


McCoy altered the past by saving Keeler's life and, in the altered timeline, Keeler founded a pacifist movement on the eve of World War II. Spock completes his work and discovers Keeler was supposed to die that year in a traffic accident. McCoy arrives, and stumbles into the mission, unnoticed by Kirk and Spock, and Keeler nurses him back to health. While they await his arrival, Kirk and Keeler spend time together, and Kirk begins to fall in love. Spock works to devise a method of interfacing with his tricorder and analyze its recorded images to determine how McCoy has altered history. They are given a place to sleep, along with doing odd jobs to earn money. After stealing clothes from a fire escape to blend in, they meet a woman named Edith Keeler ( Joan Collins), who runs the 21st Street Mission. Spock times their passage so as to arrive where McCoy did ahead of when he will arrive, and they find themselves in New York City in 1930, during the Great Depression. The Guardian permits Kirk and Spock to follow McCoy in an effort to repair the timeline. The landing party suddenly loses contact with the Enterprise, and the Guardian informs them that McCoy has altered the past, and that the Enterprise, and all that they knew, no longer exists. While Spock ( Leonard Nimoy) is recording historic images from the portal, McCoy escapes through it. They discover the archway to be sentient, and this "Guardian of Forever" (voiced by Bartell LaRue) explains that it is a doorway to any time and place. Kirk ( William Shatner) leads a landing party to look for McCoy, and they come across an ancient glowing stone archway, which turns out to be the cause of the time distortions. Delusional and paranoid, McCoy flees from the bridge to the transporter room, beaming himself down to the planet below. Sulu when the Enterprise is rocked by a time distortion and McCoy accidentally injects himself with an overdose of cordrazine, a dangerous drug. While the USS Enterprise is orbiting an unexplored planet, Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy is treating an injured Lt. 5.3 "Let's get the hell out of here", Nazis, and other influences.


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" The City on the Edge of Forever" is the twenty-eighth and penultimate episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Star Trek: The Original Series (season 1) 28th episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series " The City on the Edge of Forever"
