History WMG / GalaxyQuest

* It also allows Quellek to perform the similarly fictitious "stealth haze" to avoid capture.

** He also makes the maaktar chant of strength work though. It explains how things run on handwavium, and also how Rule of Drama starts taking effect.
[[WMG: The US government knew of the Thermians]]
The United States of America knew alien threats existed out there. They knew Thermians liked Galaxy Quest and could build starships. The US of A guided the show and the fandom so it turned out like it did; and hey, at the end, they got a whole bunch of alien technology. Sure, just the escape pod, but the circuitry in the walls and the life support system are probably worth trillions. It also explains why a literal alien got a major role in a television show...

Hungover, tired, and convinced he's just doing a bit for some fans, attacks Sarris's ship during the meeting that was supposed to be the Thermian's surrender. He alerts his superiors, who use it to justify wiping out the Thermian homeworld and possibly the Thermian space station. Because of Jason, an entire race will likely die out.
* Sarris was already in the process of conquering the Thermian home galaxy, and probably would have made quick work of them, had he not learned of the existence of the Omega 13. After Jason makes him look like a bitch after their first encounter, he devotes all his time to tracking down the Protector, putting his plans for genocide on hold. Most of the Thermian race had already been wiped out. Jason might've inadvertently cost a few more lives (the space station?) but probably saved many more in the long run.

Expanding on the third WMG from the top, the government actually did not know of the Thermians, but MIB did. Because the Thermians had transportation technology on par with the Franchise/StarTrek transporters MIB had no way of tracking or preventing them from abducting the Galaxy Quest cast. At the end of the movie when the ship crashes into and destroys a large portion of the convention hall MIB confiscates the ship and neuralizes everyone in attendance. Because of this the Galaxy Quest cast are all deputized by MIB.

Pay attention to the differences between his home and those of Gwen and Jason. They both live in (presumably) expensive houses, in nice areas, and very nicely decorated. Alexander, on the other hand, lives in less-nice house in a crappier part of town (as evidenced by the sound of police sirens in the background while he's talking with Gwen). He was one of the leads on the show; why can't he afford to live as nicely as Jason or Gwen? Either because he never earned as much as they did (a depressingly common phenomenon with British actors until the beginning of the 2000s), or because his financial manager mishandled his money.
* Something I noticed that may contribute to this: Alexander is the only cast member who doesn't even try to hide how much he hates the show. The others at least pretend to be enthusiastic for the fan's sake. He just sulks and glares at everyone and makes his disdain for his character's catchphrase as clear as he possibly can without outright saying that he hates it. This could indicate that his memories of the show are far more unpleasant than the others.

** Agreed. It seems more like a male/female thing - both have apartments (as opposed to Jason's lavish beachhouse), but Gwen's decor is girly and pretty and Alex's is Classic Bachelor Who Doesn't Give A Shit.

* Maybe this makes Galaxy Quest a series of propaganda shorts. A third-party entity saw that the Thermians were being ruthlessly exploited by Sarris and had no will to fight back. In order to avoid angering Sarris directly, the entity created Galaxy Quest and broadcast it from Earth, to make it appear as an innocuous TV show rather than propaganda. Real, commonplace galactic technology was given Earth-like names ("Beryllium Spheres","Digital Conveyers", etc), but could easily be acquired from other races, explaining why it is readily available on a random alien planet and how the Thermians could have built the technology so quickly. The Galaxy Quest cast and production crew were unaware that this was such a film and added dramatic devices (such as the chompers) for dramatic flair, but the Thermians couldn't distinguish fact from fiction so they threw everything they could into the Protector II, reasoning that it must have some useful function.

If you look carefully at the outside of the station as the Protector is flying away, you'll notice it looks like an asteroid or something similar, shaped vaguely like an apple core. It could be that it was actually the home of the Thermians, and that is all that's left after Sarris was done bombing the living hell out of it.

They found a new planet and settled in, and are still using holographic simulators to be people or figured out how to become biological humans.

* Its possible that as a formerly respected Shakespearean Actor his training involved stage fighting lessons at some point which would explain why he at least looks like he's been trained to fight.

[[WMG: The Thermians at the Starport joined the Protector II's crew after it left]]
Late in the movie, Mathazar sadly comments that the crew is all that is left of his people, but earlier in the movie we saw a large Starport (spacedock) with many Thermians in it. These Thermians probably wanted to see the pivotal launch of the Protector II from the outside, and once the Protector had left, they used Pods to get back to the ship to be with their families and friends.

There are other civilizations out there that picked up transmissions from different TV shows, and used those shows as the basis for their societies. This means that, among other things:

* Because ''Star Wars'' never happened, neither did ILM (Industrial Light and Magic). Without ''Star Wars''' success, there was no significant catalyst for SPFX companies to emerge. Special visual effects remained a cottage industry dominated by "in studio specialists" or notable figures (such as Ray Harryhausen, Douglas Trumbull, Wah Chang, Stan Winston, Brian Johnson, ect). This ties into the next WMG.

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, deeper and more complex characterization and drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur[[note]] For example, nothing like ''Series/Babylon5'' has happened as of yet[[/note]]. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the ''Galaxy Quest'' show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film[[note]]There is still the occasional memorable high concept sci-fi film (''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'',''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'',''Film/BladeRunner'',''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/LogansRun'', ''Film/{{Dune|1984}}'' ect. but these are few and far between[[/note]]. Instead that time was filled with ShortRunners and forgettable formulaic schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings.[[note]]The UK probably still has ''Series/DoctorWho'', for example. This film, of course, is set during the years after it's unceremonious cancellation (never having gotten over the departure of Creator/TomBaker) and before it's successful revival.[[/note]] Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

* It also allows Quelleck to perform the similarly fictitious "stealth haze" to avoid capture.

His hammy acting was so memorable that he became a OneSceneWonder among the fans, hence why he can appear at conventions and such, but can still be unknown to the main cast and consider himself a RedShirt. His AscendedExtra role on the reboot was something that was planned for the original show before it got cancelled.

[[WMG: Nothing like ''StarWars'' ever happened in the universe of this movie]]

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, deeper and more complex characterization and drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur[[note]] For example, nothing like ''Series/Babylon5'' has happened as of yet[[/note]]. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the ''Galaxy Quest'' show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film[[note]]There is still the occasional memorable high concept sci-fi film (''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'',''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'',''Film/BladeRunner'',''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/LogansRun'', ''Film/{{Dune|1984}}'' ect. but these are few and far between[[/note]]. Instead that time was filled with ShortRunners and forgettable formulaic schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings.[[note]]The UK probably still has ''Series/DoctorWho'', for example. This film, of course, is set during the years after it's unceremonious cancellation and before it's successful revival.[[/note]] Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, deeper and more complex characterization and drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur[[note]] For example, nothing like ''Series/Babylon5'' has happened as of yet[[/note]]. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the ''Galaxy Quest'' show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film[[note]]There is still the occasional memorable high concept sci-fi film (''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'',''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'',''Film/BladeRunner'',''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/LogansRun'', ''Film/{{Dune|1984}}'' ect. but these are few and far between[[/note]]. Instead that time was filled with ShortRunners and forgettable formulaic schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings.[[note]]The UK probably still has ''Series/DoctorWho'', for example. This film, of course, is set in the years after it's unceremonious cancellation and before it's successful revival.[[/note]] Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, deeper and more complex characterization and drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur[[note]] For example, nothing like ''Series/Babylon5'' has happened as of yet[[/note]]. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the ''Galaxy Quest'' show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film[[note]]There is still the occasional memorable high concept sci-fi film (''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'',''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'',''Film/BladeRunner'',''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/LogansRun'', ''Film/{{Dune|1984}}'' ect. but these are few and far between[[/note]]. Instead that time was filled with ShortRunners and forgettable formulaic schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings. Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

* Because ''Star Wars'' never happened, neither did ILM (Industrial Light and Magic). Without ''Star Wars''' success, there was no significant catalyst for SPFX companies to emerge. This ties into the next WMG.

* ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' was [[TV/StargateSG1 Stargate Command's]] first attempt at plausible deniability.

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, deeper and more complex characterization and drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur[[note]] For example, nothing like ''Series/Babylon5'' has happened as of yet[[/note]]. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the ''Galaxy Quest'' show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film[[note]]There is still the occasional memorable high concept sci-fi film (''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'',''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'',''Film/BladeRunner'',''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/LogansRun'', ''Film/{{Dune}}'' ect. but these are few and far between[[/note]]. Instead that time was filled with ShortRunners and forgettable formulaic schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings. Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, deeper and more complex characterization and drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur[[note]] For example, nothing like ''Series/Babylon5'' has happened as of yet[[/note]]. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the ''Galaxy Quest'' show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film[[note]]There is still the occasional memorable high concept sci-fi film (''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'',''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'',''Film/BladeRunner'',''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/LogansRun'', ''Film/{{Dune}}'' ect. but these are few and far between[[/note]]. Instead that time was filled with forgettable formulaic schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings. Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, deeper and more complex characterization and drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur[[note]] For example, nothing like ''Series/Babylon5'' has happened as of yet[[/note]]. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the ''Galaxy Quest'' show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film. Instead that time was filled with forgettable formulaic schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings. Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, more complex character drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the ''Galaxy Quest'' show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film. Instead that time was filled with forgettable schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings. Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

* Because ''Star Wars'' never happened, neither did ILM (Industrial Light and Magic). Without Star Wars' success, there was no significant catalyst for SPFX companies to emerge. This ties into the next WMG.

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, more complex character drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the Galaxy Quest show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film. Instead that time was filled with forgettable schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings. Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

Galaxy Quest started in 1978 and lasted till 1982. No mention of another space opera during that rough time period. In this universe, George Lucas is known mostly for 'American Grafitti'' and ''Howard The Duck''.

* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, more complex character drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the Galaxy Quest show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film. And those decades were filled with forgettable schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings. Perhaps ''The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest'' will help to usher these elements into finally happening in their timeline.

[[WMG: In the alternate universe of Galaxy Quest, the sci-fi genre is at least twenty years behind, compared to our world.]]
* Essentially, the renaissance of science fiction that began in TheNineties with better writing, more complex character drama, DarkerAndEdgier themes, and extended StoryArc plots, has yet to occur. During the almost two decades after the cancellation of the Galaxy Quest show, there were no significant offerings that contributed to the maturation of the sci-fi genre in either television or film. And those decades were filled with forgettable schlock, some of which may have lesser cult followings. Perhaps the revived Galaxy Quest show will help lead to these things finally happening in their timeline.

* There is a ''{{Series/Batman}}''-centric society who uses costumed individuals to fight crime; meanwhile, all criminals have a visual theme, and henchmen with punny names.

[[WMG: The Omega 13 device indeed turns back time by 13 units of time...]]
...just not the same units of time which we normally use. We believe it's supposed to be 13 seconds, but it could be 13 units which the Thermians use as the equivalent to our seconds, but which are longer than our seconds. It would explain why the point in time the device sends Jason back to is more than 13 seconds before the device being used.

[[WMG: ''TheInventionOfLying'' is set in the future of the Thermian race.]]

* Galaxy Quest was [[TV/StargateSG1 Stargate Command's]] first attempt at plausible deniability.

* Its possible that as a formerly respected ShakespeareanActor his training involved stage fighting lessons at some point which would explain why he at least looks like he's been trained to fight.

[[WMG: The Thermians at the Starport joined the Protector II's crew after it left Spacedock]]
Late in the movie, Mathazar sadly comments that the crew is all that is left of his people, but earlier in the movie we saw a large spacedock with many Thermians in it. These Thermians probably wanted to see the pivotal launch of the Protector II from the outside, and once the Protector had left, they used Pods to get back to the ship to be with their families and friends.