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Flm 827: Galaxy Quest

Trivia: The evil warlord Sarris was named for film critic Andrew Sarris, who once trashed producer Mark Johnson's The Natural. Sarris' metal eye-patch mimics that worn by General Chang (Christopher Plummer) in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

The rock monster is a mock tribute to William Shatner, who desperately wanted to put rock monsters in the climax of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, but had to cut them out of his script for budgetary reasons. There are a couple of references to Star Trek episode #1.18, "Arena", particularly the suggestion to "build a weapon" during Jason's encounter with the rock monster.

At the beginning of the film, Tommy's "You are so full of shit, man!" line was re-dubbed to "You are so full of it, man!" When faced with going through "the chompers", Gwen's "Well, fuck that!" was re-dubbed to say "Well, screw that!". These edits were to avoid a PG-13 rating. The original lines are still obvious when reading their lips.

The set of the NSEA Protector was built on an articulated platform so that it could move a few feet in any direction, for a touch of realism (instead of actors leaning in unison). When it was first used the set dropped two feet and shifted to the side, causing several cast members to fall out of their chairs and two lights to fall down.

Reportedly originally developed by Harold Ramis for Disney, but Ramis dropped out before production began.

According to writer David Howard, the continuous melodic yet monotone voice of Thermian Cmdr. Mathesar was an original idea that Enrico Colantoni brought to the character. Everyone on the set loved it so much they kept it in the shoot.

Sigourney Weaver said that whenever she put on the blonde wig to become Gwen, "I could feel my IQ drop precipitously".

The scene when Tim Allen is in a mens room overhearing how the cast of Galaxy Quest are nobodies and all the co-stars can't stand him mirrors an actual event in William Shatner's life. He discovered the exact same things about himself when he attended a Star Trek convention.

Justin Long's film debut.

Rainn Wilson's big screen debut.

A very subtle joke is that Guy believes his character is now safe since he is the security chief and has a name on the revival series. The named, main character security chief of the revival series this movie spoofs, Star Trek: The Next Generation, was killed off in the first season.