Star Trek: Tomorrow is Yesterday Rewatch

November 29, 2014 11:55 AM - Season 1, Episode 20

The Enterprise narrowly avoids a collision with a black hole and is thrown back to Earth in the 20th century, where they must find a way back and erase any trace of their presence. Matters become complicated when they rescue an Air Force pilot and cannot return him without changing history...but if he disappears that will change history as well.

"Tomorrow Is Yesterday" is episode #19, production #21, first broadcast on 26 January 1967, repeated 13 July 1967, and was remastered in 2006 for syndication broadcast on 5 May 2007. The teleplay was written by D.C. Fontana and directed by Michael O'Herlihy.

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The episode can be viewed on Netflix and Hulu.

posted by Benway (2 comments total)

This was kind of a one-step-forwards-two-steps-back kind of episode feminism-wise. We got the nice "A woman?" "A crewman" exchange between Kirk and Christopher, but then all the silliness with the ship's computer. Ah well.

Fun episode overall, especially liked the scenes of Kirk being interrogated. His little grimace as they toss the phaser, his practically breaking the fourth wall with that look to camera.
posted by oh yeah! at 6:27 AM on November 30, 2014

I know you can't hear me, "oh yeah!", because I'm a *visitor from the future*, but that sexy trombone music negated any possible feminist gains in that scene.

Sensor report: since WHEN do you need a communicator to be beamed up?
posted by acrasis at 1:50 PM on November 17, 2020