Best Episode of TAS, Part Two
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Yesteryear. Is there any doubt, really?
One of my all time Trek favorites, as well.
One of my all time Trek favorites, as well.
How exactly did they change the nature of the Guardian? I'm curious to know...
"Yesteryear." Any Spockcentric episode gets my vote.
Yesteryear, again.
In "City", when asked if it could slow the rate at which time passes on its display, the Guardian replies it cannot, having been constructed to show the past in that fashion. In "Yesteryear", one can ask the Guardian to show a specific point in time to which one can step right through, no taking a flying leap and hoping you're right.
Also, in "City" the people on the planet surface don't notice that the time has changed and stay the same. In "Yesteryear" the people on the surface are affected by the altering of the timeline and don't remember who Spock is.
That seems to be a bigger oversight to me, that way if the traveller doesn't return, nobody knows that time has changed.
Yesteryear. Yes, there are some flaws as mentioned above, but it's still an extrememly enjoyable episode in spite of them.
They also change the nature of the way in which the timeline is altered. This is the only time in TOS (and in all of Star Trek, IIRC) that we see a character is predestined to return to the past to create the Trekverse timeline. Generally they go back in time to correct some problem someone has already caused.
^ And is that a bad thing? For all we know, Sisko's trip back to San Fransisco in "Past Tense" might've been pre-destionational as well (Memory Alpha certainly suggests/implies so).
The only major problem I have with Yesteryear, beyond the nature of the Guardian being altered, is that I felt it was never clear just how the timeline was changed just by Spock traveling back in time. They figure out that the cousin Spock met when he was seven was his older self traveling in time and somehow that was changed. But how did the original timeline come to pass? If Spock would have died as a child without help from his future self, then he never would have had a future self to come back and help him in the first place.
The story is well done and enjoyable, but the time travel plot has never made much sense to me.
As to the voting, this was a tough choice. I like all of these episodes, but ended up voting for Beyond the Farthest Star
The story is well done and enjoyable, but the time travel plot has never made much sense to me.
As to the voting, this was a tough choice. I like all of these episodes, but ended up voting for Beyond the Farthest Star
I love Yesteryear as much as the next guy, but honestly I think it's a bit overrated- IMO every other episode in that list is more interesting.
I really can't agree - Yesteryear is a masterpiece for me, IMO.
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