The Enterprise finds itself trapped in a 'negative universe' which causes the crew to begin to grow younger and younger toward infancy.The Enterprise finds itself trapped in a 'negative universe' which causes the crew to begin to grow younger and younger toward infancy.The Enterprise finds itself trapped in a 'negative universe' which causes the crew to begin to grow younger and younger toward infancy.
Leonard Nimoy
- Mister Spock
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DeForest Kelley
- Dr. McCoy
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George Takei
- Sulu
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Nichelle Nichols
- Uhura
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James Doohan
- Scott
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- TriviaThis was the last "Star Trek" production until Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) five years later. This is the longest period of time in which the franchise lay dormant. This was also the last episode of the "Star Trek" franchise to feature scenes set in the 23rd Century until Trials and Tribble-ations (1996) 22 years later.
- GoofsIn Karla Five's first message to the Enterprise, she speaks in reverse. Later, in her reverse-time universe, the crew can understand her (and her them) because, as Spock says, their brains are now in reverse. If this were true, then Karla's brain should likewise have been reversed when she entered the forward-time universe, allowing her to speak forwards.
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Commodore Robert April: No matter where I've traveled in the galaxy, Jim, this bridge is more like home than anywhere else.
Capt. Kirk: Yes, Commodore, I know the feeling.
Commodore Robert April: To me she was always like my child. I was there in the San Francisco Navy Yards when her unit components were built.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Drawn to the Final Frontier (2006)
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Use of unreasonable gimmicks
When an alien vessel passes them going at over warp 30, the Enterprise crew realizes that it is heading directly for a supernova. After communication gains nothing, the Enterprise locks a tractor beam onto the ship. While the connection slows the ship down, it does nothing but drag the Enterprise into the supernova at an unreasonable warp factor.
Once they pass through the exploded star, the crew of the Enterprise realizes that they have entered an alternate universe where time flows backward. People are born old and then regress to infancy when they die. This has the same effect on the Enterprise crew, as they begin the de-age. Fortunately, the aged Commodore Robert April, the first commander of the Enterprise and his wife are aboard the Enterprise.
April and his wife get younger, but they retain their abilities to pilot the ship when all others return to infancy and no longer have the knowledge to carry out their duties. They bring the Enterprise back to their home universe and are able to restore them to their normal age using the transporter.
The idea of time traveling backwards in this manner has been used in other contexts, but it always seems to take the appearance of a gimmick. The complexity of someone growing younger and smaller, with the need to shed mass, makes it absurd. Finally, the crew is restored using the stored transporter patterns, in this case the transporter would have to add significant mass, which would also be an exceedingly difficult operation. The transporters are designed to precisely duplicate mass, not add or subtract to it.
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