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  Episode Information  
Title: Return to Tomorrow
Episode Number: 50
Season: 2
Season Episode #.: 20
Production Number: 60351
Original Airdate: Friday February 09th, 1968
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Episode Crew
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Story: John T. Dugan
  Episode Summary  
The Enterprise receives a distress call from a planet that is too far away from Earth to have been visited by the Federation. When the Enterprise reaches the planet, a telepathic voice address the crew as his children and directs them to assume orbit around the planet. The planet's energy source is a hundred miles below the surface and Kirk and a landing party go and investigate.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Starring Roles
James Doohan (1)playedLt. Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" ScottRecurring (36th appearance)
Nichelle NicholsplayedLt. Nyota UhuraRecurring (43th appearance)
George TakeiplayedLt. Hikaru SuluRecurring (29th appearance)
Majel BarrettplayedNurse Christine ChapelRecurring (22th appearance)
Guest Stars
Diana MuldaurplayedDr. Anne MulhallRecurring (first appearance)
Co-Guest Stars
Cindy LouplayedNurseRecurring (second appearance)
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Eddie PaskeyplayedLt. LeslieRecurring (29th appearance)
Roger HollowayplayedGuard #1Recurring (6th appearance)
  Episode Notes  
Diana Muldaur (Dr. Anne Mulhall) would later play Dr. Miranda Jones in "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" and Dr. Katharine Pulaski throughout the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
 
The voice of Sargon was provided by James Doohan (Scotty).
 
John T. Dugan wrote the story under the pseudonym of "John Kingsbridge," with Roddenberry doing the teleplay.
 
Footage of a test android was filmed but not used. A clip of it appears in the end credits of the episode "The Immunity Syndrome."
 
  Episode Quotes  
Spock: Someone, or something, is attempting to attract our attention.
Kirk: Someone, or something, has succeeded!
 
Sulu: Planet dead ahead, Captain. Becoming visual.
Spock: Class M planet, Captain.
Kirk: Close to Earth conditions.
Spock: With two very important exceptions: it is much older than Earth, and about a half million years ago its atmosphere was totally ripped away by some sort of cataclysm. The planet has evidently been dead since then. Sensors detect no life of any kind.
Sargon: ALL YOUR QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED IN TIME, CAPTAIN KIRK...
 
Kirk: The planet is dead... there's no possibility of life there, as we understand life...
Sargon: AND I AM AS DEAD AS MY PLANET. DOES THAT FRIGHTEN YOU, JAMES KIRK? FOR IF IT DOES... IF YOU LET WHAT IS LEFT OF ME PERISH... THEN ALL OF YOU, MY CHILDREN... ALL OF MANKIND... MUST PERISH, TOO.
 
Sargon: (Sargon has placed his mind within Jim Kirk's body.) Lungs filling with air again... to see again... heart pumping, arteries surging with blood again... after a half a million years... to be again!
 
Sargon: The records of our travels were lost in the cataclysm which we loosened upon ourselves.
Kirk: A war?
Sargon: A struggle for such goals, and the unleashing of such power, that you could not comprehend...
Kirk: Then perhaps your intelligence wasn't so great, Sargon. We faced a similar crisis in our early nuclear age. We... found the wisdom not to destroy ourselves.
Sargon: (patronizingly) And we survived our primitive nuclear era, my son. But there comes to all races an ultimate crisis... which you have yet to face.
Kirk: I don't understand...
Sargon: One day our minds became so powerful, we dared think of ourselves as gods!
 
Kirk: They used to say, if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly; he discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut, like your great, great, great-grandfather used to do... Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities--the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk--risk is our business.
 
Thalassa/Mulhall: I require only your silence. Only you and I will know that Dr. Mulhall has not returned to her body. Isn't that wroth your captain's life?
McCoy: I will not peddle flesh! I'm a physician!
Thalassa/Mulhall: A physician? In contrast to what we are, you are a prancing, savage medicine man. You dare defy one you should be on your knees worshiping?
 
  Episode Goofs  
Although Dr. Mulhall's doctorate was in a science department, she wore the red uniform of the engineering and security division.
 
  Analysis  
What Changed in the Remastered Version
Sargon's world gets the expected upgrade, with nice attention paid to the detail that it lacks an atmosphere. The surface is clearly dead, and there is at least one significant meteor crater. The crimson fire Thalassa unleashes against McCoy is a bit nastier looking.
 
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