Yesterday’s Enterprise

This Story: Season 3 Episode 15 (production code 163)
TNG Overall: Episode 63
Trek Overall: Story 163, Episode 165
Airdate: 19 Feb 1990
Story by Trent Christopher Ganino & Eric A. Stillwell
Teleplay by Ira Steven Behr, Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, & Ronald D. Moore
Directed by David Carson

Notes

• This episode establishes prune juice as a favorite drink of the Klingons – “A warrior’s drink!”
• The first episode with newly filmed footage with Denise Crosby as Tasha Yar since the character’s death in Season 1’s “Skin of Evil“.
• The only appearance (as of this writing in Nov 2024) of USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C.
• The last episode to feature all of the original cast that appeared in Encounter at Farpoint.
• There was a book released by Eric A. Stillwell about the making of this episode – it appears to be out of print, however.
• A planet mentioned in this episode is Archer IV.  A display in the Enterprise episode “In a Mirror, Darkly Part II” established that this planet was named after Jonathan Archer.  The planet was visited in that series in its episode “Strange New World“.
• The Vulcan Dr. Selar is mentioned in the episode, but not seen.

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