Star Trek - Tomorrow is Yesterday

episode 1.19
Raumschiff Enterprise - Morgen ist Gestern

USA 1967
produced by
Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Desilu, Norway Corporation/NBC
directed by Michael O'Herlihy
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roger Perry, DeForest Kelley, Hal Lynch, John Winston, Ed Peck, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Mark Dempsey, Jim Spencer, Sherry Townsend
written by D.C. Montana, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Alexander Courage

tv-series
Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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By accident, the starship Enterprise is thrown back through time to the late 1960's, where the ship is soon spotted and thought to be an UFO. When a fighterjet approaches the Enterprise though, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) orders it kept at a distance with the tractor beam, and when the tractor beam threatens to break up the jet, he orders the pilot, Major Christopher (Roger Perry), to be beamed aboard as to not kill him - and that's where the problems start, because first Kirk does not want to let Major Christopher go back to earth because he has seen too much of the future ... but then he learns that Christopher's yet unborn son will pilot the first spaceship to Saturn - so it would significantly alter history if Christopher would not return home.

As a result, Kirk and crew have to bring Christopher back home safely, but remove all evidence of the Enterprise from army headquarters ... but whatever they do, they only make it worse, first they beam an Air Police Sergeant (Hal Lynch) aboard the Enterprise, then Kirk himself is captured in the army headquarters by the guards - and ultimately it seems without wanting it the Enterprise has made a mess out of history ... until Scotty (James Doohan), the chief technician of the Enterprise has fixed the ship up and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) has calculated a perfect course for travelling back in time once more to the point where the Enterprise was first spotted and return Major Christopher and the Air Police Sergeant to where they were exactly when they were beamed away, and thus make it look like they have never been away in the first place (beats me though why Major Christopher's jet doesn't break up anymore, which was why he was beamed up in the first place). Then the Enterprise travels back to her own time.

This one is actually a fun episode, working on the idea that the more you try to fix time the more you gonna mess it up - which is of course quite realistic (once you can accept timetravel as realistic that is). Only the ending that seems to not have been really thought through is a bit of a letdown, but that doesn't meant the episode as a whole is any less enjoyable.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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