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"The City On The Edge Of Forever" ...

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is pretty much universally considered to be ('yes Gen'l, I said "pretty much universally" deal with it... :nana ) the finest of the Star Trek Original Series episodes...

As I was poking around on Youtube yesterday looking for clips from The Trouble With Tribbles, I came across this interview with Bill Shatner and Joan Collins discussing that classic episode...(I think it was recorded in the last couple of years)

(At the risk of sounding sexist, I have to say, ol' Joan is holding up well... :ok )

Anyway, I found getting their perspective on it kind of interesting, so for anyone else who might be interested, I thought I would post it:

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Thanks for posting. That particular show created the saying, "not every episode can be City on the Edge of Forever".

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The thing that I always found kind of unique (yes, I said "kind of" unique 8-) ) about this episode, (that they sort of touch on in the interview) is that even though James Kirk had a love interest in many episodes, (generally somebody either in a 60's stewardess outfit or a young woman in a bathing suit and a sparkly sash...James Bond-type "relationships") this was the one episode where he was dealing with a woman of substance...

A woman who at the outset wasn't particularly impressed with him...a woman who had no knowledge of James T. Kirk, the 23rd Century swash-buckling commander of the USS Enterprise...

Initially to her, he was just another down-on-his-luck guy who happened to show up at her Depression Era soup kitchen...

Edith Keeler...

And then he has to confront the reality and conflict of who he really is (a person from the future who doesn't belong in 1930's America) and why he's there, versus the personal feelings he's developed, and the "butterfly wing" negative effect that acting on his personal feelings could have on the whole course of human history...
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Lord Jim wrote: this was the one episode where he was dealing with a woman of substance...
You saying Miramanee didn't have substance? Most men stuck in paradise would like to be stuck there with her. ;)

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