Historical References
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According to a local newspaper seen by Data, the episode takes place in August 1893. While Samuel Clemens was living in Hartford, Connecticut at the time, he also frequently traveled and gave lectures throughout the country. By that year Jack London had already been an oyster pirate -- as he states in the episode -- and was living in San Francisco, although there is no known evidence that he ever worked as a bellhop at a hotel. Three years later, in 1896, he would travel to the Klondike. There is no evidence that Clemens and London ever met.
In Part 2, Captain Picard is seen replacing a gas lamp in a hospital to make it safer in case of an earthquake. A nearby doctor seems to think this is an unwarranted precaution. In 1906, thirteen years after the episode is set, an earthquake would destroy three-quarters of San Francisco.
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