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The ''Southern Sun'' is a seedship, a spacefaring vessel full of colonists out to settle a new world. [[Generation Ships|Its voyage has lasted generations, so many of its inhabitants have been born and will die without ever setting foot on solid ground.]] This does not please the antagonist, [[Big Bad|Elijah Kalgan]] (not be confused with [[wikipedia:Calgon|Calgon]]), who conspires with the [[Space Pirates|pirates infesting the nearby Corona Borealis system]] and the ship's Chief Engineer MacPhearson. Kalgan hatches a plot to disrupt the ''Southern Sun'''s navigation systems and use the Enforcers, the ship's police force, to hijack the ship and direct it towards this system. At this point, the inhabitants of the ''Southern Sun'' will have no choice but to accept his 'generosity'.

 

For the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' version, please go to the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S08/E20 Space Mutiny|episode recap page]].

 

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* [[Artistic License Astronomy]]: "Constellation" is used as a meaningful locational term.

* [[A-Team Firing]]: Lea among others had poor aim. With both Kalgan and Ryder's "speeders" bearing down on her, she fires at Kalgan... and [[Stop Helping Me!|manages to hit Ryder's speeder]], [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|temporarily disabling it]].

* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Steve Codell says he'd rather jump to his doom than join Kalgan (or be put on ice). He's just climbing over the railing when Kalgan gives him a push.

* [[Bridge Bunnies]]: Some of whom are dressed so scantily they may as well be Hugh Hefner Bunnies.

* [[Chase Scene]]: Done with ''floor waxers.''

* [[The Chosen One]]: Ryder.

* [[Creator Backlash]]: The credited director, David Winters (whose other major contribution to the world of cinema was choreographing the dance routines in ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'') actually only directed a small portion of it, after which he quit due to family troubles. He wanted his credit changed to [[Alan Smithee]], but found out the hard way that the Director's Guild doesn't really care about the credits on low-budget exploitation films.

** For an encore, Neal Sundstrom, the director who was ''actually'' responsible for the bulk of the film, wasn't very happy with the finished product either, and elected to have a "co-director" title which was buried in the end credits.

** Note that they have exactly no impact on the plot. It's fairly obvious the part was added after everything else was shot, since except for the one brief scene with Santa no-one they interact with ever shows up in the main story even as mooks.

* [[Parody Retcon]]: Assuming you don't take Mrs. Cameron's insistence that this was a [[Stealth Parody]] at face value, of course.

* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Not the actual pirates in the movie, who at least try to do something, but this trope does apply to Captain Devers.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: The Mortuary Keeper is just there running the facility where failed Mooks are frozen until necessary. He may work for the villain, but when the heroes arrive he asks if they need help or would like a cup of tea. He also answers all their questions about the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Evil Plan]]. He doesn't really seem evil at all.

** More of a parody of movie making itself than the sci-fi genre, though.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Female crewmembers besides Lt. Lamont all dress like [[American Gladiators]].

** The Ship in this movie flies in the opposite direction from the original.

* [[Stock Sound Effect]]: The movie used the same "red alert," sound effect used in [[Star Trek]].

* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: Kalgan's interrogation of Lea, which involves a whirring laser used to burn out her teeth. Lamest. Torture. Ever.

** And the laser sounds exactly like a dentist's drill. And it works "not unlike ancient dental equipment. Not that you'd know anything about that."

* [[This Is a Drill]]: Yet it's supposed to be a laser, despite the loud drill sounds.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]] - Engineer Parsons. At first the faction of mutinous engineers led by MacPhearson aren't actually that bothered by Parsons' refusal to join in the mutiny... until he says these words which, unsurprisingly, proved to be his last:

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