Trying to identify an episode...

[jbalice]

Hi all,

I have not seen the original Star Trek in a very long time. There were some episodes that stood out. But, there is one that I only remember a couple minutes of.

If I remember it correctly, which is questionable, Kirk and some of the gang are in a cave and the "data" on the cave wall indicates the possibility of humans on Earth coming from another planet.

Is my memory wrong or was there such an episode? If there was, can anyone tell me the episode number?

Thank you...

 

[DRMidnite]

Sounds like "For the World is Hollow..." to me.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

I don't believe there is an episode that suggests humans are not native to Earth.

However, in The Paradise Syndrome they determine that the colony of Native Americans on another planet originally came from Earth. Spock has decoded the inscriptions on some subterranean artifacts.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

TNG's "The Chase" fits the bill better than any TOS episodes I can think of.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Sounds like "For the World is Hollow..." to me.

I'd say that it would be this epsiode also. It seems the most likely story ( aliens living on an asteroid that don't know they are originally from another planet) that could create an old memory like that.
Or it's a completely false memory, like the one I had from when I was 11 or 12 that there was an episode where Kirk and Spock tried to stop the JFK assassination!

 

[Frontier]

Sounds like "For the World is Hollow..." to me.

I'd say that it would be this epsiode also. It seems the most likely story ( aliens living on an asteroid that don't know they are originally from another planet) that could create an old memory like that.
Or it's a completely false memory, like the one I had from when I was 11 or 12 that there was an episode where Kirk and Spock tried to stop the JFK assassination!

Your memory is not totally false.

There was no such episode. But one of the original ideas for TMP was of time-travel to the time and place of the JFK assassination. Only Kirk and Spock did not stop it, - on the contrary, if I recall correctly, Spock was the assassin, as it was a watershed moment of the 20th century and the timeline had to be preserved. It was deemed far too controversial though, and Paramount wanted a 'space opera' out of Trek, to compete with Wars, not a firestorm.

You likely heard about, or read about this idea when you where a kid.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Sounds like "For the World is Hollow..." to me.

I'd say that it would be this epsiode also. It seems the most likely story ( aliens living on an asteroid that don't know they are originally from another planet) that could create an old memory like that.
Or it's a completely false memory, like the one I had from when I was 11 or 12 that there was an episode where Kirk and Spock tried to stop the JFK assassination!

Your memory is not totally false.

There was no such episode. But one of the original ideas for TMP was of time-travel to the time and place of the JFK assassination. Only Kirk and Spock did not stop it, - on the contrary, if I recall correctly, Spock was the assassin, as it was a watershed moment of the 20th century and the timeline had to be preserved. It was deemed far too controversial though, and Paramount wanted a 'space opera' out of Trek, to compete with Wars, not a firestorm.

You likely heard about, or read about this idea when you where a kid.

Maybe...I was 6 when TMP came out...still young enough to easily create false memories ( meaning thinking that I'd actually seen the episode with the JFK assassination).

 

[Frontier]

It's quite likely. Considering age, it's unlikely you read it. More likely you saw an interview, perhaps with Gene, or Leonard, where it was mentioned.

 

[Gepard]

It's a long shot, but it could also be VOY's "Distant Origin," which opens with a couple of aliens in a cave finding remains that indicates they're not native to the planet they think they are. (The one they are native to? Earth.)

 

[DanStro]

Didn't "Bread and Circuses" have a scene that showed cave drawings that, in the beginning of the episode, made the crew think that the slaves were sun worshipers? But in the end they were an analog to early Christians.

My memory could be wrong though.

Hi all,

I have not seen the original Star Trek in a very long time. There were some episodes that stood out. But, there is one that I only remember a couple minutes of.

If I remember it correctly, which is questionable, Kirk and some of the gang are in a cave and the "data" on the cave wall indicates the possibility of humans on Earth coming from another planet.

Is my memory wrong or was there such an episode? If there was, can anyone tell me the episode number?

Thank you...

 

[GodThingFormerly]

If I remember it correctly, which is questionable, Kirk and some of the gang are in a cave and the "data" on the cave wall indicates the possibility of humans on Earth coming from another planet.

That sounds more like a scene from the Space: 1999 episode Testament of Arkadia, although the TOS episode Return to Tomorrow has a Sargon-possessed Kirk suggesting to Spock, McCoy and Mulhall that human life on Earth may have originated from his ancient civilization's interstellar colonization program millions of years earlier.

TGT