"C'mon Enterprise you got this girl!" I like how you supportive you were of the ship itself during high stress maneuvers. It's all good because I'm sure Scotty spends a lot of time upgrading the ship BEYOND specifications. He upgrades and tweaks as much as he can without a full re-design.
This starts off with some genuine wonder - the sight of the Enterprise in the skies of 20th century earth - and a serious problem for our heroes to solve. Somewhere along the line writer D.C. Fontana turns it into a romp. And I love it! The scene with an exasperated Colonel Fellini interrogating a sarcastic Kirk has to be my favorite moment of comedy from the first season.
Great reactions as always! One of my fav episodes. When this aired, seeing the Enterprise in our sky was every Trekkie fans dream! Two things (probably already commented but worth repeating...) If you haven't seen the Trek movies, you will love them - as with all the Trek series that followed the original cast series (Star Trek the Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Star Trek Voyager, etc.) Also, if you ever have the chance to be in upstate New York on a trip or vacation -- check out the absolutely amazing Star Trek Tour Set - the actual recreation of all the Hollywood Desilu studio sets used in the original series. It's in Ticonderoga, New York.
Did you Note the captain's Air Force uniform? The orange uniform was used in that era. NASA would go on to use it in their program. That's why you'll see a lot of astronauts in that orange jumpsuit. What's interesting is that when a little film called Star Wars needed a uniform for Luke Skywalker to Attack the Death Star. NASA's orange uniforms where the inspiration.
Despite the necessity of Captain Christopher being returned with no knowledge of what happened to him, I wished he could have kept some memory of his trip, even something subliminal that might give him some sense of his experience.
@TerryAllenSwartos Perhaps he did! This isn't canonical but it's fun to speculate that somewhere buried in his subconscious there was a trace memory of his Enterprise adventure, a newfound sense of the overwhelming importance of the inclusiveness of the future and of how American space exploration would become the key in creating the space-faring civilization that we're destined to become. With that literally in the back of his mind, he might have become the primary person in his son's life who encouraged Sean Jeffrey Christopher to follow his dream to become an astronaut. and go to Saturn. That experience might have become his true role in history. The Enterprise crew inspired him to subconsciously inspire his son!
Didn't know if you knew this, but the writer of this episode, D.C. Fontana, was actually Dorothy C. Fontana and was really a pioneer for women in television science fiction.
She was also the story editor and oversaw the development of Spock's character, family, and what we learned about the planet Vulcan and Vulcan culture. She was a fundamental shaper of some of the basics of the Star Trek Universe. An amazing woman--and dearly missed!
@@davidgradwell8830 Right after Trek was cancelled, I sent away for some stuff on Lincoln Enterprises (aka Star Trek Enterprises). One of the things I ordered was a script for "Friday's Child." I inserted a note which said, "I have many friends who would probably order from you if they knew you existed. Could you send me some extra catalogs?" My order didn't come with any extra catalogs, but the script for "Friday's Child" came with the inscription on the cover: "Dear Brandon, Live long and prosper. DC Fontana"
21:01 Mark! 1,792 Views + Mine! 🎉 Thumb Up #176! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! 😊 Notes: I'm too tired now after a busy day to tap in all of my notes now. But anyway, once I saw a RADAR room in person, I now know how out of place a person doing paperwork at a desk would be, next to a technician. There would also be more than one! Bye for now! 😊
Alexxa! Was that a fun episode or what! It wasn't in the edit, but one of my favorite lines was Spock looking at the film and commenting, "...poor photography..." HA!
Captain Kirk says the first moon shot was in the late 1960s. This was the first prediction of the correct decade of this accomplishment in a major science fiction work. Previous motion pictures and television series put the first lunar mission sometime in the 1970s at the earliest.
In May of 1962, President Kennedy told congress that the US "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. "
With all the technology required to build the Enterprise, and its systems, wouldn't the Tractor Beam system have a compensator to adjust the beam for the mass of the object its trying to acquire, without breaking it up? Just asking.
I saw this as a re-run when I was a kid back in the late 70s. I really liked it because we get to see footage of a F-104 (Christopers aircraft). I was a big aircaft buff at the time. As an adult I like the little touches such as Sulu looking at the bulletin board.
Yes, captain Christopher was an irritant, but this is in my top 10 episodes, love time travel stuff. Speaking of re-purposing, there's a coffee pot that shows up several times in seasons 2 & 3 that they make to look like all sorts of interesting things, makes me laugh whenever I see it.
Captain Christopher was an irritant,but,as an officer in the Air Force he was duty bound to report or try to escape from Kirk and crew.He had just met Kirk & crew for a short while,but,problably been in the Air Force for several years. Plus,from an acting profile he had a lot of screen time,plus his character saw central in the story-line. These 2 things are of utmost importance to any actor,especially an actor guest-starring on any tv series. Live Long and Prosper
Really?!? How did I not catch it?! I'm on Season 3 on Patreon. When I get to the episodes on RUclips, please comment on it to bring my attention to it! 💛
The late great DC Comics Star Trek comic of the 1980s celebrated Star Trek's 20th Anniversary in 1986 with a special issue. It begins in the last five minutes of this episode, immediately after the two Air Force officers have been returned to Earth, and keeps the exact dialogue used in that part of the break-away sequence--but the retelling suddenly veers off to start a fresh story: the Enterprise has overshot her mark and traveled twenty years into the crew's future: the era of the original Star Trek movies! The Starship Excelsior, commanded by Admiral Kirk (per the 1980s DC movie-era comics set between Star Trek III and Star Trek IV) and his "future" crew interact with their earlier five-year-mission TOS selves and work together to get the Enterprise back home in their "past." It was perfect! And Captain Kirk was elated to learn that he finally made Admiral! The combined crews, of course, fix the messed-up timeline and solve everything. Once the TOS crew is returned to their own time and the timeline is restored, The TOS crew has no recollection of their "movie crew" interaction, just as Captain Christopher had no recollection of Kirk and company. The final two minutes of "Tomorrow is Yesterday" are incorporated into the final panels of that special issue of the Star Trek comic. "The Enterprise is home!" A perfect Anniversary gift to the fans!
The part in this episode where they say Christopher would have no memory, I never got that. He would surely remember. But, there would be no evidence to support his story....and he didn't really see enough of what was going to happen in Earth's near future to mess anything up. I would have deleted the memory comments, if I were the director. 🙂 Regardless, it's a great episode. 🙂 Alexxa Reacts will love the movie "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", if she gets that far in the star trek journey. 🙂
3:56 "It's... very difficult to explain." Why are you _trying_ to explain it? How long is it going to take you, Kirk, to connect with the fact that it's _better_ to keep this man in the _dark?_
I hate to pitpick (I lie. I like to nitpick) but if they went back in time before the incident, why would they have to beam the people back? In effect, they hadn't been beamed up the second time around because the chain of events had changed.
"C'mon Enterprise you got this girl!" I like how you supportive you were of the ship itself during high stress maneuvers. It's all good because I'm sure Scotty spends a lot of time upgrading the ship BEYOND specifications. He upgrades and tweaks as much as he can without a full re-design.
This starts off with some genuine wonder - the sight of the Enterprise in the skies of 20th century earth - and a serious problem for our heroes to solve. Somewhere along the line writer D.C. Fontana turns it into a romp. And I love it! The scene with an exasperated Colonel Fellini interrogating a sarcastic Kirk has to be my favorite moment of comedy from the first season.
Mine, too, plus the Kirk-foo fight!
This is definitely a FUN episode! The first time we see Time Warp presented and for a show way back when they did a great job.
Great reactions as always! One of my fav episodes. When this aired, seeing the Enterprise in our sky was every Trekkie fans dream! Two things (probably already commented but worth repeating...) If you haven't seen the Trek movies, you will love them - as with all the Trek series that followed the original cast series (Star Trek the Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Star Trek Voyager, etc.) Also, if you ever have the chance to be in upstate New York on a trip or vacation -- check out the absolutely amazing Star Trek Tour Set - the actual recreation of all the Hollywood Desilu studio sets used in the original series. It's in Ticonderoga, New York.
Did you Note the captain's Air Force uniform? The orange uniform was used in that era. NASA would go on to use it in their program. That's why you'll see a lot of astronauts in that orange jumpsuit.
What's interesting is that when a little film called Star Wars needed a uniform for Luke Skywalker to Attack the Death Star. NASA's orange uniforms where the inspiration.
Orange is the New Trek!
I share your enthusiasm for time travel stories, the aspect I like is the culture shock interactions and always interesting to me.
Despite the necessity of Captain Christopher being returned with no knowledge of what happened to him, I wished he could have kept some memory of his trip, even something subliminal that might give him some sense of his experience.
@TerryAllenSwartos
Perhaps he did! This isn't canonical but it's fun to speculate that somewhere buried in his subconscious there was a trace memory of his Enterprise adventure, a newfound sense of the overwhelming importance of the inclusiveness of the future and of how American space exploration would become the key in creating the space-faring civilization that we're destined to become. With that literally in the back of his mind, he might have become the primary person in his son's life who encouraged Sean Jeffrey Christopher to follow his dream to become an astronaut. and go to Saturn. That experience might have become his true role in history. The Enterprise crew inspired him to subconsciously inspire his son!
Didn't know if you knew this, but the writer of this episode, D.C. Fontana, was actually Dorothy C. Fontana and was really a pioneer for women in television science fiction.
She also wrote for other genres. She wrote some scripts for "Combat."
She was also the story editor and oversaw the development of Spock's character, family, and what we learned about the planet Vulcan and Vulcan culture. She was a fundamental shaper of some of the basics of the Star Trek Universe. An amazing woman--and dearly missed!
@@davidgradwell8830 I actually have her autograph on the script for "Friday's Child." She had originally been hired as Roddenberry's secretary.
@@brandonflorida1092 You are so lucky! She was truly amazing! :)
@@davidgradwell8830 Right after Trek was cancelled, I sent away for some stuff on Lincoln Enterprises (aka Star Trek Enterprises). One of the things I ordered was a script for "Friday's Child." I inserted a note which said, "I have many friends who would probably order from you if they knew you existed. Could you send me some extra catalogs?" My order didn't come with any extra catalogs, but the script for "Friday's Child" came with the inscription on the cover:
"Dear Brandon,
Live long and prosper.
DC Fontana"
21:01 Mark! 1,792 Views + Mine! 🎉 Thumb Up #176! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! 😊
Notes: I'm too tired now after a busy day to tap in all of my notes now. But anyway, once I saw a RADAR room in person, I now know how out of place a person doing paperwork at a desk would be, next to a technician. There would also be more than one!
Bye for now! 😊
Alexxa! Was that a fun episode or what! It wasn't in the edit, but one of my favorite lines was Spock looking at the film and commenting, "...poor photography..." HA!
Spock gets those occasional hard critic moments. Another is "Bad poetry."
Isn't it great that the transporter is smart enough to take the person from a seated position to a standing position in transit?
😂
I liked this one too. And 12 Monkeys is a favorite film of mine related to time travel ideas. Thanks for sharing.
i recognize the name of the director he is irish and his brother was in a few movies like robocop
Captain Kirk says the first moon shot was in the late 1960s. This was the first prediction of the correct decade of this accomplishment in a major science fiction work. Previous motion pictures and television series put the first lunar mission sometime in the 1970s at the earliest.
In May of 1962, President Kennedy told congress that the US "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. "
With all the technology required to build the Enterprise, and its systems, wouldn't the Tractor Beam system have a compensator to adjust the beam for the mass of the object its trying to acquire, without breaking it up? Just asking.
I saw this as a re-run when I was a kid back in the late 70s. I really liked it because we get to see footage of a F-104 (Christopers aircraft). I was a big aircaft buff at the time. As an adult I like the little touches such as Sulu looking at the bulletin board.
If you like time travel movies, you might try Denzel Washington's "Deja Vu." It's quite good.
Or Frequency (2000).
@@bfdidc6604 Another very, very excellent time (almost travel) story. It's well worth seeing.
Adding both movies to my list!!!
Yes, captain Christopher was an irritant, but this is in my top 10 episodes, love time travel stuff. Speaking of re-purposing, there's a coffee pot that shows up several times in seasons 2 & 3 that they make to look like all sorts of interesting things, makes me laugh whenever I see it.
Captain Christopher was an irritant,but,as an officer in the Air Force he was duty bound to report or try to escape from Kirk and crew.He had just met Kirk & crew for a short while,but,problably been in the Air Force for several years. Plus,from an acting profile he had a lot of screen time,plus his character saw central in the story-line. These 2 things are of utmost importance to any actor,especially an actor guest-starring on any tv series. Live Long and Prosper
Really?!? How did I not catch it?! I'm on Season 3 on Patreon. When I get to the episodes on RUclips, please comment on it to bring my attention to it! 💛
@@AlexxaReacts , yes I definitely will, when it shows up.
The late great DC Comics Star Trek comic of the 1980s celebrated Star Trek's 20th Anniversary in 1986 with a special issue. It begins in the last five minutes of this episode, immediately after the two Air Force officers have been returned to Earth, and keeps the exact dialogue used in that part of the break-away sequence--but the retelling suddenly veers off to start a fresh story: the Enterprise has overshot her mark and traveled twenty years into the crew's future: the era of the original Star Trek movies! The Starship Excelsior, commanded by Admiral Kirk (per the 1980s DC movie-era comics set between Star Trek III and Star Trek IV) and his "future" crew interact with their earlier five-year-mission TOS selves and work together to get the Enterprise back home in their "past."
It was perfect! And Captain Kirk was elated to learn that he finally made Admiral! The combined crews, of course, fix the messed-up timeline and solve everything. Once the TOS crew is returned to their own time and the timeline is restored, The TOS crew has no recollection of their "movie crew" interaction, just as Captain Christopher had no recollection of Kirk and company. The final two minutes of "Tomorrow is Yesterday" are incorporated into the final panels of that special issue of the Star Trek comic. "The Enterprise is home!" A perfect Anniversary gift to the fans!
I had that one myself. Loved the awe that the Enterprise crew held for the Excelsior, an even bigger and more powerful flagship.
@@michaelhall2709 Oh, yes! It's a pity that Star Trek Continues or some other fan film groups never adapted it. But, you never know...
How did Capt. Christopher know to push the right button on the transporter console to talk to Kirk on the bridge - at the end?
Great reaction thanks.
The part in this episode where they say Christopher would have no memory, I never got that. He would surely remember. But, there would be no evidence to support his story....and he didn't really see enough of what was going to happen in Earth's near future to mess anything up. I would have deleted the memory comments, if I were the director. 🙂 Regardless, it's a great episode. 🙂 Alexxa Reacts will love the movie "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", if she gets that far in the star trek journey. 🙂
3:56 "It's... very difficult to explain."
Why are you _trying_ to explain it? How long is it going to take you, Kirk, to connect with the fact that it's _better_ to keep this man in the _dark?_
I hate to pitpick (I lie. I like to nitpick) but if they went back in time before the incident, why would they have to beam the people back? In effect, they hadn't been beamed up the second time around because the chain of events had changed.
Please don't be too hard on Captain Christopher for his escape attempts. He is an air force officer with a duty to escape and report what he saw.
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