Talk:All Our Yesterdays (Star Trek: The Original Series)

From the trivia section

"Mr. Atoz's name apparently derives from the phrase "A to Z", a reference to his occupation as a librarian."

Somewhat like L. Frank Baum's source for the name of his fictional "Land of Oz". --Chris 19:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Addendum: Spock was of course speaking in metaphor when he said Vulcan was millions of light years away. Light years are also a measure of TIME.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.49.13 (talk • contribs) 11:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Not according to the Wikipedia entry on Light years. Sir Rhosis 15:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

The keyword is metaphor, you both are being too literal, that is: n Light year = n year * 5.88 * 10^12 miles/second, the units of time divide out leaving units of distance. So although specified as a multiple of time in years, distance is the inferred measurement. WurmWoode^T 01:56, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Not the "penultimate" episode

There is apparent controversy over which is the final episode. The last produced episode and the last broadcast [or "transmitted"] episode was Turnabout Intruder. The only rationale for assigning the present episode to the "final episode" position is the later "stardate" given to the present "Yesterdays" episode. Dogru144 04:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Look "penultimate" up in your dictionary--it doesn't mean what you think it means. Then undo your revisions. I don't feel like doing the work for you. Thanks. Sir Rhosis 04:42, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I have reverted Dogru's changes. The article was correct when it referred to "All Our Yesterdays" as the penultimate episode. Penultimate means "next to last." Since "Turnabout Intruder" was the final episode to air, and since AOY aired right before TI, then AOY is indeed the penultimate episode of Star Trek to air. Sir Rhosis 05:05, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

That makes sense...

"Meanwhile, Kirk arrives in an alleyway at a point in Sarpeidon's history reminiscent of Earth's Charles II era."

I'd change that to either 'Medieval era', or 'Renaissance era', depending on which is meant. There is no Charles II era, although there were Victorian and Elizabethan eras - but that's different. WikiReaderer 18:36, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I changed it to Victorian era - which is what it said originally a few hundred edits ago. I have no idea why it was changed. Cyberia23 23:28, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually I meant to change it to Medieval era. I guess that was more like the period. Cyberia23 23:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

OK, cheers. WikiReaderer 22:34, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

The costumes are what one would see in The English Restoration Period, circa 1660. The witch hysteria, as portrayed in this episode, is something very specific to the 17th Century. The costumes and culture portrayed are in no way like the Medieval period and certainly not the Victorian Age. A simple glimpse at the clothing of this period is enough to validate what I have written and changed the entry to. Rabbit 11

Uncited stuff

Cites?

• The title for this episode is from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5, line 22. Other episodes from the original series whose titles are from Shakespeare are "Dagger of the Mind", "The Conscience of the King", and "By Any Other Name", as well as "Thine Own Self" from The Next Generation; and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
• Mr. Atoz's name apparently derives from the phrase "A to Z", a reference to his occupation as a librarian. Veteran actor Ian Wolfe who plays Mr. Atoz appeared previously in the second season episode "Bread and Circuses".
• The atavachron, whose name derives from the Latin for "distant ancestor" and the Greek for "time", bears an uncanny likeness to Gary Seven's Beta-V computer. It is, of course, the same prop.
• Likewise, Mr. Atoz's desktop disc viewer is made from Sargon's sphere holder, turned upside-down (from "Return to Tomorrow").
• This episode was the inspiration for Allan Holdsworth's 1986 album Atavachron, which features instrumental tracks named "Atavachron" and "All Our Yesterdays", and cover art showing him dressed in a Star Trek uniform standing before the time portal, with a selected disc showing him in childhood. Also, his 1992 album, Wardenclyffe Tower, includes an instrumental track named "Zarabeth".
• The sound effect for the Atavachron was probably derived from the audio time code broadcast by the National Bureau of Standards shortwave radio station, WWV, from 1961 through 1971. A description of this "NASA 36-bit Time Code" appears in "1970 guide to NBS Time and Services," section 1.8, available at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website.
• Uniquely in the series, this episode has no scenes set on the Enterprise. Every scene is located on the planet (albeit in multiple time periods and presumably multiple locations), except for a single space exterior shot at the very end of the episode. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8B0:80D:0:0:0:0:1 (talk) 12:34, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Trivia, not sure, perhaps deserving of inclusion.

• Mr. Spock tells Zarabeth that Vulcan is a planet "millions of light years" away. That's quite a long distance, considering that the Milky Way galaxy is only about 100,000 light years across.
• A check of the stardates with this episode {5943.7} and the next "Turnabout Intruder" {5928.5} indicates that chronologically this should have been the last episode

Speculation, in the plot already.

• When Mr. Spock changes in the distant past, a role reversal is seen, with Spock supplying the passion and Dr. McCoy supplying the logic.

Alastairward (talk) 23:40, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Some parts of the atavachron also look like they were taken from the M5 in The Ultimate Computer. Genesis 1:3 (talk) 23:19, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Sound effect for the Atavachron

The sound effect for the Atavachron was probably derived from the audio time code broadcast by the National Bureau of Standards shortwave radio station, WWV, from 1961 through 1971. A description of this "NASA 36-bit Time Code" appears in "1970 guide to NBS Time and Services," section 1.8, available at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website.

The same sound effect was used for the film "Prisoners of the Lost Universe" in the early eighties. There, the machine was a transdimensional teleporter.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:ce:bbdf:8a57:94c:745f:466f:d76e (talk • contribs)

Interesting, but nothing we can add to the article without a reliable source. We esepcially can't publish speculation. DonIago (talk) 18:46, 25 May 2019 (UTC)