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Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever #5
The City on the Edge of Forever #5
The final act of Harlan Ellison’s Hugo and WGA Award-winning Star Trek teleplay! Is James T. Kirk willing to sacrifice the woman he loves, to save the universe as he knows it?! You may have seen the episode, but you only think you know how it ends! From the mind of literary legend Harlan Ellison!
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First published November 12, 2014
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Harlan Ellison
1,082 books2,821 followersHarlan Jay Ellison (1934-2018) was a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism.
His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of both The Outer Limits and Star Trek as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; edited the multiple-award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions; and served as creative consultant/writer to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.
Several of his short fiction pieces have been made into movies, such as the classic "The Boy and His Dog".
His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of both The Outer Limits and Star Trek as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; edited the multiple-award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions; and served as creative consultant/writer to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.
Several of his short fiction pieces have been made into movies, such as the classic "The Boy and His Dog".
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January 8, 2022
[Review of all 5 issues.]
An interesting oddity more than anything with importance. I know Harlan himself felt slighted at the time, but the rewrites were, in many ways, prudent - Spock doesn't quite act in the comic like they had him acting already in the show (much better written in the episode), and of course Roddenberry and company wouldn't want a drug dealer in Starfleet - that went way against Roddenberry's vision. McCoy in the episode proper is used poorly, yes, but this random drug dealer character is no better used. And of course, they needed to make the Guardian smaller scale for the budget. I'd say everything they did was right, so for me, this is just a curiosity.
An interesting oddity more than anything with importance. I know Harlan himself felt slighted at the time, but the rewrites were, in many ways, prudent - Spock doesn't quite act in the comic like they had him acting already in the show (much better written in the episode), and of course Roddenberry and company wouldn't want a drug dealer in Starfleet - that went way against Roddenberry's vision. McCoy in the episode proper is used poorly, yes, but this random drug dealer character is no better used. And of course, they needed to make the Guardian smaller scale for the budget. I'd say everything they did was right, so for me, this is just a curiosity.
March 16, 2020
More of a review for the entire series than just this one issue. Interesting story. I don't recall if in the episode the substance abuse was so prevalent (or even a factor at all). It's interesting to see the difference between the TV show (guardian of forever/gateway) vs the comic as far as the time travel mechanic goes. The art wasn't really my style, but it was fine :-)
June 29, 2020
As I've stated before in the other parts of this episode, there are definite differences and there are parts that are or are about the same. All in all a great episode of Star Trek no matter which way you look at it. Definitely recommended.
March 13, 2024
Different
This is one of my favourite Star Trek stories and to see it like this puts it in a different perspective, we see what the changes did even tho the rest of the story is fundamentally the same, the heart of it has always been there.
This is one of my favourite Star Trek stories and to see it like this puts it in a different perspective, we see what the changes did even tho the rest of the story is fundamentally the same, the heart of it has always been there.
May 13, 2016
My husband introduced me to these and i LOVED them. Brilliant.
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