Visual effects comparison of the original broadcast & the Remastered versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh1LnO7AFd4

I wonder if they sold it during That’s A Wrap! I wonder if that graphic survived until the end of shooting.

The new ballroom doubles as a ring.

Fun fact, they made a special graphic for that prop just so O’Brian could hand Bashir a PADD that says “GO AWAY”

That same PADD with the same graphic can be seen in a later episode under O’Brian’s arm. The text is so abnormally large that even though it’s not the focus of the shot, you can still read what it says.

So easy, I’ve been accidentally boycotting them for decades.

Carol: “Good evening, I’m Bland.”

Weatherman: “Don’t disparage yourself like that.”

Part of the GIFs you can hear series:

I’m going to cry if you just casually solved a life-long problem for me.

I believe it. She genuinely looked like a mess in that episode.

Don’t smoke, kids. It was never worth it.

raises hand

I down a lot of caffeine to take the edge off my ocular migraines. Some days, sunlight hurts to look at.

enter the crabs

Damn,that dog has aged gracefully.

That face: “I may have miscalculated.”

When the world tests your might…

TOS came out at a time when Columbus was still being held in high regard. :)

Per Memory-Alpha:

Mears would come back later as one of the space hippies.

And she’s only on this episode because the part was written for Grace Whitney, but Rand had just been written off the show during this point in production.

Yes, Mears (Phyllis Douglas) is really cute. But even cuter is the face Uhura was making at Spock at the end of the episode:

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