Does it truly seem likely the Enterprise would actually be time-warping back to 1968 to discover how that era managed to survive? Apparently their computers had no idea.
Tomorrow is Yesterday: Captain Christopher's Son
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Needs of the plot.
Yeah, it is kind of weird. But just the sort of dialogue you might expect if this were instead some special documentary for school students complete guest starring Kirk and crew, and instead of Seven, Isis, and Roberta, a bunch of average school kids showing Kirk how they hide under their desks from nuclear bombs, avoid communist propaganda, etc.
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
Book by Brian Floca
Apollo 11 astronauts reunite on 50th anniversary of moonshot
Bymarcia dunn, ap aerospace writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Jul 19, 2019, 5:54 PM ET
Apollo 11 astronauts reunite on 50th anniversary of moonshot
Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins reunite on eve of 50th anniversary of humanity's first moon landing
The Moonshot
Apollo 11
Apollo 11: The Moon Landing
On July 20, 1969, humans walked on the Moon for the first time.We look back at the legacy of our first small steps on the Moon and look forward to the next giant leap.
It could have also been a much-needed/suspiciously timed distraction to distract people from the wars.
At the time the episode was being produced the Apollo Command module was still being developed. It may have had one uncrewed flight test at that point and the Apollo 1 ground test fire accident occurred the actual day after TOS S1 Tomorrow Is Yesterday first aired on NBC.
Edited to add: Remember TOS was cancelled and all 3 seasons aired on NBC by the time the Apollo 11 mission launched, landed and returned from the Moon.
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Yeah, moonshot is now a cool-sounding, "retro" word that makes a catchy title in modern retrospectives, but it was not an up-to-date expression at the actual time of Apollo 11.Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
Book by Brian Floca
Apollo 11 astronauts reunite on 50th anniversary of moonshot
Bymarcia dunn, ap aerospace writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Jul 19, 2019, 5:54 PM ET
Apollo 11 astronauts reunite on 50th anniversary of moonshot
Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins reunite on eve of 50th anniversary of humanity's first moon landingweb.archive.org
The Moonshot
Apollo 11
Apollo 11: The Moon Landing
On July 20, 1969, humans walked on the Moon for the first time.We look back at the legacy of our first small steps on the Moon and look forward to the next giant leap.airandspace.si.edu
The history of space flight was moving very fast in the Sixties, and nobody wanted to sound three years out of date.
Yeah, the point is that you can only fit one of the three data points, emphasizing either first manned or Wednesday (but not 6am, because no Apollo mission in the 1960s has that launch time.)So either way then, we're going with the unreliable radio announcer!
Apollo 8: first moonshot, not a Wednesday, not 6am
Apollo 11: Third moonshot (but first moon landing), on a Wednesday, not 6am
So neither time is correct and the announcer either got the day wrong (less than a week beforehand) or clumsily described the mission to his audience.
I don't know which is worse!
Which means you really can't date Tomorrow is Yesterday with the Apollo Program.
Just a different timeline, one in which Gable is famous in 1930 and the sky is filled with orbital nuke platforms.
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Outweigh the needs of the few or the one.
FYI - You're confusing a plot point of TOS S2 Assignment Earth with TOS S1 Tomorrow Is Yesterday.
In the latter, the trip to 1967 Earth was an accident caused be an encounter with a Black Sun. They used all warp power to pull away and were thrown into a time warp that put them over Earth in 1967.
No confusion. Why can't the vaunted Enterprise computers in the second season inform the crew how Earth managed to survive in instead of visiting and risking another historical butterfly effect? Or to put in 2025 terms, why rent a foreign helicopter when you've got Google Earth?
Maybe the same planet that sent Gary 7 to Earth also arranged for the Enterprise to be there to be 'part of what was supposed to happen on [that] day in 1968.' If they were operating behind-the-scenes in the 20th century, perhaps they still were in Kirk & Co's century as well.No confusion. Why can't the vaunted Enterprise computers in the second season inform the crew how Earth managed to survive in instead of visiting and risking another historical butterfly effect? Or to put in 2025 terms, why rent a foreign helicopter when you've got Google Earth?
Barring the stuff from the Picard series about the Supervisors and just taking TOS as its own standalone show, there's indication that the civilization/organization/whatever that Gary worked for still operates in the future. Gary himself has knowledge of the future, and refers to "this time period," and tells Kirk, "They wish their existence kept secret. Even in your time, it will remain unknown."
While Gary himself was from 20th century Earth, maybe he even had experience going forward in time for advanced training or missions and coming back to his period of origin.
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See, it's the same Black Sun that Moonbase Alpha went through thereby proving that TOS and Space 1999 are in continuity.
