Star Trek TOS S1E19: Tomorrow Is Yesterday

Progress towards the status quo.

Mar 16, 2023

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“TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY” Rating: 5.4

“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” is one of those time travel episodes dedicated to erasing themselves. Even by those inert standards, it’s remarkably lacking in drama and life—which I think is rather the point. There are few episodes of the series which so clearly demonstrate how a bland faith in inevitable progress functions as an endorsement of the status quo.

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