WOW. Ellison brings us the total, heartbreaking irony of life vs. time travel and the consequences. This episode is at the heart of the Star Trek mythos. Still a sad episode to this day. Note for her to say "Don't Pull Away"...becomes the ultimate ironic moment of loss when he's held back for her to be hit by the truck. (BTW, big hello to Mike Okuda!!)
Watching this back in the 80s as a teen, I fell in love with Edith Keeler too. Loved how hopeful and optimistic she was about the future. I still believe her words today.
As good as City is, the love story is rushed. We don't even meet Edith until 20 minutes in! It would have been great to have a few more gratuitous scenes of them just hanging out.
A Star Trek engineering type solution, like when Geordi wanted to rearm the Enterprise C with modern weapons. The ripple effect. No way to know what changes it would cause. Can’t pollute the timeline, even by removing…read “a sound of thunder “ by Ray Bradbury. ONE BUTTERFLY!
@@mrScififan2 I read that. They also made a movie. I believe the butterfly was a reference to the butterfly effect. But why is letting her die better than making her just disappear into the future? It was because of him that she crossed the street in the first place, by the way. He is already changing the past.
@@barryf7253 taking her to the future is a science fiction “cheat “. Having your cake and eating it too. Lazy writing. deus ex- machina I think it would have robbed the episode of its poignancy. There was a DS9 episode where the Defiant went through a temporal rift and crashed in the past on a planet called Gaia. The crew in the 24th century present got to meet their descendants. But the fact that they now know about the rift, they can now avoid it, but it would eliminate generations of people.. the “cheat “ that they were going to use wouldn’t work. The DS9 writers didn’t take the easy way out with technology.
@@barryf7253 He is a part of the past in that scenario.She possibly wouldn't have crossed the street if she wasn't going out with Kirk at that time.If Kirk had taken her into the future(who knows if The Guardian would have allowed a person from the past to go forward),it would have had to have been prior to the accident because a sudden disappearance on the street would have changed the future since people would have witnessed it.
@@mrScififan2 I just realized that the title "The Butterfly Effect" in the movie comes from that short story by Bradbury which I hadn't read in over 50 years.
WOW. Ellison brings us the total, heartbreaking irony of life vs. time travel and the consequences. This episode is at the heart of the Star Trek mythos. Still a sad episode to this day. Note for her to say "Don't Pull Away"...becomes the ultimate ironic moment of loss when he's held back for her to be hit by the truck. (BTW, big hello to Mike Okuda!!)
Best episode ever of Star Trek TOS. It was pure magic between Kirk and Edith🎉
It would be fun to watch these episodes with the deleted scenes spliced back in. In some cases it would be context-altering.
Watching this back in the 80s as a teen, I fell in love with Edith Keeler too. Loved how hopeful and optimistic she was about the future. I still believe her words today.
Lovely to see these extra scenes with Kirk and Edith, they should have made this story a feature length episode.
Beautiful… 😢
So good
As good as City is, the love story is rushed. We don't even meet Edith until 20 minutes in! It would have been great to have a few more gratuitous scenes of them just hanging out.
Apparently they had to cut a lot of the love story for the episode go fit into the alloted time for a 1 hour show
This! Yes!
OK for me to compare this one scene to the recent trek that we are subject to its mind boggling how the old horse is dying 😕
Unfortunately for Kirk Holodeck 4 was not available.
I used to imagine the main plot of a ST movie where Kirk takes the Enterprise back in time to "rescue" her a moment before the is hit by the truck.
We never get specifics, but its possible that her death had repercussions that affected the flow of history.
Maybe Kirk could have taken her with him into the future and accomplished the same thing as letting her be killed crossing the street.
A Star Trek engineering type solution, like when Geordi wanted to rearm the Enterprise C with modern weapons. The ripple effect. No way to know what changes it would cause. Can’t pollute the timeline, even by removing…read “a sound of thunder “ by Ray Bradbury. ONE BUTTERFLY!
@@mrScififan2 I read that. They also made a movie. I believe the butterfly was a reference to the butterfly effect. But why is letting her die better than making her just disappear into the future? It was because of him that she crossed the street in the first place, by the way. He is already changing the past.
@@barryf7253 taking her to the future is a science fiction “cheat “. Having your cake and eating it too. Lazy writing. deus ex- machina I think it would have robbed the episode of its poignancy. There was a DS9 episode where the Defiant went through a temporal rift and crashed in the past on a planet called Gaia. The crew in the 24th century present got to meet their descendants. But the fact that they now know about the rift, they can now avoid it, but it would eliminate generations of people.. the “cheat “ that they were going to use wouldn’t work. The DS9 writers didn’t take the easy way out with technology.
@@barryf7253 He is a part of the past in that scenario.She possibly wouldn't have crossed the street if she wasn't going out with Kirk at that time.If Kirk had taken her into the future(who knows if The Guardian would have allowed a person from the past to go forward),it would have had to have been prior to the accident because a sudden disappearance on the street would have changed the future since people would have witnessed it.
@@mrScififan2 I just realized that the title "The Butterfly Effect" in the movie comes from that short story by Bradbury which I hadn't read in over 50 years.