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{{Infobox episode
| title = "The City on the Edge of Forever"
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| caption = "Stone knives and bear skins"
| franchise = ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''
| preceded by = "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S1/E27 The Alternative Factor|The Alternative Factor]]"
| followed by = "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S1/E29 Operation: Annihilate!|Operation: Annihilate!]]"
| release date = April 6, 1967
| central theme = The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one.
| elevator pitch = Kirk and Spock must travel to 1930s Earth in order to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]].
}}
{{quote|''Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway.''|The Guardian of Forever}}▼
{{quote|''As I'm watching the episodes for reference just before drawing each strip, I take notes on ridiculous stuff that I can make fun of in the comic. Things that [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief|pull me out of the story]] and make me think, "That makes no sense. I can make a gag about this bit." For most episodes I have anywhere between 10 lines and half a page of notes.''
''When this episode ended, I had written '''nothing'''.''
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'''Kirk''': The unfortunate accident he had as a child. He caught his head in a mechanical... ([[Beat]] glances at Spock knowing how ridiculous this next part sounds) ...rice picker. }}
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Executive Meddling]]: The writer [[Harlan Ellison]] described later on how his original screenplay - which required massive and expensive sets, had a drug dealing yeoman as the villain, additional characters for comic relief, and had ''Spock'' and not Kirk
** The original screenplay by Ellison went on to win the Writers Guild of America award for Best Script, while the revised script - rewritten by Gene Coon, [[Gene Roddenberry]] and [[DC Fontana]] - won the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Dramatic Presentation.
* [[Fanfic Fuel]]: The Guardian has appeared in dozens of Star Trek novels.
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* [[Godwin's Law of Time Travel]]
* [[Informed Attribute]]: As lampshaded by [[SF Debris]], for a ''Guardian of Forever'', he certainly doesn't do anything to stop a drug-addled crazy man run into the past and screw with human history - the sort of thing a ''Guardian'' would be expected to prevent.
** On the other hand, that may have been the point. It guards a means of travel through and knowledge of time, and thus cannot actively alter such things on its own.
* [[Kill the Cutie]]
* [[Leitmotif]]: "Goodnight, Sweetheart" is ''their'' song.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "Let's get the hell out of here." The effect is obviously lost for modern viewers, but "hell" was pretty shocking for 1960s television, and it's the only swear word used in ''the entire series.''
* [[Recycled Set]]: 1930s New York City sure looks a lot like Mayberry from ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]''. You can also see Mayberry in the episode "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S1/E08 Miri|Miri]]".
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Who does Kirk save: the girl or his crew? Unlike other instances of this trope in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', Kirk does ''not'' get to [[Take a Third Option]].
* [[Save This Person, Save the World]]: Inverted. Save This Person, Doom the World.
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: The episode revolves around making sure this ending occurs. Edith Keeler had to die to set right history, her life had to be cut short or history would be disastrously altered. Kirk and Spock were forced to enforce this trope to pull it off.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Neither Spock nor Kirk suggests the possibility of taking the forward-thinking Edith Keeler back to the future with them instead of letting her get killed 'again'.
** Later time-travel episodes clarified that could cause as many problems as it solved, given the danger of altering history in the future by contaminating it in reverse.
* [[Time Travel Romance]]
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]
▲''Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway.''
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