Talk:All Our Yesterdays (Star Trek: The Original Series)

message: "Mr. Atoz's name apparently derives from the phrase "A to Z", a reference to his occupation as a librarian."
Somewhat like L. Frank Baum's source for the name of his fictional "Land of Oz". --Chris 19:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Addendum: Spock was of course speaking in metaphor when he said Vulcan was millions of light years away. Light years are also a measure of TIME.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.49.13 (talk • contribs) 11:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not according to the Wikipedia entry on Light years.  Sir Rhosis 15:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The keyword is metaphor, you both are being too literal, that is: n Light year = n year * 5.88 * 10^12 miles/second, the units of time divide out leaving units of distance. So although specified as a multiple of time in years, distance is the inferred measurement. WurmWoodeT 01:56, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  From the trivia section 

message: There is apparent controversy over which is the final episode.  The last produced episode and the last broadcast [or "transmitted"] episode was Turnabout Intruder. The only rationale for assigning the present episode to the "final episode" position is the later "stardate" given to the present "Yesterdays" episode. Dogru144 04:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Look "penultimate" up in your dictionary--it doesn't mean what you think it means.  Then undo your revisions.  I don't feel like doing the work for you.  Thanks.  Sir Rhosis 04:42, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reverted Dogru's changes.  The article was correct when it referred to "All Our Yesterdays" as the penultimate episode.  Penultimate means "next to last."  Since "Turnabout Intruder" was the final episode to air, and since AOY aired right before TI, then AOY is indeed the penultimate episode of Star Trek to air.  Sir Rhosis 05:05, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not the "penultimate" episode

message: "Meanwhile, Kirk arrives in an alleyway at a point in Sarpeidon's history reminiscent of Earth's Charles II era."
I'd change that to either 'Medieval era', or 'Renaissance era', depending on which is meant. There is no Charles II era, although there were Victorian and Elizabethan eras - but that's different. WikiReaderer 18:36, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed it to Victorian era - which is what it said originally a few hundred edits ago. I have no idea why it was changed. Cyberia23 23:28, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Actually I meant to change it to Medieval era. I guess that was more like the period. Cyberia23 23:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  That makes sense... 

message: Cites?
*The title for this episode is from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5, line 22.  Other episodes from the original series whose titles are from Shakespeare are "Dagger of the Mind", "The Conscience of the King", and "By Any Other Name", as well as  "Thine Own Self" from The Next Generation; and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
*Mr. Atoz's name apparently derives from the phrase "A to Z", a reference to his occupation as a librarian. Veteran actor Ian Wolfe who plays Mr. Atoz appeared previously in the second season episode "Bread and Circuses".
*The atavachron, whose name derives from the Latin for "distant ancestor" and the Greek for "time", bears an uncanny likeness to Gary Seven's Beta-V computer. It is, of course, the same prop.
*Likewise, Mr. Atoz's desktop disc viewer is made from Sargon's sphere holder, turned upside-down (from "Return to Tomorrow").
*This episode was the inspiration for Allan Holdsworth's 1986 album Atavachron, which features instrumental tracks named "Atavachron" and "All Our Yesterdays", and cover art showing him dressed in a Star Trek uniform standing before the time portal, with a selected disc showing him in childhood. Also, his 1992 album, Wardenclyffe Tower, includes an instrumental track named "Zarabeth".
*The sound effect for the Atavachron was probably derived from the audio time code broadcast by the National Bureau of Standards shortwave radio station, WWV, from 1961 through 1971.  A description of this "NASA 36-bit Time Code" appears in "1970 guide to NBS Time and Services," section 1.8, available at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website.
*Uniquely in the series, this episode has no scenes set on the Enterprise. Every scene is located on the planet (albeit in multiple time periods and presumably multiple locations), except for a single space exterior shot at the very end of the episode.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8B0:80D:0:0:0:0:1 (talk) 12:34, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Some parts of the atavachron also look like they were taken from the M5 in The Ultimate Computer.   Genesis 1:3 (talk) 23:19, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Uncited stuff

message: The sound effect for the Atavachron was probably derived from the audio time code broadcast by the National Bureau of Standards shortwave radio station, WWV, from 1961 through 1971. A description of this "NASA 36-bit Time Code" appears in "1970 guide to NBS Time and Services," section 1.8, available at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website.
The same sound effect was used for the film "Prisoners of the Lost Universe" in the early eighties. There, the machine was a transdimensional teleporter.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:ce:bbdf:8a57:94c:745f:466f:d76e (talk • contribs) 
:Interesting, but nothing we can add to the article without a reliable source. We esepcially can't publish speculation. DonIago (talk) 18:46, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sound effect for the Atavachron