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Tomorrow is Yesterday - episode #21
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2023 10:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Tomorrow is Yesterday - episode #21 Reply with quote

Bogmeister wrote:
We never got to see Earth in the 23rd century during TOS (budget constraints, I would wager). So, the first time the crew visits Earth on the show, it's in the 20th century.

Budget limitations and also politics. From the Star Trek Writers' Guide (as quoted by David Gerrold in The World of Star Trek):

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What is the Earth like in Star Trek's century?

For one thing, we'll never take a story back there and therefore don't expect to get into subjects which would create great problems, technical and otherwise. . . (F)or obvious reasons, let's not get into any detail of Earth's politics of Star Trek's century; for example, which socio-economic systems ultimately worked out best
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2023 4:57 am    Post subject: Re: Tomorrow is Yesterday - episode #21 Reply with quote

Bogmeister wrote:
Extra Trek Trivia: This episode was originally intended as the 2nd part to the 2-part episode which began as The Naked Time. At the end of that episode, the Enterprise & crew travel backwards in time, but just 3 days in the final version. When plans for a 2-parter were canceled, Tomorrow is Yesterday was reworked as a stand-alone episode.

I know Bog's long gone, but for anyone reading his post now, he repeated the above myth about the connection of this episode to "The Naked Time". Michael Kmet and I explored what actually happened with "Naked Time" as a "part one" in our FACT TREK article "The Naked Cliffhanger" (link). This will be followed by a piece we're still working on titled "The Naked Time Warp".
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2023 4:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Tomorrow is Yesterday - episode #21 Reply with quote

Maurice wrote:
I know Bog's long gone, but for anyone reading his post now, he repeated the above myth about the connection of this episode to "The Naked Time".

When I posted a copy of the review from Bog's "lost" board, The Galactic Base of Science Fiction, here on All Sci-Fi (along with 500 others) I was puzzled by his statement concerning a planned two-part episode.

I just couldn't imagine The Naked Time having anything to do with time travel, nor could I fathom why the producers might want to pair up a serious and intelligent TOS story with the least serious-and-intelligent one! Rolling Eyes

As for the late Andrew Bogdan, I'm still puzzled why he labored for five years to attract members to The Galactic Base of Science Fiction — and only acquired 15 total members, even though he posted over 3,000 comments himself.

We had 265 members on the old ASF when Andrew was my invaluable co-site administrator from 2008 until ASF crashed in 2014 . . . but as far as I know he never told a soul about The Galactic Base of Science Fiction from the time he created it until his death, in 2015!

If I'd known about it during that time I'd have encouraged our members to join, and I'd have contributed to his board the way he contributed frequently to this one! Shocked

It still saddens me to consider the fact that if he was with us today, we could discuss and debate so many interesting ideas right here on ASF.

And yet, I checked his board a moment ago and it still attracts "guests" — just like we do here! Here's what the main index of Bog's board says at the bottom.

Most users ever online was 309 on Sat Jul 03, 2021 .

That's impressive for a board that's had no new posts since Andrew Bogdan died in 2015. Shocked

Compare that to the statement at the bottom of ASF's main index.

Most users ever online was 646 on Tue Apr 18, 2023 10:52 pm

We have 165 registered users and 38,394 posts! Right now we have 115 guests. Cool

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There was a scene filmed in the transporter room but cut where Dr. McCoy talks with the A.P. Sergeant (Hal Lynch, 1927~2006) who was accidentally beamed up to the Enterprise.

Sergeant: "I told him I don't want a doctor . . .
Dr. McCoy: "Alright. What do you want?"

Sgt: "Answers! Nobody tells me anything! First I get yanked in here without so much as a by your leave. And then people go fizzling in and out of that contraption . . . and chicken soup out of the wall . . . "
Dr. M : "Chicken soup?"

Sgt: ". . . and nobody says anything to me. I want to know what's coming off!!"

Dr. M: "Well, essentially speaking . . . you are."
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