Poor woman. She was marooned in an ice age with only the bare essentials to survive. Fur coat, lingerie, curling iron, make-up kit and tons of hairspray.
Maybe that was part of the punishment by the tyrant who banished her there. "You can make yourself look good but no one will ever appreciate it Ha Ha Ha"
Irony is when McCoy later tells Spock he'll never understand love in "Requiem for Methuselah." Years later Spock ends up alone on a barren ice world, himself -to meet Kelvin timeline Kirk and teach him about friendship- .
Spock should have stayed, as there is no temporal consequence for it, unlike Kirk's situation with Keeler. Would have made the second season a bit different, of course. lol.
@@Sleeprocket1 The only thing negative about it is they cropped it up. It should have been a two part episode. Harlan was disappointed how it turned out.
@@The53rrc i dont really have anything negative to say about it. It just never stood out to me. Maybe i should rewatch it. As far as emotional episodes go i also liked the one where some kind of flower makes Spock emotional.
@dark zeratul She was changed by the machine to that send you in the past to live in that time period. Meaning if she leaves she automatically dies. Spock and Bones was not changed because they entered the past accidentally.
In this episode, again, we all see and witness what the Vulcan people were like before they began to adapt to Surik's teachings of controlling emotions and adapting to logic as a primary basis of their culture. Some Vulcans didn't agree it and remained violent in their tendancies so, the alien race, The Preservers stepped in and transfered those violent Vulcans to the sector of the galaxy referee to the Romulus Remis galaxy, now known as the Romulans. This was also explained by Mr. Spock in the episodes of The Paradise Syndrome, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, The Savage Curtain, and from the first season episode, Balance Of Terror.
Zarabeth backs away from Spock because she knew they had to go back together. Very touching; she condemns herself to a lifetime of loneliness for both of them.
The Ice Age is where she CHOSE to be. She picked that time. That is the world she wanted, where all she had to do is look hot and have men fight for her, in an alpha-gatherer sense. There will be others, not just Spock.
Spock was experiencing the effects of his more primitive ancestors during that time period...they were allowed to have open emotions at that time in Vulcan history.
There were 2 follow up books…Yesterday’s Son and A Time for Yesterday. 1st one Spock goes back to see what happened to his girl. Finds out they had a son, Zar who is now 28, his mother had died due to an accident earlier and Spock brings his son back with him to the future. In the second book, the son has learned all the modern ways of everything, farming, production, building etc. He then returns to his past to build the world he’d left behind. This is of course an extremely boiled down explanation. At one point I had ALL of the novels. They’ve since been donated to the local library. Should have kept them but didn’t have the space anymore.Cheers
Give a little trivial information here. In this episode, All Our Yesterdays, Mariette Hartley there as Zarabeth, and the Sarpian Constibul were BOTH on MASH. Mariette Hartley potrayed a Swedish doctor on MASH and the Sarpian Constibul there is actor, Johnny Heymur, who you know as Zelmoe Zale. Also, actress Susan Oliver there as Vina in the Cage and The Menagerie episodes from the first season directed episodes of MASH and Trapper John MD.
@Mark Richards wasn't it the genesis man? guy was put in experimental suspended animation, then and earthquake during sleep, buries and kills those in the bunker, he is discovered by her? She had 2 belly-buttons.
@Mark Richards i can remember him starting to falling asleep, then he sees rocks falling in control room, but it's too late, he can't get out of the capsule and all is forgotten of secret experiment.
They left out the most touching line from Spock. "Yes, it happened. But that was five thousand years ago. And she is dead now. Dead and buried. Long ago." It is all the Vulcan Spock can say.
The writer should've included: "Dead and buried, with our child..." McCoy naturally would've responded, "How could you know? You were only together for a few minutes." Spock, sadly: "I know, Doctor."
It would've been a terrific idea if, for example, in one of the feature films Mariette Hartley shows up as a character--a doctor or scientist--whose ancestors had survived the tyrant that exiled Zarabeth, and Spock and she "re-live" a love long lost.
Mariette Hartley was a beautiful and talented actress who just got more attractive as she got older. She was in some great sci-fi movies in the 70s. She's still around, 82 years old now!
This episode, and The City On the Edge of Forever. Two endings that absolutely snapped my heart in two. This was even worse than 'City.' It would have been *less* tragic if she had died, rather than be left alone once again.
What about the episode when Kirk lost his memory and had a indian wife who was carrying his child but at the end she died. Forget the name Paradise something.
Marriette Hartley was in a lot of series in her career one of the most Beautiful Women of her day, and its sad to see what passes for Beauty today in America these so called women today can not hold a candle in Beauty or Class to the women from the 1920's to the 1980's
@@hamhockbeans I wholeheartedly agree with you. These that have JJ Abrams' name are truely a piece of crap. But those of Gene Roddenbery were truely gems and lasted more than half a century.
I'm old enough to remember when Mariette Hartley and James Garner co-starred in a Polaroid commercial. They had such chemistry that most everyone assumed that she was his wife in real life. She wasn't very widely known then.
I love this episode. I'm noticing now that Kirk is rather leisurely with Spock and McCoy after they come back through the portal at the end. I thought the sun was about to supernova any second?! 😂
When she pulls away from Spock and you see the tears running down in her eyes, heartbreaking that they have to part from each other. One of many outstanding episodes from Star Trek TOS.
Yes, I always thought that was very clever. I loved the way he was so desperate to escape at the end that he half shoves Kirk out of the way and then runs through the portal. The whole concept of this episode was tremendous. The idea of people escaping a cataclysm by fleeing into their own past rather than trying to go offworld was a great plot idea.
@@msh6865 and played Septimus I the TOS episode "Bread and Circuses" as well as others of the times. I love the tons of cool character actors like him all through the '60s, '70s, and '80s...
Always thought this was one of the best and saddest episodes, next to the episode that featured Joan Collins. Imagine spending the rest of your life on an ice world all alone, knowing that there was absolutely no possibility of any else joining you, for the rest of your natural life. Knowing love for only the briefest of moments.
So many dog on the third season, but I think Freiberger did a great job with what he was dealt. This for me is a top fiver for TOS. It has everything you want in scifi - time travel, a world in peril, great acting and an awesome plot. Love this one
In one of the Star Novels I read years ago, Zarabeth had a child afterwards that had a profound influence on their worlds civilization, a predestined paradox.
Yesterday's Son and Time For Yesterday, by A. C. Crispin. She died in 2013. Up until I stopped reading those books, "Time" was the absolute best of the bunch, where the Guardian of Forever malfunctioned and needed a powerful esper; Zar (son of Zarabeth and Spock) was the only one with control and power for the job. He ended up being a tribal leader... but get the book. Well worth it.
Mr Atoz said you must be prepared. He tries to push Kirk through the portal on a cart, so the capt was obviously prepared. I guess he wasn't affected because he didn't pass through. Great story writing.
There was a book written years later called "Yesterday's Son" where Spock finds out he conceived a child with Zarabeth. They use the Guardian of Forever to retrieve him but later realize he has to be returned because his brain is affected.
Jonny5 I've got the DVD versions as they were aired in the 60's as well as the enhanced versions. What I was refering to is the disc being shown and used back in 1969, that we now are using in today's society. The disc was something that was thought as impossible back in 1969, that became reality for today.
I know that Dr McCoy couldn’t go through without Spock but if it was me, and only me I’d have stayed with her. 😢 this seen breaks my heart every time 💔
Logicly, he already was turning into the barbian his ancestors were 5,000 years ago, and was getting more and more violent by nature. Because he was not prepared by the ahavacron, he would not have lived any more than a few more hours and would have died, he was not of their world and not of that time, logicly.
She is the beautiful and sweet woman I need. I must rescue her and come to my home. She will bless my heart for the rest of her life because I saved her life from freezing and brutal loneliness. 🥰
Always thought this was one of the best episodes - but (maybe not surprisingly) appears to be based on “City on the Edge of Forever” with the plot and characters changed around enough so Harlan Ellison wouldn’t complain.
Kirk allowed Edith to die to restore the proper timeline and save not only earth but possibly the entire Federation. Spock left Zarabeth just to save McCoy.
Nimoy and Kelly must have had a few takes where Spock shoves Bones into the rock wall and then busted out laughing. Imagine the discussion. "OK, I'll shove you into this solid rock wall, and then you surprisingly find out that it's not a portal."
I really do feel for Spock and Zarabeth, I bet Bones never told Jim about Spock falling in love otherwise Jim would hold Spock up on it. I bet now Bones knows that Spock can understand love after one talk that they had at the end of an episode when Jim was down that he lost another woman that he loved.
manco82 Correct in your observations. Although the good doctor there chided, tormented and made fun of the very logical first officer, and the stoic and always logicial first officer always used his logic in reasoning with the good doctor and they endlessly were always at it, they deeply respected each other's scientific and medicial skills and in their own way, admired each other, hiding their admiration for each other, yet outwardly got on each others nerves.
To Serve Man to a certain extent. Turnabout Intruder was filmed and was set to be aired, however, it was preempted due to other programs NBC had scheduled at the time. When the episode did finally make it on the tv screen, the Original Star Trek Series was already a part of past history. Trivial fact there, in that episode, Turnabout Intruder, when they were in the briefing room, and when they were about to move everybody to different brigs, the rest of the sets were in the process of dismantling and was dismantled while the actors were playing their parts. Very sad, as the Original Star Trek Series is the only BEST STAR TREK OUT THERE.
You mean infatuation or lust. You have to live with someone night and day for at least a year before you discover what you don't love about them - then decide if you can tolerate it indefinitely. If you decide you can, then you are in love. That's the problem with media pop culture, it brainwashes us to believe love happens in 10 minutes, and life's problems can be solved in less than an hour.
@@aliensoup2420 I meant what I said. I am a writer and an editor and I value words too highly to misuse them. I said "in love" which is not the same as "loving". Jung explains this very well. "In love" can be with a hero, an artist, a musician, a response to qualities Ms. Hartley displayed in this episode. "Loving" is about a person you know -- and sometimes even 20 years isn't long enough for that. Compromise, honesty, values, these are part of "loving". I don't know how old you are, but you're young enough to think people need you to lecture them. That is not a loving quality.
@@candacesmith75 Like how you are "lecturing" me? BTW, Ms. Hartley was reciting a script written for her. You were enamored with a fiction, not the actual person.
Teresa Pappas Too bad they dnt have the WINK OF AN EYE potion to take advantage of the fact that the Librarian left them sole control of the Atavacron. And c/d've went bk & munipulated Sarpedon (or is it Sarpedonian) history.
I can understand why this plot device existed. The inhabitants of this dying world only had so much time to evacuate and therefore had to be kept from returning else the entire population might not have been saved.
socksumi Didn't have time. The sun was about to go nova and destroy the planet just as the Captain, Spock and Dr. McCoy transported back to the Enterprise and the ship went into warp away from the exploding sun.
One thing I've learned is to always look up who plays the old man in any classic TV episode. Chances are they are greater actors than you might think. But everyone looks at the hot woman. Look up Ian Wolfe, Mr. Atoz. (Oh yeah, and I love Mariette Hartley too.)
Until I saw it a few years ago, I never understood that the librarian’s name was Mr. A to Z, which is a fine name for an archivist. I wonder, how many in that line of work have have vanity plates on their cars reading MR (or MS) ATOZ?
Me too. And it stayed with me till today. I bought the restored 3 season package, and the updated, cleaned up look is better than new, and this episode is the first I looked for because of the splendid love affair that Spock and Zarabeth shared, if only for a few minutes.
Poor woman. She was marooned in an ice age with only the bare essentials to survive. Fur coat, lingerie, curling iron, make-up kit and tons of hairspray.
Yup. The basic needs.
That gave me a good laugh. Thanks!!
Maybe that was part of the punishment by the tyrant who banished her there.
"You can make yourself look good but no one will ever appreciate it Ha Ha Ha"
@@WillCamx well done
I couldn't leave that face, I'm staying😍
What an ironic reversal of roles. In this scene, we see McCoy being the logical one and Spock being emotional
...and I don't blame Spock one little bit for getting emotional about losing Mariette Hartley!
Irony is when McCoy later tells Spock he'll never understand love in "Requiem for Methuselah." Years later Spock ends up alone on a barren ice world, himself -to meet Kelvin timeline Kirk and teach him about friendship- .
You seem to have forgotten, Spock is half human
Spock should have stayed, as there is no temporal consequence for it, unlike Kirk's situation with Keeler. Would have made the second season a bit different, of course. lol.
That was one of the saddest moments in the Star Trek original series
That's okay. Mariette would later link up with James Garner.
@@BegoneJonah That and Joan Collins’ death in “City on the Edge of Forever”.
@@8634StJamesAve Nor yours Know It All. What makes you so special, other than riding on the short school bus?
Don't worry. After several more takes they had lunch together at the commissary.
@@thomasdonlin5456👍 And Miramanee's death in The Paradise Syndrome. ...😉 And Kirk could've had a son... A Doctor, even! in The Ultimate Computer 😢
This is Spock's City on the Edge of Forever.
Good comparison!
Absolument
Un épisode magnifique et plein d’émotions !!!!
Similar but of a lesser quality-merely a life rather than a world but a good episode.
I suppose eventually we will all have our ‘City on the Edge of Forever’.
I agree.
One of the greatest episodes. Should have won a hugo award like The City On The Edge Of Forever.
Loved this episode but im actually not a big fan of the City on the edge of forever
@@Sleeprocket1 The only thing negative about it is they cropped it up. It should have been a two part episode. Harlan was disappointed how it turned out.
@@The53rrc i dont really have anything negative to say about it. It just never stood out to me. Maybe i should rewatch it. As far as emotional episodes go i also liked the one where some kind of flower makes Spock emotional.
@@Sleeprocket1 That was one of my favorites. "This Side Of Paradise". When Kirk had to make Spock mad to break the spell was a great scene.
Marriette Hartley was so incredibly beautiful.
I always had a crush on Yeoman Grace Lee Whitney.... I was so disappointed when they nixt her from the series.
@dark zeratul She was changed by the machine to that send you in the past to live in that time period. Meaning if she leaves she automatically dies. Spock and Bones was not changed because they entered the past accidentally.
I will have a crush on her eternally.
What do you mean was? She's not dead.
Indeed, She was Fascinating
This Star Trek episode was one of the best in this season.
Nimoy called it a piece of crap, he almost quit , Kelly had to talk him out of it,Spock is so OOC
@@djackson4657 hard to believe Nimoy would hate this episode because he was the main arc of this episodic story and it showed his acting range.
@@SnowDaulphin Spock was so ooc.he hated it,his words,he had to be persuaded not to quit.
@@djackson4657 OOC?
This Episode was full of heart, what made TOS the best. Heartbreaking, just like COTEF!
Mr. Atoz, or better known as A to Z. Get it? A true librarian’s name!
Mr. Atoz managed to get back to late 1970’s Earth and assume the role of WKRP owner Mother Carlson’s butler 😂
Hirsch
Baby have you ever wondered, exactly what happened to me? I’m living on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati WKRP…
Damn, way back machine moment.
I actually felt so sorry for Spock in this episode. How sad!
I feel more sorry for the dame.
She had gotten use to being alone. Then she had tease of companionship and love.
something to tell her son about
I wouldn't be surprised if she got pregnant and had a son by Spock
Theri4444 They Did, in the novel
Yesterday's Son.
In this episode, again, we all see and witness what the Vulcan people were like before they began to adapt to Surik's teachings of controlling emotions and adapting to logic as a primary basis of their culture. Some Vulcans didn't agree it and remained violent in their tendancies so, the alien race, The Preservers stepped in and transfered those violent Vulcans to the sector of the galaxy referee to the Romulus Remis galaxy, now known as the Romulans. This was also explained by Mr. Spock in the episodes of The Paradise Syndrome, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, The Savage Curtain, and from the first season episode, Balance Of Terror.
This episode has some of the best characters in Star Trek, Mr. Atoz and Zarabeth. Some terrific writing and acting.
She had an irresistible freshness like a young Ingrid Bergman. Absolutely radiant -
Zarabeth backs away from Spock because she knew they had to go back together. Very touching; she condemns herself to a lifetime of loneliness for both of them.
The original Star Trek series really knew how to tug at the heartstrings hard.
Spock shoulda boned her and give her someone to love.
The Ice Age is where she CHOSE to be. She picked that time. That is the world she wanted, where all she had to do is look hot and have men fight for her, in an alpha-gatherer sense. There will be others, not just Spock.
I thought she had been sent back by a dictator not her choie
@@Primeslayer1 In the novel "Yesterday's Son" they did then had a son named Zar and in "Time for Yesterday" Spock helps save their society
An excellent episode: one that stood among the very best of the day.
Sadly, the next, and last one, sucked with that Hillary Clinton character.
It was like going from Mr. Seven to Spock's Brain.
@FryingPanHead no. Turnabout Intruder was okay. Very interesting watching the crew slowly turning against the fake Kirk.
So hot even Spock had a crush on her. How very human of him.
Spock was experiencing the effects of his more primitive ancestors during that time period...they were allowed to have open emotions at that time in Vulcan history.
And Spock is half-human, so…
He got her preggy
The Great Bird of Galaxy made sure that his show had plenty of beautiful women.
There were 2 follow up books…Yesterday’s Son and A Time for Yesterday. 1st one Spock goes back to see what happened to his girl. Finds out they had a son, Zar who is now 28, his mother had died due to an accident earlier and Spock brings his son back with him to the future. In the second book, the son has learned all the modern ways of everything, farming, production, building etc. He then returns to his past to build the world he’d left behind. This is of course an extremely boiled down explanation. At one point I had ALL of the novels. They’ve since been donated to the local library. Should have kept them but didn’t have the space anymore.Cheers
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wish I would have had these novels back when I was in the military, lots of reading time.
So, I guess space really was the final frontier (limit.)
Remember reading one of those books while in college in the late 1980’s ~ Yesterday Son, I believe.
The original Star Trek series really knew how to tug at the heartstrings hard.
That episode devastated me as a child.
She is drop dead gorgeous
Give a little trivial information here. In this episode, All Our Yesterdays, Mariette Hartley there as Zarabeth, and the Sarpian Constibul were BOTH on MASH. Mariette Hartley potrayed a Swedish doctor on MASH and the Sarpian Constibul there is actor, Johnny Heymur, who you know as Zelmoe Zale. Also, actress Susan Oliver there as Vina in the Cage and The Menagerie episodes from the first season directed episodes of MASH and Trapper John MD.
@Mark Richards wasn't it the genesis man? guy was put in experimental suspended animation, then and earthquake during sleep, buries and kills those in the bunker, he is discovered by her? She had 2 belly-buttons.
Found it: Genesis II trekmovie.com/2009/10/23/reviews-gene-roddenberrys-genesis-ii-planet-earth/
@Mark Richards i can remember him starting to falling asleep, then he sees rocks falling in control room, but it's too late, he can't get out of the capsule and all is forgotten of secret experiment.
Gene always had the most beautiful women on TOS. Most of the time, Kirk got to kiss them. But the best kiss was with Uhura and Kirk.
They left out the most touching line from Spock. "Yes, it happened. But that was five thousand years ago. And she is dead now. Dead and buried. Long ago."
It is all the Vulcan Spock can say.
The writer should've included: "Dead and buried, with our child..." McCoy naturally would've responded, "How could you know? You were only together for a few minutes." Spock, sadly: "I know, Doctor."
It would've been a terrific idea if, for example, in one of the feature films Mariette Hartley shows up as a character--a doctor or scientist--whose ancestors had survived the tyrant that exiled Zarabeth, and Spock and she "re-live" a love long lost.
@@tanyasimon595 There is a Star Trek book called "Yesterday's Son" that is based on what happened after this episode. Check it out.
@@tanyasimon595 As long as one of those ancestors wasn't Spock's child.
@BanterMaestro2-vh5vn, Uh, I seem to remember Leila Kalomi. As meaningful a connection for Spock, if not more so.
Mariette Hartley was a beautiful and talented actress who just got more attractive as she got older. She was in some great sci-fi movies in the 70s. She's still around, 82 years old now!
Wonderful in her Emmy-winning performance in The Incredible Hulk.
This episode, and The City On the Edge of Forever. Two endings that absolutely snapped my heart in two. This was even worse than 'City.' It would have been *less* tragic if she had died, rather than be left alone once again.
What about the episode when Kirk lost his memory and had a indian wife who was carrying his child but at the end she died. Forget the name Paradise something.
@@hamhockbeans The Paradise Syndrome.
There's a wonderful kind of sequels series by A.C. Crispin, the Yesderday saga, written in the 80' .
Perhaps she should have taken death head on by choosing to go through the portal with Spock and McCoy.
In a way she was already dead.
Marriette Hartley was in a lot of series in her career one of the most Beautiful Women of her day, and its sad to see what passes for Beauty today in America these so called women today can not hold a candle in Beauty or Class to the women from the 1920's to the 1980's
I agree one thousand percent.
these 3 minutes are better than any jj abrams reboot garbage.
the kelvin movies are actually pretty good in my opinion, but they aren't the same as classic trek, that is obvious.
Definitely. Real emotion, feeling and poetry. And no fake CGI.
@@johnnybestjojo7789 I find the JJ Abram movies cosplay acting. It ok for you to like them but they will NEVER replace the originals. Reboot failure.
@@hamhockbeans
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
These that have JJ Abrams' name are truely a piece of crap.
But those of Gene Roddenbery were truely gems and lasted more than half a century.
@@markokrunic3887What the hell is "Fake CGI" 🙃
Certainly one of the best episodes : my compliments to Ms. Hartley & Mr. Wolfe !
I'm old enough to remember when Mariette Hartley and James Garner co-starred in a Polaroid commercial. They had such chemistry that most everyone assumed that she was his wife in real life. She wasn't very widely known then.
I love this episode. I'm noticing now that Kirk is rather leisurely with Spock and McCoy after they come back through the portal at the end. I thought the sun was about to supernova any second?! 😂
Lol.yep all the rushing stopped..😂😂
Wow, I forgot how epic the music was.
iPaül iLawrence Music composer, George Dunning, who also produced the music for The Big Valley tv show.
When she pulls away from Spock and you see the tears running down in her eyes, heartbreaking that they have to part from each other. One of many outstanding episodes from Star Trek TOS.
Such a heartbreaking ending.
Especially to see the technology of the Atavachron destroyed in an instant by Beta Nyobi II going nova.
Mariette Hartley. Such a dream to look at and adored her in films during the 70s.
Mariette Hartley ( Zarabeth) was gorgeous a great part of her life, she is 80 now
I don't know if anyone mentioned it, but how amazing is it that there was a librarian named Mr. Atoz ( A to Z)?!
Yes, I always thought that was very clever. I loved the way he was so desperate to escape at the end that he half shoves Kirk out of the way and then runs through the portal. The whole concept of this episode was tremendous. The idea of people escaping a cataclysm by fleeing into their own past rather than trying to go offworld was a great plot idea.
Wow Selby. I was really young when I first watched this episode. Didn't pick up on the (A to Z) at that time. Thanks!
The actor portraying Atoz would turn up again several years later in a hilarious role as Mrs. Carlson's butler on WKRP in Cincinnati.
@@msh6865 and played Septimus I the TOS episode "Bread and Circuses" as well as others of the times. I love the tons of cool character actors like him all through the '60s, '70s, and '80s...
Super cool! All these many years and I never noticed that!!!
This episode led to two of the all-time best TOS novels - "Yesterday's Son" and "Time For Yesterday".
Yesterdays Son should have been a movie. Best book out of any of the novels by far.
The impact is significantly higher because she is surpassingly beautiful. A true loss.
Always thought this was one of the best and saddest episodes, next to the episode that featured Joan Collins.
Imagine spending the rest of your life on an ice world all alone, knowing that there was absolutely no possibility of any else joining you, for the rest of your natural life. Knowing love for only the briefest of moments.
But also dont forget this was her sentence, we're never told what her crime was.
@@navyreviewer crime of being way too hot. So they sentenced her to the ice age.
@@russellharrell2747 lol. Atleast they sent her back with make-up.
@@navyreviewer I think she stated that she was a political prisoner. Looks like she was sentenced for wrong think.
I can understand Spock reluctance to go back. I'd fall in love with her too...
even if I wasn't in love with her, dooming her to an eternity of loneliness is hard to justify except by necessity.
That was so incredibly sad :( brilliant but very sad episode
Saddest Star Trek episode ever.
Best episode of the third season by far.
Star Trek TOS always had the most attractive women.
@Leo Peridot Except Scotty. He still got Mira Romaine from "The Lights of Zetar"
I always had a crush on Yeoman Grace Lee Whitney.... I was so disappointed when they nixt her from the series.
Too right. Mariette was definitely a childhood crush. Such a hot, classy babe!
@Leo Peridot T'pring was just using him
@@im1who84u always thought the could get Christina Applegate to play her in a reboot.
"But it did happen, Spock"" Yes it happened, but that was 5000 years ago."" and she is dead now. Dead, and buried.""Long ago".
Buried by who?
@@PointyTailofSatan Time.
@Elle D You know what? That's a hell of lot easier than digging your own grave! Hahaha
@@PointyTailofSatan the son she had by spock
@@PointyTailofSatan Q
That was a very cool situation, making Spock decide between saving the doctor or staying. Great writing.
Tough decision, since he was deeply in love with Zarabeth.
They both would have died had they stayed. Hadn’t been prepared for the time adjustment.
So many dog on the third season, but I think Freiberger did a great job with what he was dealt. This for me is a top fiver for TOS. It has everything you want in scifi - time travel, a world in peril, great acting and an awesome plot. Love this one
My biggest issue is how they deal with time, that time in past and in the present seem to pass at the same rate synchronously.
Gorgeous and a good actress while giving Spock another chance to be passionate.
Love that whole time travel theme too!
She looks so sad at the end of that scene
But don't worry, years later she will do commercials for Eddie Z's.
Time is running out, and yet after Bones and Spock return, everyone is not in a hurry.
"It's Jim! HERE WE ARE JIM!" Very famous ST speech
In one of the Star Novels I read years ago, Zarabeth had a child afterwards that had a profound influence on their worlds civilization, a predestined paradox.
Yesterday's Son and Time For Yesterday, by A. C. Crispin. She died in 2013. Up until I stopped reading those books, "Time" was the absolute best of the bunch, where the Guardian of Forever malfunctioned and needed a powerful esper; Zar (son of Zarabeth and Spock) was the only one with control and power for the job. He ended up being a tribal leader... but get the book. Well worth it.
Mr Atoz said you must be prepared. He tries to push Kirk through the portal on a cart, so the capt was obviously prepared. I guess he wasn't affected because he didn't
pass through. Great story writing.
I had the great privilege of meeting Leonard Nimoy and Deforest Kelly. I will cherish those memories always
Marriette Hartley was my favorite female guest star on Star Trek.She did a lot to peculate my young hormones!
Mariana Hill for me!
Roberta Lincoln , haha
Sherry Jackson, in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?".
"There no time."
5 minutes later
"Let's that a moment to bow our heads."
One of my all time favorite TOS episodes.
Back when Star Trek was great. All we have now is Kurtzman trek.
one the very best episodes
I agree. She was just stunning.
Spreads fingers in a blizzard and touches icy rock - that's not how you keep warm.
Mr. A to Z, perfect name for a Librarian
There was a book written years later called "Yesterday's Son" where Spock finds out he conceived a child with Zarabeth. They use the Guardian of Forever to retrieve him but later realize he has to be returned because his brain is affected.
It was written by D.C. Fontana
Thanks for the info on the book. I will definitely be looking for it.
Wow.
@@TheNoiseySpectator the behind the scenes visionary writer.
Interesting how this episode showed optical discs.
Again, an Original Star Trek series first that was in 1969, that we have today on DVD and CD.
Jonny5 I've got the DVD versions as they were aired in the 60's as well as the enhanced versions. What I was refering to is the disc being shown and used back in 1969, that we now are using in today's society. The disc was something that was thought as impossible back in 1969, that became reality for today.
In high definition...
They were meant to be temporal access point discs with visual.
Star Trek TOS showcased allot of things we take for granted now. Tablets, Cell Phones, Touch Screens, video communications, the internet....
“You have to come aboard NOW, Cap’n!”
*Kirk dawdles and muses along with Spock and McCoy*
This was a pretty solid episode.
This was a really sad episode. Right up there with "City on the Edge of Forever." and "The Paradise Syndrome."
It may have been sci-fi, but it was all human. TOS forever !
TOS will always be the best!
"They originally went through the portal together!"
I fell in love with Mariette Hartley after that show at the age of 7.
This whole scene is brutal.
Time is running out!!!!!
I know that Dr McCoy couldn’t go through without Spock but if it was me, and only me I’d have stayed with her. 😢 this seen breaks my heart every time 💔
I think Spock tried to stay there with her which is why he tried to push McCoy through the portal.
Logicly, he already was turning into the barbian his ancestors were 5,000 years ago, and was getting more and more violent by nature. Because he was not prepared by the ahavacron, he would not have lived any more than a few more hours and would have died, he was not of their world and not of that time, logicly.
😔sad
@@hanoc101 Nothing gets by you.
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The way the Librarian had his pick lined up and ready always cracked me up for some reason.
On of our favorite episode scenes. It was very sad to see "Spock" leave her. She was a very pretty lady (and sweet)
She is the beautiful and sweet woman I need. I must rescue her and come to my home. She will bless my heart for the rest of her life because I saved her life from freezing and brutal loneliness. 🥰
Always thought this was one of the best episodes - but (maybe not surprisingly) appears to be based on “City on the Edge of Forever” with the plot and characters changed around enough so Harlan Ellison wouldn’t complain.
Why would they do this when they had already made "City on the Edge of Forever"???
@@peterbrown8362 For the same reason that they did The Apple when they had already made Return of the Archons.
Trust me, you can never change the plot or the story around enough to keep Harlan Ellison from complaining, or suing.
Kirk allowed Edith to die to restore the proper timeline and save not only earth but possibly the entire Federation.
Spock left Zarabeth just to save McCoy.
This was one of my favorite episodes!!
Mariette Hartley is a fantastic actress! She proved that in the Incredible Hulk episode "Married."
Great episode. Great characters. Great color. Great scenery. Great.......
one of the best episodes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is my favorite episode of the 3rd season of TOS
Good ep. Tholian Web for me. 😉
"NO BLOODY A, B, C, OR D"- Montgomery Scott
This episode had a lovely poetry about it.
Like a mini “City on the Edge of Forever.”
Space: Overflowing with gorgeous gals! I still think that the best of them was the one that Kirk never met- Susan Oliver!
Barbara Babcock... 'nuff said. ;-)
Nimoy and Kelly must have had a few takes where Spock shoves Bones into the rock wall and then busted out laughing. Imagine the discussion. "OK, I'll shove you into this solid rock wall, and then you surprisingly find out that it's not a portal."
She didn't die a long, long time ago: Mariette Hartley is still with us.
I really do feel for Spock and Zarabeth, I bet Bones never told Jim about Spock falling in love otherwise Jim would hold Spock up on it. I bet now Bones knows that Spock can understand love after one talk that they had at the end of an episode when Jim was down that he lost another woman that he loved.
McCoy/Spock was a relationship that was quite different from Kirk/Spock or Kirk/McCoy and in some ways I found the best of the 3.
Make-believe is so full of shit ~
manco82 Correct in your observations. Although the good doctor there chided, tormented and made fun of the very logical first officer, and the stoic and always logicial first officer always used his logic in reasoning with the good doctor and they endlessly were always at it, they deeply respected each other's scientific and medicial skills and in their own way, admired each other, hiding their admiration for each other, yet outwardly got on each others nerves.
Jeremy Williams very good point. Too bad this was one of the last ones.
Great point. Too bad this was one of the last shows. I think it's one of the saddest, right up there with Miramani. Nimoy could really act.
This is a great episode and should have been the finale.
It was in fact.
"Intruder" was mid season special in summer.
To Serve Man to a certain extent. Turnabout Intruder was filmed and was set to be aired, however, it was preempted due to other programs NBC had scheduled at the time. When the episode did finally make it on the tv screen, the Original Star Trek Series was already a part of past history. Trivial fact there, in that episode, Turnabout Intruder, when they were in the briefing room, and when they were about to move everybody to different brigs, the rest of the sets were in the process of dismantling and was dismantled while the actors were playing their parts. Very sad, as the Original Star Trek Series is the only BEST STAR TREK OUT THERE.
I thought this too, the last episode was trash af
I agree.
Classic, superb....Heartbreaking!
This was the moment I fell in love with her -- and do to this day!
You mean infatuation or lust. You have to live with someone night and day for at least a year before you discover what you don't love about them - then decide if you can tolerate it indefinitely. If you decide you can, then you are in love. That's the problem with media pop culture, it brainwashes us to believe love happens in 10 minutes, and life's problems can be solved in less than an hour.
@@aliensoup2420 I meant what I said. I am a writer and an editor and I value words too highly to misuse them.
I said "in love" which is not the same as "loving". Jung explains this very well. "In love" can be with a hero, an artist, a musician, a response to qualities Ms. Hartley displayed in this episode.
"Loving" is about a person you know -- and sometimes even 20 years isn't long enough for that. Compromise, honesty, values, these are part of "loving".
I don't know how old you are, but you're young enough to think people need you to lecture them. That is not a loving quality.
@@candacesmith75 Like how you are "lecturing" me? BTW, Ms. Hartley was reciting a script written for her. You were enamored with a fiction, not the actual person.
@@aliensoup2420 Whoa!
I remember viewing this episode. Can't blame Spock, Mariette Hartley was one beautiful woman 🥰🤗❤
And we remember Mr. Atoz every time we see the Amazon arrow in the logo, because it too goes A-to-Z, just as his last name indicates.
Poor woman, so sad for her. 😢
It was too bad that Zarabeth was a prisoner and unable to return to the present. I felt so bad for her and for Spock.
Teresa Pappas Too bad they dnt have the WINK OF AN EYE potion to take advantage of the fact that the Librarian left them sole control of the Atavacron. And c/d've went bk & munipulated Sarpedon (or is it Sarpedonian) history.
I can understand why this plot device existed. The inhabitants of this dying world only had so much time to evacuate and therefore had to be kept from returning else the entire population might not have been saved.
For a Season 3 ep this was one of the best. If only, today, we had the option of going back in time to avoid armageddon
She's so beautiful, and she was funny on Bonanza!
Babes were stunning back then
If spock wanted to stay with Zarabeth, he could have gone back with McCoy (as required) and then return to Zarabeth by himself.
socksumi Didn't have time. The sun was about to go nova and destroy the planet just as the Captain, Spock and Dr. McCoy transported back to the Enterprise and the ship went into warp away from the exploding sun.
And, don't forget Spock hadn't been "prepared". Zarabeth didn't know that. Spock would have eventually died, if he did.
I hoped he would. It might've been the best finale for the third season.
One thing I've learned is to always look up who plays the old man in any classic TV episode. Chances are they are greater actors than you might think. But everyone looks at the hot woman. Look up Ian Wolfe, Mr. Atoz. (Oh yeah, and I love Mariette Hartley too.)
Until I saw it a few years ago, I never understood that the librarian’s name was Mr. A to Z, which is a fine name for an archivist. I wonder, how many in that line of work have have vanity plates on their cars reading MR (or MS) ATOZ?
The magnificent trio.
Saddest episode ever.
She was in the Incredible Hulk tv 📺 series too
Married episode. Banner's second wife.
Also Genesis II. Another tragic role.
She and Bixby tried a sitcom as news anchors I recall.
She is a true beauty.
Back when tv was for the whole family.
One of my favorite episodes
I remember watching this the first night it was broadcast.
Me too. And it stayed with me till today. I bought the restored 3 season package, and the updated, cleaned up look is better than new, and this episode is the first I looked for because of the splendid love affair that Spock and Zarabeth shared, if only for a few minutes.