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The Atavachron was a computer device utilized on the planet
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Sarpeidon to prepare its inhabitants for use of a time portal, by
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their selected time period. Without processing by the atavachron, one Leftist Admins here on Memory Alpha

could only survive in that time period for a matter of hours. With Mr. Starfleet Command • 14 January 2024

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die instantly if they were to attempt to return through the portal. LauraCC • 12 January 2024

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The Sarpeidon female Zarabeth was banished to that planet's ice age
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planet's inhabitants had utilized the time
portal to travel to various points in their planet's past to escape
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destruction, and met the last inhabitant, Mr. Atoz, a librarian who had
helped the inhabitants choose their destinations by using a library of USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G)

verism tapes, which detailed information on the time periods.

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During their visit, Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Doctor McCoy
Spock and McCoy enter the
Sarpeidon time portal. accidentally traveled through the portal, Spock and McCoy arriving
5,000 years in the past where they met Zarabeth. While there, Spock
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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 Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Background information
The Atavachron, whose name comes from a Latin word meaning "ancestor" and a Greek word
meaning "time", was a recycled set piece that was previously used as the Beta 5 computer in the
second season finale "Assignment: Earth".

According to deleted references from the 12 December 1968 final draft of the script, Zarabeth was
in her second year of banishment before the landing party from the Enterprise arrived on
Sarpeidon; however, in the planet's corresponding "real time", Zor Kahn had been out of power for
over a century since she had been removed to the past.

Apocrypha
The novel Yesterday's Son o ers expanded explanations for several of the atavachron's functions,
explaining many of the more confusing aspects of the episode. "Preparation" is stated to alter the
mental patterns of a person from the future, so that they would not return to an early time and
attempt to alter history by interfering with historical events or introducing advanced technology.
When Spock and McCoy find themselves in a frozen waste with their phasers inoperable, it is later
revealed this was a security measure of the atavachron to prevent a time traveler from bringing an
advanced weapon into the past and conquering a more primitive people. The atavachron, however,
did not deactivate benign advanced technology, explaining why Spock can still use a functioning
medical scanner to assess McCoy's health.

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