This episode was also Sequelled in "Star Trek Continues", In the first episode of that fan series "Pilgrim of eternity", which cycles back to this episode and creates a perfect circle of times' arrow.
Another thing that makes an appearance in that STC episode is the TOS "Holodeck": had there been a fourth season of Star Trek, we would have seen a holodeck and a saucer separation, this was discussed in the book "the making of Star Trek". So when "Star Trek the next generation" had its pilot episode, these were the first two things that were exploited. There are also saucer separations of Constitution Class Starships in Tim Russ' fan film "Of Gods and Men".
"Pilgrim of Eternity" has a much better resolution to the Apollo issue than this one. Because blowing up Apollo's Stone couch was actually pretty mean. But what can you do when Apollo is squishing the enterprise saucer section with his big green hand?
One of the other reviewer's said it: Kirk could have and should have been less confrontational with Apollo. And then of course Scotty was bugsputz over Leslie Parrish, who that week was guest starring on Star Trek rather than her usual place as a guest star on Perry Mason. Of course I think at that time Perry Mason was off the air. But with Scotty running around being his usual possessive self, that didn't help matters much either.
Some have said that this really had not been one of their favorite episodes, but in reality I think it is a very important episode. It focuses the idea that it is possible that aliens had visited us in the past and were perceived as "Gods".
And I have no trouble at all believing this, we simply don't know. In ancient times the earth could have been a popular planet for aliens to visit, maybe most of our religions and mythologies were inspired by alien visitors. Some of the artifacts found in the ruins of ancient civilizations show remarkable imagery that could represent things like spaceships, spacesuits, and ET's. Even some of the imagery in the book of revelation in the Bible is very strange, did aliens visit the Isle of Patmos? And then in the book of Ezekiel we have this gadget that appears to be "wheels within wheels".
But Apollo is your standard humanoid alien visitor, he looks like a man but he has Godlike powers.
It's interesting that only in these myths regarding Greek gods and goddesses, there were all kinds of interactions with humans, which was where all the demigods came from. You don't see those same kinds of stories in, let's say, Egyptian mythology.
Another thing that makes an appearance in that STC episode is the TOS "Holodeck": had there been a fourth season of Star Trek, we would have seen a holodeck and a saucer separation, this was discussed in the book "the making of Star Trek". So when "Star Trek the next generation" had its pilot episode, these were the first two things that were exploited. There are also saucer separations of Constitution Class Starships in Tim Russ' fan film "Of Gods and Men".
"Pilgrim of Eternity" has a much better resolution to the Apollo issue than this one. Because blowing up Apollo's Stone couch was actually pretty mean. But what can you do when Apollo is squishing the enterprise saucer section with his big green hand?
One of the other reviewer's said it: Kirk could have and should have been less confrontational with Apollo. And then of course Scotty was bugsputz over Leslie Parrish, who that week was guest starring on Star Trek rather than her usual place as a guest star on Perry Mason. Of course I think at that time Perry Mason was off the air. But with Scotty running around being his usual possessive self, that didn't help matters much either.
Some have said that this really had not been one of their favorite episodes, but in reality I think it is a very important episode. It focuses the idea that it is possible that aliens had visited us in the past and were perceived as "Gods".
And I have no trouble at all believing this, we simply don't know. In ancient times the earth could have been a popular planet for aliens to visit, maybe most of our religions and mythologies were inspired by alien visitors. Some of the artifacts found in the ruins of ancient civilizations show remarkable imagery that could represent things like spaceships, spacesuits, and ET's. Even some of the imagery in the book of revelation in the Bible is very strange, did aliens visit the Isle of Patmos? And then in the book of Ezekiel we have this gadget that appears to be "wheels within wheels".
But Apollo is your standard humanoid alien visitor, he looks like a man but he has Godlike powers.
It's interesting that only in these myths regarding Greek gods and goddesses, there were all kinds of interactions with humans, which was where all the demigods came from. You don't see those same kinds of stories in, let's say, Egyptian mythology.