Trivia / Star Trek S2 E21 "Patterns of Force"

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: Lee Kuan Yew was Prime Minister of Singapore 1965-1990. His governance style has been described as "with democratic and authoritarian elements".
  SPOCK: Earthmen like Ramses, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lee Kuan. Your whole Earth history is made up of men seeking absolute power.
• Banned Episode: Due to the subject matter, this episode was not aired on public german television until 2011. It had previously aired on Austrian TV, along with German pay TV in 1996, and was still included on the DVD/Blu-Ray sets.
  • That being said, the episode was not actually banned by the German authorities. The channels who held the broadcasting rights to Star Trek at the time simply refused to broadcast it.
• Deleted Role: The shooting schedule indicates that there were, among the reception party crowd, two waiters that appeared throughout, however no such individuals appeared in the episode.
• Deleted Scene: Based on the details of the episodes shooting schedule at least two scenes were trimmed for unknown reasons; both scenes were filmed on 29 November 1967:
  • When Kirk and Spock exit the Chancellery they rounded a street corner and entered an alley. With the removal of this scene, two storm troopers and two trooper guards and apparently a Jeep did not appear in the episode as filmed.
  • When the cars pulled up at night and unloaded at the Chancellery, it was indicated that more officials were seen being dropped off before Kirk's group drive up in Sc. 47. Namely missing from the scene were two storm troopers, along with an SS officer general and his wife, whereas only the SS Gestapo general and his wife were seen entering as was noted.
• Prop Recycling:
  • All the Nazi uniforms used in this episode are taken from Paramount's costume storage, and were previously featured in many of the studio's World War II-era films. Many of them featured mismatched epaulets, collar tabs, and other rank-identifying insignia. However, McCoy's collar tabs, bearing a single silver oak leaf, correctly identify him as a colonel, as Kirk had ordered. Several uniforms, such as Kirk and McCoy's, show cuffbands reading "Adolf Hitler". They represent members of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, special bodyguards of the Führer.
  • On the archive file photograph shown by Spock in the teaser, John Gill is wearing Commissioner Ferris' jacket from "The Galileo Seven".
• Recycled Set: The underground area is the same set as was used for "The Devil in the Dark".
• The Fan Film Prelude to Axanar proclaims that it is narrated by John Gill. Kind of a strange but heartwarming moment for old-time fans.

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