Reach into history
| Episode of the series Spaceship Enterprise | |||
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| title | Reach into history | ||
| Original title | The City on the Edge of Forever | ||
| transcription | The city on the edge of eternity | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | 50 minutes | ||
| classification | Season 1 , episode 28 28th episode in total ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | April 6, 1967 on NBC | ||
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January 18, 1988 on Sat.1 | ||
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| Director | Joseph Pevney | ||
| script | Harlan Ellison | ||
| production | Gene L. Coon | ||
| music | Alexander Courage | ||
| camera | Jerry Finnerman | ||
| cut | James D. Ballas | ||
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Griff in the Geschichte (original title: The City on the Edge of Forever ) is an episode from the first season of the American science fiction television series Spaceship Enterprise . It is about the efforts of Kirk and Spock to correct the changed course of history on earth after McCoy's time travel . The script was written by Harlan Ellison . Reaching into history is considered one of the most popular and successful episodes not only of the series, but of Star Trek as a whole. In 1968 she received both the Hugo Award and the WGA Award .
action
The Enterprise is in orbit of a planet when time-shifting waves hit it. Sulu is injured by a console explosion that is triggered. While McCoy is still treating him on the bridge, there is a concussion that accidentally injects himself with an overdose of cordrazine. As a result, falling into a state of hysteria and madness, it beams itself onto the surface of the planet, to the point from which the time-shift waves emanate. An away team around Kirk and Spock tries to find him there and discovers a ring-shaped time portal at the point, which, speaking to the away team, introduces itself as the "guardian of eternity". The portal offers access to different epochs of the past in an uncontrolled but repetitive rhythm of several seconds. McCoy flees from the away team through the time portal, whereupon the team learns from the portal that McCoy has obviously disturbed the passage of time. As a result, among other things, there is no longer an Enterprise. To get McCoy back and undo the changes he made in the story, Kirk and Spock go through the portal into the same period of time as McCoy went.
Kirk and Spock arrive in a US city about a week before McCoy arrives at the time of the Great Depression in the 1930s. There they happened to meet the social worker Edith Keeler, who runs a mission for the poor. With the data of a tricorder brought from the future, Spock has the possibility of predicting the future of both the normal and the changed course of history. He learns that in a few years' time Keeler will die in a traffic accident or be honored by the US president, depending on what happens when McCoy appears.
When McCoy arrives in town, he's still afraid of murderers. Passed out in the course of these hallucinations, a homeless man steals his phaser. When he tried the device, he accidentally killed himself. McCoy then wanders around town until he happens to appear on Keeler's mission.
Meanwhile, Spock has found out that McCoy will save Keeler from an otherwise fatal traffic accident by appearing during this time and that Keeler will become the founder of a peace movement. As a result, the well-known course of history changes so that the National Socialists are the first to finish developing the atomic bomb and thereby win the Second World War . Spock and Kirk, who meanwhile fell in love with Keeler, decide to see to it that Keeler has to die in the traffic accident.
Just at the moment when Kirk and Spock McCoy meet again, Keeler runs in front of their eyes in front of an approaching truck and dies as a result. Then Kirk, Spock and McCoy return through the time portal to their original time, the history of which has now been corrected.
reception
Referring to the fact that Kirk and Spock let the pacifist Edith Keeler die in order to restore the original course of history, the American political scientist George A. Gonzalez criticized the fact that passivity towards injustice, corruption, illegal behavior and warmongering in the episode represented by pacifism will.
Web links
- Reaching into the story in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Reach into history in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
- Reach into history at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simone Stölzel: Infinite Expanses: Solution-oriented thinking with Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-647-40459-2 , p. 133
- ↑ Raumschiff Enterprise Awards , in: IMDb , accessed on Feb. 19, 2017
- ↑ George A. Gonzalez: The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future , Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-54940-2 , p. 39