[ SECRET POST #2871 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2871 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but the Earth parallels got rather ridiculous (prohibition, Roman empire, Nazis, Indians...).

[(Anonymous)]

They had a small costume budget!!

[(Anonymous)]

There was that Lazarus one too, where a guy has to fight in a photonegative forever.

[(Anonymous)]

oh, that one was so fucking silly.

[kamino_neko]

Only two of the 'parallel' episodes were actually parallels - Bread and Circuses (the one with the alien Roman Empire) and The Omega Glory (with Americans and Communist Chinese degenerated into tribal societies after their version of the cold war turned hot).

The gangster and Nazi worlds were specifically altered by encounters with Earth culture (the Iotians based their culture on information in a book left by a Federation ship, the Ekosians were deliberately made into Nazis by a Federation officer), and the Native Americans actually were Native Americans moved to a distant planet by an alien species.

[(Anonymous)]

What about Miri? The one where we got a nice big shot of the North American continent right up there on the viewscreen?

[kamino_neko]

Oops, forgot that one.

[(Anonymous)]

No CGI budget to create alternate continents back then I'd imagine.

[(Anonymous)]

They could have at least flipped it upside-down or something.

[kamino_neko]

Looking up screenshots, they turned it sideways. Maybe that was just the remaster, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Just the remaster.

This is how it showed up first time.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Miri_%28episode%29?file=Miri%27s_North_America_on_screen.jpg

[asecretchord]

CGI budget? Please tell me you're joking. Computer generated imagery? In the mid 1960's? There was no CGI budget because there was no CGI. Star Trek was ridiculously underfunded, even when it was in its first two seasons. By the third season, they were trying to produce episodes for about $150K per. Think about that. $150,000 PER EPISODE. They were lucky to have enough money to purchase watercolor paint!

[(Anonymous)]

Now retconned as Actually Earth, but from another dimension (albeit in the books).

[quantumreality]

I especially liked the Omega Glory, with Kirk making the point that the words of the Constitution, which had been almost forgotten by the Yangs, needed to apply to "everyone". That's a pretty forward-thinking expression of the importance of protecting everybody's rights in this post-9/11 day and age.

[intrigueing]

I really found the premise of "A Piece of the Action" to one of the most fascinating ideas ever. I loved it so much and just want all the fics fleshing that society's history out (And Kirk looked like he had SO much pretending to be a gangster it was adorable as fuck.)

[(Anonymous)]

I loved the scene where Kirk tried to drive with a stick shift. Hysterical.

It's also why I don't tolerate reboot Kirk much. Too damn precocious with motor vehicles, so he's just not as funny.