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"The City on the Edge of Forever" is the penultimate episode of the first season of Star Trek. It is episode #28, production #28, first broadcast on April 6, 1967. It was repeated on August 31, 1967 and marked the last time NBC aired the series on Thursday nights. The teleplay is credited to Harlan Ellison, but was controversially rewritten by several hands before filming. It was directed by Joseph Pevney. It guest-stars Joan Collins as Edith Keeler. Image File history File links STCityForever. ... is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... Dorothy Catherine D. C. Fontana, is a screenplay writer, best known for her work in the Star Trek television franchise, produced by Paramount Studios. ... Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... Joseph Pevney (born September 15, 1911, New York City) is a prolific film and television director, with a directing career that spanned over 80 productions from 1950 to 1984. ... Joan Henrietta Collins OBE (born May 23, 1933) is a Golden Globe Award winning English actress and bestselling author. ... John Winston (born October 24, 1933 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is an English actor best known for his appearances as Lieutenant Kyle, the Transporter Chief on Star Trek: The Original Series. ... Eddie Paskey-is an actor who is primarily known for playing the uncredited Lieutenant Leslie in the original Star Trek. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... The Alternative Factor is a first season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. ... Penultimate can mean next to last in a general context, but is used most often in linguistics as an adjective or noun to denote or refer to the penult of a word/ penultimate stress. ... The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ... is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. ... Joseph Pevney (born September 15, 1911, New York City) is a prolific film and television director, with a directing career that spanned over 80 productions from 1950 to 1984. ... Joan Henrietta Collins OBE (born May 23, 1933) is a Golden Globe Award winning English actress and bestselling author. ... Joan Collins as Edith Keeler. ...

Overview: The crew of the Enterprise discovers a portal through space and time, which leads to McCoy accidentally altering history. Enterprise or USS Enterprise are the names of several fictional starships, some of which are the focal point for various television series and films in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. ...

Plot

On stardate 3134.0, the Enterprise investigates temporal disturbances centered on a nearby planet. During the investigation, Dr. McCoy accidentally injects himself with an overdose of a drug, causing him to become violently paranoid. Delusional, Doctor McCoy flees from the bridge and beams down to the planet. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Dr. Leonard H. McCoy (nicknamed Bones), played by DeForest Kelley, is a character in the original Star Trek series, and the first six Star Trek films. ...

Captain Kirk forms a landing party with himself, Spock, Scotty and Uhura. Spock finds that the source of the time distortions is an ancient ring of a glowing, stone-like material. The ring speaks and identifies itself as the "Guardian of Forever", explaining that it is a doorway to any time and place — with periods of history displayed in the opening. The team soon locates McCoy, however, he runs away and leaps through the portal before anyone can stop him. Suddenly, everything seems to shift and the landing party loses contact with the Enterprise. The Guardian then informs the landing party that history has just been altered and the Enterprise has disappeared because the time line change has erased it from existence. James Tiberius Kirk, played by William Shatner, is the main character in the original Star Trek television series and the films based on it. ... For other uses, see Spock (disambiguation). ... Scotty redirects here. ... Uhura, played by Nichelle Nichols, is a character in Star Trek: The Original Series and the first six Star Trek films. ...

Kirk believes that McCoy somehow altered the past, erasing the history that they knew. Kirk asks the Guardian to loop the history images again and he and Spock get ready to jump through to a time just before McCoy entered in an attempt to undo what he has done. When the period arrives, Kirk and Spock leap through at the correct moment and materialize in New York City, back on Earth during the 1930s Great Depression era. The appearance of their uniforms and Spock's ears shocks a passersby, so Kirk decides to steal some clothes he spots hanging on a fire escape and the two go into the basement of a nearby building. There they meet a woman named Edith Keeler who identifies herself as a social worker of the 21st Street Mission. They apologize for trespassing and offer to work for her. Their kindness wins her over and she allows them to stay. In the meantime, Spock begins to construct a processor interface and uses it to find out what part of history McCoy has altered. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation). ...

Kirk soon begins to fall in love with the beautiful Edith and leaves Spock to get to know her a little better. He finds her to be a remarkable visionary with a positive outlook about what the future holds for mankind. Unknown to Kirk and Spock, McCoy now materializes from his leap into the portal. He eventually stumbles into the 21st Street Mission and asks for coffee. Edith sees him in line and rushes to his aid. McCoy still looks terrible and Edith takes him to lie down.

Spock finally finishes the interface and he and Kirk analyze the data. The information it reveals is shocking as they discover Edith will die soon in a traffic accident, but somehow McCoy's actions save her from that fate. They look at the results of the incident and see that she forms a pacifist movement that gains in popularity at the outset of World War II. She meets with Franklin D. Roosevelt and this causes a chain of events that delay the entry of the United States into the war. This allows Nazi Germany time to develop a nuclear bomb and conquer the world. Kirk, not wishing to see Edith killed, is appalled by the fact that if she doesn't die as she is supposed to, history will be altered for ever. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... FDR redirects here. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ...

Meanwhile, Edith nurses McCoy, who tells her who he is and where he is from. Edith does not believe his fantastic story, but tells him that he would fit in nicely with her new eccentric boyfriend who will later be taking her to a Clark Gable movie, an actor McCoy is not familiar with. William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 â€“ November 16, 1960) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ...

Later, as Kirk and Edith start to walk toward the movie house, she mentions off-handedly that her new friend McCoy didn't know who Clark Gable is. Kirk however, is excited to learn that McCoy is alive and well and emphatically tells Edith to "Stay right here," while he dashes across the street to notify Spock. As he reaches Spock, McCoy exits the mission right in front of them. The three comrades enjoy an enthusiastic but brief reunion while Edith watches the curious trio from the street corner. She slowly crosses the street to join them, but oblivious to a fast-moving truck that is approaching her.

Kirk takes a step in her direction instinctively and freezes when Spock says, "No, Jim!" McCoy then sees Edith's danger and turns to move past Kirk into the street. Despite his love for the woman, Kirk holds McCoy back. The truck hits Edith and she is killed. The shocked and bewildered McCoy is furious with Kirk, exclaiming "Do you know what you just did?". Kirk pushes him away speechless with his own agony and Spock responds grimly, "He knows, Doctor. He knows".

History is thus reverted to normal and Kirk, Spock and McCoy are returned to the Guardian's planet. The rest of the landing party still waits and Scotty indicates that the three had only been gone for a few moments. The Guardian says, "Time has resumed its shape. All is as it was before." and adds, "Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway." Kirk tells everyone, "Let's get the hell out of here" and returns to the Enterprise after having made the hardest decision of his life.

40th Anniversary remastering

This episode was remastered in 2006 and aired October 7, 2006 as part of the 40th anniversary remastering of the Original Series. It was preceded a week earlier by "The Naked Time" and followed a week later by "I, Mudd". Aside from remastered video and audio, and the all-CGI animation of the USS Enterprise that is standard among the revisions, specific changes to this episode also include: Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Naked Time is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series first broadcast on 29 September 1966 and repeated on 27 April 1967. ... I, Mudd is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series first broadcast November 3, 1967 and repeated April 5, 1968. ...

Controversy

The script was commissioned in early 1966 from Harlan Ellison. Justman and Solow's book Inside Star Trek recalls that the script was delivered late.^[1]^[2] Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. ...

The production staff considered Ellison's script excellent (Bob Justman wrote a memo saying, "This is the best and most beautifully written screenplay we have gotten to date ... If you tell this to Harlan, I'll kill you"), but they had several concerns. As originally written, the episode would have been too expensive to stage. Also, several plot elements—such as a member of the crew dealing drugs and Kirk preparing to sacrifice his crew to be with Edith—led the producers to feel that the teleplay was simply "not Star Trek." Ellison did a number of rewrites himself, delivering his Second Revised Final Draft in December 1966. The story was still considered too expensive to shoot as written and was instead rewritten internally, variously by Steven W. Carabatsos, Gene L. Coon, D. C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry himself. Ellison was unhappy with the rewrites and considered disowning the script by putting his "Cordwainer Bird" pseudonym on it.^[1]^[2] Robert H. Justman Robert H. Justman (born 1926) has worked in Hollywood as a producer, director, production manager, assistant director, and production assistant since the early 1950s. ... Gene L. Coon (7 January 1924-8 July 1973) was an American screenwriter and television producer. ... Dorothy Catherine D. C. Fontana, is a screenplay writer, best known for her work in the Star Trek television franchise, produced by Paramount Studios. ... Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 â€“ October 24, 1991) was an American scriptwriter and producer. ...

Roddenberry would later repeatedly claim that Ellison's original script had Scotty dealing drugs, but Scotty does not even appear in that script. Ellison set out his side of the story in a 1995 book containing two drafts of his story outline, his first draft teleplay and the teaser and first act of his second revised draft (the latter dated December 1966).^[2]

The episode finally started shooting on February 3, 1967, and finished on February 14, 1967. It took seven and a half days to film, more than was typical for an episode, and according to Inside Star Trek came in at $250,000, compared to the weekly average of around $185,000.^[1] is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ...

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Critical acclaim

The filmed version of "The City on the Edge of Forever" is considered the best episode of the original series by many critics. TV Guide ranked it #68 in their 100 Most Memorable Moments in TV History feature in its July 1, 1995 edition, and also featured it in another issue on the 100 greatest TV episodes of all time. It is one of the most widely acclaimed episodes of the original series of Star Trek. It was awarded the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation at that year's World Science Fiction Convention. It would be twenty-five years before another television program would receive that honor; the next recipient being the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light". TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... The current Star Trek franchise logo Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series and media franchise. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 2005 Hugo Award with base designed by Deb Kosiba. ... The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is one of the annual Hugo Award categories, presented by members of the World Science Fiction Convention. ... It has been suggested that World Science Fiction Society be merged into this article or section. ... The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ... The Inner Light is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the penultimate episode of its fifth season. ...

Harlan Ellison's original version won a Writers Guild of America award for best dramatic hour-long script. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries in the United States. ...

Original script

In the original script, Lieutenant Richard Beckwith, a drug dealer selling the illegal "Jewels of Sound," kills Lieutenant LeBeque after he threatens to expose Beckwith's activities. After escaping to the planet's surface, with Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Yeoman Rand and six Security guards close on his heels, he enters a Time Vortex, watched over by the Guardians of Forever, to escape. The time changes he effects cause the Enterprise to become a pirate vessel. In the original Star Trek television series, Janice Rand (played by Grace Lee Whitney) serves as a yeoman to Captain James T. Kirk aboard the USS Enterprise, appearing in eight episodes (The Corbomite Maneuver, The Man Trap, Charlie X, Balance of Terror, The Enemy Within, The Naked Time, Miri, and...

The rest of the show is roughly the same (with Keeler being the focus of the time travel, Kirk's growing love for her), but with more emphasis on Kirk and Spock spying on Keeler, waiting for Beckwith to find her. The script also includes an additional character in the person of a legless World War I veteran known as Trooper. Beckwith murders Trooper with a shot from a phaser, but his death, unlike Edith Keeler's survival, does not alter the continuity of time; the Guardian of Forever explains that Trooper's life was unimportant, to Kirk's great distress.

The ending has Beckwith being captured, and Edith Keeler being hit by a truck in a fatal vehicle accident. But in this version, Beckwith attempts to save Edith, and Spock must tackle and stop him. Captain Kirk, knowing she must die, but wanting her to live, as he has fallen completely in love with her, is frozen in indecision and does nothing.

With the timeline set right, Beckwith attempts to escape again, but the Guardians of Forever have set a trap for him—he finds himself in an exploding supernova, and just before he dies a fiery death, is pulled backwards in time and forced to relive his agonizing death again and again for all eternity. Multiwavelength X-ray image of the remnant of Keplers Supernova, SN 1604. ...

The very last scene was a quiet one between Kirk and Spock, where Spock treats his captain compassionately, telling him that "no other woman was ever offered the universe for love." (In his adaptation of the story in Star Trek 2, James Blish explained to readers that he tried to preserve the best elements of both Ellison's original script and the final rewrite. In Blish's version, Kirk allows Edith to die, with the result that Spock tells him, "No other woman was ever almost offered the universe for love" James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 â€“ Henley-on-Thames, July 30, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. ...

The Second Revised Final Draft had McCoy bitten by a toxic animal, which caused him to go insane and beam down to the Guardian's planet.

Ellison's original story outline had the action set in Chicago instead of New York, and the Slum Angel's name was Sister Edith Koestler, not Keeler. This confusion seemed to carry over into the final storyline, where in the closing credits of the episode that ultimately aired, the character is erroneously identified as "Sister Edith Keeler." Such a title would seem unlikely, given her romantic involvement with Kirk. Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area - City 234. ...

Revisiting the Guardian

The final words of the Guardian in this episode were, "Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway." This line clearly indicated the intention that future stories may be written about adventures in time via the Guardian. Although there have been no further appearances of the Guardian in TOS or any subsequent movies or live action series, the portal is revisited in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "Yesteryear", and numerous books, including Peter David's novel Imzadi. Star Trek: The Animated Series is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. ... Yesteryear is an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series. ... A word from the science-fiction television series Star Trek The Next Generation. ...

The events of City on the Edge of Forever are revisited in the Crucible trilogy, released for Star Trek's 40th anniversary.

The gateway returns in the first Star Trek: New Voyages episode, In Harm's Way. This episode so impressed D. C. Fontana that she joined the New Voyages project as a screenwriter.

Notes

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References

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