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The city on the edge of forever / Harlan Ellison.

by Ellison, Harlan.

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Open Road Integrated Media, 2014, c1995.

Ellison, Harlan.

Star trek (Television program)

Science fiction television programs -- United States -- History and criticism.

Television plays.

Harlan Ellison Collection.

9781497642904 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Star trek. Harlan Ellison's The city on the edge of forever

Star trek. The city on the edge of forever

Harlan Ellison's The city on the edge of forever

Harlan Ellision collection. The city on the edge of forever

vii, 309 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Compilation of two treatments, one teleplay and one revision all originally written in 1966.

The original teleplay that became a classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison. The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an "eviscerated" version - which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series' history. In its original form, it won the 1966-67 Writers Guild of America Award for best teleplay. As aired, it won the 1967 Hugo Award. It is, at its most basic, a poignant love story. Ellison takes the reader on a breathtaking trip through space and time, from the future, all the way back to 1930s America. In this harrowing journey, Kirk and Spock race to apprehend a renegade criminal and restore the order of the universe. It is here that Kirk faces his ultimate dilemma: a choice between the universe - or his one true love. This edition makes available the teleplay as Ellison intended it to be aired. The author's introductory essay reveals all of the details of what Ellison describes as a "fatally inept treatment" of his creative work. Was he unjustly edited, unjustly accused, and unjustly treated?

Television scripts.

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