# ? about Galaxy Quest **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867 "2025-02-27T13:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/101 "2025-03-25T23:50:37Z")
The clue is in the name, right? Though he probably thought it would follow the go-without-saying rules of every elite martial arts tournament: no killing, no paralyzing… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/102 "2025-03-25T23:50:48Z")
IIRC, he thinks it’s some illegal, underground “no holds barred” tournament where people routinely die, he just didn’t expect the whole “Battle for the fate of the Earth Realm” stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/103 "2025-03-27T07:02:26Z")
In the documentary “Never Give Up, Never Surrender” Enrico Colantoni, the actor who played Mathesar, explained that the extras went though an impromptu school to learn how to be a Thermian. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/104 "2025-03-27T08:59:20Z")
I haven’t seen this documentary, but I recommend this fascinating interview about various roles, including his performance as Malthesar. He was given very free hands. Their speech was based it on a voice resonator exercise he half remembered from his acting school days. Movement on what he figured octupii would do when attempting to mimic humans. CTRL-F Galaxy Quest [https://www.avclub.com/enrico-colantoni-on-veronica-mars-galaxy-quest-and-th-1798250052](https://www.avclub.com/enrico-colantoni-on-veronica-mars-galaxy-quest-and-th-1798250052) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/105 "2025-03-27T17:28:27Z")
The way they walked in human form was inspired by the mannikin cast of Fireball XL5. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/106 "2025-03-27T23:46:26Z")
Mannequin, but I get your point. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/107 "2025-03-28T00:05:56Z")
[Mannikin is also correct.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manikin) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/108 "2025-03-28T00:31:05Z")
Thank you. TIL. I was thinking of the (in)famous _Mannekin Pis_. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/109 "2025-03-28T00:38:09Z")
I’ve heard of one zombie movie where they managed to shift the zombie walk into the uncanny valley by asking the zombie actors to walk backwards, and then reversed the footage. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/110 "2025-03-30T00:21:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’ve heard of one zombie movie where they managed to shift the zombie walk into the uncanny valley by asking the zombie actors to walk backwards, and then reversed the footage John Sayles had aliens do that in _Brother From Another Planet_ for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/111 "2025-03-30T00:35:45Z")
I’ve got good news. That gum you like is going to come back in style. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-galaxy-quest/1014867/112 "2025-03-30T01:24:05Z")
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