  
Title ------------------------------
Return To Tomorrow
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Writer --------------------------------
John Kingsbridge
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Director -------------------------------
Ralph Senensky
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Original Air Date ------------------ February 9,
1968
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Order of Filming ------------------------------------
51st
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Order of Broadcasting ----------------------------
49th
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Filmed -------------------------- Late
November 1967
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Captain James T. Kirk ------------ William Shatner
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Lieutenant Cmdr. Spock ---------- Leonard Nimoy
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Dr. Leonard "Bones"
McCoy ---- DeForest
Kelley
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Lt. Cmdr. Montomery
Scott ------- James
Doohan
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Lieutenant Sulu ----------------------- George
Takei
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Lieutenant Uhura ------------------ Nichelle
Nichols
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Nurse Christine Chapel -------------- Majel Barrett
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Sargon's Voice ----------------------- James Doohan
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Dr. Ann Mulhall ----------------------- Diana Muldaur
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Enterprise Nurse --------------------------- Cindy Lou
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Security Guard ------------------------- Eddie Paskey
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The
U.S.S. Enterprise tracks a mysterious SOS to an ancient planet presumed
long dead. The crew hears a voice from a telepathic being named Sargon,
who asks Kirk to beam down to the surface. When Kirk, Spock and McCoy
arrive in the transporter room, they find that Dr. Ann Mulhall has also
been summoned. Sargon operates the transporter and leaves the security
guards behind.
The landing party find themselves in a vault, and encounter a glowing
sphere that identifies itself as Sargon. He explains that his people
were destroyed in a cataclysmic war half a million years ago, and that
he once had a body, but now is only pure thought. Sargon insists that
he and two others of his kind need to "borrow" the bodies of the
Enterprise officers long enough to construct new artificial ones.
Sargon briefly takes control of Kirk's body, and leads the landing
party into another chamber holding two rows of spheres, which are all
now dark except for two. Those two beings are Sargon's wife, Thalassa,
and his former enemy, Henoch. Sargon explains that this is how they
stored their minds after the war, laying in wait for someone to find
them. But by now Kirk's body is weakening, so Sargon returns control to
the captain.
Scotty beams the three receptacles aboard and McCoy monitors the
transfer process in Sickbay. Sargon takes Kirk's body, Thalassa takes
Mulhall's, and Henoch takes Spock's. They are all overwhelmed by the
pleasure of having physical bodies after so many years. Almost
immediately, though, Henoch plots to kill Sargon in Kirk's body. While
Sargon leads the effort to build androids for them to occupy, Henoch
attempts to lure Thalassa into agreeing that they should keep their
host bodies.
Henoch telepathically forces Nurse Chapel to poison Sargon (in Kirk's
body) and then destroys the globe that houses Spock's mind. McCoy and
Nurse Chapel keep Kirk's body on life support, but his mind is still
trapped in Sargon's receptacle. Henoch has completed an artificial body
for Thalassa, but she refuses to transfer her consciousness into it.
Instead, she goes to sickbay and offers McCoy a chance to save Kirk in
return for keeping the human body. McCoy refuses, so she attacks him
with her thoughts. But then she realizes what she's doing and breaks
off her assault. Suddenly, she and McCoy hear Sargon's voice — he
transferred his mind into the ship's computer, and he has a plan.
Chapel arrives, and Thalassa orders McCoy out of the room. The room
shakes, and a few seconds later Chapel walks out. When McCoy rushes
back in, he finds Kirk and Mulhall restored to normal, and all the
receptacles destroyed. Kirk orders McCoy to prepare a hypo with a
deadly injection — Spock's mind is now dead, so now they must
destroy Henoch.
By now Henoch has taken control of the Enterprise. On the bridge, McCoy
attempts to inject him, but Henoch stops him and orders Nurse Chapel to
inject the Doctor. She takes the hypo, but injects Spock's body
instead. Henoch tries to move to another body, but Sargon stops him,
and he falls to the floor. Chapel staggers, and Spock stands up. It
turns out that Spock's consciousness had been transferred into Chapel's
body, and that the injection wasn't really deadly — Sargon had
manipulated the Doctor to believe it was because Henoch could read
McCoy's thoughts.
Sargon and Thalassa realize that they cannot live in the physical
world, but before they depart to roam the universe in their
noncorporeal state, they inhabit Kirk's and Mulhall's bodies one last
time so they can share a kiss.
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Click
the name of the
WAVs to listen
Total WAVs: 29
Mr. Spock
Sargon
That's James
'Scotty' Doohan as the voice of Sargon.
(3) Dead --------------------
22.9 KB
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Captain
Kirk - Sargon
(4) Planet -------------------
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Mr. Spock
(5) Rock ---------------------
7.43 KB
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Scotty
I'm thinking
that
would hurt.
(6) Sargon -------------------
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Sargon
(7) Crisis --------------------
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Sargon
(8) Body --------------------
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Sargon
(in Kirk's body)
(9) Alright -------------------
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Scotty
Scotty can't
believe what he's hearing!
(10) Medical -----------------
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Captain
Kirk
(11) Walnuts ----------------
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Captain
Kirk - Scotty
Scotty
(13) Stop --------------------
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Captain
Kirk
(14) Risk -------------------
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Captain
Kirk
A very
moving
speech!
In my opinion, the best speech of Kirk's career.
Sums up the mission quite well.
(Yes, I know it's just a TV show)
(15) Ready ------------------
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Dr. McCoy
(16) Female -----------------
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Henoch
(in Spock's body) - Nurse Chapel
(17) Best --------------------
30.2 KB
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Henoch
(in Spock's body)
(18) Formula -----------------
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Nurse
Chapel - Henoch (in Spock's body)
(19) Enjoy -------------------
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Henoch
(in Spock's body)
(20) Jelly --------------------
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Scotty
(21) Work -------------------
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Scotty
Come on
Scotty! Have a bit of faith!
Henoch
(in Spock's body)
(23) Flesh -------------------
10.7 KB
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Dr. McCoy
(24) Plan --------------------
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Thalassa
(25) Jim ---------------------
16.8 KB
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Dr.
McCoy - Captain
Kirk
(26) Poison ------------------
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Captain
Kirk
(27) Hypo -------------------
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Dr.
McCoy - Sargon
(28) Shared -----------------
13.5 KB
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Nurse
Chapel
Something
she's
wanted to do for a long time!
Captain
Kirk - Dr. Ann Mulhall
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