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William Shatner's character works for Andy Griffith's character Sam Farragut. According to Star Trek: Operation - Annihilate! (1967), Captain Kirk's only brother was named Sam, and according to Star Trek: Obsession (1967), the USS Farragut was Kirk's first assignment as a lieutenant for Starfleet.
The shirts the group wears in Baja are almost exact copies of the uniforms from Star Trek (1966). William Shatner and Andy Griffith wear command gold, while Robert Reed has a red security shirt.
Decades later, the cable movie White Mile starring Alan Alda, had a similar plot. An ad agency man forces his clients and employees on a dangerous river-rafting trip, where things go bad. Both Alda and here, Andy Griffith were famous for starring on a sit-com that had already run its course, The Andy Griffith Show and MASH.
Aired the same time as The Questor Tapes, a would-be-series pilot produced by Gene Roddenberry, who went up against Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner... And Shatner won... Pray for the Wildcats garnered a big audience (and a big cult following).
The male hippie, Robert Burton, married to Karen Black at the time, would co-star in Trilogy of Terror, another TV-movie that would wind up on a Kino Lorber Blu Ray.
"Sam Farragut: I'm a Hippie with money! Sam Farragut: The old fashioned rules about what's right or wrong, just hang loose, and let it all happen, ain't that right?"
