Editing Galaxy Quest (section)

==== Reaction from ''Star Trek'' actors ====
Several actors who have had roles on various ''Star Trek'' television series and films have commented on ''Galaxy Quest'' in light of their own experiences with the franchise and its fandom.

{{blockquote| I had originally not wanted to see [''Galaxy Quest''] because I heard that it was making fun of ''Star Trek'' and then [[Jonathan Frakes]] rang me up and said "You must not miss this movie! See it on a Saturday night in a full theatre." And I did and of course I found it was brilliant. Brilliant. No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful. And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.|[[Patrick Stewart]] ([[Jean-Luc Picard]] on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]]'')<ref name="PSI">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/stewart/page13.shtml |title=Interviews: Patrick Stewart – Galaxy Quest (Star Trek Cult) |work=BBC | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140113105956/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/stewart/page13.shtml | archive-date=January 13, 2014| access-date = September 9, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lyall |first=Sarah |title=To Boldly Go Where Shakespeare Calls |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 27, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/theater/27lyal.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin |access-date=June 28, 2008 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122944/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/theater/27lyal.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="appleyard20071104">{{cite news | publisher=News Corp. | url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article2785374.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511195800/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article2785374.ece | archive-date=May 11, 2008 | title=Patrick Stewart: Keep on Trekkin' | work=The Sunday Times | date=November 4, 2007 | access-date=April 27, 2011 | author=Appleyard, Bryan | location=London}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|I've had flashbacks of ''Galaxy Quest'' at the many conventions I've gone to since the movie came out. I thought it was an absolute laugh-a-minute.|[[Tim Russ]] ([[Tuvok]] on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.startrek.com/community/transcripts/russ_041802.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030216213443/http://www.startrek.com/community/transcripts/russ_041802.asp |archive-date=February 16, 2003 |title=StarTrek.com: Transcripts (Tim Russ Chat on 04/18/2002) |access-date=7 January 2016}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|I loved ''Galaxy Quest''. I thought it was brilliant satire, not only of ''Trek'', but of fandom in general. The only thing I wish they had done was cast me in it, and have me play a freaky fanboy who keeps screaming at the actor who played 'the kid' about [[Wesley_Crusher#Reception|how awful it was that there was a kid on the spaceship]]. Alas.|[[Wil Wheaton]] ([[Wesley Crusher]] on ''TNG'')<ref>[http://www.wilwheaton.net/mt/archives/000768.php Where is my mind? – Tangent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609040330/http://www.wilwheaton.net/mt/archives/000768.php |date=June 9, 2012 }} WIL WHEATON dot NET, September 24, 2001</ref> }}

{{blockquote|Yes, I have seen ''Galaxy Quest'' and no, it's not really like that.|[[Casey Biggs]] ([[Damar (Star Trek)|Damar]] on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|DS9]]'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.startrek.com/community/transcripts/biggs_032802.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020606152819/http://www.startrek.com/community/transcripts/biggs_032802.asp |archive-date=June 6, 2002 |title=StarTrek.com: Transcripts (Casey Biggs Chat on 3/28/2002) on |access-date=7 January 2016}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|I think it's a chillingly realistic documentary. [laughs] The details in it, I recognized every one of them. It is a powerful piece of documentary filmmaking. And I do believe that when we get kidnapped by aliens, it's going to be the genuine, true ''Star Trek'' fans who will save the day.{{nbsp}}... I was rolling in the aisles. And Tim Allen had that Shatner-esque swagger down pat. And I roared when the shirt came off, and Sigourney [Weaver] rolls her eyes and says, "There goes that shirt again."{{nbsp}}... How often did we hear that on the set? [Laughs]|[[George Takei]] ([[Hikaru Sulu]] on ''TOS'')<ref name="Takei" />}}

{{blockquote|I thought it was very funny, and I thought the audience that they portrayed was totally real, but the actors that they were pretending to be were totally unrecognizable. Certainly I don't know what Tim Allen was doing. He seemed to be the head of a group of actors, and for the life of me I was trying to understand who he was imitating. The only one I recognized was the girl playing Nichelle Nichols.|[[William Shatner]] ([[James T. Kirk]] on ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|TOS]]'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.startrek.com/community/transcripts/shatner_110801.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020414185202/http://www.startrek.com/community/transcripts/shatner_110801.asp |archive-date=April 14, 2002 |title=StarTrek.com: Transcripts (William Shatner Chat on 11/08/2001) |access-date=7 January 2016}}</ref>}}