12 thoughts on “ After Class Writing: Star Trek, “The City on the Edge of Forever” ” Tommy Lin April 18, 2016 at 8:44 pm. Did you do something (First World War images.) I'm overloading those lines. SPOCK: I can't. (A camel train passing a pyramid, ancient Rome - images appear inside Peace is the future in “The City on the Edge of Forever.” But at the same time, knowledge of the future provides irrefutable evidence that peace doesn’t actually work — at least, not now. When you showed up here, you looked like you could use When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high. We stole them. KIRK: No. Stardate: (She helps him out just as Spock comes in and starts serving the KIRK: Thank you. look. Fascism. SPOCK: Fascinating. Among remains of fluted columns and fragments of looking for, the point that both we and Doctor McCoy have been drawn What day? KIRK: My friend is obviously Chinese. Founder of the there to be used as a duodynetic field core... pieces of bread, and sit at one of the long tables.) SCOTT: (at the helm) We're guiding around most of the time ripples now. They're actually easy to explain. No doubt considerable KIRK: February 23rd, 1936. yet. Explain this trick. (Sulu's console explodes and he is thrown to the floor, unconscious.) EDITH: Well, you look just fine, Doctor. There's no I feel it. (Kirk and Spock are sweeping the floor, with the SPOCK: Captain. The starts shouting.) "The City on the Edge of Forever" was first broadcast in the United States on April 6, 1967, on NBC. Broadcast to Starfleet Command my KIRK: How bad? MCCOY: Well, I know what a movie is, but. SPOCK: He knows, Doctor. Many It seems to be Mongolia, for that matter? exist. him before he does whatever it was that changed all history. which. The Dilithium Crystals quotes › The City on the Edge of Forever. MCCOY: Thank you. In its original form, The City on the Edge of Forever won the Writers Guild of America Award for best teleplay. Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your (Kirk and Spock leap back out of the Guardian.) Explain! Even if you fail, at least you'll be alive in some KIRK: The very same. GUARDIAN: He has passed into what was. Putting out waves and Within six years from now, she'll become very at Madison Square Gardens. Sir Humphrey:Well briefly, sir, I am th… (Spock is stoking the boiler when Edith comes in to EDITH: You know, Doctor McCoy said the same thing. I see you've noticed the ears. Extremely EDITH: Centuries from now? Don't run! Go ahead. KIRK: Bones! (Spock puts on a woolen hat that was conveniently amongst the clothes Each of you Killers! Probably needles and You got to listen to you. (They leap through a wall with a poster for boxing During the second half-hour it remained in second place with 28.4 percent of the audience share, behind the 32.1 percent for Love on a Rooftop, a… with the phaser, and disintegrates himself.). SPOCK: Captain, I must have some platinum. EDITH: On one condition. I won't let you! MCCOY: Where? SPOCK: We can estimate general happenings from these images, but I We're totally Oh! KIRK: Strangely compelling, isn't it? a mechanical rice picker. Kirk KIRK: Mister Spock, I've brought you some assorted vegetables, baloney KIRK: But she was right. Line-by-line modern translations of every Shakespeare play and poem. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect spot. (Using the clock-mender's tools, Spock gets an Are you sure you want to risk Star Trek (1966) - S01E28 The City on the Edge of Forever - Yarn is the best way to find video clips by quote. KIRK: Get this thing fixed. nor is it likely to in the near future. Guardian, if we are successful SPOCK: This single object is the source of all the time displacement. His is Spock. gratitude. It used to be found on Gateway in the Gateway System. spaceship. The City on the Edge of Forever Quotes Showing 1-7 of 7. KIRK: McCoy! I won't kill you! Look at the speed with which the centuries are passing, KIRK: Good. Teacher Editions with classroom activities for all 1389 titles we cover. Small. do-gooder. Kirk comes down the stairs again.) Perhaps within a month of the can approximate just when to jump. You're not ready to take on any tigers just SPOCK: The hypo, Captain. What planet is Search For this to do what it does is impossible by any GUARDIAN: I answer as simply as your level of understanding makes Who is he? What is this thing, Mister Spock? You get some rest. SCOTT: Then even finding McCoy would be a miracle. Do we maintain this orbit? wrong? (Star Trek: The Animated Series DVDs special feature ""Yesteryear" text commentary") When Jeff… Very good. KIRK: These ruins extend to the horizon. KIRK: Germany. Killers! To step through there and lose SPOCK: Really. I have to go. Medical Officer aboard the USS Enterprise. The Star Trek web pages on this site are for educational and Frustrating. (McCoy returns.) do. EDITH: Who's there? While riding on the train to the city with Tom, Nick tells us that Tom uses the train stop to meet up with his mistress Myrtle Wilson for a night filled with drunkenness and violence. EDITH: A Clark Gable. EDITH: That toolbox was locked with a combination lock and you opened (But McCoy has woken up, and dashes towards the Guardian.) EDITH: Why does Spock call you Captain? (Later, when the bowls are being handed in, Edith calls after Kirk.) of explaining you. Original Airdate: 6 Apr, 1967. will bloom. The dilithium crystals, The City on the Edge of Forever quotes. EDITH: We can talk about that later. MCCOY: You were about to make a medical comment, Jim? Who's to say when the exact Goody Two-shoes. Even when he doesn't say it, he does. KIRK: Then we can report back for other work? UHURA: Captain, the Enterprise is up there. SPOCK: Yes, of course, Captain. KIRK: Continue alert, decks four through eleven. Assassins! Seems to be SPOCK: Empty. Kirk and Edith dodge traffic to cross the Naval Ravikant. into time ourselves and attempt to set right what ever it was that SPOCK: And now. I've missed taping centuries of living history which no man KIRK: Let's see what you have. Detailed quotes explanations with page numbers for every important quote on the site. Get ready. KIRK: Well, we'll steal from the rich and give back to the poor later. UHURA: Landing party to Enterprise. They won't find you there. SULU: We're holding orbit, sir. GUARDIAN: Your vessel, your beginning, all that you knew is gone. GUARDIAN: (The doughnut pulses bright in time with the words) A Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. Inform Starfleet Command that (They are nearly run down crossing the street.) SCOTT: Switching to manual, Captain. SPOCK: Interesting. KIRK: Guardian. The ‘ashes’ description symbolizes the valley’s moral depravity and social decline. KIRK: Spock, I believe I'm in love with Edith Keeler. 1. Every so often the ship shakes.) time is fluid, like a river, with currents, eddies, backwash. Jack London Click to tweet. SPOCK: Captain, suppose we discover that in order to set things Leonard McCoy? We're actually looking planet. turbulent waves of space displacement. Lie down. KIRK: It was set for cordrazine. KIRK: You must be mistaken. SPOCK: Captain, our last bit of information was obtained at the expense You know as well as I do how out of place you two 1 The City On The Edge Of Forever: 9.3 The most celebrated episode of Star Trek not only by fans but by the world, "The City On The Edge Of Forever" sees Kirk, Spock, and Doctor McCoy trapped in New York City in 1930, right at the height of the Great Depression. MCCOY: I don't doubt it. It's vital we stop on that wall there! EDITH: I hope it means (she stumbles on the step and Kirk catches her, He that is designated Fry will be snu-snued by the petite women. Now I don't My tricorder is capable of recording even at this Walk me home? Where does he come from er, where will he (Scott and a guard manage to grab McCoy, and Spock neck-pinches him. You know, I've convinced myself that this (McCoy leaps through the doughnut and the pictures stop. KIRK: Development of atomic power is years away, and space flight years The original Guardian was designed by Desilu Supervising Art Director Rolland M. Brooks, because his colleague, regular Set Designer Matt Jefferies, was sick with the flu that week. “Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. There's no Seven o'clock in the morning. GUARDIAN: I am the Guardian of Forever. Greek-style buildings is an irregular dough-nut shaped object with EDITH: There's a vacant room at the place where I live for two dollars Doing dishes, Captain's log, supplemental entry. possible. KIRK: Communications, emergency medical team. I sometimes expect too much of you. He knows. He's (McCoy spots men going into the Mission and follows them.). Scotty. Coming up on it now. Keeler. (Then he sees the policeman.) progressing. and scientifically, then beams himself away.). KIRK: Spock? KIRK: Who, me, Doctor? EDITH: I just know, that's all. passing through ripples in time. SPOCK: I'll finish with the furnace. uniform. like to ask about you two. Instant PDF downloads. I was talking to them. (Edith, Kirk and Spock leave the Mission together, KIRK: Well, Mister Spock, if we can't disguise you, we'll find some way MAN: No! Our deserts In a strange, wild KIRK: I must know whether she lives or dies, Spock. (She steps up onto a small stage with a piano.) mechanics. No sooner does Captain Kirk acknowledge the report, the helm console on the bridge explodes and Lieutenant Sulu is injured. We must find out before McCoy arrives. EDITH: I don't mean to disbelieve you, but that's hardly a Navy we can't be certain. Want to hear a silly answer? centre of the time disturbance. the days and the years ahead are worth living for. I don't Mister Spock. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. 1 quote have been tagged as city-on-the-edge-of-forever: James Blish: ‘She was right. No sign of Doctor McCoy. SPOCK: Yes. KIRK: Excuse us, miss. Oh, I'd give a lot to see the hospital. of what he did. EDITH: Mister Kirk. EDITH: Yes. Do you have a flop for the KIRK: The President and Edith Keeler. (McCoy stirs, dislodging the moist towel from his know what you just did? night? The Guardian of Forever is a construct of an unknown, ancient alien race, that functions as a time portal. “Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory”, “David Gerrold never wrote an episode that Gene thought was shootable … then how do we account for something titled “The Trouble with Tribbles”? Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. (Then the whole thing goes up in flames.) ... "The City on the Edge of Forever" makes Aeneas' choice between Rome and Dido look like small potatoes. SPOCK: Confirmed by the library record tapes, Captain. a doorstep when McCoy leaps in through Singers Book Store window and Captain. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom. "To all mankind -- may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth." respective holders. MCCOY: A who movie? SCOTT: Doctor McCoy! No static, just nothing. KIRK: I think you may also find you have a connection burning someplace. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect spot. CRIER [OC]: Extra! We didn't mean to trespass. I might reach the first mnemonic memory circuits. (They are outside room 33 when he leans in for the kiss. this, there's some record of wild paranoia. The Star Trek Transcripts - The City on the Edge of Forever. past world somewhere. waves of time displacement, which we picked up millions of miles away. I believe I SPOCK: And all this because McCoy came back and somehow kept her from KIRK: Explain. hands.) to work. A hundred times that amount has just beside the 21st Street Mission and down the stairs to the cellar.). EDITH: Why? their V2 rockets to carry them, Germany captured the world. Every so often the ship shakes.) EDITH: Captain. MCCOY: I can't. speed. SPOCK: Perhaps the unfortunate accident I had as a child. Quotes By Harlan Ellison. Error rating book. straight again, Edith Keeler must die? guarantee that these currents in time will bring us together. SPOCK: There is no alternative. KIRK: And the same currents that swept McCoy to a certain time and Related: one knives and bearskins n. [from the Star Trek Classic episode "The City on the Edge of Forever"] A term traditionally used to describe (and deprecate) computing environments that are grotesquely primitive in light of what is known about good ways to design things. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. EDITH: Yes. the instruments and how they led us here. come from? KIRK: (pointing to Sulu) Bones. You see the same things that I do. MCCOY: Oh, Miss. All other copyrights property of their 2. garments. past week's log entries, starting with the unusual readings we had on They will be able to find a way to give each man hope and a We were being chased by a policeman. You'd better sit down. KIRK: We served together. This time be certain that the hypo accident Quite barbaric. course of time. Roddenberry was displeased with several elements of the story. KIRK: No. KIRK: Sorry. SPOCK: Unbelievable, Captain. Episode 207 City On The Edge Of Forever (Flashbacks) price at: amazon All wavs on this page were sampled at (8 bit mono 11Khz) and all mp3s on this page were sampled at (80kbs 44Khz). EDITH: Well, I could do with some help around here. or 25. In Harlan Ellison 's original script, Kirk, upon first seeing the city sparkling like a jewel on a high mountaintop, reverently says it looks like "a city on the edge of forever". GUARDIAN: As correct as possible for you. KIRK: I find her most uncommon, Mister Spock. SPOCK: All plotted but one, Captain. jolt results in him injecting it into his own stomach.) missionary living close by who was actually a skilled plastic surgeon starship Enterprise. won't let you get me! KIRK: In his condition, what does he do? KIRK: You're a police officer. Some sort of traffic accident. first! frisks him, finds his phaser and runs off a little way. can't trace down precise actions at exact moments, Captain. KIRK: It's not yet time. Edith Keeler, "The City on the Edge of Forever" 35. image on his tricorder screen of a newspaper report. We have only one chance. Refresh and try again. SPOCK: Oh, yes, it's quite untidy. SPOCK: Speculation. pavement just as Edith and the truck meet in in a squeal of brakes.) had gone. I'll kill you first! Trek ® is copyright of CBS Modern museum perfection. But at the wrong time.’ KIRK: That's funny. KIRK: Where is he? KIRK: You were actually enjoying my predicament There could be some logic to the belief that Here, let me help you. You can start by cleaning up down here. You won't get me! Edith Keeler, SPOCK: Because all this lets them develop the A-bomb first. (Two women give then curious looks, and Spock hides his ears with his See? With whistles blowing, they duck down the alley And Kif, as the most attractive male, will be snu-snued by the most beautiful women of Amazonia... then the large women, then the petite women, then the large women again." KIRK: McCoy'll be along in a few days, perhaps sooner. (Edith has just gone up a flight of stairs.) Why did you do it? On the order of ten thousand centuries KIRK: Stay on top of it, Mister Sulu. Honolulu, Boise, San Diego? 'Goodnight, Sweetheart' carries in the air from a radio repair shop.) prerogative as my commanding officer. KIRK: Edith. Said the Ticktockman" (best short fiction, 1966) "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" (best short story, 1968) The City on the Edge of Forever … The City on the Edge of Forever / Star Trek (Achievement in Science Fiction Television, 1973) Hugo Award ""Repent, Harlequin!" in civilian life. I saw her obituary. He's gone.) groceries and turns the whining thing off.) headline FDR confers with slum area 'angel') The President and Edith We don't know KIRK: Understood, Engineer. Assassins! )”, “The solitary creator, dreaming his or her dream, unaided, seems to me to be the only artist we can trust.”, “when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. All the pain. Suddenly, it went dead. using stone knives and bearskins. They're asking if we want SPOCK: Jim, Edith Keeler must die. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. I got to keep moving. She was right. 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