| Star Trek Review: ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
Director Marvin Chomsky's, "ALL OUR YESTERDAYS" is an involving,
multi-level, Sci-Fi tale, involving time travel, witchhunts, and a love
interest for the stoic Mr. Spock. Chomsky also directed the classic
Trek episodes, "Day of the Dove" and "And the Children
Shall Lead".
Mariette Hartley, ("Marooned," "Peyton Place," "The
Incredible Hulk"), is winning, as Zarabeth, Spock's ice age love
interest. With her beauty and warmth, it's easy to see why Spock falls
for her. I guess Gene Roddenberry liked her also, since he cast her
in the post "Trek" Sci-Fi television movie, "Genesis
II".
Teleplay writer, Jean Lisette Aroeste ("Is There in Truth No Beauty?")
brings bold creativity to the script. The idea of aliens, avoiding their
planet's impending destruction, by escaping into past eras via a time
portal, is clever and thought provoking.
Writer Aroeste has some fun with character's names. The elderly alien,
who runs the time portal chamber on Sarpeidon, and who is referred to
as a librarian, has the name, "Mr. Atoz," as in 'A' to 'Z'.
Interestingly enough, "Wizard of Oz" writer, L. Frank Baum,
is said to have come up with the name for his magical land, in response
to a child's query, after glancing at a file cabinet drawer marked,
"O to Z".
"ALL OUR YESTERDAYS" is a very unusual "Trek" episode
in that it takes place in three different eras: a medieval-type era,
an ice age 5,000 years ago, and the "present". Because of
the Spock/Zarabeth love angle, the ice age scenes are the most interesting
and memorable for me.
"ALL OUR YESTERDAYS" should be fairly watchable for most Sci-Fi
viewers. Spock fans may enjoy his romance. "ALL OUR YESTERDAYS"
is worth watching today!
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