All Our Yesterdays
- Episode aired Mar 14, 1969
- TV-PG
- 50m
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When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of a doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past.When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of a doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past.When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of a doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past.
James Doohan
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Albert Cavens
- Second Fop
- (as Al Cavens)
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- TriviaThe name of the librarian Mr. Atoz is a play on the phrase "A to Z." Author Jean Lisette Aroeste was a UCLA librarian at the time she wrote this script.
- GoofsThe City on the Edge of Forever (1967) established that the presence of one man can change the future; Tomorrow Is Yesterday (1967) established that the absence of one man can do the same. While the exact or even approximate population of Sarpeidon is never stated, there was obviously far more than one person sent back into the past, and each one had the potential to contaminate the planet's timeline. No character ever raises this problem on screen.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsFeatured in For the Love of Spock (2016)
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Spock gets it on.
The penultimate episode of TOS, All Our Yesterdays sees Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to the planet Sarpeidon, whose star is about to go nova. They discover signs of an advanced civilisation, but find only one inhabitant, a librarian named Atoz (Ian Wolfe). It transpires that everone else on the planet has been transported via a machine called the Atavachron, a time portal, and Atoz is concerned that Kirk and his pals haven't selected a period in the planet's past for their own relocation. By accident, Kirk is sent to a time period that resembles Earth circa the 17th century, while Spock and McCoy wind up in a frozen wasteland five thousand years ago.
The rest of the episode is all about returning to the present and hauling ass before the star explodes. A spanner is thrown in the works when Spock and McCoy encounter a beautiful woman, Zarabeth (Mariette Hartley), who has been exiled in the frozen past, and who seduces Spock (who is slowly reverting to the savage emotional state of his ancient ancestors).
A purely mindless, action-based story with no meaningful message or moral, this is one of the more enjoyable episodes of season three, with Kirk accused of witchcraft and Spock getting in a steamy clinch with Zarabeth (whose cave is heated by hot springs, meaning that she can saunter around her home in nothing but a skimpy animal skin bikini). Spock's dilemma: return to the Enterprise with McCoy, or get jiggy with a hot cave-girl. For a change, Kirk doesn't get the babe. We also get a tense race against the clock, our heroes escaping the past and the nova with seconds to spare.
The rest of the episode is all about returning to the present and hauling ass before the star explodes. A spanner is thrown in the works when Spock and McCoy encounter a beautiful woman, Zarabeth (Mariette Hartley), who has been exiled in the frozen past, and who seduces Spock (who is slowly reverting to the savage emotional state of his ancient ancestors).
A purely mindless, action-based story with no meaningful message or moral, this is one of the more enjoyable episodes of season three, with Kirk accused of witchcraft and Spock getting in a steamy clinch with Zarabeth (whose cave is heated by hot springs, meaning that she can saunter around her home in nothing but a skimpy animal skin bikini). Spock's dilemma: return to the Enterprise with McCoy, or get jiggy with a hot cave-girl. For a change, Kirk doesn't get the babe. We also get a tense race against the clock, our heroes escaping the past and the nova with seconds to spare.
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