Yesteryear (TAS episode)

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Star Trek: The Animated Series episode
"Yesteryear"
Sarek, Amanda and a Young Spock in "Yesteryear"
Episode no.	002
Prod. code	002
Airdate	September 15, 1973
Writer(s)	Dorothy C. Fontana
Director	Hal Sutherland
Guest star(s)	Mark Lenard as Sarek
Year	2269
Stardate	5373.4
Episode chronology
Previous	"Beyond the Farthest Star"
Next	"One of Our Planets is Missing"

"Yesteryear" is an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series.

1 Plot outline
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 Canonicity
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Plot outline

Mr. Spock returns from a time-traveling research project he has been conducting with the use of the Guardian of Forever. When he emerges from the portal, he discovers no one onboard the Enterprise remembers him.

History has recorded that Spock died at age 7 undergoing the Kahs-wan ordeal on Vulcan. Now he must go back through the time gate to his Vulcan childhood, and save the life of the child he was.

[edit] Trivia

When CBS/Paramount redid the ST/TOS episode Amok Time, the producers looked to the rendering of Spock's home city of Shi'Khar as the background in the digitaly-rendered background of the site of koon-ut-kal-if-fee in the extended shots in the episode.

[edit] See also

List of Star Trek: The Animated Series episodes

[edit] Canonicity

With the release of the Animated Series DVD release, Paramount studio appears to have changed its stance on the series, and is now calling the animated series as part of established canon, including within the pack-in booklet, and dvd extras, and Startrek.com.^[1] ^[2]^[3] Some elements of this particular episode have made it into the canon over time.

In fact, due perhaps to its solid storyline and the considerable information it gives about Spock's youth and Vulcan, "Yesteryear" has been considered canon by some of the production staff of Star Trek, and as such, information from this episode is more prevalent in later series than other animated episodes. Some specifics:

The city of Shi'Kahr is referenced on a panel in "The Emissary" which read "Shi-Kar Desert Survival, Vulcan". The city was mentioned in "Fusion" in a reference to the Shi'Kahr Academy, and is apparently the origin of the name of the USS ShirKahr, which was mentioned in "Tears of the Prophets".
A display featured in "Eye of the Beholder" listed the Sepek Academic Scholarship, which was the name of a Vulcan child in "Yesteryear".
Vulcan's Forge was referred to in "Change of Heart" and would be the focus of Enterprise story arc in "The Forge", "Awakening", and "Kir'Shara".
Both the Lunaport and the kahs-wan ordeal are mentioned in "The Catwalk".
Spock's pet sehlat was recreated with computer generated images CGI in "The Forge".
The nearby planet or moon seen briefly behind Shi'Kahr was shown in the original version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

[edit] References

^ [1] Canon Fodder: The Star Trek Animated Series article at STARTREK.COM
^ [2] Product News -- EDITOR'S PICK: The Animated Series, at Last! article at STARTREK.COM
^ Star Trek The Animated Series - The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (DVD set)