Ten Best Planets in Science Fiction

[delalluvia]

what was that movie that had the cast of a sci fi show get kidnapped to defend some aliens? Galaxyquest? there was an African American in a red shirt and he was so upset because "Are you kidding? I am Black, I have on a red shirt, there is NO WAY I am gonna survive this!!!"

 

only a Trekkie would snort their Coke outta their nose at that one...

That must have been a Saturday Night Live skit.   

No, a white actor Sam Rockwell named "Guy" was in GalaxyQuest.  He was a redshirt and Guy spent the entire movie terrified he was going to get killed at any minute.  If that wasn't funny enough, the rest of the characters expected him to as well.      

Guy Fleegman: I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm just "Crewman Number Six." I'm expendable. I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is. I've gotta get outta here.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I see Kolob didn't make the list.   

From Wikipedia:

Kolob in popular culture

Some of the elements of the two Battlestar Galactica science-fiction television shows seem to be derived from the Mormon beliefs of its creator and chief producer, Glen A. Larson. In both the original series from 1978, and the 2003 new series, the planet Kobol is the ancient and distant mother world of the entire human race and the planet where life began, and the "Lords of Kobol" are sacred figures to the human race. They are treated as elders or patriarchs in the old series, and versions of the Twelve Olympians in the new series. According to Jana Reiss, author of What Would Buffy Do? [5] "Kobol" as an anagram of "Kolob" is only one of many plot points Larson has borrowed from Mormonism.

[Meryl]

That's interesting to know, Jeff.  I had no idea BSG had Mormon roots. 

[Kd5000]

Is Commander Adama Brigham Young leading a group of followers to a find a new Eden?   I knew there is some Scientology influence in Hollywood, less aware of Mormon influences.

[Jeff Wrangler]

That's interesting to know, Jeff.  I had no idea BSG had Mormon roots. 

I didn't, either, until I looked up "Kolob."

I was just trying to make a questionably tasteful joke and it turned out to be sort-of germane to the discussion anyway!