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Recap / Star Trek S3 E23 "All Our Yesterdays"

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Original air date: March 14, 1969

The Power Trio beams down to the planet Sarpeidon, intent on evacuating the denizens before the sun goes supernova. The only person they find is a librarian called Mr. Atoz and his clone army. Guess the library just wasn't getting any volunteer workers. Mr. Atoz tells Kirk and company that everyone has gone already. Gone where? "Wherever they wanted to go." Mr. Atoz invites Kirk and co. to peruse his library, containing images of Sarpeidon's history. Because even if the sun's going supernova, there's still time to read! Or at least look at moving pictures. Kirk looks at images from a pre-industrial age. Bones and Spock look at images from the planet's ice age. Kirk hears a woman's scream and jumps to investigate. "No, wait!" shouts Mr. Atoz. "You haven't been prepared!" After a psychedelic light show, Kirk disappears and reappears in something right out of The Three Musketeers . Spock and Bones ignore Mr. Atoz's warnings and jump in after Kirk, only to find themselves on the cliff of an icy mountain.

Now, all they have to do is go back through the portal. Yeah, not as easy as all that....

Notably also the last episode of the series if you put them in order by Stardate. At that time, television series rarely had an episode written as a series finale, but simply a last episode to air. This episode, with its funereal tone and focus on the relationship of the central trio , is generally considered one of the highlights of the often-shaky third season, and a much better series finale than "Turnabout Intruder" , with an absolutely killer last line.

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• The Aloner : Zarabeth has been stranded in the Ice Age by herself for who knows how long, as a tyrant's punishment for the misdeeds of her family.
• Ancient Keeper : The librarian Mr. Atoz. He offered to help the Enterprise landing party go back in time the way the rest of the planetary population had.
• Artistic License – Biology : It is not explained how a person must be "prepared" for the environment of the time period before being sent there. And once prepared, can never return. Mr. Atoz insists that one who is not prepared will die soon after arriving in the time period. This is the only instance of time travel where this was an issue.
• The idea that Sarpeidon would have been remotely habitable mere hours before its sun erupted is just about impossible — such a star tends to expand and contract, which would severely affect the climate of any orbiting planets.
• The Enterprise has to jump to "maximum warp" to Outrun the Fireball . In reality, a supernova (like everything else) expands at slower-than-lightspeed, so merely jumping to warp one would be all it took to outrun one.
• Bittersweet Ending : Poor Zarabeth. Poor Spock.
• Burn the Witch! : Kirk gets accused of witchcraft when the voices of Bones and Spock are taken to be that of spirits he's conjuring. Fortunately, the judge is someone who was sent back in time to this era.
• Cool Gate : The Atavachron, a gate to the past.
• Cruel Mercy : The tyrant who scattered Zarabeth and her family didn't want to be guilty of killing them directly, so he exiled them by sending each to a different time period with the weapons, food, and other means they would need to survive. While it's implied he did this to all of them, for Zarabeth for certain he did this by sending her to a place and time where she would be entirely alone for the rest of her life .
• Did Not Get the Girl : Spock has to leave Zarabeth because it's the only way for Bones to return and she can't follow.
• Dissonant Serenity : Spock does not mourn having to leave Zarabeth permanently even after experiencing positive emotions all thanks to her for at least a few hours. Spock defends his underreaction that Zarabeth died tens of thousands of years before the time he is in currently, when taking into account the time travel portal it just happened seconds ago.
• Emergency Temporal Shift : The inhabitants of the planet Sarpeidon flee into the past before their sun goes nova.
• Exact Time to Failure : The Enterprise can calculate the supernova explosion to the second.
• Human Aliens : While this episode is hardly unique in using this trope, it's striking how the Sarpeidon natives not only look exactly like humans, but went through a historical period exactly like 17th-century Europe.
• I Will Only Slow You Down : Bones collapses from exhaustion after wandering the frozen wasteland with Spock and tells Spock to leave him. Spock throws logic to the wind and picks Bones up and helps him walk.
• Literary Allusion Title : From Shakespeare's Macbeth : "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death...." Not only a blatant reference to the episode's main conceit, but also foreshadowing of the Bittersweet Ending .
• What better name for a librarian than "A to Z"?
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished : Kirk hears a woman screaming and rushes to assist, and winds up trapped centuries in the past, accused of theft and witchcraft.
• No One Gets Left Behind : Spock, of all people, does this when McCoy collapses from exposure to the elements and tells the Vulcan to go on without him.
• No OSHA Compliance : The Atavachron's Portal Door looks just like a door going outside. It's also smart enough to know which disc you were viewing to select your destination, but not smart enough to know if you were "prepared".
• Nubile Savage : Spock and Bones meet one of these. It turns out she was exiled to the distant past via a time machine by a dictator.
• Offscreen Teleportation : In the teaser, the dramatic moment leading into the opening credits is Mr. Atoz apparently doing this, always turning up ahead of the landing party as it moves around the library. It's subsequently explained that he has duplicates of himself, created by some unexplained process, that help him run the library.
• Oh, Crap! : The judge has this reaction twice in the space of a few minutes—first when Kirk's mention of the library lets him know he's from the future , and second when, after attempting to get Kirk declared innocent, the redheaded thief and the Musketeers who brought her in testify to Kirk being able to call on "spirits"...meaning he's to be accused of witchcraft, something the judge can't dismiss without being thought guilty himself.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business : Spock starts out getting visibly frustrated, telling Bones off for his constant jabs at his Vulcan heritage, and eventually escalating into a rage. He kisses a girl passionately. And he eats meat. It seems that all Vulcans have a loose psychic link with one another note  Continuity! In "The Immunity Syndrome" this is how Spock senses the destruction of the Intrepid , though he doesn't pick up details. In a line in "Amok Time" that got cut for time, he says Vulcans always know their proximity to their homeworld. , and since they are thousands of years in the past and all Vulcans are in a savage state....,
• Out-of-Character Moment : The original script had Spock falling in love and kissing Zarabeth, but averted in the filmed episode at Leonard Nimoy 's insistence. Instead, his behavior was hand waved with the explanation that, having gone back in time, he became like the savage Vulcans of that time.
• Outrun the Fireball : The Enterprise outruns a supernova at the end of the episode.
• Portal Door : the Atavachron, a machine that creates a portal door/wall to a time in that planet's past.
• Samus Is a Girl : The Jawa with gigantism that saves Spock and Bones from freezing to death pulls back the hood to reveal a young Mariette Hartley!
• Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale : Spock tells Zarabeth he comes from a planet "millions of light years away". The Milky Way Galaxy is only about 100,000 light years across. So no.
• Stock Footage : The imagery our heroes watch includes stock footage of a horse drawn carriage and a frozen wasteland.
• Sword Fight : Kirk gets in one with a Musketeer. He wins! He can sword fight with Musketeers, he can hold his own against the Gorn , but he can't take on an 80-year-old librarian?
• Temporal Sickness : As the inhabitants of the planet are sent back to their past to escape their star going nova, they go through a preparatory treatment ahead of time. Kirk, Spock and Bones travel without being given the treatment, and will die unless they can get back in time.
• Twirl of Love : Spock's kiss with Zarabeth turns into this.
• You Can't Go Home Again : Zarabeth tries to convince Spock and Bones this. The judge tries to convince Kirk of this. Operative word: "tries". For Zarabeth and the judge, at least, it is entirely true. The Atavachron both transports one through time and "prepares" them for it, altering their bodies to survive in the chosen timeframe (how and why is handwaved). If you've been "prepared" for a past time, returning to the future kills you. If you haven't , you can only survive a few hours in the past.
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" All Our Yesterdays " is the twenty-third and penultimate episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek . Written by Jean Lisette Aroeste and directed by Marvin J. Chomsky , it was first broadcast March 14, 1969.

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In the episode, Captain Kirk , Spock and Dr. McCoy are trapped in two timeframes of another planet's past.

It guest-stars Mariette Hartley as Zarabeth and Ian Wolfe as Mr. Atoz.

The Federation starship Enterprise arrives at Sarpeidon, whose star will soon go nova . Kirk , Dr. McCoy and Spock beam down, encountering one resident, a librarian named Mr. Atoz . Aware of the imminent destruction, Atoz tells the landing party that he will soon rejoin his family. Atoz shows them the Atavachron, a time portal . Hearing a woman scream, Kirk runs through the portal, followed by McCoy and Spock.

Kirk finds himself in a period similar to 17th century England while McCoy and Spock travel back 5,000 years to Sarpeidon's ice age . They cannot locate the portal, but can speak to each other. Spock surmises that the Sarpeidons escaped to their past.

The woman who screamed is a thief. The policemen who arrest her hear Kirk speaking to his friends and suspect he is a witch . In jail, Kirk mentions the Atavachron to the prosecutor. The prosecutor is also from the future, but explains that returning would be fatal; the time travel preparation changes the traveler's biology. Because Kirk was not prepared, he cannot survive for more than a few hours. The prosecutor brings Kirk to the portal.

McCoy and Spock are saved by Zarabeth, a woman who takes them to a cave. Spock displays uncharacteristic emotionalism, falling in love with Zarabeth and growing angered by McCoy's slurs. Zarabeth is also from Sarpeidon's future, but was banished to this era, in which she is the only humanoid. She claims the Atavachron is a one-way trip. Spock accepts this, but McCoy accuses Zarabeth of lying, because she is desperate not to be abandoned. McCoy realizes that being brought into the past is causing Spock to revert to the barbarism of the ancient Vulcans . Realizing the emotionalism of his behavior, Spock asks Zarabeth again about the portal. She admits she does not know how a return trip will affect them.

Despite Kirk's explaining they are not from Sarpeidon, Atoz tries forcing him back into the portal. Kirk overpowers Atoz and forces him to find McCoy and Spock. Kirk is eventually able to talk with them. Unwilling to leave Zarabeth, and unaware he will die if he remains in the past, Spock tries sending McCoy through the portal alone. However, because McCoy and Spock went through the portal together, neither one can return without the other. Upon their return, Atoz hurries through the portal. Spock reverts to his normal self, and they are beamed back to the Enterprise .

The episode had its origins in Jean Lisette Aroeste's story outline A Handful of Dust . [1] Aroesete was a Star Trek fan without previous writing credits.

In 2015, SyFy ranked this episode as one of the top ten essential Star Trek original series Spock episodes. [2]

In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter rated "All Our Yesterdays" the 39th best episode of all Star Trek episodes. [3]

In 2016, SyFy ranked "All Our Yesterdays" as the 12th-best time travel plot of all episodes of the Star Trek franchise. [4] They point out the episode offered fresh perspective on time travel by exploring the past of an alien world, as well as an interesting exploration of the characters Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. [4]

A 2018 Star Trek binge-watching guide by Den of Geek , recommended this episode for featuring the trio of characters Kirk, Spock, and Bones of the original series. [5]

In 2019, Nerdist News included this episode on their "Best of Spock" binge-watching guide. [6] They also ranked it the tenth best time travel episode of the Star Trek franchise, including the later 750+ episodes. They note this episode for featuring Spock's travels to an ancient ice age of an alien world, and at that time his emotions are triggered by a woman and the effects of time travel. In the series, they remarked that normally the character does not have much emotion, so seeing the character deal with emotions provides a change of pace for the character's presentation. [7]

Author Ann C. Crispin wrote two non-canonical novel sequels to this episode, titled Yesterday's Son , and Time for Yesterday .

"All Our Yesterdays" and "The Savage Curtain" were released on LaserDisc in the United States in 1985. [8]

This episode was released in Japan on December 21, 1993 as part of the complete season 3 LaserDisc set, Star Trek: Original Series log.3 . [9] A trailer for this and the other episodes was also included, and the episode had English and Japanese audio tracks. [9] The cover script was スター・トレック TVサードシーズン [Star Trek TV Third Season]. [9]

This episode was included in TOS Season 3 remastered DVD box set, with the remastered version of this episode. [10]

• Atavachron , an album by Allan Holdsworth that includes a track titled "All Our Yesterdays"

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• ↑ Kaye, Don (February 27, 2015). "Long Live Spock: 10 essential Star Trek: The Original Series episodes" . SYFY WIRE . Archived from the original on July 9, 2019 . Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
• ↑ Hollywood Reporter 'Star Trek': 100 Greatest Episodes
• 1 2 Granshaw, Lisa (November 15, 2016). "Ranking the 15 best Star Trek time travel episodes" . SYFY WIRE . Archived from the original on March 28, 2019 . Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
• ↑ "Star Trek: An Episode Roadmap for Beginners" . Den of Geek . September 8, 2018 . Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
• ↑ "A Guide to Binge Watching 7 Great STAR TREK Arcs" . Nerdist . Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
• ↑ "The 10 Best STAR TREK Time Travel Episodes, Ranked" . Nerdist . Retrieved July 27, 2019 .
• ↑ "LaserDisc Database - Star Trek #119: The Savage Curtain/All Our Yesterdays: Disc #39 [ LV 60040-119 ] " . www.lddb.com . Retrieved February 23, 2021 .
• 1 2 3 "Star Trek: Original Series log.3 [ PILF-1711 ] " . LaserDisc Database . Retrieved February 23, 2021 .
• ↑ "Star Trek: The Remastered Series Seasons 1, 2 & 3 review" . Den of Geek . May 20, 2009 . Retrieved February 23, 2021 .
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• "All Our Yesterdays" December 12, 1968, draft; report & analysis by Eric Paddon
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"All Our Yesterdays" was the 78th episode of Star Trek: The Original Series , the 23rd episode of the show's third and final season , first aired on 14 March 1969 . The episode was written by Jean Lisette Aroeste MA , directed by Marvin Chomsky MA , novelized in Star Trek 4 by James Blish and adapted as a fotonovel in 1978 .

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While on a mission to evacuate the population of planet Sarpeidon before their sun goes supernova , James T. Kirk , Spock , and Leonard McCoy find that with the exception of one person—Mr Atoz—the entire population has transported themselves via a time portal to various segments of that planet's past. Kirk finds himself in jail in the seventeenth century while Spock and McCoy are trapped with a beautiful exile in a prehistoric ice age!

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"All Our Yesterdays" is the twenty-third episode of season three of the science fiction/action series Star Trek . It was directed by Herb Wallerstein and written by John Meredyth Lucas and D.C. Fontana (under the pseudonym Michael Richards). It first aired on NBC on Friday, March 14th , 1969 . Like all episodes from the series, this episode was digitally remastered with upgraded visual effects and HD sound quality. The remastered version of the episode first aired on March 15th , 2008 . In this episode, the crew of the USS Enterprise discover a new planet which represents a geological oddity considering it is only a few thousand years old. Captain Kirk brings a landing party down to collect data, but one by one, several of the crew members meet their final fates at the at the hands of a mysterious, yet alluring woman named Losira .

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She filmed her scenes on Monday 23 December 1968 , Tuesday 24 December 1968 and Thursday 26 December 1968 at Desilu Stage 10 and Paramount Stage 5 .

She was later one of the performers considered for the role of Gillian Taylor for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , however the role was ultimately won out by Catherine Hicks . ( Starlog , March 1987 , p. 39)

Born Mary Loretta Hartley in Weston, Connecticut, Hartley studied with acting legend John Houseman at the Repertory Stratford and with Oscar-nominated actress Eva Le Gallienne at Lucille Lortel's White Barn Theatre. Afterward, Hartley initially struggled to acquire work, but was ultimately cast in Ride the High Country , which co-starred future Star Trek: The Next Generation guest actor John Anderson . Her career took off, and more roles began to pour in, not just for films, but for television as well.

On film, Hartley went on to co-star in Marnie (with Meg Wyllie ), Marooned (1969, co-starring Nancy Kovack ), Skyjacked (1972, with John Fiedler ), The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972, co-starring Ed Lauter , William Lucking , and James B. Sikking ), 1969 (1988, co-starring Joanna Cassidy ), and Encino Man (1992, with Erick Avari ), among a few others. However, Hartley's greatest success was undoubtedly on television, where she has accumulated over a hundred credits.

Early in her career, Hartley made guest appearances on such popular TV westerns as Gunsmoke , The Virginian , Death Valley Days , and Bonanza . In 1964, she appeared in the episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "The Long Morrow" along with Robert Lansing . During the 1965-66 TV season, she was a regular on the soap opera Peyton Place , and from 1966 through '67, she starred with Richard Mulligan in the short-lived sitcom The Hero . In 1971, Hartley co-starred with Gary Lockwood in an unsold pilot for a sci-fi series entitled Earth II . And in 1973, four years after her appearance on Star Trek , that show's creator, Gene Roddenberry , had Hartley cast in yet another pilot for a planned sci-fi series, this one entitled Genesis II and co-starring fellow Original Series alumni Majel Barrett , Ted Cassidy , and Percy Rodriguez . Unfortunately, this series did not sell either. (In a humorous reference to the fact that Hartley was forbidden by the network censors to show her belly button on Star Trek , Roddenberry gave her two belly buttons for Genesis II .)

Hartley continued with her TV career, appearing on The Bob Newhart Show , The Streets of San Francisco (two episodes, one with Clint Howard , another with Robert Foxworth , Steve Sandor , Peter Mark Richman , and written by Dorothy Fontana ), Barnaby Jones (starring Lee Meriwether and also guest-starring Terri Garr and William Sargent ), McCloud (starring Diana Muldaur and Ken Lynch ), Little House on the Prairie , and M*A*S*H (with David Ogden Stiers ), among others. In 1977, she appeared (along with Arthur Batanides , Robert Brown , Stewart Moss , Bill Quinn , and James B. Sikking) in the TV movie The Last Hurrah , receiving her first Emmy Award nomination. A guest starring role in the first episode of the second season of The Incredible Hulk the following year earned her a second Emmy nomination and her first win. A 1979 appearance on The Rockford Files also earned her an Emmy Award nomination, as well as some unwanted press, as her shared kiss with co-star James Garner was photographed and sensationalized by the tabloids. This led to the rumor that Hartley and Garner were a couple, a rumor initially fueled by their earlier chemistry in a series of Polaroid commercials.

Hartley also received Emmy nominations for her performance in The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (co-starring Henry Gibson and John Schuck ) and for her starring role in the 1983 TV drama M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (with Nicholas Coster , David Huddleston , William Lucking, Bert Remsen , and John Rubinstein ). She earned yet another Emmy nomination for her role on Goodnight, Beantown . She also played in "Big Jesse" in Cimarron Strip in 1967.

From 1990 through 1991, Hartley co-starred with Wallace Langham , Phil Morris , Eric Pierpoint , and Harris Yulin on WIOU Later TV credits include guest spots on Murder, She Wrote , Caroline in the City (starring Lea Thompson ), Nash Bridges , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , NCIS , and Dirt .

Hartley is married to Jerry Sroka , who played Laxeth in the Star Trek: Voyager second season episode " Investigations ".

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Additional projects in which Hartley worked with other Star Trek alumni include:

• The F.B.I. episode "The Impersonator" (1970, with Marj Dusay and Charles Macaulay )
• Gunsmoke episode "Phoenix" (1971, with Glenn Corbett )
• Cade's County episode "The Armageddon Contract" (1971, with William Shatner )
• Gunsmoke episode "The Judgement" (1972, with William Windom )
• The F.B.I. episode "The Double Play" (1973, with Robert Foxworth )
• Rainy Day (1978 film, with Don Keefer )
• One Terrific Guy (1986 TV movie, with Laurence Luckinbill )
• Passion and Paradise (1989 TV movie, with Gwynyth Walsh )

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When the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise answers a distress call from the planet Sarpeidon, they find the planet deserted except for a librarian named Mr. Atoz and a handful of other survivors who are deep into their own personal time travel journeys. Dr. McCoy is transported back to the planet’s past, where he is mistaken for a sorcerer because of his doctor’s bag. Meanwhile, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock travel back to the planet’s Ice Age, where they discover that the planet’s inhabitants have all been transported back to moments of their pasts, in a desperate attempt to save themselves from a stellar explosion that is about to occur.

Kirk and Spock quickly realize that the planet that the survivors have gone back to is actually Sarpeidon in the past, and that the inhabitants have created a time portal. They soon learn that the explosion that is about to occur is the result of a supernova that is going to destroy the planet and its inhabitants. To prevent this, Spock and Kirk must find a way to convince the inhabitants of Sarpeidon to choose to stay in the past and build a new life there.

Meanwhile, Dr. McCoy is in the process of trying to locate the survivors and bring them back to the present, but he is hampered by his role as a sorcerer. The planet’s natives have very strict laws against sorcery and, in order to protect themselves, the inhabitants have created powerful illusions to prevent outsiders from intruding. Dr. McCoy must use all of his medical knowledge to find the survivors and convince them to return to the present.

Kirk and Spock eventually find the survivors, and a plan is hatched to save the planet. They must travel to the moment of the explosion and attempt to stop it from occurring. In order to do this, they must locate the planet’s ancient computers, which contain a program that can be used to prevent the explosion.

Kirk and Spock travel through time one last time and, with the help of Mr. Atoz, they are able to locate the ancient computers and reprogram them to prevent the explosion. The plan works, and the planet is saved. As the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise returns to the present, they are met with mixed emotions – sadness for those who remained in the past, and excitement for a future with the potential for a new life on Sarpeidon.

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• 2.1.1 Plot Oversights
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• 2.3.2 Continuity Errors

Enterprise arrives in the Beta Niobe system whose star will go nova in three and a half hours. When they find that all inhabitants of the planet Sarpeidon inside that system have vanished, Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to what seems to be a library of the planet's history. There they meet Mr. Atoz, who asks them to select a period of interest and shows them a machine called the Atavachron.

After viewing a recording, Kirk inadvertently steps through a time portal and finds himself in what is the planet's equivalent to Earth's 17th century. He is being accused of witchcraft, but he receives help from a man who himself came from the future. Kirk finds an exit and returns to the library.

Meanwhile Spock and McCoy, who were trying to find the captain, have ended up in Sarpeidon's ice age. They get help from a lonely woman named Zarabeth, who was exiled to that era. Spock somehow reverts to an emotional state of ancient Vulcans, and he falls in love with Zarabeth. Only because of McCoy's insistence they find the way back to the library, just before the planet is destroyed. Zarabeth, however, has to stay behind, because her physiology has been altered by the Atavachron prior to her transfer to that time.

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The nitpicker's guide for classic trekkers, plot oversights.

• Zarabeth wearing a skimpy outfit in the caves. Perhaps the hot springs make the caves too warm for her to wear the full length fur robe.
• Spock tells Zarabeth that he comes from a place "millions" of light-years away. The Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter - so "millions" of light-years would place Vulcan well outside the galaxy (contrary to Star Trek canon). This may be a sign of the mental regression he suffers as a side-effect of time travel. [N 1]

Continuity and Production Problems

• When Spock and Zarabeth are talking, then Spock turns to see McCoy standing at the cave entrance, we hear McCoy say "You've been dishonest with me, Spock," but his lips don't move. McCoy could be a ventriloquist. [N 2]

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• When Spock tries to use his phaser to warm a boulder at the base of the ice cliff, it doesn't work - presumably because phasers didn't exist in that time period. But when he lays McCoy out in Zarabeth's cave and examines him, the doctor's medical tricorder seems to work just fine. Perhaps Zor-kahn, the tyrant who exiled Zarabeth, arranged for the time portal to disable obvious weapons as part of the punishment, without harming other equipment.
• When the prosecutor is talking to Kirk, the mort (female thief) in the next cell accuses Kirk of being a witch. The constable confirms this, saying that Kirk talked to unseen spirits, one of which he called "Bones". Even though Kirk did address Dr. McCoy as Bones through the unseen time portal, the constable was not present when he did. [N 3] The constable could have been out of view but within earshot when Kirk called out to McCoy.

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• User 160.3.189.145 This episode is annoying due to fact that at time stamp 5:45 Captain Kirk failed to properly introduce themselves as they were from the Enterprise a Federation star ship. Of course, then there would have been no journeying off to any chosen past, as then Mr Atos would have understood that they do not belong there. My problem is that everything hinges off the fact that Captain Kirk did not introduce themselves as the catalyst and not something more substantial. I.e. remember when Dr. McKoy went back in time as he was not well at the time in different episode. This was more realistic scenario in my opinion. So why did they fail to do something more convincing as the catalyst and problem?? Maybe Kirk expected Atoz to instantly realise they did not belong there just by looking at their uniforms.

Continuity Errors

• User 24.176.1.109 When Kirk goes through the portal he has his phaser. When he comes back...no phaser. It was most likely confiscated when he was arrested, and never returned.
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An Opinionated Star Trek Episode Guide review.

Review of a Season 3 episode of Star Trek (The Original Series) .

• 1 Episode information
• 2 Review information
• 3 SF Debris synopsis
• 4.1 Final Score: TBA
• 5 Memorable quotes/jokes from the review

Episode information [ ]

• Episode: 23
• Original airdate: 14 March 1969
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• Published: May 27, 2017

SF Debris synopsis [ ]

Opinionated Star Trek Episode Guide visits the closest thing to a finale the show had. While investigating a planet about to be destroyed, Kirk, Bone, and Spock become trapped in the past. But at least it's not an alien zoo this time.

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