Your tax dollars at work. The IRS now admits that a 2010 training video that parodied the 1960s TV series Star Trek was a mistake. It and a second video that parodied TV’s Gilligan’s Island are estimated to have cost about $60,000. The agency came under fire after CBS News obtained the Star Trek video under a Freedom of Information request and it went viral on the Internet. The video, shown at the opening of a 2010 training and leadership conference, features IRS workers portraying the characters, including Mr. Spock with fake hair and big ears, along with an elaborate set depicting the control room of the spaceship. The characters (who look and sound like a bunch of tax collectors) are en route to the planet Notax to combat identity theft. (via Deadline Hollywood)

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Comment by XLFD on April 3, 2013 at 12:51am

Yes, and it wasn't paid for by Star Fleet  Federation credits. 

Until this video, I always thought the IRS was against the (free) Enterprise, like that big disembodied hand that held it in space on the "Who Mourns for Adonis?" episode. 

Comment by Willy on April 3, 2013 at 12:02am

Are you saying the the IRS paid to have this video made?

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