From: vlcoleman@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (vicki coleman)
Subject: Synopsis of "Visit to a Weird Planet"
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:16:26 GMT


Just like in "Mirror, Mirror" Kirk and company (in this case Spock and
McCoy) are beaming back to the Enterprise.  This time, though, they
find themselves not in an alternate universe, but on a sound stage.

When Kirk demands to known what is going on, the director is
understandably irratated that, once again, Shatner has blown his line.
Kirk is handed a copy of the script so that maybe next time he can get
it right.

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy try to figure out what is going on.  According
to Spock, "I would say that through a multi-parallel space-time
inversion we have been accidentally transferred into a telvision
studio filming a futuristic space adventure series, which by
Roddenberry's Law of Parallel Evolution is identical to what has
actually, or I should say will develop in our time."

Kirk decides they better try to fit in until they can figure a way
out, so he and McCoy start studying their lines while Spock goes
outside to look around.

A group of tourists on a guided tour gush over McCoy.  One of the
women goes on and on about back trouble she's been having.  When Kirk
sees McCoy "fingering his medikit" he decides to step in and break
this up.  Everyone wants autographs, which, of course, Kirk and McCoy
provide.

Someone says they wish they could meet Mr. Spock.  Spock shows up at
this point with a torn shirt and a bruise.  Spock was attacked by a
group of fans who were picketing NBC for cancelling Star Trek.  (They
had signs like "NBC is a Kling Conspicary.")  In the struggle, Spock
lost both his communicator and his phaser.

Kirk looks outside (while Spock is getting his "make-up" repaired) and
sees that Spock hadn't mentioned what some of the signs said, "There
were several proclaiming 'Mr. Spock for President,' while one small
one said, 'Kirk for Vice-President: The Soonere the Better.'"

One of the prop men had gone after Spock's equipment, but was only
able to get the communicator back.

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy go through a rehearsal (this time Kirk knows
Shatner's line) and are waiting to start shooting.  Kirk's
communicator beeps.  It's Scotty, ready to pull them back to their own
time.  Kirk says to wait, that something is going on.

Someone walks up with a radio where an announcement is being made that
"NBC television studios here in Burbank have been attacked by a
teenage boy with what appeared at first to be a toy ray gun. . . .
The boy stepped forward [from the group of protesters] pointed the gun
at the building, and shouted 'Here's what we'll do if you don't renew
_Star Trek_!'  Witnesses say a peculiar beam emerged from the gun,
melting the antenna and part of the roof of the NBC building."

The phaser was dropped and Scotty manages to get a fix on it and
destroy it.  In order for Scotty to pull Kirk, Spock and McCoy out,
they must be on the transporter platform.  They are getting ready to
reshoot the same sceen that Kirk ruined in the beginning, Scotty pulls
then out, and this time Shatner ruins the screen when he steps forward
and says, "Gene, you will never _believe_ where we've just been!"  The
director walks off sobbing in frustration.

One other time of itnerest, in light of all the guesses about STVI and
Spock's last name.  One of the tourists asks Spock for his autograph.
When he looks at what Spock has written, he demands to know how you
prounounce it.
	"'Xtmprsqzntwlfb,' replied Spock."  :-)

IMHO, "Visit to a Wierd Planet, revisited" is a better story.
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