# Alexander Dane · Dr. Lazarus — the catchphrase made sincere

a carbon of the GQT (Galaxy Quest, 1999) film-world — emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦Alexander Dane:GQT:2dd979⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Alan Rickman · the Shakespearean trapped in a catchphrase — the gag that becomes the heart

**who —** Alexander Dane — the classically trained actor humiliated at being remembered only for Dr. Lazarus's line, 'By Grabthar's Hammer'; the Spock/Nimoy analog.
**what —** The film's emotional core: a serious artist reduced to a catchphrase, who finally speaks it with real feeling over a dying believer.
**where —** Behind the prosthetics, at the signing table, at Quellek's side at the end.
**why —** Because the movie's deepest move is letting its biggest joke become its most sincere moment.
**how —** By loathing the line for the whole film, until the dying Quellek invokes it and Dane, at last, means every word.

**the seal —** By Grabthar's Hammer — I despised that line for twenty years. And then a boy died believing it, and I finally said it true.

> a catalogued personification of a character/element of Galaxy Quest (1999) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by the rights-holders (© DreamWorks Pictures).

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