Tomorrow is Yesterday // Star Trek: The Original Series Reaction // Season 1

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Please beware of scammers. I am not on Telegram nor do I do giveaways in my comment section.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

I always report them to Y.ou.Tu.be.

[@MrDeathpilot]

@@Gort-Marvin0Martian They make reporting those accounts a pain, though. They ask you to provide a link to the account that's being impersonated. Who's got time for that? They should just auto-delete any accounts that contain "Telegram". How hard could that be? 🤔

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

@@MrDeathpilot Yeah. But... Well maybe Elon will do something about it.

[@MrDeathpilot]

@@Gort-Marvin0Martian Elon is no brain. He's just the money that hires brains.

[@TheBunnyodeath]

Forgive men. We cannot... not look at an atractive lady. Ypur attractive esecially when you wear ypur outfits. You know that. Nut what i fond the most attractive thing is your smart. Hard to find since maga. And trump your loke a cool drink of lemon water. Cheers miss

[@jdlewis3706]

Best exchange in the entre episode: GUARD: "I'm gonna lock you up for two-hundred years!" KIRK: "That ought to be just about right!" 😅

[@jab9916]

Love your Star Trek uniform.I'm 70 year old years old and watch this as a kid with my dad it's wonderful to see you enjoy these shows.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks 😊

[@MGower4465]

I think the sleeves that are neither short nor long would drive me round the bend, but if our lovely hostess doesn't mind, so be it. But dhe deserves better than an Ensign stripe.

[@cx3valenz421]

@@MGower4465that’s a lieutenant’s rank.

[@johnmiwa6256]

Isn't the insignia supposed to be over the other, um, lung?

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

@@johnmiwa6256 camera is inverted

[@rory_pond1701]

Obligatory fun fact/trivia: The actor playing Mr. Kyle, the blonde transporter technician who provides chicken soup to the unlucky guard, returned to the role in Wrath of Khan as Reliant's communications officer.

[@Temeraire101]

I think he was in 2 or 3 Eps, can't recall actors name.

[@Stogie2112]

John Winston played Lt. Kyle in 11 episodes of Star Trek (The Original Series).

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

Mr Kyle eventually gets race swapped.

[@Cre80s]

Yeah, there were a small handful of "regular irregulars". Kyle (John Winston) was probably nearest we could get to a main character without generally regarded as being one.

[@SBrundle]

STAR TREK ended in 2005, so no.

[@paulwalsh2344]

"James T Kirk... Seventeen separate temporal violations. The biggest file on record. The man was a menace."

[@TroyConvers5000]

The one and only.

[@komradewirelesscaller6716]

Great quote from Deep Space Nine!

[@BalokLives]

Jonathan Archer was pretty bad too. But then again, that happened before there were violations.

[@Ravenscroft82]

This is why Star Trek TOS was so great; it did have great action scenes but it was really about ideas first and foremost. I loved these plots that forced the characters into moral dilemmas and then watched with awe as they negotiated all the options and did their best to find both logical and moral solutions. What a great show this was! And how great you are at analyzing it. REally enjoying your videos.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks 😊

[@steveprellwitz1710]

In this episode, DC Fontana provides the key cornerstone to Star Trek’s Laws of Temporal Mechanics. Call it the Sean Jeffrey Principle: Spock looks up Christopher’s family and discovers Sean Jeffrey; he tells Christopher the name; Christopher names the boy Sean Jeffrey, creating the historical record Spock will look up. Now the BIG question, Lieutenant Bunnytails, is this: WHO CHOSE THE NAME? Answer that, and you truly begin to understand the fourth dimension.

[@jasontoddman7265]

Shaun Geoffrey Christopher was named after Star trek writer John D.F. Black's three sons: Shaun, Geoffrey, and Christopher. I am not sure who chose the name, but I would think that it was story writer D.C. Fontana herself.

[@Stogie2112]

I was a little boy, watching this episode in the 60's. In the first scene, the fighter jet was roaring through the sky, and then I saw the Enterprise.... I was thrilled to the Nth degree! It made me feel like Star Trek was REAL!

[@bfdidc6604]

I was a kid when this episode came out and thought it was cool too. I really love the 1960s opening.

[@jasontoddman7265]

I am about the same age as you (I was 10 when this episode first came out).It is still one of the scenes that I love the most. I would give anything to see the Enterprise cruising up there and reassuring me that despite this crazy world we live in that the utopian society of Star Trek will become a reality someday. If you'll recall though, the TV Guide had indicated a different episode would be in, so when this one started up no one knew it was Star Trek and not some other show or something and so we largely ignored it until the classic Enterprise music began to play and the Enterprise itself was seen gliding over the clouds a moment later. It was probably the weirdest open for the entire series.

[@BlameThande]

This was always one of my favourites when I first saw it as a kid. It's also a case where the updated effects really help, as they struggled to represent the slingshot manoeuvre on screen in the original version due to the model limitations. Fun fact, they managed to predict the date of the first Apollo moon landing to within a month - remember this episode came out three years before it happened!

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Cool!

[@christopherconard2831]

They also reference a super dense "dark star" at the beginning, something that was theoretical at the time. Soon after the existence of the first one, called a black hole, would be confirmed.

[@Caseytify]

@@christopherconard2831I thought they were referring to what was later known as a neutron star.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

They got the day right but not the launch time. They also didn't say what month it was.

[@jupreindeer]

How I fondly remember the passably timeless bridge of the Enterprise having... old vehicular Odometers for clocks. Updating that one limitation was one of the most necessary reasons for redoing the special effects.

[@noahrobin1941]

Something I should have mentioned before; this story was written by D.C. Fontana…a name which pops up all over in SF in general and Trek in particular for decades after this episode. Among other things, Fontana wrote (but was only partially credited for) “Charlie X”. “D.C.” stands for “Dorothy Catherine”, and what being a woman writing for SF in the 60’s was like I cannot begin to imagine.

[@CFWhitman]

She followed closely after Andre Norton, a pen name for Alice Mary Norton, as one of the pioneering female science fiction and fantasy writers. Of course, later on in her career everyone knew that 'Andre Norton' was really a woman, and she continued to be successful. It seems odd now (and even when I first started reading their books around 1980) that they felt they needed to obscure their gender to be successful as science fiction authors.

[@noahrobin1941]

@@CFWhitman I haven't read nearly enough of Andre Norton's stuff. I'm sure I read a few of her stories when I was a teen; hers was one of those names one always saw in anthologies. But I can't recall a specific story of hers I've read, even after checking my memory against wikipedia. To complicate matters, my brain has a tendency to conflate her with Ursula K LeGuin; I almost credited Norton with "The Lathe of Heaven" until I fact-checked myself. :)

[@CFWhitman]

@@noahrobin1941 Well, D. C. Fontana was mainly a TV script writer, so just being into science fiction television, especially _Star Trek_ would acquaint you with her work, though she wrote a few novels. Andre Norton on the other hand wrote so much science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction in print form that even with all the books I've read when I look at the bibliography (I count 46), there are still so many that I haven't it's hard to believe. I haven't read much of her historical fiction, though I'm sure it's good, but mostly the fantasy and s/f. I've read a few of LeGuin's Earthsea novels as well.

[@CFWhitman]

@@michaelwalston2438 Oddly, I don't think I've read anything by her, though I see her time frame parallels Norton's pretty closely. I've heard of at least one of her novels, and I've seen several of the movies she is credited for writing or co-writing, including _The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, Hatari!, El Dorado,_ and of course _The Empire Strikes Back._

[@Caseytify]

@@CFWhitmanEl Dorado is a personal favorite.

[@kennethlee494]

This was originally supposed to be Part 2 of "The Naked Time" but budget/production problems forced them to make this episode later. The original plan was that "The Naked Time" would end with the Enterprise flying out of control through time into the past. Part two would pick up with a recap of the previous episode and then show the Enterprise In Earth's upper atmosphere being pursued by American fighter jets in the late 1960's.

[@zoppie]

As I always understood it, Roddenberry simply nixed the thought of any more two-parters after "The Menagerie," so this one had to be rewritten as a standalone. At this point in network TV history, it was considered better for newcomers to the series to not have to be required to see any previous episodes in order to get the gist of what the show was about. Keeping the show episodic also helped to grow its popularity in syndication.

[@calgaryjimbo]

Interesting! That would've made SO much more sense from a storytelling perspective. Thanks for sharing!

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

That totally makes sense... I had never realized that or heard about that story connection in all my 40 years of being a hardcore Trekkie! I learn something new every time with these. Thanks for the history!

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

​@@zoppie true, although the episodic style of story telling made it difficult to say anything is truly canon! I mean, they COULD have wiped Christopher's memory of his wife and daughters in this episode, with that device at the mental institution...but seeing as his yet-to-be conceived son was necessary to preserve the timeline, it's a good thing they didn't, hahah! Not to mention the modifications to the Enterprise made by the Andromeda Galaxy people which allowed travel to warp 15 possible, Starfleet would have loved to utilize that...or the medical tech in Shore Leave that brought Bones and that other girl back to life after being killed....but I digress.

[@jamesbednar8625]

@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 One of the reasons why "Hogan's Heroes" was always filmed in a WINTER type setting. That way the episodes could be shown out of order and the fans would not know the difference.

[@wraithby]

My favorite line in this episode: Spock reviewing the computer tape, and commenting- "poor photography"....immediately triggering Bones.

[@cuerpo869]

One of my favorites also..he actually was looking at the developed reel of film from the wing camera..

[@MGower4465]

It does beg the question of how the USAF found the wreckage, recovered and develiped the footage and archived it already, but apparentky had not reviewed it since nobody was ever worried who might have seen the footage or if there were dupkicstes already made.

[@jasontoddman7265]

@@MGower4465 That right there always confused the hell out of me too ever since I was a teenaged boy (and a nerd too, yes) re-watching it back in the early 1970s.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

1:44 "Manned _Moon_ shot. That was in the late 1960's." "Apparently, Captain, so are we." And _that,_ folks, is why it pays to learn your _history._

[@mythenmetzermewtufreund128]

Fun Fact: This Episode was the first Star Trek Episode ever aired in German TV at May 27 1972. German Title of Star Trek TOS is Raumschiff Enterprise=Spaceship Enterprise. There was an alterentive Intro with that Title. Although it Was nearly similar to the OG the writings where White. Also they added the Names of the other Main characters actors. Like James Doohan= Scotty or George Takei= Sulu.

[@LogicalNiko]

I love how the transporter can rearrange John Christopher to be standing, but the dramatic circuits must have sensed the need for him to turn around for effect.

[@Cre80s]

He activated their wtf circuits. The same ones that "Evil Kirk" triggered.

[@jupreindeer]

I imagine that if they literally wanted to cut apart their transporter set, they could have used super thin wires to let the guy faux sit in mid-air as he was teleported in. But from that worldly view, it is kind of hard to explain how he went from seated to standing.

[@richcarrCCC]

Thank you for providing the best, plausible, sensible and simplest explanation for why people who materialize in the transporter in a standing position when they were 'captured' by the transporter while in otherwise non-standing positions. You must've graduated near the top of your class at the Academy ;)

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

Remember in The Corbonite Manuver they had to duck while transporting? Sometimes people even get transported laying down, and in the movies, they can talk and move and feel the effects, and in TNG well, all manner of things could happen. Transporter stuff in the Trek verse was anything but consistent. 🤷🏼

[@jimcomvideos]

Love your official Enterprise uniform. Such a fun episode. Time travel is always ... fascinating.

[@kerry-j4m]

One of my favorite episodes,it has everything: time-travel,COOL fight scene between Kirk and the Air Force security team and some comedy to boot.

[@jasontoddman7265]

3:35 - Why would the USAF pilot assume they have a lot of accidents? Well, in addition to getting stuck in the past, the Enterprise promptly (and also accidentally) wrecks his own ship, forcing them to beam him aboard. Soooo, yeah, I think that's a safe assumption for him to make. Especially since he's right; they have accidents all the time. Several other entire episodes take place because of such accidents, such as The Galileo Seven. So, if anything, the man is being very perspicacious.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

That is what I thought as well, but other commenters have informed me that there was a lot of talk around UFO sightings at that time, so that is actually probably what was meant.

[@jasontoddman7265]

@@bunnytailsREACTS Oh I agree - and my reply was meant for as a joke anyway. :)

[@steelers6titles]

The first real "time-travel" episode, not counting the conclusion of "The Naked Time".

[@gigantorize]

And also, not counting "The Time Tunnel", a sci-fi series that ran for 30 episodes 1966-67.

[@steelers6titles]

@@gigantorize Yeah. Doug and Tony screwed up the future in every episode lol

[@gigantorize]

@@steelers6titles Matter of opinion. They tried to stay as stealth as possible under incredibly difficult and changing conditions. Give them a break. lol

[@jasontoddman7265]

Originally meant to be a direct sequel *to* "The Naked Time" until certain problems forced a slight rewrite.

[@white-dragon4424]

Yeah, it shows with their really wonky time travel theory. In reality they couldn't just beam the person down into their earlier self, and especially not have them remember what they'd just gone through.

[@UncleQue]

I like the praise for Sulu. He was great at his job. The best helmsman in Star Fleet history and definitely cool under pressure.

[@flashgordon6238]

One of my top ten episodes! Your uniform looks nicely tailored and accurately short... :)

[@lazyperfectionist1]

9:19 Now _this_ scene shows a curious oversight. Kirk and Sulu are on a landing party, trying to elude detection, but still in their _Starfleet_ uniforms. Apparently, the ship's tailor could not _accommodate_ them, here.

[@TomHill-xh7ec]

Great to re-experience this episode. Funny to think how precise the timing would need to be for some of the things they're doing, but they still rely on verbally counting down and then commanding. The idea of linking the computer to the actions probably hadn't occurred to anyone yet. This was a very strange case of 'beaming' someone to where they already were. Some serious script armor going on there. Love the new graphics when they're flying close to the sun! The filament-like solar prominence was a nice touch.

[@phr3dmcc0y]

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT about Sulu. He LOVES antiques. He's fond of ancient weapons and machinery as well. He would have made an excellent tinkerer.

[@TONYGILLEY]

The Slingshot around the Sun time-travel will be used a couple more times, no spoilers for you there. As for how they resolved the Base Guard and Captain Christopher's return... that doesn't completely make any sense. I don't know how beaming them back into their bodies the moment they were abducted would make them forget, as the episode seemed to imply. It's one of those cases where the writers hoped you won't think about it, never considering that there would be a multitude of Time Travel stories afterwards in all different media that would open a butt-load of plot holes and paradoxes. 🤣

[@mygeekdom4414]

Fun fact: This was originally planned to be a follow episode. Originally the plan was the Enterprise was thrown back to Earth in the Naked Time. Remember a time warp resulted in the cold restart of the engines because Orelly shut them down.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thank makes sense!

[@l.piloto7964]

It was, as usual, a very entertaining time watching STOS with you and traveling through time with you and the Enterprise crew was fun and made my neural pathways and synapses fire to keep up with this version of time travel and teleportation. As always, thank you BT. 🖖🥰

[@dennismason3740]

The F-104 Starfighter was also known as the Widowmaker as it tended to kill its pilots, especially in the German Air Force (part of NATO) where over 50 pilots died from the 104s tendency to be nearly unflyable. It was fast. I had a model of it (Revell) in 1966 and the entire model was coated in plastic chrome paint.

[@FrankJReynolds]

There was a story in a STAR TREK comic book many years ago where the Enterprise, at the end of this episode, did overshoot their time, and wound up in the "movie" era, where they met their older selves, then returned to the end of this episode having forgotten everything.

[@gumbomudderx7503]

This is another one of my favorite episodes from TOS! When I was a little kid I was an aviation nerd as well as a Star Trek nerd, and my favorite plane as a kid was the F104 Starfighter. So a trek episode featuring an F104 was an instant favorite! Lol

[@kenpatton8761]

My favorite was the B58 Hustler. I actually got to work on the F104 while stationed in Turkey from 1991-93. Those were the planes the Turks had at the time, before getting F16‘s. I was surprised when I first arrived at seeing them still being used and placed on alert. I was 1 of about 120 USAF personnel assigned to a remote site on a Turkish AFB. This episode of StarTrek was one of my favorites as well. Happy Holidays

[@gumbomudderx7503]

@@kenpatton8761 my uncle was stationed in Turkey on an AFB for a while in the 90’s, but I don’t know the exact years. I think he worked on F111’s in Lakenheath before coming there, but I’m not real sure what he was doing in Turkey. It’s crazy they still had starfighters in service in the 90’s. I know NASA still used them, but it’s cool someone was still using them as an interceptor so many years later. The Hustler is a really cool plane too! I really like those early cold war aircraft for some reason. The designs just seem so cool and outside the box. Happy Holidays to you, and thanks for your service!

[@user-mg5mv2tn8q]

Both very cool planes, very photogenic, very cinematic. The stock footage of "nuclear-armed" bombers in Fail-Safe featured Hustlers, and the plane Chuck Yeagher crashed in The Right Stuff was a Starfighter (still the coolest fighter name ever).

[@KithKanan64]

I had a chance to climb all over a TF-104G when the Cal Poly Aeronautical Engineering Dept had it outside their building in 1999 or 2000 (I wasn't an AERO major, but my roommate at the time was). The plane was moved to the Estrella Warbirds Museum a half-hour north in Paso Robles a few months later where it is still on display.

[@itubeutubewealltube1]

this episode actually predicted multiple events that happened years later, including the moon landing... this was three years before that event... and it was predicted correctly... it very easily could of been pushed back to the early seventies..

[@brentfugett2700]

Lt Bunny you are fully vested. “Where are they, WHEN are they??” You’re all over this!

[@brentfugett2700]

Keep in mind when this show aired the top tv shows were Bonanza, The Andy Griffith Show and I Love Lucy. Just like this episode these characters and this show are truly a generation ahead of its time.

[@johnauten8142]

Hi Bunny, great uniform, thanks for joining Starfleet. This was another great entry for the first season. Though it has a few incongruities in the time traveling and returning the two men back to Earth it's filled with so much curiosity, stealth, action, and a bit of humor all perfectly balanced to brings out an exciting adventure that keeps you on the edge until they finally get back to their normal time. This is what makes sci-fi fun and intriguing for everyone.So glad you're doing these observations on such a timeless classic.

[@ninjabearpress2574]

Yeah, the voice of the computer is Majel Barrett Roddenberry, then and in Next-Gen.

[@johnbrown8059]

I watched this episode for the first time way back in the sixties when the show was brand new. I was about nine years old or so at the time and was already a huge aviation buff, so I loved the footage of the F-104 Starfighter. A little less than ten years later, I was in the Air Force, stationed in Germany and was able to see real F-104 Starfighter planes flown by the West German Luftwaffe. The first time I saw one, I thought to myself, "Don't look now, there goes Captain Christopher!!!"

[@terryfox9344]

Thanks for the review. I watched the original showings of most of these episodes back in the 1960's. This was an extremely thoughtful series in its day, way above the level of most TV which was pitched to people with a 4th grade level of education. The dialogue among the characters was used to present differing perspectives on the issues and culture of the day.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

12:39 "He's fighting _three_ of them at _once."_ He's trying to keep them busy so they don't discover _Sulu._

[@ChrisReise]

1:39 Fun Fact: This episode aired January 26, 1967, two and a half years before the launch of the first manned moon shot on July 16, 1969....oh and BTW it WAS on a Wednesday. like the communications the Enterprise is hearing.

[@KenCullison]

Jan 26, the day before the Apollo 1 fire.

[@ChrisReise]

That's right.@@KenCullison

[@JJ_W]

@@KenCullison Exactly. Just 22 hours after this episode aired, the Apollo 1 spacecraft burned on the launchpad, killing the crew, and setting the Apollo program back by 20 months. In the days that followed, few would have believed that the U.S. would still land on the moon "in the late 1960's", as stated by this episode. (But we did!)

[@mikegoggin570]

One small detail that I enjoy is that Christopher's rank on his Starfleet uniform is Lieutenant, which is roughly equivalent to his USAF rank of Captain.

[@ShaneLochlannBlack]

Yes it is quite gratifying when the writers and the prop department get the ranks correct. There's a moment in TNG when an admiral insta-demotes Lieutenant Commander Shelby to lieutenant, only to have Riker promote her to first officer (and acting commander) before the next commercial. Very confusing.

[@edwardstowers7272]

The point where Christopher, when responding to Kirk’s mention that the throw-back as an accident, where Christopher responds, “you seem to have a lot of them,” is referring to the fact he had just reported the Enterprise as a UFO. There was a plethora of UFO sightings going on in the 60s (and which continue to the present day, as seen in last summer’s Congressional meeting on the matter, though they call them UAPs now). As a pilot of Air Defense Command in the 1960s flying an F-104, Christopher would have reported a UFO with a sneaky suspicion it might be a Soviet device (it was the middle of the Cold War). In actual fact, there were Air Force fighters that have pursued UFOs in real life and several crashed for no known reason. This story tied in actual UFO stuff and added the tractor beam as the reason for the aircraft’s breakup.

[@starmnsixty1209]

True enough. The first such incident I believe, was the Thomas Mantell case in 1948 I believe. Mantell's plane crashed resulting in his death, while the exact nature of the object he pursued continues to be debated.

[@jupreindeer]

My theory is that if a real life alien literally went door-to-door, introducing itself to each Human at said doors and did this for a year, we would still have the same things going on. Believers. Disbelievers. Neutral parties. Radicals. Haters. Cover-ups. Etc. There simply cannot be enough proof to say yay or nay to extra terrestrials ever existing.

[@MrDeathpilot]

"...there were Air Force fighters that have pursued UFOs in real life...and crashed..." "Thomas Mantell" ...if anyone wants to research this. This incident happened in 1948, and this episode draws heavily from the rumors about it at the time.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

​@@MrDeathpilotI heard he simply flew to high & ran out of oxygen. It was supposed to be a low altitude flight.

[@jasontoddman7265]

That's an excellent theory too, but I always had a different one. After all, they just wrecked his own jet - by accident. I assumed he was referring to that. It never really occurred to me that he could not have known that at the time however.

[@emilsitka9537]

I love all the discussion here about the realism (or lack thereof) of time travel.

[@daveangels]

The memory loss during the beam out did seem very convenient. Why wouldn't they remember? Oh well, a great episode, and epic fightscene of Kirk.😂

[@howardpalys6929]

Your analysis of the TtOS episode has been interesting so far. having seen them when they first aired and more than a dozen times since, it's nice to get a fresh perspective. I think you'll find some of the future episodes you'll; analyze to be, even more full of surprises. P.s your badge should be on the left side..

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks 🙂 Badge is wrong because camera is inverted

[@howardpalys6929]

@@bunnytailsREACTS As a fan of both TOS Star Trek and your channel,you're welcome.

[@whawaii]

Am leaving this before seeing your reaction. This is my absolute favorite episode in all the TOS series. Thank you for finally getting to it.

[@zhaley1980]

16:44 That has always baffled me too. He would still have his memories from being on the ship.

[@philfitnesspt6139]

No he wouldn't because they send him back before that happened his future self is beamed into his past self and his past self never gets on-board the enterprise so any memory's would dissappear bit like back to future and ripple effect. Kirk and crew remb it because they are time travellers. I know prob all rubbish but hey lol

[@zhaley1980]

@@philfitnesspt6139 Oh I understand the theory behind it but it still doesn't make any sense to me. His future self being beamed in to his past self would still have the memories he made and the replacement is still taking place. Not like the others that would not experience their interactions with Kirk and Sulu, because that never would have happened for them. They aren't being replaced with a transporter. Now I'm confusing myself. Time travel stuff always boggles my mind. Terminator makes absolutely NO sense. Since the terminator ported first, the resistance would not have "time" to send Kyle back. But hey, it's still great. Back to the Future did it the best.

[@christopheryochum3602]

What a fun episode! I could watch that one once a week! :)

[@Marcus-p5i5s]

It was even more interesting to watch at the time it originally released.

[@MartinCox-ny2rv]

Yes I have both sets on dvd. And I have gotten used to the remastered versions

[@firegod001]

Awesome reaction as always. It is so cool to join you in your Star Trek adventures.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks!😊

[@dustinkosman6615]

I’m an expert on military aircraft and the aircraft featured in this episode is a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a single seat single engine interceptor in service during the Cold War era. The aircraft was succeeded by the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II during the late Vietnam War era.

[@awall1701]

Ah the temporal mechanics of time travel can be very confusing. Lieutenant Bunny Tails another fun reaction, I am really enjoying your journey into the original series.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks!

[@Capohanf1]

Confusing BUT FUN TO WRITE!!!! In a ST Fan Club we wrote a Continuing Story for Our Ship, the U.S.S./RSE Shadow Hawk set in the Next Generation Universe with Both Admiral Kirk and Ambassador Spock as characters. In one story the ship went back in time to contact CAPTAIN Kirk as they were at the end of the Nimbus III mission. Admiral Kirk and Ambassador Spock beamed over to the Enterprise A to meet with Captain Kirk and Mister Spock. When the two Spocks met, Mister Spock said to his older self, "Live Long and Prosper." To which Ambassador replied, "Thank you, I HAVE!" Then Ambassador Spock said to his younger self, Live Long and Prosper." To which his younger self replied, "Thank you, I INTEND TO!"

[@user-mg5mv2tn8q]

I would love to read that sometime. You should publish somewhere online.

[@Capohanf1]

Actually I HAVE! I have posted the stories I have writen about Commander D'Sefet, a Caitian Officer in Star Fleet at: federationinstallationnine.blogspot.com/ I think the story is here. @@user-mg5mv2tn8q

[@CL4MP]

I always love when Star Trek crosses over into "current" time. I really enjoyed this episode 💜

[@rickjohnston2667]

That's one of the reasons that Star Trek IV: The Voyager Home was so successful.

[@richardb6260]

Reminds me of a plotpoint in John Scalzi's Red Shirts when the characters determine when the series they're on was produced.

[@Cre80s]

Yeah, the time travel was both a little over-done while at the same time something we couldn't get enough of.

[@ianburns1167]

Time travel episodes are always fun! This will be a running thing.

[@Cluckkent88]

I love the fact that you go on your Star Trek journeys with your uniform kind of goes with your theme of where no bunny has gone before great video!

[@chrisgarrett1257]

Bunnytails, sometimes Trek is just Fun. It was one of the first to push new concepts. Don't try to think too hard about it, sometimes it's enough to just enjoy it. ❤

[@enigmamz]

"Repeat to yourself: It's just a show, I should really just relax!"

[@KingoftheJuice18]

@@enigmamz I appreciate your nod to MST3K, but the original comment Mr. Garrett made is not really in the spirit of Star Trek. It's because fans have always taken it with such loving seriousness that it's still around today producing new series and adventures. Roddenberry's original team sweated over every detail. Example: they created long lists of possible Vulcan names for men, all starting with S and ending in K (notice Spock's father, Sarek, and his brother in the 5th movie, Sybok)....

[@nexusbrill]

Look at it like this, the security guard and the pilot get beamed back down right as they got beamed away originally :)

[@leftcoaster67]

Beautiful Bunny, great reaction. Merry Christmas!

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Merry Christmas!

[@YorkValderrama]

I agree. I saw some commentary on this specific episode and part of the premise was to see how the Enterprise crew would match up against the technology of the time. My favorite line actually came from Mr. Sulu when he said that the computer would make the devil's own noise if you start it.

[@generoberts9151]

As a life long Trek fan I just read that this particular episode was supposed to be a two part conclusion to Naked Time. Where they were thrown back to the 60s from their time warp that was a result of them using the implosion formula. Later the creators of the series decided to make it a separate episode. Not obvious but after the intro when they did little to describe how they arrived into their dilemma, you can see where they created something abruptly to start this episode on the fly.

[@willadeefriesland5107]

The "lot of accidents" quip by Christopher referred to all the UFO sightings then... and now.

[@griffruby8756]

1:40 I just looked it up, and July 16, the day Apollo 11 was launched, acually did fall on a Wednesday. On the East coast it was launched at 9:32 in the morning which would be 6:32 West coast time (San Francisco, Vandenberg,...), and allowing for possoble minor last minute countdown delays, might well have been even closer to 6:00 in the morning that Wednesday. Not bad - for this having been filmed in early 1967, about the time of the Apollo 1 fire, about two and a half years before the actual launch!

[@Stogie2112]

In the original version of this episode (before the modern special effects were added), the Sun was never shown during their escape.....which was odd. The conundrum of returning Christopher is frustrating!

[@davidguest7]

So cute that you wear the uniform

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

😊

[@willadeefriesland5107]

I love how your questions and speculations reflect how into Star Trek you're becoming... 🙂

[@LoricSwift]

"You don't want the cube salad?" XD

[@greyinvader]

I don't usually care for time travel episodes, but this is a good one. Excellent writing and lots of chuckles.

[@PenneySounds]

I believe this episode was originally conceived to be a two-parter with "The Naked Time", where the gravitational slingshot from escaping the collapsing planet in that episode would have been the reason they are in the past at the start of this episode.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

A tiny little bit of trivia. According to Leonard Nimoy, the actor playing William Christopher liked the Star Fleet uniform they gave him to wear, the way it fit and looked on him, he asked Nimoy if he thought they would mind if he kept it and Nimoy told him they really frown on that. The male tunic is actually quite a complex garment and not as simple as it seems. To acquire an accurate replica requires paying about $300 to a seamstress to recreate one by hand using patterns based on the original costumes. Any off-the-rack costume you see, no matter how nice the photo may look, will not come close to how those tunics are supposed to look.

[@PenneySounds]

The radio signal at the start says that the first manned moon shot is scheduled for launch on Wednesday. Apollo 11 did launch on a Wednesday, July 16 1969. Two and a half years after this episode aired. One in a long line of almost spooky predictions made by Star Trek over the years.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

It wasn't at 6am though

[@PenneySounds]

@@TheMrPeteChannel I mean, they were off by like 3 hours. I think it counts as a win.

[@johnsavard7583]

Given your comments on "I, Mudd", I might note here on how I would have imagined this episode juxtaposed. Suppose that instead of beaming Captain Christopher aboard, they had beamed aboard... Major Anthony Nelson. So there he is, in the transporter room, calling out "Jeannie! Jeannie!"... and the Enterprise faces a force greater than the Squire of Gothos!

[@EvilTheOne]

- One must remember a key aspect of this episode, it was Roddenberry's way of taking jabs at that time in American history, the mid-to-late 1960's. - As Capt. Christopher looks around the Enterprise and at it's women in 1969, or more precisely 1966 when the episode was filmed, women didn't... - Even have the right to own their own credit card in America; and that won't happen for another EIGHT years (1974). - Roe vs Wade wasn't even passed for another SEVEN years (1973); striking a significant stride for women's rights [which was shamelessly taken away from women...the right to choose...the freedom of choice]. - And for Capt. Christopher to see a black woman on the ship's bridge, the Civil Rights Movement in America didn't end for another TWO years in 1968. - So Roddenberry wanting to reflect the flaws in our time, created this as a reflection of our negative racism, sexual bias and oppression/suppression. - As for storytelling, this episode brought about two significant 'sequels' in Trek; the movie 'The Voyage Home' and Voyagers 'Future's End' two-parter.

[@brentfugett2700]

Look up Ticonderoga in NY. You should visit. Bring your uniform!

[@JonathanPohlner]

He might experience it like DeJavue, he has a vague memory of a dream state, but no missed time to account for actually being anywhere else.

[@TOSStarTrek]

That is a F-104 it was built to do one thing. It was an intercoptor for long-range bombers. Was great for what it was built to do but sucked at just about anything other than that one task. 0:45 There 3 main theories on time travel. A) there is only one. B) Time travel creates an alternate timeline. C) The timeline is rewritten. For the last 30 years, Star Trek has been using B

[@Wasted_Talent007]

This might be the first of the; "Captain we are giving it everything we got, and we can't give her much more! She's gonna blow !" iconic moments from Scotty in engineering. It becomes his trademark calling card, the Enterprise on the edge of disaster and Scotty holding it all together with duct tape and sewing pins. All while feeling a ton of major Scottish anxiety, revealing it in his communication back to the bridge. Get used to it. Look for it in the future. It is some of the very best Star Trek drama. Now that you know it, replay Scottie's bit in this episode again (Starts at 18:40, near the end when they time travel back "home"). Just to get conditioned for it. You gonna see more in the future and it gets better with age. Scottie becomes more frantic with every new iteration.

[@lupuswolff4950]

the thomas mantell story. His last words were- "it's huge and looks metallic" before his plane was disintigrated and pitted with holes from some type of ray.

[@terrywayneHamilton]

That is a 104 Star Fighter. If it can see it, it can kill it. That is just life.

[@peterstanghellini393]

This episode was very suspenseful and thank God there was a happy ending

[@stevenjeanson8889]

A scene that I’ve always enjoyed is when Kirk is being interrogated, and the commander is pointing the phaser at his head and then he tosses it back to the Sergeant and you can see Kirk wince because he’s afraid that thing is gonna go off

[@jffryh]

That's why the enterprise has the saucer section, to explain why people see "flying saucer" UFOs

[@4yules]

spock and mcoys relationship is priceless

[@davidberry4256]

Thanks!

[@Xenaboy-vt3hi]

You are right. This is an episode where the solution really doesn't make any sense. Are they somehow fusing together two versions? And why would the version that experienced the Enterprise not remember it? But, except for a brief part at the end of the Naked Time, this was the first real time travel episode. It's even cooler now when 1966 isn't the present anymore but a nostalgic past.

[@tothra]

Another fun episode! I saw this as a small child and was so excited to see the opening, even with the original special effects. To see the Enterprise, a ship not designed to operate in an atmosphere, struggle on impulse power to climb into orbit always struck me as a nice touch that showed how much the SFX team cared. Never think too much about time travel in movies and TV as there are no rules about it anyway. Something few talk about is that this episode cemented the Enterprise as another beloved character in the show. No matter the odds or adversity, she held together for the crew. Enterprise became such a part of the show, when they announced DS9 would take place on a space station, fans were upset as Trek needed a starship Enterprise! Lastly, this show could build drama. When they're traveling in time and Enterprise is getting hammered by forces, they tilt and shake the camera and flip spotlights on and off. It sounds silly today, but you buy into it because you care about the characters and ship. It's easy to not notice the amazing music of Classic Trek that so well creates the mood needed for the scene. In the 90s I bought a tape of just the soundtrack and I realized just how great the music is

[@johnnygood4831]

This was one of my favourite episodes. I've use one of those ancient computers.

[@Bobby-ez9so]

bunnytailsREACTS, as always, you did a great job reacting to one of my childhood favorites TV shows and I thank you and look forward to your next Star Trek reaction. Opps, I almost forgot, wishing you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks! Merry Christmas to you too!

[@josephmanfredi5389]

Loved your review of Tomorrow Is Yesterday!! Love you as well!

[@tpot725]

This episode was written in 1966-before the term “black hole” was coined by Wheeler in 1967!

[@PenneySounds]

The uniform given to Captain Christopher to wear aboard the Enterprise has rank stripes on the cuffs indicating the rank of Lieutenant, which is the Naval equivalent of the Air Force rank of Captain. They showed him a lot of respect as a fellow service member by giving him a Starfleet uniform with the correct rank rather than civilian clothes.

[@PenneySounds]

By contrast, when Khan was given a uniform to wear, it had no rank stripes.

[@rayharley597]

I've rationalised that Christopher would slowly regain his memories of what happened over time but would have no way of proving it; trying not to interfere in his, future, son's choices but trying to guide him toward the future that only he knows is coming. kerk

[@JohnSipe-jt7bm]

The episode opens with the same scene as the Jonny Quest episode Robot Spy. 9:37

[@tomtortolani8082]

Another great reaction, I like the episode and as I recall there are/were some actual scientific theories about bending time when moving through gravitational fields at certain velocities. But the whole beaming back into themselves thing still doesn't make sense. Happy holidays bunny.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks, and happy holidays!

[@UnderDriven17]

Great reaction! You asked many good questions, like "Why would Christopher not remember anything?" and "Were they beaming him into himself?" It's best not to try to understand the time travel aspects of this episode, because they don't make any sense. This episode is only slightly above the "Lost in Space" level of science. In a more general sense, from the point of view of speculative fiction it's far easier to posit a time machine created by AI (Terminator franchise) or aliens ("The City on the Edge of Forever") which can accomplish time travel into the past without explaining how it works. The problem with this episode is that they were trying to explain what happened and how to fix it, which just made things worse. Also, any perturbation no matter how small could have large effects (chaos theory), so it might be impossible to leave the past untouched. Note the man who killed himself with McCoy's phaser in "The City on the Edge of Forever"--that could have had a ripple effect which altered history (perhaps less likely than the death of Edith Keeler, but it's impossible to say what is significant and what isn't in the flow of time). So even the brief UFO sighting in this episode could have altered history in some way. It's much easier to posit time travel in a multiple universe scenario, where time travel into the 'past' is really traveling to the past of a different universe (which may or may not resemble the past in your own universe), which eliminates causality paradoxes.

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

@bunnytailsREACTS The transporter converts matter into energy, and energy back into matter. The past versions of the pilot and sargent were beamed up while the future-aware counterparts were beamed down, and the transporter combined them into the same bodies. It IS a bit confusing to think about but effectively they were combined and would then never know that.

[@JoePlett]

Best not to overthink this one. With the way they ended it, they negated the need for the whole middle act where they had to beam down to the base, since there would be no evidence to steal. Just check your brain at the door and enjoy the ride. 😏

[@ThomasSkokan-op2oc]

Excellent point.Poetic license in Sci Fi a given many times ....

[@Maxbeedo2]

All the episodes involving being displaced in time are interesting in different ways, and it comes up a lot in other sci-fi. Sometimes they get to go back, sometimes they MUST go back even if they don't want to, sometimes they can't go back and must adapt, and sometimes they can't handle the transition and, uh, bad stuff happens. How would you handle it Bunny? Ditch this life and go to the future? What if someone watching your reactions would've been inspired to develop the technology needed to make Starfleet and your absence changes the future? ❤

[@SektorSieben]

That's right: don't think too hard about the physics involved in time travel at this point. Star Trek liked to take such things a little more lightly. In this episode I enjoyed imagining how the Enterprise and all of StarTrek technology would appear for people in the 1960s. Trek-tech-design primarily simplifies the production of the series (beaming, vulcan nerve pinch, phasers, replicators) but is still pretty cool in itself. Very likeable little fun episode.

[@doorofnight87]

Yay! Another Star Trek reaction! Also, Merry Christmas! The engineering uniform is quite fitting for the season. I always thought this was a pretty interesting episode.

[@Natakel]

Great video. This episode is one of my Favs, even more so after I was in the USAF in my 20's. I also couldn't work out the whole beaming the Capt.and the Sgt. back "into themselves" as it were. I decided that the persons that were beamed down were basically replaced molecule by molecule with their originals who had no contact with the Enterprise (yes, I was a very odd 12 year old 🙃). Thank you. I really enjoyed your video. Nice TOS uniform, also.

[@sarahfullerton6894]

This episide was situated in 1969, 2-1/2 years after the episode was aired!

[@joejackson73]

I have read the paperbacks of the Original series back during the late 1980s. They always add more detail. In The fight between Kirk and the 3 security men Kirk's goal was to make as much noise as possible so that Sulu would hear the commotion and beam back to the ship.

[@jason60chev]

That is an assumption that I made......and you can see Zulu hearing the noise. But wouldn't it have been cool, if Zulu came out and proceeded to kick all their asses?