Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site trwrba.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrba!mnw From: mnw@trwrba.UUCP (Michael N. Washington) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Re: City on the Edge of Forever Message-ID: <1091@trwrba.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 11:17:10 EST Article-I.D.: trwrba.1091 Posted: Wed Nov 7 11:17:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 03:06:11 EST Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 37 >> 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 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 {ucbvax,decvax,hplabs}!trwrb!trwrba!mnw