+1 on that.

The ONLY time that COULD be remotely “splashy” is when the prop for the trick is introduced by someone else.

Wait, are you talking about “The City on the Edge of Forever” (ST 1x28)? No, not really, because in that episode they went back into the “real” Earth’s past and found that they couldn’t interupt the space-time continuum or else they would have to stay there in the past. That was real Earth, just back before WWII.

Now,…