Why did Buzz end up 22 years into the future with the working crystal? Was that Zurg’s doing?
The impression I got is that the timeline diverged into two branches when Buzz reached 100% hyperspeed - one flung him 22 years into the future and the other was successful with no time dilation, but Burnside attempted to arrest him when he landed with no interest in leaving what is now their home, so he just took off again in sheer disgust, his efforts for naught. The result was an embittered and angry Buzz Lightyear that eventually became Zurg.
Alternatively, Zurg Buzz also jumped forward twenty-two years and then went even further when Burnside showed up to arrest him. It's established that Zurg had been assailing T'Kani Prime for about a week when Buzz comes back, insinuating that he intentionally changed the timeline in order to get Buzz's fusion crystal rather than both of them diverging at the same time and "just happening" to converge again; Burnside and nearly everyone else is obviously too busy trying to keep the Zurg robots out of the city to be there when Buzz arrives.
They said earlier that the faster you go the more you warp time. He went faster with the working crystal, so he made a 22-year jump instead of the standard 4-ish years.
Answering the second question, no. Zurg himself states that he burned out his crystal to get himself as far back in time as he was. Ending up 22 years in the future happened to both versions, the divergence point between them is Zerg invading, preventing Buzz from being arrested.
The plan Buzz and Alisha come up, which involves restoring their crystalline fusion engine so they can leave T'Kani Prime, doesn't make any sense if you think about it, because they insist that they must test it with a flight. Wouldn't it be more easier to have Buzz fly in search of other planets and seek help? All Buzz had to do was fly towards a civilized planet, contact Star Command and they would assist the stranded passengers.
We don't get a lot of world building in this movie, maybe Star Command hasn't discovered too many sentient alien life yet and they were too far away from earth and/or a civilized planet. They needed the warp speed crystal for a reason. Without a working crystal, Buzz's jet is only capable of sublight travel which would take forever to reach anywhere. Space is big.
It appears that the crew of the original spheroid spaceship were on a long-range colonisation voyage, possibly for centuries or longer, to an undefined destination, but took a detour when a potentially habitable planet was detected. It is most likely that the nearest inhabited star system is nowhere near them, possibly not even in the same galaxy.
Buzz took 4 years just reaching the sun. Going out of the star system seeking for help would have taken an untold time. Centuries or even millenia from the colonists POV.
It's also likely that since they need a viable (and safe!) crystal powering the Turnip, the absolute last thing they want to do is risk the entire group on the ship when running the tests. Especially so since the very first attempt resulted in the crystal violently destabilizing and nearly killing Buzz.
Why did the colony's security suddenly feel the need to decommission Sox when Buzz returned for the last time? There was no indication to them that he was anything other than a glorified Robot Cat. And if he was a security threat, why not just do it when Buzz was away?
He had way too many upgrades to just be a simple cat. Alisha outright states that Sox was built to look after Buzz, and she might well have added more upgrades while he was away and it became clear she wouldn't be able to do it in person. If Burnside found out that Buzz had a lockpicking, hacking, tranq dart firing super robot, no wonder he wanted it taken away.
Regarding why Sox wasn't decommissioned while Buzz was away; its possible the hyperspace program was not officially/formally shut down until Buzz returned. And if Sox is not considered an active threat, just a potential one, then there is no reason why security wouldn't do things by the book and only decommission him once the program is over.
How is it possible that Sox didn't deteriorate with all those years Buzz was time traveling with his flights?
Maybe Star Command kept fixing him over the years. Or he's made of a far sturdier alloy.
In the movie, why didn't Buzz simply tell Commander Burnside about Sox's new Hyperspace Crystal rather than stealing the test craft?
He probably thought Burnside wouldnt care.
Buzz has a bad habit of being a little too distrusting of others, so a very reasonable assumption from his point of view.
Burnside was introduced giving up on the mission. Presumably, after every failed test flight, they made modifications on the crystal and hope it would work the next time. After 15 promising tests that failed, it is only natural for someone to give up.
Except that the new crystal was visibly different and Sox had a whole new formula for it. Plus, there's no apparent downside in letting Buzz do another 20 tests if that that's what it takes. The only person who suffers is Buzz himself, who misses out on his friends' lives. And since Buzz is still willing to go, why doesn't Burnside just shrug it off and let him go?
Because the tests are expensive to perform, and he didn't want any more money to be wasted.
While they take a break from being chased by Zurg's Zyclops, Buzz finds out that now the sandwiches are a slice of bread and two slices of ham instead of a slice of ham and two slices of bread. Mo and Darby state that the sandwiches as Buzz describes them would be "too much bread", implying that sandwiches were changed because eating too much bread is unhealthy. How did the manufacturers who sold this product forget that bread is far healthier than ham? By making their sandwiches like that, they are damaging the health of their consumers.
The "too much bread" is a personal opinion by the people of that era because they think the mouth would get dry. Maybe at some point in the past, there was a shortage of wheat so they changed the way sandwiches are made and it just stayed that way. In real life, 3-musketeers candy bars used to be three individual bars in the same wrapper for vanilla, strawberry and chocolate, then when they ran out of supplies they just went with the most popular flavor (chocolate) and its still like that to this day.
There are plenty of real-world companies that manufacture unhealthy foodstuffs, so that part isn't a surprise. And it's not like these are military rations; they got it out of a vending machine.
The reason why Buzz declines his future self's offer to time travel back to the past and prevent the Star Command space transport from crashing in T'Kani Prime is because if they do so, that would likely erase the existences of the descendants of his deceased crew members. If he was concerned about that, why not just try to time travel to an earlier point to warn his younger self to tell his crew members who they would marry and who their children would marry so their children and grandchildren would keep existing?
That would be trying to force relationships instead of them happening naturally and would lead to bad first impressions and erasing their future descendants.
Plus, even if they marry the same crew members and have children in the new timeline, it is VERY unlikely Izzy and her friends will have the same personalities as the ones in the current timeline. She won't be the same Izzy we see in the film.
Future Buzz tries to kill his younger self because he doesn't want to be like him. Doesn't he realize that, had he killed his younger self, that would have erased him from existence?
No more than his original plan to go back in time to prevent the crash from happening anymore to begin with. As he says to Current Buzz, the events occurring now never happened to Old Buzz, and they're in an entirely new timeline where the future is uncertain and their actions can change the timeline in a malleable way. Since Old Buzz never met Current Buzz before, anything that happens to Current Buzz won't effect Old Buzz cause his timeline is different to Current Buzz's, and his past is still effectively the same even if he meddles with a different timeline. In effect, his plan was to go back and create three different version of Buzz in the one timeline, One that grew old and enacted the time travel, one that performed most of the tests to create the stable hyper fuel crystal, and one that never traveled to T'Kani Prime in the first place. If he and Current Buzz were erased by that action, then he was fine with that, because as far as he's concerned he and Current Buzz are both 'mistakes' who shouldn't have landed on the planet in the first pace. If they remain behind, then he's averted the crash anyway and he's satisfied with that, since he's an old man and will get to spend his remaining years amongst the Space Rangers once more. It wouldn't have been too great for the much-younger Current Buzz, but its made clear that old Buzz was primarily motivated by his own desire to undo his mistake more than anything. In effect, if he killed Current Buzz, then there's a possibility that he's just killing him early before he's undone from existence along with Old buzz. The malleable nature of the timeline meant that nothing that happened to his 'past' self would directly affect him personally, because his own actual past was already set in stone and all he was doing was creating a new timeline where he didn't cause the crash, which still wouldn't have undone the fact Old Buzz did cause the crash in 'his' past.
While the kiss scene between Aisha and her wife was clearly made for LGBT representation out-of-universe, how can it be justified in-universe? The opening framing device states that Andy saw this movie before asking for a Buzz Lightyear in 1995, so assuming this film was released in either the 1980s or early 1990s, how were the filmmakers able to include that kiss if the LGBT community was still seen as taboo at that time? Positive LGBT representation started to happen in the late 2010s. Heck, even older movies with non-friendly LGBT representation are now being revised, such as how they deleted a homophobic joke in Spider-Man. Was this film produced in-universe by 20th Century Fox? They did make LGBT-friendly films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show...
Except films like Rocky Horror Picture Show is not PG-rated and coded heavily to get around the rating.
"Positive LGBT representation started to happen in the late 2010s..." um, yeah, this is just incorrect. Positive LGBT representation didn't begin with Captain Holt. Among other examples, "The Puppy Episode" of Ellen broadcast in 1997, Will & Grace premiered in 1998, and Queer as Folk (UK) debuted in 1999 (the US version one year later) — all of which featured positive depictions of LGBT+ individuals, all of which were high profile, and all of which were within five years of Toy Story. They might not have been perfect representations of LGBT individuals (though that gives rise to the question of what kind of flaws / criticisms might the people of twenty-thirty years have to make of the way LGBT people are represented today) and they might have been less common, but to suggest that positive LGBT representation only started in the late 2010s is incredibly exaggerated to the point of being ahistorical. And in light of these examples, the answer becomes a bit more simple — in the world of the Toy Story films, Lightyear could simply be seen as a trailblazer in LGBT representation.
So what if it's the 90s? The Toy Story universe isn't our universe- it doesn't need to have had the same history as ours.
Some level of Alternate Historymust be in play. The above examples (Will and Grace etc.) are TV shows, not films. TV shows can get away with things that big-budget, four-quadrant films are simply not allowed to because they are cheaper, their target audiences are more diffuse, they have to deal with the Standards and Practices of the company that made them instead of the MPAA, etc. No American big-budget blockbuster action film would have intentional LGBT characters in the 70s/80s/90s.
Okay, while granting that none of these examples are the kind of four-quadrant blockbusters being referred to, if it's cinema we're insisting upon the 1990s still saw a wide range of positive (if, again, perhaps imperfect) representations of LGBTQ+ individuals, either as main or supporting characters, in films which were still expected to reach a fairly wide mainstream audience: such as Mrs. Doubtfire, Philadelphia, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Clueless, The Birdcage, As Good as It Gets, My Best Friend's Wedding and American Beauty, among others. Sure, examples weren't as common as today, but it's not sufficiently impossible to require an Alternate History to explain it either (or at least not a huge one; no more so than most works of fiction are not set in the actual real world). LGBTQ+ characters weren't as common in media as today, no, but acting like the 1990s were the days of the Hays Code when it comes to LGBTQ+ representation is just not correct; it was not completely "taboo" and LGBTQ+ representation didn't begin "in the late 2010s". Lightyear might have been an outlier had it actually been made at the time (and arguably reflects the period it was made more than the period it was supposedly made in, as all movies usually do), but having a lesbian supporting character wouldn't have been as completely alien and unimaginable in the 1990s as this headscratcher is suggesting either; certainly not sufficiently so to prevent us from stretching a point to allow for it. Audiences in the 1990s were not completely unfamiliar with and would not be totally shocked by seeing LGBTQ+ characters on big or small screens.
Possibly the kiss scene was cut from the version of the film Andy saw (it was almost actually cut from the actual film but Disney forced Pixar to keep the scene in). Some movies in real life actually have had certain scenes removed from the original release that have later been re-instated when the film was re-released.
Makes more sense when you consider that either the director or writer either didn't mind about same sex relationships or did and figured 'Hey its fake what the hell'.
Often times Sci-Fi series seek to portray future takes on humanity that are not reflective of the present. For example, Star Trek, even in the original series, had Black fleet members in high-ranked positions at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, even specifically higher ranked than Kirk, where that was very much not reality. It's likely they were going for a similar concept with Lightyear.
Same-sex couples in media have been around longer than most people think. From Heather Has Two Mommies in 1989 to 1995's "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love", the period in which this in-universe movie is supposed to have been created had quite a bit of representation.
If Buzz and the original crew of the Turnip have been missing for over a hundred years, why has no one from Star Command come looking for them?
Maybe that was the entire Star Command. Or maybe they were declared dead.
Alternatively, maybe they did look for them. The opening has them divert from their original course, which could have taken them to an area of space no one would be looking for them in, and the universe is a very big place.
The impression I got was that the Turnip was essentially a Sleeper Starship that had been travelling for years or even centuries (otherwise there would be no need for the entire crew to be in hypersleep). Given how far they are away from Earth (4.2 million light-years), there probably aren't any other colonised star systems in the same galaxy.note For comparison, the whole Milky Way is only 0.2 million light-years across.
It's very hard to buy Buzz as an Ax-Crazy maniac in the future. This Buzz is way too nice for him to make a heel turn. Wouldn't it make more sense for Old Buzz to be from an alternate universe where he was always a jerk?
Decades alone with his failure can change someone and it appears he has spent that time bitter that after all his work, he was treated as a criminal before escaping centuries into the future.
Was there already a Zurg before Old Buzz "borrowed" the mech suit? They were just lying around in the spaceship. It's VERY unlikely the suit and robots were built with good intention in mind.
So if Andy sees this film in-universe and from that he wants a Buzz Lightyear toy, ultimately kickstarting the events of Toy Story, how has that not manifested in his bedroom/playtime activities before then? Not only does he lack any Lightyear merchandise before his birthday, he's made no drawings or other space-themed crafts, and by all appearances with his playtime with Woody at the start suggest he's still by and large engaged with cowboys. Plus none of his toys are aware of Buzz as a movie tie-in or that Andy even saw such a film before the toy arrives, despite being around him practically all the time. How can a kid be so excited about a film yet not express that at all between seeing it and getting a single toy from it?
The film seems like it was made for teens and adults. In real life, would 8 year old kids be excited to see this movie if Toy Story never existed? It would be like a child getting excited over Apollo 13 and rushing to stores buy a Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) action figure.
Star Wars. Ghostbusters. Back to the Future. Batman (1989). The 1980s and 1990s are resplendent with movies supposedly made for "teens and adults" which nevertheless gathered a huge kid following to the point of inspiring cartoons, action figure lines and so forth. Andy likely saw Lightyear, loved it, and then became a devoted follower of the spin-off cartoon, from which all the kid-friendly merchandise followed. Lightyear is clearly supposed to be one of these within the Pixar / Toy Story universe; this one, at least, is not a plot hole.
As for why Andy hasn't been raving about Lightyear in Toy Story, this one's simple — he almost certainly has, we just don't see it on screen. Remember, Toy Story literally starts mere minutes before Andy's birthday party, at which point he receives Buzz; he's likely seen Lightyear and the cartoons etc. at some point before his birthday and been begging Mom for Lightyear-related stuff, only to be fobbed off with that classic childhood response of "Well, you've got a [birthday/Christmas/significant gift-receiving celebration] coming up..." We just don't see it because, well, it happens before the movie starts. And remember that once Buzz shows up, there's a montage which very quickly shows all Andy's cowboy stuff being quickly replaced with Buzz Lightyear / space-themed stuff. Andy's likely been Lightyear obsessed for a little while at least, but keeps playing with his cowboy toys because he doesn't have any Buzz Lightyear-themed toys until his birthday. He's just having one last cowboy playtime before his birthday.
The movie treats the final hyperspace crystal as, barring time travel shenanigans, the only one they can make. And while the device with the formula on it was smashed...Sox is a robot. A robot who not only came up with the formula, but was there to help Buzz use it to make the crystal. Can't they just get the formula for stable crystals from Sox's memory? Which begs the question of why Old Buzz needed to do his plan of capturing his past self's crystal. Why couldn't he make a new one himself?
He doesn't have the facilities or the materials to fabricate a new crystal, which may be why he's laying siege to the base.
Zurg's Sox is also visibly damaged, so he might not be able to replicate it.
As for Buzz himself: Zurg revealed to him that when Buzz returned, even with the perfected crystal, he was arrested for stealing the jet rather than hailed as a hero. If he doesn't even have the crystal but only a hypothetically working formula, he would have even less of a chance of succeeding.
Alisha's son looks a lot like her, and Izzy is her living image, to the point of Buzz at first mistaking Izzy for Alisha. But Alisha cannot have a biological son with Kiko, can she?
We clearly see Alisha pregnant, so regardless of whether it was via sperm donor or a sci-fi form of homosexual reproduction, she’d still be genetically linked to her son.
What happened to Izzy's father (Alisha's son)? Wouldn't he be like in his 60s or 70s in adult Izzy's timeline? Did he pass away?
If he is alive, he's trapped inside the laser shield with everyone else for the bulk of the movie. Possibly he's a civilian and/or retired, which is why he's not present when Buzz and the crew get detained.
How come Toy Story Buzz made reference to Zurg, but never any of the other characters from this movie? And how come Zurg says he's Buzz's father in the second movie, but in this one he's Buzz from the future?
In real-life, the movie never happened yet, so the writers of Toy Story wouldn't have any idea of who to reference besides Zurg. As for an In-Universe explanation, the Buzz Lightyear toys aren't entirely based on the movie, but rather (per Word of God) on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Andy's Buzz and the Al's Toy Barn Zurg included. Granted, Andy's Buzz seems to have the memories and experiences of the movie, but Utility Belt Buzz is new enough that his personality would hew towards the cartoon instead of the film—and said cartoon is in an Alternate Continuity to the film. In that cartoon, Zurg throws the "I am your father" bit to throw off Buzz (even if he's doing it just to troll with him), so it makes sense that Toy!Zurg would pull the same trick, seeing as he's not a future, evil Buzz, but just a Card-Carrying Villain. As for the rest of Buzz's crew, as mentioned, he wouldn't bring up the movie crew since he's more cartoon-inspired, but that does leave a plot hole as to why he never mentioned his crew from the cartoon...
This might be more of a science question than a plot question, I don't know. But Buzz seems surprised when approaching hyperspeed causes him to jump forward in time, suggesting that it doesn't happen with the crystal they originally had in the turnip. So... why is that? Is it just that hyperspeed itself doesn't cause the time dilation that the speeds APPROACHING it do, and the turnip has more powerful engines so it can reach hyperspeed instantly? Or what?
Best guess is that the problem is twofold.
First off normally the rangers along with the science staff are traveling as a single group, this means that nobody would be traveling through space/time at a rate any more accelerated than the rest. This means that while on an intellectual level Buzz would be aware of this problem it's not something he's actually had to deal with personally.
Second at least on paper once something exceeds the speed of light it would actually have the opposite problem, travelling backwards through time. Presumably the Turnip along with other official vessels calculate an appropriate mix of speeding toward hyperspeed and travelling at it to even out to a travel time that doesn't violate causality but that the prototype ship lacked/couldn't do because they never actually attained hyperspeed.
Buzz seems to remember what dilation is once the robot explains it to him, so my best guess is that hyperspeed (or traveling close to hyperspeed) only causes time dilation if you do it wrong. Normally there's some sort of Time Calibration gizmo that hooks up to the crystal and prevents dilation, but Buzz didn't have one of those. Without that gizmo there was a chance he'd experience dilation but he assumed that he'd get lucky. He was surprised to find out that he wasn't lucky and that dilation had occurred.
How come Izzy knew about the stealth mode the suits have and used it to play hide and seek with her grandmother all the time, but claims she never knew that stealth mode is only viable for about a minute?
If she hasn’t used it since Alisha died (22 years ago from her perspective), it’s possible she simply forgot in the interim.
If the timeline has already split once, leading to two independent timelines with Buzz and Old Buzz, then who is to say going back to the start of the movie's events wouldn't simply trigger a third timeline rather than erasing the timeline Buzz is concerned about? Even though Commander Hawthorne came out ahead, there surely must have been plenty of other people worth going back for who were devastated over their lives derailing and being stranded on a hostile alien world until they died.
True, as far as it goes. The problem is, you're having to decide between erasing generations of people for the benefit of those who will never know it was done, or stopping your meddling with time travel. Not to mention, if the timeline splits instead of changing, as with Zurg effectively changing his past, then you haven't really spared anyone anything. You've just created a whole new timeline, while the people who suffered and died on an alien planet still suffered and died on an alien planet.
There’s another factor to consider: By the time the movie ends, the people have been living on that planet for nearly a hundred years. Everyone who was alive on the initial crashing are either extremely old or dead. The rest? The planet is their home, it’s literally the only place they’ve ever known. The movie was about Buzz coming to terms with the fact that trying to meddle with time to help out the initial survivors in lieu of the many, many descendants who call that planet their home is kind of a selfish move.
How did the villain end up just with the name Zurg when the robot minions are clearly saying something like “Bizurg” every single time? All throughout the movie, no one ever acknowledges that there’s an obvious “B” sound at the beginning — even Older Buzz passes it off as them saying “Zurg”.
They've got big Z symbols. Presumably Old Buzz decided it sounded more like "Zurg" than anything, and everyone else saw the symbols and were predisposed to hear it as "[glitch noise] Zurg."
Old Buzz states in the film that they're trying to say 'Buzz' but can't, leading to 'Bzurg'. It seems to be more a Verbal Tic in the robots than anything else.
So Sox perfects the crystal and their jump puts both him and Buzz 22 years into the future. Well, before that jump, Buzz stole the ship. Which is apparently still a sore spot to the commander as he’s willing to still arrest Buzz for that two decade old crime. I know they’re a military and Buzz went AWOL but still, grudge-holding much
Even in real life, authorities won’t just forget you committed a serious crime if it takes them years to catch up to you. You occasionally hear news stories about someone being caught and prosecuted for decades-old crimes now that the police finally found them; they don’t just get to walk because it’s been years since the crime.
It may have been 22 years to them, but it wasn’t more than an a few minutes to Buzz. Part of the logic behind the statute of limitations is that people can’t be punished for things that, from their perspective, happened years and years ago — since they aren’t likely to have as much bearing on who that person is now. In Buzz’s case, he would have the exact same extremist mindset when he landed as he did when the ship left, meaning he’s just as much of a security risk. It has nothing to do with the commander holding a grudge; if we ever do invent time travel, you can bet that an exception will be made to the statute of limitations just to punish criminals who try fleeing into the future.
Is the movie supposed to be Live-Action or Animated In-Universe? If this was the exact movie Andy saw, how did the animation have such detailed graphics in the 90's when even Disney/Pixar themselves were struggling to make 3D animated films look good at that time? If it were live-action, how do special effects blend so seamlessly when sci-fi movies of the 90s still had a few kinks to work out?
My guess would be live-action. As for the seamless visual effects, it's possible that the movie we got is the George Lucas Altered Version of a film that was originally released in 1995, but got an Updated Re-release a couple decades later, like how the originalStar Wars had its visual effects overhauled back in 1997, then again in 2004, 2012, and 2019, respectively.
It's Live Action according to one of the producers.
Buzz said if "Zurg" goes back to the past before they landed that planet, they will erase everything. First of all, that theory has not been proven in the movie. Buzz always travelled to the future, never in the past. So how does he know "Zurg" will erase everything if he never travelled to the past? And second, wouldn't Alisha still have met her wife even if they never had landed on that planet?
Zurg outright tells Buzz he time traveled into the past, and the fact that he's an older version of Buzz supports the claim. He also claims he never experienced what Buzz did during the movie, supporting the idea of changing timelines. Sure, it's not PROVEN, but there's no reason to assume he's lying, and if he is, that's not exactly a reason to trust him with the crystal. He wants to do something Buzz can't allow, which is a reason to oppose him just in case he could actually do it. And Alisha outright says she wouldn't have married Keiko if not for the accident, likely because their careers would have kept them from interacting too much, or because both of them would be married to the job.
What would've happened if "Zurg" had succeed on stealing the crystal, killed Buzz Lightyear and the others, going back to the past and finishing the mission?
He would have landed on the planet at some point before the first test flight, handed his younger self the perfected crystal, and been hailed as a hero. Presumably he would have glossed over the whole "also, I killed a younger version of myself after laying siege to your home for a week, and I deliberately erased all the lives you guys had because I didn't care." Alisha might have known something was up (that giant evil spaceship is suspicious), and it could have blown up in his face, but he had good reason to believe his plan would work.
Alternatively he could have shown up before they got to the planet and waited in orbit, telling the Turnip what would happen if they landed on the planet. It seems his crystal burned out and he couldn't go back much further. He technically wouldn't need a functional one if he could prevent the first one from getting destroyed. Naturally he would still gloss over everyone he killed or erased, because to him it doesn't matter.
Buzz at one point mentions a Galactic Alliance, but what exactly is it? The name suggests a alliance that spans the galaxy, but no relationship with another alien culture is even referenced in the film suggesting that what ever it is it is not a example of The Federation trope.
So Zurg is Buzz's evil self from the future. Except that in all of Buzz's interactions in the Toy Story films, he never once mentions Zurg's identity. Also, if Zurg is his future self and both he and Zurg know that, what's up with the Luke, I Am Your Father moment in Toy Story 2?
Perhaps the Buzz toy was designed with only vague details about Zurg so as to not spoil the movie to anyone who bought the toy?
But then why does Zurg claim to be his father if neither of them have any reason to assume that?
As mentioned further up the page, the in-universe explanation is that this movie inspired the "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" cartoon show, which took place in its own canon, and the toys were based on the cartoon. In the original movie canon, Zurg is Old Buzz but there is a moment where Young Buzz thinks that Old Buzz is his dad. (Also there is a real Zurg who does not appear in the movie; Old Buzz stole his tech from the future and dressed up like him.) In the cartoon canon there's no Old Buzz and Zurg is a separate character, but at one point Zurg falsely claims to be Buzz's father just to mess with his head. In Toy Story 2, the Zurg toy and the delusional Buzz toy end up re-enacting the scene from the cartoon (or at least something close to it).
It's a bit confusing how Star Command on T'Kani Prime is meant to operate in the grander scale of the galaxy. With Earth still being a sought out destination for some time, it would still seem to be a focus of Star Command operations (and with references to the Galactic Alliance, part of a larger multi-planet organization), yet for all intents and purposes the colony's establishment is treated as independent of any greater organization. Do they even have communication with Earth/Star Command/the Alliance in spite of being limited to the space around T'Kani Prime? What grounds can they be operating Star Command jurisdiction with missions around nearby quadrants and whatnot without the oversight of the greater galaxy? Plus it feels shortsighted that hyperspace redevelopment would be curtailed even for contact and travel purposes in that regard; if they're going to be acting as galactic heroes they need some level of greater authority and connection with the greater galaxy.
The perfected hyperspeed crystal suffered from a case of No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup due to it taking several decades to formulate and the computer getting accidentally destroyed during its production. So what powers the ship at the very end of the film when the Space Rangers enter hyperspeed?
Three possible sources... the broken computer was salvaged in the hangar and the file was able to be recovered, the last ratios were still present in the fuel dispensers and recorded, or Sox himself remembered.
Is Sox considered a person or property by Burnside and the T'Kani Prime government? If he's a person, then Burnside's order to "decommission" him is a Deadly Euphemism, and represents the state murdering somebody without any kind of trial. If he's property, then why is he being treated as an honoured Space Ranger in the final scene?
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