--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 142 TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WRITER: Dorothy Fontana GUESTS: Roger Perry (Fighter Pilot?) Hal Lynch Ed Peck Richard Merrifield John Winston AIRED: January 26, 1967 HACK-MAN rating: .745 Usenet rating: .658 QUOTES: ======= - "I made an error in my computations." --Spock "This may be an historic occasion." --McCoy - "Warp eight... off the scale." --Sulu - "Gravity [down to] .8." --Voice in background. TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY PLOT: ===== On their way to Starbase 9, the Enterprise is accidentally flung back (by a black star that pulled them in) to the year 1967 (isn't it odd how they always end up in the 1960s?), and through space to Earth (Spock does some hand-waving to explain that they were headed sort of Earth-ward at the time), where they must take desperate measures in an attempt to avoid changing history. The Enterprise used up all of its power; propelled away fast. A ground radar crew spots the Enterprise and sends up a US Air Force pilot, who sees the ship and reports it as a UFO. The plane starts breaking up when the Enterprise puts a tractor beam on it, so Kirk has the pilot beamed aboard. To get back to the present, the crew slingshot around the sun. They beam back the USAF Captain to his plane just as he was being beamed out - I might be convinced to buy that, but the guy with the green beret hat is beamed into his other body long before he was beamed away (he was still standing in the hallway) - how do they explain the fact that his mass just doubled? FACTS: ====== - The Earth has no clouds! - Kirk mentions that there are "12 like her in the Fleet" (referring to the Enterprise). - The Enterprise passes many stars on its journey between the Earth and the sun! - The USAF Captain's (unborn) son (Col Shawn Jeffrey Carpenter) heads the first Earth Saturn mission. - Only episode which shows the Enterprise from the bottom? OPINIONS: =========