Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Does Star Trek have isekai episodes?


What is an isekai story?   Isekai is going to another world (Gate) or time travel (Inuyasha).  Most Star Trek episodes are not isekai.  But, to satisfy my curiosity, I checked the original series for any isekai episodes.

“The Naked Time” To save the Enterprise, Scott makes a full-power restart of the warp engines, propelling the Enterprise at impossible speed away from the dying planet into a Space-Time warp sending the ship back 71 hours in time.

“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” The Enterprise time travels back to 1969.

“The Alternative Factor” where there is a version of Lazarus from Kirk’s universe and an insane version of Lazarus from an alternate dimension.

“The City on the Edge of Forever”, where high on drugs, Dr. McCoy becomes unbalanced and disappears through the Guardian of Forever, a newly discovered time portal on a remote planet.

“Mirror, Mirror”, is an episode where a transporter mishap slips Captain Kirk and his companions into a parallel universe, where the Enterprise serves a barbaric Empire instead of the Federation.

“Assignment: Earth”, The Enterprise time travels back to 1968.

“The Tholian Web” is an episode where the Defiant vanishes and goes back in time into the Mirror universe.

“All Our Yesterdays”.  This is another time travel episode.

Wow!  I had no idea that there are so many isekai episodes in Star Trek.


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