Talk:Yesteryear (episode)

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Contents 1 Episode talk page 1.1 Maintenance links 2 Character Names? 3 Hard to Understand 4 This is a bit confusing 5 Best Animated episode?

pna-incomplete

I may get to this yet today, but essentially this is only pretty thorough up to the point Spock travels back in time, so the rest needs to be expanded a bit more. --Alan del Beccio 12:44, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Character Names?

I don't mean to throw a monkeywrench into things, but after seeing this episode several times, where are you getting the names for the incidental characters like Aleek-Om, Bates, Grey, etc.? They aren't mentioned in the episode. If they come from a script, Bjo Trimble's Star Trek Concordance, or Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Logs, then this needs to be mentioned somewhere.--Julianbaischir 13:45, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hard to Understand

The following sentence is quite hard to understand:

The crew beam back to the ship and are greeted by Scotty, who was expecting, among those he transported back aboard one of the historians, and not a Vulcan. --unsigned

It should probably read something like this:

When the crew are beamed back aboard the ship, they are greeted by Scotty, who is surprised that the beaming party contains a Vulcan. He was expecting the extra person to be one of the historians.

If it hasn't been fixed already, I'll fix it. --Commodore Sixty-Four^(talk) 09:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Looks like it's already been done in more direct prose. -C64

[edit] This is a bit confusing

Billy Simpson never recorded the voice of young Spock for this episode. A tape made with Simpson during his audition for the role was used in the finished show.

Since Billy Simpson voiced young Spock, it seems odd to say that his voice was never recorded. A tape made during an audition is still a recording. I'm going to change this to what I think it means, but I'm leaving this quote here for easy reference, if I am mistaken.

--Commodore Sixty-Four^(talk) 09:08, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Best Animated episode?

I'm sorry, but comments such as:

"Universally heralded as the very best of the animated stories"

"The many complicated issues explored in this story raise it far above the standard Saturday morning fare."

Strike me as one writer's opinion rather than a statement of fact - for example, the whole premise of the story - he was in the past at the time therefore he couldn't go back to the past to save himself - seem pretty logically questionable to me to begin with. By all means, note that it's cool that this story allows the show to give us a lot of Spock backstory, but I don't think it's right to have "This encyclopedia believes this was the best episode" here. AndroidFan 21:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I removed the two opinion passages quoted above.– Cleanse 11:17, 27 July 2008 (UTC)