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City on the Edge of Forever

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Heroes and Icons channel was showing "City On the Edge of Forever." It's one of my fave episodes and I think I've seen it a gazillion times. It's just chock full of so many great elements. Time travel, and the funny moments between Kirk and Spock. I love the scene in the alleyway when Kirk steals clothing for he and Spock and then has to explain Spock's appearance to the police officer. (he caught his head in a mechanical rice picker ):guffaw:

Something I hadn't thought about, namely Spock. He took a huge risk on traveling with Kirk back to the 20th century. If they had found out he was an alien he would have been captured, perhaps experimented on and then killed.
If he had gotten hurt there would be no one able to treat him.
I have to wonder exactly what he used to create something he could use to tap into the tricorder. He said it would take him a while to develop the pneumonic memory tube (out of stone knives and bear skins, I think Spock was a bit of a miracle worker in this ep)
just thought I'd mention this episode to you all
 
mnemonic memory circuit

I used to think the mechanical rice-picker joke was funny. Now I really don't. Great episode, though. One of the best.
 
Spock built some sort of digital frame grabber for his tricorder. Other than the Jacob's Ladder, much of it actually looks plausible, the rows of tubes being used for digital circuit elements, logic and memory. By the end of the episode the device is filling the entire room, also plausible, and you can see piles of cannibalized radio gear in the background, as 15 cents an hour just wasn't enough to support Spock's "hobby".
 
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Push The Button said:
Spock built some sort of digital frame grabber for his tricorder. Other than the Jacob's Ladder, much of it actually looks plausible, the rows of tubes being used for digital circuit elements, logic and memory. By the end of the episode the device is filling the entire room, also plausible, and you can see piles of cannibalized radio gear in the background, as 15 cents an hour just wasn't enough to support Spock's "hobby".
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Thanks for the explanation. I had wondered on the validity of what Spock was doing.
 
Spock would have a valid reason for the Jacob's Ladder. Probably to regulate power flow or something. He is Spock, after all.
 
Trekfan12 said:
. . . I love the scene in the alleyway when Kirk steals clothing for he and Spock and then has to explain Spock's appearance to the police officer. (he caught his head in a mechanical rice picker ):guffaw:
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I've always considered that scene a classic Trek comedy moment. What makes it funny is that Kirk is frantically ad-libbing, trying to explain Spock's odd appearance -- and the policeman couldn't care less! All he knows is that he just caught two thieves red-handed. Hell, that cop has probably encountered weirder looking characters than Spock in the line of duty.
 
Trekfan12 said:
Something I hadn't thought about, namely Spock. He took a huge risk on traveling with Kirk back to the 20th century. If they had found out he was an alien he would have been captured, perhaps experimented on and then killed.
If he had gotten hurt there would be no one able to treat him.
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Better than dying of starvation and maybe thirst on the Guardian planet...no medical help there either.
 
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Not to mention Joan Collins in her prime in this episode. Dammit, Kirk! The Hell with history! Save that woman from being road kill!!
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He could have taken her back with him and gotten her some 23rd century medical care and kept her in his time, I suppose. But then the driver would not know he had killed someone and that would change history. *headache*
 
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He could have taken her back with him and gotten her some 23rd century medical care and kept her in his time, I suppose.
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The Guardian said only that if Kirk and Spock were successful in correcting the timeline, they would be returned and it would be as though none of them had gone. Kirk couldn't take Edith back to his own time because the Guardian didn't work like that.

Besides, if Edith was killed instantly by the impact -- say, if her brains were dashed out on the pavement -- I doubt there'd be much even 23rd-century medicine could do for her.
 
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The Guardian said only that if Kirk and Spock were successful in correcting the timeline, they would be returned and it would be as though none of them had gone. Kirk couldn't take Edith back to his own time because the Guardian didn't work like that.
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It worked a little differently in Yesteryear, unless I-chaya had already died around the same time
in the non-altered past when young Spock had.
 
scotpens said:
The Guardian said only that if Kirk and Spock were successful in correcting the timeline, they would be returned and it would be as though none of them had gone. Kirk couldn't take Edith back to his own time because the Guardian didn't work like that.

Besides, if Edith was killed instantly by the impact -- say, if her brains were dashed out on the pavement -- I doubt there'd be much even 23rd-century medicine could do for her.
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McCoy could have returned to Sigma Draconis VII, put the Teacher on and have had Edith Keeler instruct him in how to restore her brain.:ack:

"Brain and brain! What is brain?"
 
Time travel sounds cool, but what a bitch if you accidentally mess up all of recorded history. "Uh, oh. My bad.":whistle:
 
Laura Cynthia Chambers said:
It worked a little differently in Yesteryear, unless I-chaya had already died around the same time in the non-altered past when young Spock had.
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I think we can safely assign I-chaya to the same category as the bum who disintegrates himself with McCoy's phaser -- unimportant to the overall flow of history.
 
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