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Quaker Oaks
made a deal to release special edition Secret of Vulcan
Fury cereal boxes featuring screenshots from the game.
The promotion featured an instant win sweepstakes as
well as a $10 rebate for the game. The IDIC symbol
rendered for the box can be found
here and the press
release can be found
here.
Thanks to
Russell and Ben Meyers, we have the following scans of
the cereal boxes:
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Russell and
Ben Meyers actually entered the contest, and received
this
letter from the Quaker Oats Company.
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A Vulcan character created for Secret
of Vulcan Fury was altered by the development team of
Star Trek New Worlds to become Captain Klunk of the
Klingon Empire. More info
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We know of two Easter Eggs that were
going to be created for Secret of Vulcan Fury. The
first is the Enterprise's bowling alley, which can be
seen
here. The other one was to be the Enterprise's
swimming pool, but it was not created before the game's
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Many of the
artists who worked on Secret of Vulcan Fury ended up
working on Roughnecks: Starship Troopers (a CGI TV
series). After Roughnecks finished, Paramount
seriously considered making a CGI series based on the
Original Series. Here is a still image from one of
the tests:
There were
also two video tests from the project that were leaked
to the public. The
first one is of Kirk's head, while the
second is of Spock doing Joe Pesci's lines from the
movie Goodfellas. Paramount eventually decided not to do
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John McGinley
made the opening sequence for the
third demo. Interplay was considering making an
updated theme song with guitar riffs, but when John
showed them his opening with the original series theme,
they loved it. The theme song used in the demo was
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At the Las Vegas Star
Trek Convention in 2007, DC Fontana talked about SOVF:
It was a very complicated story. It was big.
There was mystery. There was a chase. There was
threat and danger. It was five parts that were really very
full and complicated. The ‘Vulcan Fury’ was actually one
of the moons of Vulcan that was actually a weapons
platform that had long bead dead and some happens
tore-activate it. Which would then threaten the Enterprise
which was in orbit and other Federation ships. The problem
was that it became very expensive and the head of [game
publisher] Interplay pulled it because it was too
expensive and he didn’t see getting his money back on it.
I have asked [CBS Products Exec] Paula Block if I can take
it, clear it,and make it into a novel. I haven’t got an
answer back yet, but I think it would be a heck of a great
story as a novel. |
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Secret of
Vulcan Fury was initially going to have 8 episodes, but
that was cut down to 6 during the game's development. |
