Tomorrow Is Yesterday

And there's reportedly a reason that that's there, which is that this was conceived as a two-parter.

And the second part is Tomorrow is Yesterday, where they go back to Earth.

And the network didn't want to have that sort of continuity on television.

And I can imagine...

that that got dropped.

And so you've got this time travel thing at the end where they're going backwards in time, where you could see like, if you watch the end of the episode, with this in mind, the idea that it was going to be a two barter.

As the chronometer is going backwards, and on the view screen, you just see the stars there, you can actually envision it bleeding directly into the opening of Tomorrow is Yesterday.

But instead, there's a little bit more of an ending to this episode.

Season one, episode 19.

Tomorrow is yesterday.

While pulling away... from a dark black star.

The Enterprise is hurled roughly 200 years into Earth's 1960s.

Little Green Men in DS9.

fantastic re replay of rehash of this and i think it's fantastic like this episode might not be great but it sets up so much great stuff in star trek that i i have reverence for it

little green men's a fun episode for sure and if you're remotely interested the delta flyers rewatch of it is is quite enjoyable so shout out to them shall we show our thumbs Tomorrow is yesterday, but do it right now.

I knew Joanne was going to be like...

Mr. Sohl's first draft script on The Way of the Spores was dated October 11, 1966." She's got all the dates here.

"At that time, I had left Star Trek to write freelance and was working at home on the story outline for Tomorrow Is Yesterday, turned in on October 3rd, and first draft script turned in on October 10th.

I delivered my second draft script for Tomorrow on November 9th." Boom, boom, boom, she's got all the numbers.

"During the month between, Roddenberry decided to replace Steve Carabatsos, a story editor.

The reaction to Tomorrow Is Yesterday was good, and Gene approached me with the proposition that I rewrite The Way of the Spores.

He told me if I could do this quickly and to the satisfaction of the network, the studio, and himself, he would back me for the job as story editor to replace Carabatsos."

Hmm.

[upbeat instrumental music]So the episode that we are talking about on this episode here is, uh, Star Trek the original series, uh, season one, episode 19 or 20, depending on how they label the cage.

[laughs] We are discussing Tomorrow Is Yesterday.

And, uh, what we have here, of course, is the admiral's episode log.

Now, uh, Amy, if you could go ahead and read that.

So if you would please go back to January 26th, 1967, and this episode has an IMDb rating of 7.9. You guys, that's pretty high for IMDb.

Yeah, it's good.

And, uh, yes, Tomorrow Is Yesterday.

The USS Enterprise is accidentally sent back into time to Earth during the 1960s by the effects of a high-gravity black star.