| rdfs:comment | - The atavachron was a time travel device from the planet Sarpeidon. The device was capable of sending individuals back into the planet's past at any point. When James Kirk, Spock, and Leonard McCoy beamed down to Sarpeidon to investigate the lack of people on the planet, they were able to determine that, knowing their planet would be destroyed, Sarpeidon's inhabitants fled into the past. Since the device sets their cell structure to the era they enter, attempts to return to the future would instantly kill them. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy were accidentally transported through time by accident, but were recovered. (TOS episode: "All Our Yesterdays")
- The Sarpeidon female Zarabeth was banished to that planet's ice age by the dictator Zor Kahn for her association with dissenters. In 2269, the USS Enterprise arrived at Sarpeidon as their sun was about to go supernova. They discovered that the planet's inhabitants had utilized the time portal to travel to various points in their planet's past to escape destruction, and met the last inhabitant, Mr. Atoz, a librarian who had helped the inhabitants choose their destinations by using a library of verism tapes, which detailed information on the time periods. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Doctor McCoy accidentally traveled through the portal, Spock and McCoy arriving 5,000 years in the past where they met Zarabeth. While there, Spock began to regress to the behavior of Vulcans of that time
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| abstract | - The atavachron was a time travel device from the planet Sarpeidon. The device was capable of sending individuals back into the planet's past at any point. When James Kirk, Spock, and Leonard McCoy beamed down to Sarpeidon to investigate the lack of people on the planet, they were able to determine that, knowing their planet would be destroyed, Sarpeidon's inhabitants fled into the past. Since the device sets their cell structure to the era they enter, attempts to return to the future would instantly kill them. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy were accidentally transported through time by accident, but were recovered. (TOS episode: "All Our Yesterdays") Following the encounter, Commodore Antonio Delgado wanted to use the Guardian of Forever to study the atavachron's creation, but was unsuccessful. (DTI novel: Forgotten History)
- The Sarpeidon female Zarabeth was banished to that planet's ice age by the dictator Zor Kahn for her association with dissenters. In 2269, the USS Enterprise arrived at Sarpeidon as their sun was about to go supernova. They discovered that the planet's inhabitants had utilized the time portal to travel to various points in their planet's past to escape destruction, and met the last inhabitant, Mr. Atoz, a librarian who had helped the inhabitants choose their destinations by using a library of verism tapes, which detailed information on the time periods. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Doctor McCoy accidentally traveled through the portal, Spock and McCoy arriving 5,000 years in the past where they met Zarabeth. While there, Spock began to regress to the behavior of Vulcans of that time period, displaying increased emotionalism and an inability to control his aggressive tendencies. Eventually, all three of them were able to return through the portal, as they had not been processed through the atavachron. (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays" ) Some interpretations suggest that Zarabeth was banished just a few years before the landing party from the Enterprise arrived on Sarpeidon; however, there is no discussion of how old the atavachron is or how long ago Zor Kahn ruled the planet. Given the nature of time travel, this could easily mean that Zor Kahn ruled decades or even centuries beforehand. The atavachron, whose name comes from a Latin word meaning ancestor and a Greek word meaning time, is clearly the same set piece that was used for the Beta 5 computer in the second season finale "Assignment: Earth" .
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