Star Trek (s03e23)

All Our Yesterdays

by Jean Lisette Aroeste, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky

• Release: 14 March 1969
• Format: TV Episode
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

Spock! You’re reverting into your ancestors, five thousand years before you were born!

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic): a Sarpeidon ice age, 5,000 years ago
• Circa AD 1600 to 1699: The swashbuckling era is similar to the Jacobean Era.
• Circa AD 2200 to 2299

Time Travel Methods

• Time Portal: the atavachron

Themes

• Evacuations through Time: because of the impending supernova
• Evolving or De-Evolving as a Result of Time Travel: Spock
• Exiled or Intentionally Stranded in Time: Zarabeth
• Stuck in Time: “prepared” travelers cannot return to their original time

Fictional Tags

• James T. Kirk
• Leonard McCoy
• Mr. Spock
• Scotty (Star Trek): voice only

Groupings

• Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()
• Star Trek: The Original Series (franchise)
• Star Trek TV (multiple TV series): (s03e23)
• Star Trek (conglomerate)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From the library on Sarpeidon, AD 2269 ⋙ to Sarpeidon, a swashbuckling age, some years earlier. Round trip. Note: Kirk.
2. From the library on Sarpeidon, AD 2269 ⋙ to Sarpeidon, an ice age, 5,000 years earlier. Round trip. Note: Spock and McCoy.
3. From the library on Sarpeidon, AD 2269 ⋙ to Sarpeidon, an unspecified time. Note: the librarian, Mr. Atoz.