History Recap / StarTrekS2E20ReturnToTomorrow

* GrandTheftMe: Subverted, as the crew actually let them. They understand that Sargon and Thalassa only intend to do this temporarily, long enough to construct robot bodies to hold them instead. Henoch, unbeknownst to the others, has more permanent designs on Spock's body.

-->'''Kirk:''' I'm in command. [[TheChainsOfCommanding I could order this.]] But I'm not... because... [[StrawmanHasAPoint Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger]] potential in any contact with [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this.]] But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk... risk is our business! That's what this starship is all about... that's why we're aboard her! You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?

* YourMindMakesItReal: Sargon used his abilities to make [=McCoy=] believe he loaded a hypo full of poison so that Henoch would believe it as well and flee Spock's body after Chapel injected him with it.

* LargeHam: When Sargon is in Kirk's body, the hamminess is UpToEleven. Yes, even by Shatner's standards.
** "Have no fear, Sargon's here!" (from the blooper reel)

* PossessionBurnout. Possessed bodies have their metabolic and heart rates shoot up to dangerous levels [[YourMindMakesItReal (presumably native to the aliens' original forms)]]; Spock's Vulcan physiology can tolerate it for several hours, but the humans can only take it for a few minutes before risking death.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Ann Mulhall resembles a younger, less of a DrJerk [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Dr. Pulaski.]] [[WildMassGuess It's quite possible]] that she also has an [[UncannyFamilyResemblance identical cousin]] named [[Recap/StarTrekS3E5IsThereInTruthNoBeauty Miranda Jones]] who wears a sparkly sonar shawl and carries her lover in a briefcase.

[[caption-width-right:300:''"Lungs filled with air again. To '''see''' again. '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Heart! Pumping! Arteries! Surging,]]''' with blood again. To [[LargeHam feeeeeeel]] again. After half a million years..... to '''be''' again."'']]

* DareToBeBadass: "I'm in command. [[TheChainsOfCommanding I could order this.]] But I'm not... because... [[StrawmanHasAPoint Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger]] potential in any contact with [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this.]] But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk... risk is our business! That's what this starship is all about... that's why we're aboard her!"
** Possibly the franchise's greatest monologue.

* GrandTheftMe: Sargon and Thalassa only intend to do this temporarily, long enough to construct robot bodies to hold them instead. Henoch has more permanent designs on Spock's body.

* LargeHam: When Sargon is in Kirk's body, the hamminess is UpToEleven.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Ann Mulhall resembles a younger, less of a DrJerk [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Dr. Pulaski.]] [[WildMassGuess It's quite possible]] that she also has an [[UncannyFamilyResemblance identical cousin]] named [[Recap/StarTrekS3E5IsThereInTruthNoBeauty Miranda Jones]] who wears a sparkly sonar shawl and carries her lover in a briefcase.

* DareToBeBadass: I'm in command. [[TheChainsOfCommanding I could order this.]] But I'm not... because... [[StrawmanHasAPoint Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger]] potential in any contact with [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this.]] But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk... risk is our business! That's what this starship is all about... that's why we're aboard her!"

* SenseFreak: All of the aliens enjoy the sensations of life again after taking human bodies, but none allow it to affect their work, though Henoch does use the fact that their robot bodies will not have this sensory ability to try and persuade Thalanna to side with him.

* AgonyBeam: Thalanna and Henoch both use their mental abilities to inflict pain. Thalassa [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone grows a conscience and stops.]] Henoch, [[SoftspokenSadist on the other hand....]]

After much deliberation, Kirk, Spock and [[RedShirt Dr. Mulhall]] agree to become the hosts for the three aliens. Unfortunately, Henoch, the alien who chooses Spock's body, decides he would rather keep an existence of stolen flesh and blood, and makes plans to sabotage Sargon's plan by indirectly killing Sargon and persuading Sargon's wife, Thalanna, to side with him.

* AgonyBeam: Thalanna and Henoch both use their mental abilities to inflict pain. Thalanna [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone grows a conscience and stops.]] Henoch, [[SoftspokenSadist on the other hand....]]

* EnergyBeings: Sargon, Thalanna and Henoch qualify.

* GrandTheftMe: Sargon and Thalanna only intend to do this temporarily, long enough to construct robot bodies to hold them instead. Henoch has more permanent designs on Spock's body.

* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Sargon and Thalanna smooch no less than 3 times while borrowing Kirk and Mulhall's bodies.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The G word is never used, but this is essentially what Sargon, Thalanna and Henoch are.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Sargon, Thalanna and Henoch, aliens who survived the destruction of his world half a million years ago by becoming {{Energy Being}}s of pure thought.
* {{Telepathy}}: Sargon, Thalanna and Henoch are capable of this. Henoch abuses the power to brain wipe Chapel.

* DareToBeBadass: I'm in command. [[ChainsOfCommand I could order this.]] But I'm not... because... [[StrawmanHasAPoint Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger]] potential in any contact with [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this.]] But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk... risk is our business! That's what this starship is all about... that's why we're aboard her!"

* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Ann Mulhall resembles a younger, less {{jerkass}}
[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Dr. Pulaski.]] [[WildMassGuess It's quite possible]] that she also has an [[UncannyFamilyResemblance identical cousin]] named [[Recap/StarTrekS3E5IsThereInTruthNoBeauty Miranda Jones]] who wears a sparkly sonar shawl and carries her lover in a briefcase.

* PowerEchos: When the aliens possess humans they gain echoing voices.

* Telepathy: Sargon, Thalanna and Henoch are capable of this. Henoch abuses the power to brain wipe Chapel.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Ann Mulhall resembles a younger, less {{jerkass}} [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Dr. Pulaski.]] [[WildMassGuess It's quite possible]] that she also has an [[UncannyFamilyResemblance identical cousin]] named [[Recap/StarTrekS3E5IsThereInTruthNoBeauty Miranda Jones]] who wears a sparkly sonar shawl and carries her lover in a briefcase.

* TimeMachine: The first episode in which the crew deliberately used a time-travel mechanism they'd stumbled across accidentally in an earlier episode. They flew at warp speed very close to a star, and by controlling the vector with which they pulled away they travelled to a specific time in the past.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Sargon, Thalanna and Henoch, aliens who survived the destruction of his world half a million years ago by becoming {{Energy Being}}s of pure thought.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Sargon, an alien who survived the destruction of his world half a million years ago by becoming an EnergyBeing of pure thought.