From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: om@all_trolls_must_DIE.com   
   Subject: Re: Happy 30th Anniversary ST:TMP! - your memories?   
      
   On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:56:20 -0800 (PST), Led4Aces    
   wrote:   
      
   >There is no rule saying he would have to use all SAG extras. Certainly   
   >isn't one now. Just a certain percentage, it would have been less than   
   >30% I'm guessing. The majority would have been non-union any way you   
   >look at it.   
      
   ...IIRC, Gene had gotten hints from some SAG goon that bringing in all   
   those "trekkies" for the crowd scene would probably result in a   
   grievance filed because he planned to have no actual card-carrying SAG   
   members in the scene. He wanted to reward the really die-hard fans   
   who'd kept the show alive over the past decade, and giving them a   
   cameo of sorts was possibly the best reward he could have given. But,   
   as we all know, unions exist to fuck things up for the rest of us,   
   hence Gene's having to pull this little scam to get around the SAG.   
      
      
      
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