From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
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Subject: Re: William Shatner 'Appalled' by IRS 'Star Trek' Parody

Ubiquitous  wrote in
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> http://mashable.com/2013/03/26/irs-star-trek-parody-video/
> 
> By Vignesh Ramachandran
> 
> The original Captain Kirk is not happy following revelations that the 
> Internal Revenue Service (IRS) spent thousands of taxpayer dollars to 
> produce a Star Trek parody video.
> 
> On Friday, the IRS admitted they spent $60,000 to make training videos
> that parodied TV shows Star Trek and Gilligan's Island, the Associated
> Press reported. The IRS videos were shown at a 2010 training
> conference and depict the spaceship set from Star Trek as well as
> characters like Spock. The parody plot, which includes a journey to
> the planet "No Tax," is explained in the video above; the full IRS
> video is below. 
> 
> Actor William Shatner, who portrayed Captain James T. Kirk in the 
> original Star Trek series, took to Twitter to share his disappointment
> with the agency.
> 
>      So I watched that IRS video. I am appalled at the utter waste 
>      of US tax dollars.
> 
>      u William Shatner ({at}WilliamShatner) March 26, 2013
> 
> Last Wednesday, U.S. House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee
> Chairman Charles Boustany, Jr. (R-La.) demanded in a letter that the
> IRS  release a copy of the videos to the committee.
> 
> "Boustany has publicly requested that, in the interest of
> transparency, the IRS release the videos so that taxpayers can be
> assured that resources were used efficiently and in a manner keeping
> with the IRSAs core mission," the committee said in a statement.
> 
> In a statement to the AP, the IRS admitted that producing the Star
> Trek video was a mistake and said "a video of this type would not be
> made today."
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/embed/VxU6n4pAnrU?rel=0
> 
> "The IRS recognizes and takes seriously our obligation to be good 
> stewards of government resources and taxpayer dollars," the IRS told
> the AP in a statement. "There is no mistaking that this video did not
> reflect the best stewardship of resources."
> 
> The videos were produced in the IRS' New Carrollton, Md., television 
> production studio.
> 
> The news of the costly IRS expenditures comes just weeks before
> Americans face the April 15 deadline for filing federal tax returns.
> 
> 

William Shatner needs to "get a life."
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