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McCoy angrily demands to know why Kirk stopped him from saving Edith. Spock assures him that Kirk knew fully what he was doing. With the timeline restored, the three are able to return to the planet through the portal, where the ''Enterprise'' has reappeared. Scotty expresses surprise at [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|the short time that's elapsed since they left.]] The Guardian offers to show the crew more fantastic journeys, but an emotionally shaken Kirk simply states "Let's get the hell out of here" and prepares to have the crew beamed back aboard.
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* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Played with, since saving Edith would ''doom'' the world.
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: The [[Star Trek: The Animated Series|TAS]] episode "Yesteryear" is a sequel to this episode.
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* [[For Want of a Nail]]
* [[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
* [[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 "[[
* [[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.
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Neither Spock nor Kirk suggests the possibility of taking the
* [[Time Travel Romance]]
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]
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