In the original script Thornton was written as a poor guy who scrapes together the money to attend college with his son. Harold Ramis read it and told them it was funnier if he was obscenely rich. He was right. That note changed the entire movie. Harold Ramis was just brilliant when an idea just needed one rough edge polished, and this movie is a great example of that.
John Price, Larry Young and engineer 3rd class Dantron explore the Star Trek franchise in search of new life and boldly go where not that many have really cared to go before.