Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: re: City on the Edge of Forever Message-ID: <4134@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 03:16:00 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.4134 Posted: Tue Nov 6 03:16:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 01:19:54 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 21 > 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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA