Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 19 - "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"

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🗓️ 13 December 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday," A twentieth-century man is trapped on a twenty-third-century ship that is trapped in the twentieth-century. Can everybody get back to their own time without wrecking time for everybody?

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:06.1	Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:34.6	In the future, he's John Champion.
0:36.8	And preceding me in time, he is Ken Ray. It's the show all about the deep meaning and messages
0:42.3	in Star Trek. Are there morals and ethics on screen that help us understand the human condition,
0:48.0	or is it all just spaceships and green ladies?
0:51.4	Today, we're looking at the one time the enterprise went back in time and changed
0:55.3	history. Or it didn't. Today, it's tomorrow, is yesterday, in which our 23rd century crew finds
1:03.6	itself hanging out in swinging 1960s Earth. Yeah, hanging out over swinging 1960s Earth.
1:13.0	Hey, I think that the airbase, I think there were probably some swinging good times
1:17.2	at that airbase.
1:18.0	You know, if Kurt struck around long enough, he might have hit the office Christmas party.
1:21.9	You never know.
1:24.0	You know, there may have been some good times hot on that airbase, but the two things I would say are, first of all, I kind of doubt it.
1:30.1	And second, even if there were, they're not hanging out in those at all.
1:35.7	It's get in, get out, nobody gets hurt, in theory.
1:40.5	They're just, yeah, a bunch of party poopers.
1:43.3	They could have stuck around. I don't know.
1:45.5	All I'm saying is, you know, they weren't far from Woodstock. They weren't far from, you know, a lot of really hip and happening stuff was going on in the 1960s and the crew of the Enterprise missed it all.
1:56.9	See, here's the thing. If I had gone back to the 1960s, if I just woke up in, you know, the late 1960s, my first order of business do a lot of shopping.
2:05.6	Things were cheaper back then.
2:08.5	Well, except, of course, they don't really have money, right?
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