Star Trek (s01e28)

The City on the Edge of Forever

by Harlan Ellison, directed by Joseph Pevney

Release: 6 April 1967
Format: TV Episode
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

After a delirious Bones hurtles through a time portal to the 1930s, Kirk and Spock follow to save him and stop dangerous changes to the timeline, no matter the cost.

— Michael Main

DEBUT

Star Trek (s01e28), “The City on the Edge of Forever” (NBC-TV, USA, 6 April 1967).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1930 to 1939: 1930 Chicago
Circa AD 2200 to 2299

Time Travel Methods

Time Portal: “Unbelievable, Captain. This single object is the source of all the time displacement.”

Themes

Fix Your Time Travel Screw-Up!: “All that you knew is gone.”
Guardians of Time: “I am the Guardian of Forever.”

Fictional Tags

Groupings

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the surface of an unexplored planet, AD 2267 ⋙ to Chicago, 1930. Round trip. Note: McCoy goes first; Kirk and Spock follow.