TOS · SEASON 33×23

All Our Yesterdays

NOMADIC PICK · FAN FAVOURITEA moving late-series time-travel tragedy.

FIRST SHOWN (US): 14 March 1969
ON: NBC
STARDATE: 5943.7
DIRECTED BY: Marvin Chomsky
PRODUCTION NO.: 78

WRITTEN BYWritten by Jean Lisette Aroeste

IN BRIEF

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With a star about to explode, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find the planet's people have all fled into their own past, and the three are soon scattered through time themselves.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS

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The star Beta Niobe is about to go nova, and the Enterprise visits its planet, Sarpeidon, to warn the inhabitants. Kirk, Spock and McCoy find only Mr Atoz, a librarian, and his time portal, the atavachron. The population has escaped into the past. Hearing a scream, Kirk dashes through and lands in a period like 17th-century England, where he is arrested for witchcraft. Spock and McCoy follow and find themselves in an ice age 5,000 years earlier. They are saved by Zarabeth, a woman exiled there alone. Cut off in that distant era, Spock begins to revert to the emotions of his ancient Vulcan ancestors, and he falls in love with Zarabeth. Kirk escapes with help from a fellow time traveller and returns to the library. Spock and McCoy discover that they arrived together and must leave together. Spock says goodbye to Zarabeth, and the Enterprise escapes just as the star explodes.

DID YOU KNOW?

01Writer Jean Lisette Aroeste was a UCLA librarian. This and “Is There in Truth No Beauty?” were her only screen credits.
02The network banned showing Zarabeth's navel. Roddenberry later cast Mariette Hartley in “Genesis II” and gave her character two, saying the network owed him one.
03By stardate it is the last adventure of the original series, though it was made and aired before “Turnabout Intruder”.

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