Tomorrow Is Yesterday
- by D. C. Fontana, directed by Michael O’Herlihy
- TV Episode
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” by D. C. Fontana, directed by Michael O’Herlihy (NBC-TV, USA, 26 January 1967).
Darn those high-gravity black stars! Always accidentally throwing starships hither and yon through time. Although in this case, the crew of the Enterprise manages to correct all the problems they caused by beaming 1960s Air Force pilot Captain John Christopher on board.
—Michael Main
Spock: Fifty years to go. Forty. Thirty.
Kirk: Never mind, Mr. Spock.
Spock: [silence]
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- Time Periods
- Time Travel Methods
- High Speed, Angular Momentum, Gravity, Cosmic Strings, etc. Cause Time Warp: “Mr. Scott and I both agree that the only possible solution is a slingshot effect, like the one that put us here. My computations indicate that if we fly toward the sun, seek out its magnetic attraction, then pull away at full power, the whiplash will propel us into another time warp.”
- Themes
- Never Change the Past!: “We cannot return him to Earth, Captain. He already knows too much about us, and is learning more. I do not specifically refer to Captain Christopher, but suppose an unscrupulous man were to gain certain knowledge of man’s future. Such a man could manipulate key industries, stocks, and even nations, and in so doing, change what must be. And if it is changed, Captain, you and I and all that we know might not even exist.”
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- “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” by D. C. Fontana, directed by Michael O’Herlihy (NBC-TV, USA, 26 January 1967).
Indexer Notes
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- Time Travel Problems—C. R. Berry gives a nice discussion on why beaming Captain Christopher and the sergeant back to the time they were first taken makes no sense, won’t erase their memories, and opens a whole ’nother can of worms. He also gives an easy solution that the writers could have taken.