the spock cock block. kirk: i'm in love with edith keeler. spock: edith keeler must die

This episode was the best of ANY Trek episode from TOS to now.

The best episode of the classic series. Seeing it many times over the years, I did notice when they beam back to the ship there are 7 people... with only 6 transporter pads. I guess one is held in stasis until the pad is clear and then brought in situations like this.

I woulda fired every torpedo onto that twisted portal after getting back to the ship.

Welcome to the Prime Directive, or probably rather Time Directive. There is this one episode with a Time Travelling species or person.

This is the best episode of star trek, and truly classic sci-fi all around. At times I'm excited, at other times teary eyed. Wow, just wow

City on the edge of forever is supreme. Joan Collins never looked better, Spock was superb , McCoy was particularly fantastic. The unlimited possibilities of space and time travel had been completely opened up to them and all that Kirk could say after his loss was “ let’s get the hell out of here”

Joan Collins is ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Very heart-wrenching scene even through his stoicism it's clear Spock was sympathetic

You can't blame the Captain. He said repeatedly, "Stay right there." And what does she do? She moves onto the street, heedless of both his warnings and of the traffic. But what if she had "stayed right there"? That may be the real question. What then? Would Mr. Spock have felt compelled by irrefutable logic to advise the Captain to fix his all-too-helpful advice about the traffic? How? Take her to an alley and deliberately shoot her? Hey, what about this: Instead of shooting her, or even letting her get blindsided by a truck, why not save her, then try to talk her out of pacifism? What would have been wrong with that? Instead of going to the theater to watch Clark Gable, they all have a big discussion about how she needs to get wise about history and avoid trying to make nice with the Nazis. She understands them readily (throughout the episode she seemed remarkably visionary about a future that could involve something like the USS Enterprise), doesn't have to die, history resumes its normal shape, win-win. Mr. Spock, did you really think things through?

If I'm Kirk I get back to the Enterprise and start lobbing photon torpedoes at the Guardian.

Even The Guardian itself seems to almost have "eyes" at the top of its irregular ring. The combination of its smoke curtain during portal display, its voice, and the timely incidental music makes it fascinating to this very day.

But wait! I just thought of a solution. Edith doesn’t have to die! “Edith, you’re coming with us.” She could have started a new life in the future with her new love JTK.

This scene makes me want to start crying.

Immortal

0:16. “If we hurry, we can catch the Clark Gable movie.” Clark Gable actually had played only minor movie roles through 1930. Sister Edith Keeler had told McCoy that the year was 1930. Gable was known as a stage actor in 1930. He began to star in movies beginning in 1931.

CAPTAIN James Kirk. After uttering the best line in ST history, they all file in behind him as they beam up.

You can't get rid of Joan Collins as easily as that Jim.

This episode won a Hugo Award which is like an Oscar but for science fiction.

My favorite episode.

Written by Harlan Ellison. Holy sh##!!!!!

My favorite TOS episode. So sad an ending though. Sniff.

Best episode hands down.The acting was perfect.Loved Shatners last line.Lets get the hell out of here 😢

I like that at the beginning of the scene there wasn’t any music giving away prematurely what was about to happen.

The best ever episode on multiple levels

"Many such journeys are possible. Let ME be your gateway." Ominous. Section 31 was right to condemn the area.

This is the Thunderball/Spectre of Star Trek storytelling.

Written by Harlan Ellison….

Many of the new generation don’t know about this story. It would be an easy remake that would succeed very well with new effects.

I was shocked to find out Harlan Ellison wrote this episode.

Is it me or does it sound like Spock’s line “No Jim!” right before the accident is double tracked …. or am I hearing something else? That’s long been a mystery to me.

They needed to encase that thing in korbamite or something. That thing was dangerous. oh but what about that homeless guy that died with the phaser? They are one phaser short and the homeless guy I guess made no contributions to society that made a differance in the future? offspring? grandkids? food consumption versus supply requirements and timing of cooking that extra serving etc.?

This is always breaks My Heart Forever 💕🙏😢😢

man that is so powerful a scene.

😮❤

This scene went from sheer bliss to sheer agony in less than 30 seconds.

One of the best star trek episodes of all time.

Can you believe ... of the 7 Enterprise crew actors beaming back up, William Shatner is the only one still alive? ... and I'm including the two actors who played the "red shirts" (besides Scotty). Here's hoping you reach 120, William Shatner!

"Landrieu...." Pretty haunting. Gottdang hologram was pretty haunting for a kid watching it for the 1st time. "What does he mean by 'absorbed', Dad? Are they going to eat the Captain?" Then it boiled down to 'find the source of its power and turn it off", a recurring solution in the series (see "The Apple" about a machine called 'Vaal' that Kirk and Spock shut down) .

This show, and this episode in particular has had a grip on me since 1966 when I was 9 years old, and it still hasn't let go.

forget.

For all the jokes about Shatner's over-acting, he underplays this scene marvelously. I've watched this for over 50 years, and still tear-up when he utters, "Let's get the hell out of here."

Emmy Award should have been given....I enjoyed the Stereo sound too

The original Star Trek is the best! I bought the entire series in Blu-ray, the woke Leftists are trying to rewrite everything. Can't trust them to leave this series alone, after all it has a white man as captain. In today's world that is VERBOTEN!

I love this episode because it explains that a true fix point in time must happen, no matter if you tried to change it. It must happen!

Credo che questo sia tra i migliori episodi di tutta la serie

In my opinion it is well written and acted well by the Star Trek actors. Has always been my favorite TOS episode. 😀

Joan Collins😊

Still makes me cry to see this

I read Ellison's original script. It was unfilmable as a Star Trek story. He had Enterprise crewmen dealing drugs and other huge violations of Star Trek canon. Gene L. Coon has his fingerprints all over the revised script as he was the best producer TOS ever had. Also, this episode is one of the few where they really stuck to The Prime Directive and left out the happy ending.