Ok, I'll give you a whole DVD. Four episodes. (The four episodes, however, must actualy exsist on the same DVD) so look thorough your TOS DVDs and decide which one goes with you.
Trekker, Season 1 Disc 7
City on the Edge of Forever
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Ok, I'll give you a whole DVD. Four episodes. (The four episodes, however, must actualy exsist on the same DVD) so look thorough your TOS DVDs and decide which one goes with you.
Trekker, Season 1 Disc 7
trevanian
Rear Admiral
It's weird, but the reuse of that in the trek novel PRIME DIRECTIVE is always much more affecting than its use in the CITY episode for me. In fact, I can't read the passage in question without misting up. PD is pretty damn awesome in my book, minus the slightly wobbly conclusion.
Most of the ultra-rewatchable eps for me are Coon-produced shows, so CITY is in the right span, but not the right episode. Probably something cheesy like ARENA, since I think I've already seen that 100 times, or IMMUNITY SYNDROME, which has been in my top 5 or 10 since jr high school.
I'm glad I finally ordered Prime Directive, then. Should be getting it next week - and it's the first Reeves-Stevens I read. Better be good.
It certainly is a great episode.
Brilliant, brilliant episode. I was really amazed at how much detail was packed into the story, and yet it still flowed very smoothly. The scenes at the end, from Keeler's final moments to the crew beaming up, are just exceptional drama. When one thinks about the plot, the head starts to spin a bit (if Kirk had never come back, would Keeler have been in the same situation from which Bones saved her?).
It would have been great to see The Guardian of Forever again, but perhaps it would have felt a little out of place in one of the later Trek series.
Would this be my desert island TOS disc? Maybe "Doomsday Machine" and "Mirror, Mirror" would be considered instead. But this is clearly one of TOS' greatest eps.
It would have been great to see The Guardian of Forever again, but perhaps it would have felt a little out of place in one of the later Trek series.
Would this be my desert island TOS disc? Maybe "Doomsday Machine" and "Mirror, Mirror" would be considered instead. But this is clearly one of TOS' greatest eps.
It's my favorite story from all the Trek tv shows and movies.
I think it encapsulates Star Trek more than any other story.
Plus Deforest Kelley was absolutly amazing in this episode.
"KILLERS!! ASSASSINS!!!"
"I gotta keep going....I can't..let them...find me."
"You deliberately stopped me Jim."
I think it encapsulates Star Trek more than any other story.
Plus Deforest Kelley was absolutly amazing in this episode.
"KILLERS!! ASSASSINS!!!"
"I gotta keep going....I can't..let them...find me."
"You deliberately stopped me Jim."
^^^
AGREED.
"I would give anything to see the hospitals. Needles and sutures... You used to... cut and sew people like garments!! Needles and sutures..."
Well, one DVD -commercial release. Which means all four of those episodes have to be on the same DVD.
I often wondered how much influecne McCoy may of had on the altered timeline? With his 23rd century ideals and knowledge how much he might have pressured or influenced Keeler's and further the US' actions that led to Nazi Germany taking the world? I also wonder how much fun he had being with Keeler for the rest of his days.
I often wondered how much influecne McCoy may of had on the altered timeline? With his 23rd century ideals and knowledge how much he might have pressured or influenced Keeler's and further the US' actions that led to Nazi Germany taking the world? I also wonder how much fun he had being with Keeler for the rest of his days.
For an interesting take on McCoy's life in 20th Century America, I recommend David R. George III's Trek novel Provenance of Shadows, which is part one of the Crucible trilogy.
Yep.
Don't discount the possibility that in saving her he might've been killed in the process.I often wondered how much influecne McCoy may of had on the altered timeline? With his 23rd century ideals and knowledge how much he might have pressured or influenced Keeler's and further the US' actions that led to Nazi Germany taking the world? I also wonder how much fun he had being with Keeler for the rest of his days.
Well, one DVD -commercial release. Which means all four of those episodes have to be on the same DVD.
I often wondered how much influecne McCoy may of had on the altered timeline? With his 23rd century ideals and knowledge how much he might have pressured or influenced Keeler's and further the US' actions that led to Nazi Germany taking the world? I also wonder how much fun he had being with Keeler for the rest of his days.
Whatever. I don't play by the rules.
Even though it has been plenty of times, my top 5 are
Balance of Terror
Mirror, Mirror
The City on the Edge of Forever
The Doomsday Machine
Arena
But I digress. TCOTEOF is that great time travel episode that shows how it can greatly effect the future. Overall, this episode has nearly it all: humor, the Big 3, Spock using his scientific skill, Kirk using his 'captain' charms, and McCoy letting his emotions show through the situation. The only thing missing is a starship battle, but the overall great story and characters easily make up for it.
I always thought this episode was just 'ok'.
I cringe every time Edith gives her speech to the bums at the beginning - 'one day, man will harness the atom, and then we'll have spaceships, and then there won't be war anymore!' (Until then, enjoy your bread and gruel!) She sounded nuts. I know it was just a way to make her sympathetic to Kirk/Spock and the audience, but it didn't sound like something a woman working in a mission in 1930 would be likely to say to cheer bums up.
I cringe every time Edith gives her speech to the bums at the beginning - 'one day, man will harness the atom, and then we'll have spaceships, and then there won't be war anymore!' (Until then, enjoy your bread and gruel!) She sounded nuts. I know it was just a way to make her sympathetic to Kirk/Spock and the audience, but it didn't sound like something a woman working in a mission in 1930 would be likely to say to cheer bums up.
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