In "All Our Yesterdays", Kirk, Spock, and Bones beam down to the surface of a planet whose sun is going nova. The planet is reportedly populated but no one is there when they beam down. The last man there is the librarian and his replicas who are in charge of a strange machine. This planet is not warp capable but figured out time travel. The planet's residents have all escaped back in time to avoid demise. Kirk accidentally travels back through the portal to a time of swashbuckling swordsmen who believe he's a witch. Spock and Bones end up in the planet's ice age with a beautiful outcast sent here as punishment.
Kirk is arrested and must figure out how to get back in time to reboard the Enterprise before the planet perishes. Bones is deathly I'll and requires shelter. He wants to return but Spock has devolved into his ancestorial lineage and is angry and wishes to stay with the woman. She claims they can't go back due to DNA transformation.
In the end, an imprisoned Kirk escapes and finds the portal in time. Bones and Spock make it back just in time as well. They reboard the Enterprise moments before the star goes nova and live to see another day.
I always have mixed feelings about these time travel episodes, the time continuity always makes my brain hurt. Like they're back in time, yet must hurry back before the planet explodes because the device is pegged to their time periods at a definite time difference? Yet there are so many people that went through the portal to different periods! Anyways, despite this I loved this episode.
Half of the plot is devoted to Kirk trying to escape imprisonment and a witch trial but the real star here is Spock's relationship with Zarabeth. Spock devolving to an older, more tribal Vulcan is a bit silly but I just love it in this instance. Bones having to be the defender of logic here is an interesting role reversal for the two crew members who often bicker. Ian Wolfe is also great in his tertiary role.
It's a fairly simple plot when it comes down to it: 3 friends trying to reunite but love and life continually gets in the way. Everything else is just sci-fi window dressing... but Star Trek is great at it.
Kirk is arrested and must figure out how to get back in time to reboard the Enterprise before the planet perishes. Bones is deathly I'll and requires shelter. He wants to return but Spock has devolved into his ancestorial lineage and is angry and wishes to stay with the woman. She claims they can't go back due to DNA transformation.
In the end, an imprisoned Kirk escapes and finds the portal in time. Bones and Spock make it back just in time as well. They reboard the Enterprise moments before the star goes nova and live to see another day.
I always have mixed feelings about these time travel episodes, the time continuity always makes my brain hurt. Like they're back in time, yet must hurry back before the planet explodes because the device is pegged to their time periods at a definite time difference? Yet there are so many people that went through the portal to different periods! Anyways, despite this I loved this episode.
Half of the plot is devoted to Kirk trying to escape imprisonment and a witch trial but the real star here is Spock's relationship with Zarabeth. Spock devolving to an older, more tribal Vulcan is a bit silly but I just love it in this instance. Bones having to be the defender of logic here is an interesting role reversal for the two crew members who often bicker. Ian Wolfe is also great in his tertiary role.
It's a fairly simple plot when it comes down to it: 3 friends trying to reunite but love and life continually gets in the way. Everything else is just sci-fi window dressing... but Star Trek is great at it.