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Full Title	The City On The Edge Of Forever				Season	ONE
Prod #	28	Aired	6 April, 1967		Stardate	3134.0
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Writer(s):	Harlan Ellison
Director:	Joseph Pevney
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Synopsis:	Treating Sulu with a highly dangerous drug, McCoy accidentally injects himself with 100 times the normal dosage, causing him to go insane. He beams down to the planet they're orbiting and leaps through a time portal into 1930s Earth and changes history. Kirk and Spock follow and Kirk falls in love with a woman who must die.
Themes & Issues:	Data Coming Soon
Closing Stills:	Data Coming Soon
Featured Races:	Human Vulcan
Equipment/Misc. Objects:	Communicator (classic black base, gold foil flip-up antenna) Desktop Viewer (approx. 10" tube moveable viewer sitting atop desktops) Earpiece Communicator (very short range communicator designed for listening only, fits on the ear, designed to monitor various channels, usually worn by communications officer) PADD (classic black design, touch pad with electronic pen for notes, reports and signatures) Sicbay bio-bed diagnostic display (standard mid-23rd century Federation) Transporter (standard mid-23rd century Federation) Tri-Viewer (triangular shaped unit centered on the briefing room table, sports 3 7" or 8" viewscreens to enable all seated to view) Wall Comm (communicator built into the walls throughout the ship)
Alien Food/Drinks:	Data Coming Soon
Sets/Locations:	Data Coming Soon
Flaws/ Nitpics:	Mis-Spoken Terms Data Coming Soon Story Flaws Data Coming Soon Uniform Flaws Data Coming Soon Editing Flaws Data Coming Soon
Miscellaneous Keywords:	Data Coming Soon
Cast:	Series' Regulars Captain James T. Kirk -  William Shatner Commander Spock -  Leonard Nimoy Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy -  DeForest Kelley Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott -  James Doohan Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu -  George Takei Lieutenant Nyoto Uhura -  Nichelle Nichols Semi-Regulars Guest Cast Edith Keeler -  Joan Collins Lieutenant Galoway -  David L. Ross Guardian Voice -  Bartell La Rue Policeman -  Hal Baylor Rodent -  John Harmon
Editorial:	T he City On The Edge Of Forever is considered, by many, to be the best Trek episode ever made. It was certainly the most expensive ever made of the Original series with a final budget of over $250,000 US. It is a fascinating tale of love at the start of the 1930's depression leading up to the tragic climax, where Kirk must allow Edith Keeler to die; to keep her from starting a peace corps movement in the States that would ultimately allow Hitler and Germany to be the victors of WWII. Author Harlan Ellison received full writing credit for this episode, despite the numerous rewrites of this episode by Gene Roddenberry. Harlan's original script won the "Writers' Guild of America Award" for the "most outstanding dramatic episode teleplay" for 1967-68; while the final draft script as adapted by Roddenberry went on to win the 1968 International Hugo Science Fiction Award. Back to the story, it's always great to see our heroes out of their element, such as when Kirk and Spock were accosted by a police officer just after stealing clothes. Also, time travel episodes are usually extriemely well put together. The Enterprise would see it's way back to the Guardian of Forever just once more on Trek, in the animated episode Yesteryear, written by D.C. Fonatana. By comparison, Yesteryear is regarded by most, including myself, to be the best animated episode ever produced. At the 30th Anniversery Star Trek Gala, actress Joan Collins (who is best known for her role on Dynasty) said that when she first heard she was going to be on Star Trek, she got all geared up to play an alien woman wearing a placemat for a costume; and to her surprise she ended up playing a missionary in 1930 New York. (Source for background information on "The City On The Edge Of Forever": The Star Trek Compendium by Allan Asherman)