A rescue mission to a planet whose sun is about to [super]nova results in
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy being sent to various areas of the planet's past.
Kirk is to be tried as a witch, but eventually gets back to the present
with the help of another time-leaper.
Spock and McCoy are sent to a glacial age. Spock falls in love with
Zarabeth, a redhead convict, who was sent back into the glacial age as
punishment. The librarian (Mr. AtoZ) runs the time machine with android
clones of himself. You put a disc of the time period you want to travel to
and jump through a portal. The discs look surprisingly a lot like compact
discs!
FACTS
1 Stardate = 1.25 hours to 16.08 hours.
McCoy is this week's dork.
The people of the planet have mastered time travel but not space travel.
Since Spock is in the past, he is capable of early Vulcan lust and
anger.
Nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Scenic
Design" Emmy in 68-69 (Walter M. Jeffries, Jr., Art Director, and John
Dwyer, Set Decorator).
OPINIONS
A pretty good (and original) story. There were a few minor flaws, however.
Why does Spock revert to a 5000 year old Vulcan but McCoy doesn't revert to
a 5000 year old human? Spock mentions that "Kirk has gone through the
portal to a different time, much later", but didn't Kirk go through the
portal after McCoy and Spock? How did Spock know that Kirk was even
in the portal?
