Visit to a Weird Planet

Visit to a Weird Planet is a Star Trek: TOS story by Jean Lorrah and Willard F. Hunt. It has the subtitle: "or the Inside Story Behind the Antagonism of a Certain Network Toward a Certain Segment of the Population."
This story was originally in Spockanalia #3 and reprinted in Computer Playback #5. A sequel, "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" by Ruth Berman, appeared in Spockanalia 5.
==Origin of the Title==
The main title is a play on words, as it were, on "Visit to a Small Planet," a 1960 Paramount Pictures film which in turn was based on a 1955 play by Gore Vidal. See "Visit to a Small Planet" at Wikipedia. Leonard Nimoy starred in this play in 1968 (shortly before the end of the Star Trek series) at the Pheasant Run Playhouse in St. Charles, Illinois. See the playbill at Spock Hears from the Spock's Scribes #3.
==Performed As a One-Act Play==
This story was performed as a one-act play in 1976 at Star TreKon.
==An Early RPF==
This story is a very early known example of modern RPF, also known as a real world crossover. "Visit to a Weird Planet" sends Kirk, Spock and Bones back to the set of the filming of Star Trek. The three characters meet, among others, Gene Roddenberry. A copy of "Visit to a Weird Planet" as printed in Spockanalia was sent to Gene Roddenberry. He confirms in issue #3 that Spockanalia was "required reading" for him and all those in "the office." Also stated at 
Fanthropology 
In 2017, Devra Langsam (publisher of Spockanalia) said: "It seemed like an obvious kind of idea. I had no idea that it was one of the first switch kind of stories. I never even thought of that, but it made such good sense that somebody should try it, and both of those stories [the second being: Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited] are very well written." from Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Devra Langsam 
==Sample Pages==
File:Spockanalia3art7.jpg|inside Spockanalia issue #3, Alicia Austin for "Visit to a Weird Planet" 
Image:spockan3-2.jpg|inside Spockanalia issue #3, Alicia Austin
Image:spockan3-3.jpg|inside Spockanalia issue #3, Alicia Austin
Image:spockan3-4.jpg|inside Spockanalia issue #3, Alicia Austin
==Response/Reaction Fics==
A direct "sequel" is Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited by Ruth Berman in Spockanalia #5. (The situation is reversed and the actors of Star Trek beam up to the real Enterprise. This story was later republished in the pro novel Star Trek: The New Voyages).
===Similar Fanworks in Other Fandoms===
* Visiting a Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited by Melanie Fletcher (Star Trek: TNG)
* Visit to the Weirdest Planet—Earth by Mercutio (Star Trek Voyager)
* Visit to a Weird 'Gate Address Revisited by Eleanor Rose aka User 4574. (Stargate SG-1)
* Visit to a Weird Island by callensensei (Gilligan's Island)
* Visit to a Weird Dungeon by Dementor Delta (Harry Potter)
* Visit to a Weird 'Verse, Re-revisited by CABridges (Firefly)
* Visit to a Small Airforce, a Hanover Street vignette by an unknown author in Facets #2
* Revisiting a Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited, or: 'Patrick, I Don't Think We're In L.A. Anymore...' by Melanie Miller-Fletcher (was at Trekiverse, but appears to be offline)
* Visit to a Weird Galaxy, a Star Wars story in Alderaani Imperative
* Revisiting a Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited, or: "Patrick, I Don't Think We're In L.A. Anymore..." by Melanie Miller-Fletcher
* Quantum Leap: A Visit to a Weird Planet by Lenora McCoy ("Both men are surprised when Al Calavicci and Dean Stockwell switch places, and Dean has to take over duties as Observer, while Al struggles with filming the episode "Dreams".") (links are here) (Quantum Leap) (1997)
File:Ald9.jpg|title page from "Visit to a Weird Galaxy," a Star Wars story in Alderaani Imperative
==A Brief Scuffle Over Copyright==
In October 1996, the author of the story sent an urgent message out to alt.startrek.creative that someone has reposted the story to a website without permission. 
The copyright notice on later issues of Spockanalia read: "Copyright Sherna Burley and Devra Michele Langsam 1968. All rights assigned to the writers and artists responsible for the material. Brief, credited quotations are permitted; otherwise written permission of the writer/artist is required. In that case, it would be appreciated if Spockanalia were credited as the source, and two copies set to the editors."Spockanalia #3, Fourth printing, August 1976.
==Reactions and Reviews==
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==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
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