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Star Trek Review: THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
Director Joseph Pevney's, "THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER,"
is considered by some Trekkers, to be the best classic "Star Trek"
episode. Pevney's other directing credits include: "Devil in the
Dark", "Amok Time", and "Journey to Babel".
Joan Collins ("Dynasty") is radiant as Edith Keeler, a woman
fervently committed to helping society. She is warm and beautiful, and
her romance with Captain Kirk provides the interplanetary playboy with
his best, most convincing love affair.
Harlan Ellison ("The Outer Limits" and "The NEW Twilight
Zone"), a well known Science-Fiction novelist, wrote the beautifully
realized teleplay. Although Ellison later claimed that Roddenberry wrecked
his script by re-writing it, the revised teleplay won the International
Hugo award, in 1968, a prestigious Science-Fiction honor.
The episode's primary FX involve a time portal, called "The Guardian
of Forever". Although the historical scenes we see projected on
the portal are just old, recycled movie scenes, slow motion shots of
McCoy, Kirk, and Spock passing through the portal are pretty decent.
This is one of the few classic "Star Trek" episodes in which
profanity was used. At the end of the episode, when the Enterprise crew
prepares to beam up from the planet, following the death of Edith Keeler,
in 1930's, New York, a grim faced Kirk barks the line, "Let's get
the hell out of here!"
"THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER" should be highly watchable
for most Sci-Fi viewers. Joan Collins fans will definitely dig this
episode. "The City on the Edge of Forever" is "Star Trek"
at its best! Trek on!
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