{"id":29044,"date":"2014-12-06T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T05:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29044"},"modified":"2014-12-05T07:38:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T12:38:24","slug":"i-still-say-galaxy-quest-was-the-best-star-trek-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/12\/06\/i-still-say-galaxy-quest-was-the-best-star-trek-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"I still say <em>Galaxy Quest<\/em> was the best <em>Star Trek<\/em> movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and now here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivefeetoffury.com\/2014\/12\/04\/by-grabthars-hammer-what-a-savings-an-oral-history-of-galaxy-quest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Shaidle<\/a> saying the same thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBy Grabthar\u2019s Hammer\u2026\u201d but also \u201cIt\u2019s real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And when they torture the little alien.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, man. I\u2019m tearing up just typing that.<\/p>\n<p>If <em>Star Wars<\/em> had been this good, I\u2019d have been a fan.<\/p>\n<p>One day people will realize that <em>Galaxy Quest<\/em> is the better movie, like they\u2019ll realize that <em>Goodfellas<\/em> is better than <em>The Godfather<\/em> and <em>Psycho<\/em> is better than <em>Vertigo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>\u201cBy Grabthar\u2019s Hammer\u201d was a temp line. It was basically the Hammer of Thor, but Grabthar just sounded so silly. I kept meaning to change it, but around the production offices, they started to make t-shirts, it started to sink in a little bit.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Harold Ramis was initially supposed to direct.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted either Alec Baldwin or Kevin Kline for the Tim Allen role. But Allen being a recovering alcoholic f-up in real life really adds to his performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WjT0KWn6T7I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Uploaded on 20 Oct 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the mockumentary on <em>Galaxy Quest<\/em> that aired on <em>E!<\/em> before the movie came out. It&#8217;s about the fake show&#8217;s 20th anniversary and everybody&#8217;s in character. The quality is kind of sketch but this is crazy rare. Credit goes to britbitsandclips.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and now here&#8217;s Kathy Shaidle saying the same thing: \u201cBy Grabthar\u2019s Hammer\u2026\u201d but also \u201cIt\u2019s real.\u201d And when they torture the little alien. Oh, man. I\u2019m tearing up just typing that. If Star Wars had been this good, I\u2019d have been a fan. One day people will realize that Galaxy Quest is the better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[122,463,223,101],"class_list":["post-29044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-movies","tag-parody","tag-startrek","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7ys","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29045,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29044\/revisions\/29045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}