Spock’s parents visit the Enterprise as the ship ferries several ambassadors of the Federation to a convention on Babel.
| Air Date | 17 November 1967 |
| Production Number | 60344 |
| Stardate | 3842.29 |
| Gregorian Calendar Date | Monday, 11 March 2267 17:30:57 GMT Wednesday, 12 March 2267 11:09:43 GMT |
| Primary Arc | The Vulcan Way |
| Secondary Arc | The Orions |
| Tertiary Arc | Bad Medicine |
| See It or Skip It | See It! |
| Previously on Star Trek | Order | Next Time on Star Trek |
|---|---|---|
| The Apple | Chronological | Bread and Circuses |
| Metamorphosis | Air Date | Friday’s Child |
| Bread and Circuses | Production | A Private Little War |
| Amok Time | Primary Arc | The Enterprise Incident |
| Will You Take My Hand? | Secondary Arc | The Pirates of Orion |
| Friday’s Child | Tertiary Arc | The Paradise Syndrome |
Shirtless Sidebar: OMG! Jim’s been knifed by an Andorian! So his shirt must come off.
Stardate Sidebar: “Journey to Babel” is a keystone episode for establishing the old-style Gregorian calendar dates for the original series episodes. Sarek provides us with his exact age early in the episode (and knowing the Vulcan predilection for accuracy in their statements, we presume that it is down to the second). Pairing this information with that of The Next Generation episode “Unification I,” where we learn Sarek is 203 years old on stardate 45233.1, the Voyager episode “Homestead,” where the bulk of the episode occurs on First Contact Day and the stardate stated in the episode is 54868.6, and from the events of “Star Trek First Contact” where first contact occurs after sunset in Bozeman, Montana on 5 April 2063 (and where sundown is estimated to occur at 19:47 local time) we can begin to pin-point the time where Sarek states his age in the episode.
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