Quarks Bar
"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. It was one of the most critically acclaimed episodes of the series and was awarded the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. 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.
Overview: The crew of the Enterprise discovers a portal through space and time, which leads to McCoy accidentally altering history.
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.
Captain Kirk forms a landing party made up of two security guards, 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.
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 passerby, 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.
Kirk soon begins to fall in love with Edith and leaves Spock to get to know her a little better. He finds her 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 very ill 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 is appalled by the fact that if she doesn't die as she is supposed to, history will be altered forever--he confesses to Spock that he thinks he is in love with Edith.
Meanwhile, Edith nurses McCoy, who tells her who he is and where he is from. Edith does not believe his fantastic-sounding story, but tells him that he would fit in nicely with her new eccentric boyfriend who will later be taking her to a movie starring Clark Gable, an actor with whom McCoy is not familiar.
Loading...
I miss that place so much. *tear*
Goldiney 2 years ago
i heard it closed down
JPSATX 3 years ago
One of my favorite things I did last time in Vegas. :)
SlobberPot2006 3 years ago
Cool Dude.
chillen121 3 years ago