Popular examples of these types of films include Back to the Future, Spaceballs, Ghostbusters, Evolution, Innerspace, Galaxy Quest, Mars Attacks !, and Men in Black.

Galaxy Quest is a 1999 science-fiction comedy parody about a troupe of human actors who defend a group of aliens against an alien warlord.

It stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, and Daryl Mitchell as the cast of a defunct television series called Galaxy Quest, in which the crew of a spaceship embarked on intergalactic adventures.

In commentary on the Blu-ray edition of Star Trek, director J. J. Abrams called Galaxy Quest " one of the best " Star Trek " movies ever made.

Galaxy Quest is a once-popular television space-drama series starring Jason Nesmith as the commander of a spaceship called the NSEA Protector, Alexander Dane as the ship's alien science officer, Fred Kwan as the chief engineer, Gwen DeMarco as the computer officer, and Tommy Webber as a precocious child pilot.

Eighteen years after the show was cancelled, as a Galaxy Quest convention full of costumed fans is underway, Jason is approached by a group of people whose leader, Mathesar, says that they are aliens called " Thermians ".

Technologically advanced but having no concept of fiction, they have mistaken broadcasts of Galaxy Quest for historical documentaries and modelled their society on the ethos presented in the episodes.

Sarris interrogates Jason about the Omega 13 and forces him to admit the truth about Galaxy Quest to Mathesar, who is heartbroken after learning that Jason and his crew are make-believe.

Not knowing how the ship works, Jason then contacts an avid Galaxy Quest fan named Brandon in his suburban home on Earth, using a Vox communicator that he accidentally swapped at a promotional store opening.

As the Thermians take control of the ship, the actors detach the command deck and land on Earth with Brandon's help, accidentally crashing into the building where the Galaxy Quest convention is taking place.

Later that year Galaxy Quest is revived, starring the original cast, along with Laliari, a female Thermian who chose to stay on Earth as Fred's lover, and with Guy playing the ship's chief of security, " Roc " Ingersol.

The cast of Galaxy Quest.

Peter Quincy Taggart, the captain of the Protector, during the original Galaxy Quest television run.

Jason remains the putative leader of the Galaxy Quest crew members as they travel to conventions and strip mall dedications.

* Alan Rickman as Alexander Dane, the actor who portrayed Dr Lazarus of Tev ' Meck on the Galaxy Quest TV show.

Guy ultimately finds his courage when Fred suggests that he think of himself as " the plucky comic relief ", and at the end of the story he is given a permanent role in the Galaxy Quest cast as the starship's Security Chief " Roc " Ingersol ( a reference to his earlier lament that characters without full names are always killed ).

His character on Galaxy Quest had been a Wunderkind pilot, but the real-life Tommy has much more difficulty piloting a real starship and only masters the controls after watching video of his work as a child.

* Justin Long as Brandon, a devoted Galaxy Quest fan with an encyclopedic knowledge of the show.

Galaxy Quest was a critical success.

* 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!

* I've had flashbacks of Galaxy Quest at the many conventions I've gone to since the movie came out.

* Yes, I have seen Galaxy Quest and no, Star Trek fandom is not really like that.

* I loved Galaxy Quest.

Galaxy Quest is an acknowledged homage to Star Trek ; therefore a variety of elements in the former correspond to those of the latter.

The television program within the film, Galaxy Quest, is set around the starship NSEA Protector, an instrument of the National Space Exploration Administration, which are obviously parodies of the USS Enterprise and Starfleet respectively.

Some starships are assembled at Utopia Planitia region on Mars, particularly the Galaxy class starships featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar (" Star Patrol ") and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia (" Voyage to the Final Galaxy ") or Astronave Intrepido (" Starship Intrepid ") in Spain and Latin America.

* Galaxy class ( 2363 – 2371 ) from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation and film Generations.

* Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat and Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers novels

Mario and Peach then get the Grand Star, before the Comet Observatory from the first Super Mario Galaxy shows up, and Rosalina is heard thanking Mario for watching over the Luma that he had found.

Whipping Star ( novel ) Galaxy, 1969

The group continued to attain success with their next album, Galaxy ( 1977 ) whose title single was inspired by Star Wars.

EIAS has been used in numerous film and television productions such as Piranha 3D, Alien Trespass, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Daddy Day Care, K-19: The Widowmaker, Gangs of New York, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Men In Black II, The Bourne Identity, Behind Enemy Lines, Time Machine, Ticker, JAG-Pilot Episode, Spawn, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Galaxy Quest, Mission to Mars, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Titan A. E., U-571, Dinosaur, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 2: Judgement Day-DVD Intro, Jungle Book 2, American President, Sleepers, Star Wars Special Edition, Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, Return of Jedi Special Edition, Bicentennial Man, Vertical Limit, Elf, Blade Trinity, and Lost In Space.

* Death Star Galaxy

The developers also cite 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the original Battlestar Galactica as influences.

In the first novel, the giant computer the Googolplex Star Thinker is from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity.

About twenty or so bronze statues-each perhaps four or five feet tall-of characters and scenes from the popular 1970s anime Uchū Senkan Yamato ( Space Battleship Yamato or, in the United States, Star Blazers ) and Galaxy Express 999 were erected in the city's downtown area in 1999.

The Pistol Star is a blue hypergiant and is one of the most luminous known stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

StarTopia draws inspiration from and makes frequent references to mainstream science fiction, such as Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey ( the player's assistant computer VAL, is a parody of Space Odysseys HAL ), Red Dwarf, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* USS Yamato ( NCC-71807 ), a Galaxy class starship and the sister ship of the USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-D ) in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Somewhere deep within the Andromeda Galaxy lies the Algol Star System.