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Star Trek - All Our Yesterdays
episode 3.23
Raumschiff Enterprise - Portal in die Vergangenheit
USA 1969
produced by Fred Freiberger, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Norway Corporation, Paramount/NBC
directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Mariette Hartley, Ian Wolfe, Kermit Murdock, Ed Bakey, James Doohan (voice), Anna Karen, Albert Cavens, Stan Barrett, Johnny Haymer
written by Jean Lisette Aroeste, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by George Duning
TV series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Bones (DeForest
Kelley) beam down to a planet that's supposed to be hit by a supernova in
mere hours to see about the progress of evacuation - and find only one
man, the librarian Atoz (Ian Wolfe), still around. Everyone seems to have
gone to God-knows-where. Taking a stroll through the library, Kirk
stumbles through a door and suddenly finds himself in a historic setting
where he has to defend the honour of a woman (Anna Karen) by rapier. Spock
and Bones run after Kirk but find themselves somewhere in the Arctic.
Somehow they're still in earshot, but when the locals on Kirk's side hear
him talk to voices coming from nowhere, they throw him into prison on
grounds of witchcraft. Thing is, the Prosecutor (Kermit Murdock) in Kirk's
case believes him when he says he comes from the library, as it actually
houses a time-travelling device - which is also how the planet was
evacuated, all its inhabitants just fled back to the time that pleased
them most - through which the Prosecutor has come here as well. But when
the Prosecutor learns Kirk has come without being prepared, he rushes him
back to the interface, as without proper preparations Kirk would just last
hours in the past ... Meanwhile, on Spock and Bones' side, they're saved
from freezing to death by a beautiful woman, Zarabeth (Mariette Hartley),
a woman Spock soon shows feelings for - and his behaviour gets more and
more irrational and illogical because of it, which doesn't escape Bones.
And since Zarabeth tells them they've been sent back in time some 5000
years, Bones figures that Spock transforms back into a Vulcanian from that
time, a dangerous barbarian. But before the two get at each other's
throat, they hear Kirk calling, and ultimately make it back onto the
planet just in time to be beamed back aboard the Enterprise to escape the
supernova. Despite Kirk swashbuckling it and Spock falling in
love and getting irrational over it, this is pretty much a meh-episode.
Basically, the concept of using time-travel to evacuate a planet seems
somewhat forced, and the past Kirk stumbles into seems just a little too
earth-like to come across as convincing. Likewise Spock's regression is
too on-the-nose to convince. It's not a terrible episode, mind you, it
just falls short of its promise.
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