Galaxina is a low-budget 1980 American science-fantasy comedy written and directed by William Sachs that has a police cruiser on a mission to find a Blue Star that has unlimited power and dealing with a captain who is obsessed with the robot, Galaxina (Dorothy Stratten).
The movie also stars Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J.D. Hinton, Lionel Mark Smith, and Tad Horino.
It was released on June 6, 1980, shortly before Stratten, who played the titular character, was murdered by her husband.
Tropes for the film:
- Cargo Cult: One of Altar I's civilizations is a cult of bikers, descended from biker gangs exiled to the planet centuries ago, who worship a Harley-Davidson motorcycle as their God. Tellingly, when our heroes are using said motorbike to escape and the bike's engine wakes up most members of the group, they bow down to the passing motorcycle instead of opening fire.
- Eat Dirt, Cheap: The Space Police have an alien prisoner on their cruiser who eats rocks. The Captain amuses himself feeding the prisoner by chucking rocks at its head.Alien: OW! Is this how you get your rocks off?
- Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: Sergeant Thor tries to slap the titular Robot Girl on the ass, but gets an electric shock.
- Food Pills: The crew are served chicken-flavored food pills. Captain Cornelius Butt is sick of eating them, however, so he eats an alien egg instead, leading to a spoof of a certain sci-fi movie scene.
- Global Currency: The film has "Earth Yen".
- I'm a Humanitarian: The saloon on the Wild West planet has numerous ingredients derived from human body parts.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Whenever someone mentions the Blue Star, a musical sting plays. After the first couple of times, the characters start to react to it. During the final battle with the Big Bad, when the sting plays, he suddenly looks around and shouts, "What is that shit?!?"
- Multiboobage: The film has a triple-breasted space hooker.
- Nipple and Dimed: Massive amounts of lingerie and implied sex scenes, not a single nipple.
- Robo Sexual: The eponymous Robot Girl falls in love with the handsome hero, who is eager to reciprocate physically given that she's played by Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten. Unfortunately she doesn't have the required parts for sexual intercourse, which have to be ordered from a catalogue. Then the hero angsts that they can never have children, only to be told they're in the catalogue too.
- Robot Girl: The eponymous character is a robotic crew-woman on the space cruiser.
- Running Gag: Every single time the name of the Blue Star is said outloud, dramatic music is heard, followed by everyone present looking around for the source.
- Self-Abuse: Captain Butt discourages having sex with a robot because you could go blind. They shouldn't have built Galaxina to resemble the 1980 Playmate of the Year then—as she's the only female on the ship, the crew would go blind either way.
