that the cast believed to be fictional could be standard issue, for example the Omega 13 device, which even the Thermians did not understand despite having ostensibly built it could have been purchased or acquired from the known sources of such devices rather than built based on the show.
The writers may have even based the characters on legendary figures from the wider galaxy, maybe there really is a Commander Peter Quincy Taggart out there somewhere who isn't human who the Thermians knew by reputation but not appearance, and assumed was Jason Nesmith when they saw him playing him on TV, due to not understanding deception. If the real Peter Quincy Taggart was involved in major historical events that had tangible effects on the galaxy, it would make perfect sense for the Thermians to be confused by claims that he was fictional.,
[[WMG: The show ''was'' based on historical documents]]
The existence of things like actual ''naturally occurring'' beryllium spheres which actually function like they do in the show stretches the limits of plausible coincidence, and represents a factor that can not be explained away by the Thermians influence since they found it on a planet the Thermians had not visited. There is no explanation of this given, nor any hint of how the writers on the show knew to make their beryllium exactly like this sci-fi object that can only be found on distant alien planets.
Additionally we know that aliens can casually visit earth, speak english, and disguise themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from humans.It is therefore plausible that the original writers of the show had either made contact with aliens, or were in fact aliens in disguise themselves, and used their knowledge of the wider galaxy to craft a more plausible sci-fi universe, with embellishments to make it more exciting.
This would explain the existence of beryllium spheres, as well as why the Thermians would find it so easy to believe that it was genuine, as they would see plenty of things they ''knew'' were real. Even aspects of the ship that the cast believed to be fictional could be standard issue, for example the Omega 13 device, which even the Thermians did not understand despite having ostensibly built it could have been purchased or acquired from the known sources of such devices rather than built based on the show.
The writers may have even based the characters on legendary figures from the wider galaxy, maybe there really is a Commander Peter Quincy Taggart out there somewhere who isn't human who the Thermians knew by reputation but not appearance, and assumed was Jason Nesmith when they saw him playing him on TV, due to not understanding deception. If the real Peter Quincy Taggart was involved in major historical events that had tangible effects on the galaxy, it would make perfect sense for the Thermians to be confused by claims that he was fictional.,
