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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: City on the Edge of Forever
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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 03:16:00 EST
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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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