We are celebrating the premiere broadcast 
anniversary of  TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY, which originally aired during Season 1 on Thursday,  January  26, 1967.

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Photo courtesy Gerald Gurian.


The Story:
A malfunction causes the USS 
Enterprise to be returned in
 time to the late 1960s and into 
an Earth orbit, where it is
 sighted as a UFO by a U.S. Air 
Force jet.  Since their
 confrontation with the Air
 Force jet is due strictly to an 
accidental warping of time and
 space, Kirk and Spock agree that it 
is imperative to erase any 
recorded data on the sighting
 lest the normal course of the
 Earth’s events be altered.
Book author Marc Cushman’s behind-the-scene insights from These are the Voyages: TOS, Season One:  One of the show’s highlights is the female-voiced computer who flirts with Kirk.   There was some internal debate among the producers about playing this character for comedy, for fear that it would lessen the story’s credibility.  But the humor prevailed and started the show’s history of having more fun with itself.  Episode writer D.C. Fontana said, “That was a fun show to write, and it was an easy one to write. It is one of my favorite episodes. What I liked about it best was that everything that Kirk does -- which is by the book, exactly the right thing to do -- is the wrong thing to do ... until about the middle of the episode, and then he starts pulling it together and makes it right. But I had a chance to have a little fun with it, particularly with Kirk, because you knew Shatner could play comedy.”

Interesting factoids about this episode:

  • Majel Barrett voices the flirtatious computer.
  • John Winston made his first of 11 appearances as Transporter Chief Kyle.  He then moved up to Bridge personnel in season 2 where he would mostly act as helmsman (sitting in for Sulu when George Takei was off filming The Green Berets with John Wayne).
In honor of its broadcast anniversary, watch the original episode (try amazon.com, Netflix or Hulu Plus).  
Watch the episode in a whole new way by reading all of the great behind-the-scenes details in Marc Cushman’s
These are the Voyages TOS Season One.