The City on the Edge of Forever

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781497604834

<DIV><B>The award-winning original teleplay that produced the most beloved episode of the classic <I>Star Trek</I> series&mdash;with an introductory essay by the author</B>.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> USS <I>Enterprise</I> Starfleet officers Capt. James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock escort a renegade criminal to a nearby planet for capital punishment, and they discover the remains of a city. This ancient civilization is inhabited by the alien Guardians of Forever, who are tasked with protecting a time machine. When the criminal escapes through the portal into the past, he alters Earth&rsquo;s timeline, damaging humanity&rsquo;s future role among the stars.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Pursuing their prisoner, Kirk and Spock are transported to 1930s Depression-era New York City&mdash;where they meet pacifist Edith Koestler, a woman whose fate is entwined with the aftermath of the most devastating war in human history. A woman whom Kirk has grown to love&mdash;and has to sacrifice to restore order to the universe.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> In its original form, <I>The City on the Edge of Forever</I> won the Writers Guild of America Award for best teleplay. As aired, it won the Hugo Award. But as Harlan Ellison recounts in his expanded introductory essay, &ldquo;Perils of the &lsquo;City,&rsquo;&rdquo; the televised episode was a rewrite of his creative vision perpetrated by <I>Star Trek</I> creator Gene Roddenberry and the show&rsquo;s producers. In his trademark visceral, no-holds-barred style, the legendary author broke a thirty-year silence to set the record straight about the mythologized controversy surrounding the celebrated episode, revealing what occurred behind-the-scenes during the production.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Presented here as Ellison originally intended it to be filmed, this published teleplay of <I>The City on the Edge of Forever</I> remains a masterpiece of speculative fiction, and a prime example of his uncanny ability to present humanity with all its virtues and faults.<BR /> &#160;</DIV>