Galaxy Quest/Trivia


 * Hey It's That Guy - Justin Long, the Mac Guy (from the "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" commercials) in his first film role as one of the Galaxy Quest fanboys.
 * Also Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) as one of the aliens! And Ted Buckland (Sam Lloyd) as another!
 * And Crewman Daniels as a third!
 * And Adrian Monk!
 * He even mentioned how clean the floor of the space ship was.
 * Though the trope applied at the time, audiences would have recognized him as the Funny Foreigner from Wings.
 * Alexander is Hans Gruber!.
 * And the Sheriff of Nottingham, and the Metatron, and Severus Snape...
 * (You are reading this in Mr. Rickman's bored voice)
 * Daddy Mars is Mathazar, the head alien!
 * He's also That archaeologist who got captured with Daniel Jackson in Honduras!
 * Look! One of the Kids in the Hall!
 * Are you people kidding?? What about Ellen Ripley?!
 * And you all forget Tim Allen "The Tool-Man" Taylor and Buzz Lightyear.
 * And Sarris himself is Giles' least favorite chaos warlock, Ethan Rayne. He's also Zaeed Massani
 * Listen closely, Garrus is in this film!
 * Myth Busters: Adam, Grant, and Tory all did model work for the film.
 * Shout Out:
 * After surviving his initial encounter with Jason, Sarris gets a bolted on Eyepatch of Power similiar to General Chang in Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country
 * Based On -- There was a now mostly-forgotten Star Trek fanfic that had a similar plot. "Visit to a Strange Planet Revisited" was published in the 1970s in Star Trek: The New Voyages, a collection of fanfics edited by Sondra Marshak, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, and Myrna Culbreath. In the story, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and James Doohan step on the transporter set, and end up on the actual U.S.S. Enterprise in a crisis with the Klingons.