Episodic TV. A story contained in less than an hour.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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Mmmhmm, but it's not as if there was no continuity, even in an episodic series.
How many times did a character return for a second episode? A major guest star. Mudd. Riley. That's about it. Making Lester into Rand isn't really a continuity issue. The story isn't really a good fit for Rand.
Your idea for Rand to be the Turnabout villain is awesome. I wish I'd thought of it.
The cold open would start with "Previously, on Star Trek." And there'd be a little montage of Rand scenes, including some bits where she seems close to Kirk, but then her trauma: "You started hurting me!" from "The Enemy Within." And "What are you gonna do to me?" where she's tied to a chair in "Miri."
Now the table is set for Janice Rand to have turned crazy-bad, and she wants to take Kirk's power. Jesus, this is good. So much better than Janice Lester coming out of nowhere.
It occurred to me last night that "Janice" is more like "Janus" - two opposing faces (seeming sanity and madness, or her face and Kirk's).
Janus is a person with two faces. That's brilliant, and it seems to explain why Gene Roddenberry would name Lester "Janice" when there had already been a Janice Rand and a Janet Wallace in Kirk's life. Mystery solved.
Once again, I wish I'd thought of it.
Edit: Janus is also apparently the god of endings, and TI is the last episode, but I'm pretty sure that's a coincidence.
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Carol Marcus should have been “Janelle”.
Ooh, that's very good.
Watched All Our Yesterdays last night.
You could speculate that only the Sarpeidons actually need to be prepared to live in the past, since our heroes have time travelled in the past.
Having said that, Kirk appears to nearly faint prior to returning through the portal, and both Spock and McCoy begin to act out of character in the ice age, suggesting for Sarpeidon and its properties, you can't as freely travel to the past without preparation, compared with say the Guardian of Forever.
You could speculate that only the Sarpeidons actually need to be prepared to live in the past, since our heroes have time travelled in the past.
Having said that, Kirk appears to nearly faint prior to returning through the portal, and both Spock and McCoy begin to act out of character in the ice age, suggesting for Sarpeidon and its properties, you can't as freely travel to the past without preparation, compared with say the Guardian of Forever.
I guess it's more a side effect of the method of time travel than the travel itself.
Right - you had to be prepared in advance to use the Atavachron.
I wonder if it's to with getting the person ready to be fully blended with the target historical setting (so they can live out their life without altering the timeline)
Sort of a zeitgeist acclimatization process, or readying one for the radiation/pollution/pollination, etc levels of the past.
If this is partially true, it would be a good device to use prior to landing parties setting foot on a new planet.
If this is partially true, it would be a good device to use prior to landing parties setting foot on a new planet.
And don't forget the microbiome. A big problem with time travel is that you'll run into bacteria you're not accustomed to, and you'll deliver unfamiliar bugs to the destination.
This also applies to meeting uncontacted peoples, like Columbus did in 1492. The devastation ran both ways, where apparently smallpox was traded for syphilis, and neither side had natural resistance to the foreign bugs. The 15th century syphilis outbreak killed five million Europeans, and ruined the bodies of a much greater number.
Good point. Also, gravity and air quality.
Same impact on the Martians during their invasion.
That could also explain Spock's change in personality. The Atavachron makes changes to blend you but if you aren't prepared beforehand you end up like Spock where he reverts to a more primitive mental state. The change would be more obvious than what happened with McCoy or Kirk. YMMV.
Yes, that was clearly stated in the episode.
And it wasn't even planned to bring Kevin Riley back. Bruce Hyde got cast as the unrelated character Lieutenant Robert Daiken in "The Conscience of the King" and then someone on the Star Trek staff remembered he'd been in "The Naked Time" earlier in the season, so they decided to just use his previous character's name.
How, exactly, was gravity different in 1492 than it is today?
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