Kirk, Dr. McCoy and Spock beam down, encountering one resident, a librarian named Mr. Atoz. Aware of the imminent destruction, Atoz tells the landing party that he will soon rejoin his family. Atoz shows them the Atavachron, a time portal .

Mr. Atoz was an inhabitant of the planet Sarpeidon whose sun was going supernova. He was the overseer of a library and the atavachron, a time portal device that he used to transport the inhabitants of the planet into the past in order to escape its destruction.

When the planet Sarpeidon is about to be destroyed, by its star Beta Niobe becoming a supernova, Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and McCoy (DeForest Kelley) beam down and find it evacuated except for its librarian, Mr. Atoz (Ian Wolfe), tending to his replicas.

He also appeared in two episodes of the original Star Trek television series: "Bread and Circuses" (1968) as Septimus, and "All Our Yesterdays" (1969) as Mr. Atoz. He guest-starred in a 1977 episode of the ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang , [ 5 ] and portrayed the wizard Traquill in the series Wizards and Warriors (1983). [ 6 ]

Mr. Atoz's name is a word play – a librarian named "A to Z." The name for this character was selected to suggest how one might search a library: from "A to Z". (Star Trek Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., p. 25) Author Jean Lisette Aroeste was a UCLA …

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Mr. Atoz : You are evidently a suicidal maniac. I don't understand what you're trying to do, but if you continue, both of us will die. And I for one, do not wish death.

ATOZ: May I help you? I am the librarian. May I be of assistance? (A silver-haired man, called A to Z - perfect for a librarian) KIRK: Perhaps you can, Mister ATOZ: Mister Atoz. I confess that I'm a little surprised to see you. I had thought that everyone …

Mr. Atoz was a native of Sarpeidon who was charged with caring for the library and atavachron in 2269. He created numerous android copies of himself to assist him in his duties.

Mr. Atoz oversaw a library on the planet Sarpeidon. He had replicas of himself to help assist him in his duties. (TOS: " All Our Yesterdays ") Mira Romaine, a Starfleet lieutenant on her first space assignment, was heading for Memory Alpha, where she was to be a librarian.