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From: mnw@trwrba.UUCP (Michael N. Washington)
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Subject: Re: Re: City on the Edge of Forever
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Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 11:17:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  7 11:17:10 1984
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>> From:	mit-eddie!barmar	(Barry Margolin)

>> It is interesting to read Ellison's original teleplay, by the way.  It
>> is in a collection entitled something like "6 Short Science Fiction
>> Plays."

>The interesting thing I find about Ellison's ranting and raving about Rodden-
>berry's changing his script is that, personally, I feel that Roddenberry made
>the right decision in one major story element. In Ellison's original script,
>Kirk was going to save Edith Keeler's life, but Spock stops him. While I can
>see Ellison's possible reason for doing this --- the dramatic punch of Kirk
>losing the one woman for whom he *would* sacrifice an entire future -- I think
>it had much greater impact on the character for Kirk to stop McCoy. That scene
>of McCoy screaming "Do you know what you've done?" and Spock responding, "He
>knows, Doctor, he knows." is one that'll probably never stop haunting me.


>--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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Jerry Boyajian has a very good point.  I find the way Roddenberry and
company handled the ending to the story of The City on the Edge of Forever
quite well.  I was much more dramatically effective for Kirk to stop
McCoy and Spock to say what he did than it would have been for Spock to
stop the Captain.  I never had the pleasure of reading the original
script, but (and usually I do not like script changes, they are usually
for the worse) I would probably have done the same thing.

"Live Long and Prosper!"

Michael N. Washington
TRW E&DS  Redondo Beach, Ca.  90278

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