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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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!" 😅

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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. ❤

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

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. 🤣

This is one of those episodes that relied on a light touch to ride over the plot holes.

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!!!"

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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? ❤

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.

One of the reasons the line "beam me up Scotty" is never actually said in the show, most of the time Lt. Kyle is actually manning the transporter.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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._

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.

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

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.

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't dislike the time travel episodes, but I do recognize that they don't always explain everything adequately. As I understand the science of how memories are created/retained, perceived events change the brain chemistry and if our understanding is correct then the resolution makes sense. The changes would not be encoded if the individual were sent back before the event happened, so no memory exists.

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.

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

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.

I looked to see if anyone made a similar comment, but if they did I missed it. When I first saw this episode, I was watching Star Trek in the afternoons, after school was out, in the early 1970s. This one started on an Air Force base in what still looked to be "current" time, and I though they'd taken Star Trek off and replaced it with something else. I was really worried I was losing my daily fix for about two minutes, until they showed the Enterprise in the sky.

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.

This one tricked me. I never saw this as a child. But I was watching TV as a young man, and this came on. Because of the way it started I thought it was a show about UFOS. When I seen the Enterprise it blew my mind.

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

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

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

"What if they're trying to find the bathroom and they get lost in this huge ship?" Then they'll just have to go where no man has gone before.

Because of the cost of each episode they started to use sets and costumes that were available on the studio lot and would write a story around them.

I think the idea was that returning the officers to the point when they were originally transported closed the gap in the timestream, making it as if they never left. Therefore, their memories of everything they experienced on the Enterprise would intantly fade away, as there literally wasn't "enough time" for those events to have happened to them. The event which caused all of this to happen (the Enterprise appearing in the 1960s) disappeared "before" they could be taken aboard, erasing the subsequent events from ever happening. It's definitely a confusing concept.😂

The Butterfly Effect was a concept mostly unknown to the average TV viewer at the time. It's funny how much of this episode had to dedicate to basically explaining it to the audience. By the time "Back to the Future" came out, we as a general audience were schooled-up on the concept and needed far less expository dialogue and even get way more complex with it.

Life may exist on multiple timelines, that is why time is considered fourth dimension, along with length, width, and height. If you have multiple timelines, you may have different versions of how life turns out.

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

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

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

Watching episodes in the original order can be more. Enlightening than watching re-runs at random.

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.😂

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.

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.

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

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. 😏

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

If you really think about it the only real way to return Captain Christopher and the Sergeant without any memories…is to not beam them anywhere. And thats a dark thought.

This first time-travel episode was relatively light; others later on were "heavier" in content.

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!

spock and mcoys relationship is priceless

This one of my favorite episodes. It has high stakes and risk, and good humor! This episode was originally intended to be a follow-on to Naked Time in which they accidentally discovered the time warp. Recall in that episode, the engines imploded due to the uncontrolled intermix of their anti-matter fuel. In this episode, the engines buckled. So they're getting better this maneuver. And I'm sure the good folks working in the space dock and the commanders of the United Earth Space Probe Agency are looking forward to a time when they don't have to replace the Enterprise engines every couple of months. Kirk told Christopher that the Enterprise was part of the United Earth Space Probe Agency. Then at the end, they were contacted by Starfleet Control (presumably the air traffic control for space probes). Things are evolving, or maybe Starfleet sprung up after these events in the past. So, here's a fun question: Why does the Enterprise bank when it turns? Airplanes do it because the lift from the wings provides most of the turning force. Spacecraft don't have that. And the Enterprise's artificial gravity and warp field counter external forces. And when they're moving at Warp 9+, how many times do they have to orbit the sun to stay there for however many seconds before their breakaway? And would the sun still look like a solid yellow sphere? But they do give an interesting take on time dilation at faster than relativistic speed in a gravity well. Black holes had been theorized (by Einstein) before this episode was written, but it wouldn't be until the following year that John Wheeler would apply the name "black hole". Then it would be another four years until Cygnus X-1 was discovered and become the first body to be classified as such. Hence the wording "black star" in the episode. Did you notice that the hallway of the air base was a redress of the Enterprise set? This is the only time they beam people into themselves. It's an interesting paradox. Maybe from here some alternate universe sprouts, because two people were each replaced by two versions of themselves. Perhaps in such a universe (as Bunny suggests) all the people are substantially similar but Earth takes a more aggressive posture as they expand their influence. It kind of feeds the theory that the present not only influences the future, but the present also fixes the past. So when some deviation occurs, a new universe pops up so that both versions of the past can coexist. It's just a theory, but it's fun to contemplate. Bunny, I always enjoy your fun, thoughtful reactions! Looking forward to much more!

This episode demonstrates how the most historically insignificant people can be vastly important given time. Captain Christopher himself is a nobody but his son will be a great pioneer in manned space exploration. If this isn’t a reason why you shouldn’t time travel what else is.

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.

I just now realized that they beamed back the people into exactly where they had just beamed them from, but like a microsecond later. That explains why they look all beamy and don't remember anything cause they were taken and put back in like less than a second.

16:44 "So I don't really understand how it works that he wouldn't _remember..._ Esh. I don't really understand how he wouldn't remember." Yeah. _Star Trek_ often deals with the counter-intuitive. Especially when it comes to temporal mechanics. They can be _fascinating_ to contemplate, but you often have to work your way through, a step at a time, to really _understand_ them. _That_ strikes me as a stretch, though. "You won't have anything to _remember,_ because it never would've _happened?"_ Of _course_ it happened. You all _experienced_ it, including _him._ You can't very well _use_ an event in this timeline to prevent this _timeline,_ because that would prevent the _event._

Love your red ST tunic. You wear it so perfectly. Yes, this was a good episode. Kirk meets his 20th century counterpart, his late 1960s equivalent. When they said black star, it was really a black hole. Back in 1967, we knew hardly anywhere near as much about them as we do today. They do the slingshot effect in the movie The Voyage Home (1986). Yes, Capt. Christopher could've chosen to understand that some things transcend doing your duty, that some things are more important than just following orders. Yes, he needed to be more flexible. The plane he flies is an F-104 interceptor. They could go up to about 70,000 feet and could go about twice the speed of sound. The Air Force retired these planes 2 years after this episode in 1969. Yes, security on board the Enterprise was downright lousy. We saw how poor it was in The Alternative Factor and we see it here. On an episode of ST Voyager, they show what can happen when an unscrupulous person in Earth's past DOES gain knowledge of the future. The part when Kirk says "That oughta be just about right" was probably the most hilarious line in this whole episode. This episode demonstrates that truth often is indeed stranger than fiction. Yes, I love the scene where that sergeant dips his finger in the chicken soup. Yes, that was some very difficult maneuvering they did there at the end returning the two AF men. You have to remember that they were going better than Warp 8 - 512 times the speed of light - and then be able to beam those 2 guys down like that. That definitely stretched the limits of believability.

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. 🖖🥰

There was a time when I looked to the existence of a time when humanity would have something like time travel with _relish._ All the incredible possibilities excited me to _no end._ But of course, every time it comes up within _Star Trek,_ there's an unending sequence of temporal-mechanics complications to sort out, and the last few years, I've borne witness to a race that demonstrated, at every turn, its determination to take something _simple_ and make it _complicated._ So, now, I've gotten to the point where I honestly hope we _never_ have time travel. We cannot _afford_ it.

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

Both Star Trek and Lost in Space had episodes where they encountered earth in the past and both were aired before our first successful moon landing so neither of them could give a specific date for when that happened as it took place just after both shows went off the air. As far as time travel in Star Trek get ready for a whole movie's worth with Star Trek IV.

"Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. "I'm my own grandpa". - Futurama "Roswell That Ends Well" I like time travel stories... haven't seen them all... but "Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" are the only ones that seem to get it right IMO

Yeah, returning the guys involved a bit of "movie magic", especially the security officer who got beamed back before he even opened the door. How they did not remember what they had seen was largely writer's convenience. It's no spoiler to say that time travel and dealing with folks displaced from their original time will crop up in Star Trek occasionally. It is not always handled the same. Big franchise, lots of writers, so many possibilities. Dr. Sheldon Cooper had probably the best comment on our development of time travel when he expressed disappointment in himself and Leonard during their roommate contract signing.