The City on the Edge of Forever (Audible Audio Edition) Harlan Ellison full cast Orson Scott Card Bonnie MacBird Richard J Brewer Ryan C Britt Richard Gilliland Larry Nemacek Skyboat Media Books
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The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an "eviscerated" version - which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series' history. In its original form, The City on the Edge of Forever won the 1966-67 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Teleplay. As aired, it won the 1967 Hugo Award.
The City on the Edge of Forever is, at its most basic, a poignant love story. Ellison takes the listener on a breathtaking trip through space and time, from the future all the way back to 1930s America. In this harrowing journey, Kirk and Spock race to apprehend a renegade criminal and restore the order of the universe. It is here that Kirk faces his ultimate dilemma a choice between the universe - and his one true love.
This edition makes available the astonishing teleplay as Ellison intended it to be aired. The author's introductory essay reveals all of the details of what Ellison describes as a "fatally inept treatment" of his creative work. Was he unjustly edited, unjustly accused, and unjustly treated?
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The City on the Edge of Forever (Audible Audio Edition) Harlan Ellison full cast Orson Scott Card Bonnie MacBird Richard J Brewer Ryan C Britt Richard Gilliland Larry Nemacek Skyboat Media Books
I don’t normally get wordy in reviews, but this time I’m going to. As a Star Trek fan (not a Trekkie or a Trekker, just a fan), I’ve been aware of this controversy for the length of its existence. I know all the principles well enough to figure out who is lying, who is not and who is misunderstood. A couple further caveats: I’ve had a script turned into a horrible movie unrelated to the original script. I’ve had people take credit for my work. These can easily be overcome by the average person. I have NOT has anyone lie about me for 30 years, so while Harlan Ellison is easily one of the most hot-tempered people in showbiz (and that’s saying something), his page-after-page-after-page bitter rant is completely justified. It’s long winded, but I sympathize. It’s long-winded, but written with such amazing talent that it pulls you through. It’s fascinating to read about the inside story from the most silent (!) member of the controversy.Let me say again, Ellison is wickedly talented, and his original screenplay is very, very good. It is not, however, Star Trek. He nails Kirk, though, so why Shatner had a problem with it, I don’t know. With his ego, I can’t imagine it’s the same problems I had with it, because in every draft, Kirk is great.
I admit that if this WAS Star Trek, if Ellison’s vision was the guiding vision, Trek would have been a lot more fascinating. But Roddenberry, the true, flawed, guiding visionary established something completely different than Ellison’s take on it.
I’ve been a show runner, too, a guiding producer, and understand the Great Bird's problems with the script (not his lies and continual flaming of Ellison, though). Spock wasn’t Spock. Crewmen, especially officers, in Trek wouldn’t be drug dealers. No matter what he says in the book, the script would have been incredibly expensive to shoot; too expensive. Yet it was well written. Especially at the age Ellison was then, it’s a remarkable script and well worth reading.
Roddenberry says Ellison wouldn’t rewrite it. Ellison did, but he didn’t shore up the problems with it. (I think it’s funny he was shocked at who did the final rewrite; seemed obvious to me. There was only one writer who could clean up Roddenberry and Colon’s butchery, and she did a marvelous job. “He knows, Doctor, he knows.” That line captured everything Ellison went for badly (Spock opining on love is just… wrong. Could Nimoy pull that off? Sure...) Also, bringing McCoy in was necessary. While Ellison’s solution for McCoy getting drugged was better than what was shot, it would have been expensive to shoot. The whole pirate thing was dumb, too, and in the second script, no way Kirk would leave Rand to the mercy of pirates (to his credit, Ellison thought that was stupid, too. Pirates weren’t his idea.)
The City on the Edge of Forever was the best Star Trek show, and it is all owed to Harlan Ellison, but the rewrite into the script we saw was as good as TV gets. Ellison wrote with great watercolor strokes; TV is black crayon on paper). It’s one of the few classic Trek shows that is still mostly watchable.
Also, a word about his treatment and scripts. As a director, I would have hated Ellison. So much of the script was description that was unshootable. It’s an entertaining read, but interpreting would be impossible. There was no way, even if they’d done his original script, that he would be happy with it.
Is this book worth reading? YES. Great story, better commentaries. If you like Star Trek, the essays by Nimoy, Kelley, Takei, et al is worth the price of the book; they are masterful at avoiding the bitterness of the controversy.
I hope Ellison feels better getting all this off his chest. I understand his anger stemming from the lies, but the producer’s professional concerns were right on, though I’d love to see Ellison’s idea of Star Trek fully developed. The Utopian dream of ST made writing for it crazy hard, I’m sure. Ellison’s would have been a hoot. It just wouldn’t be Star Trek.
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The City on the Edge of Forever (Audible Audio Edition) Harlan Ellison full cast Orson Scott Card Bonnie MacBird Richard J Brewer Ryan C Britt Richard Gilliland Larry Nemacek Skyboat Media Books Reviews
Being only peripherally aware of controversies and interpersonal conflicts and drama through the history line of Star Trek, I snagged this book because I wanted to see Ellison's original version of the classic TOS episode _The City on the Edge of Forever_.
Not only did I get the marvelous experience of that reading, being exposed to the more serious and deeper vision Ellison presented, I also got to see the process by which gold is reduced to dross (in this case, perhaps silver, as the shown teleplay, after revision, was still the best TOS episode ever). I also was shown Ellison's fabled temper, which was also worth the price of admission.
I am dismayed to be presented with chapter and verse exposing a childhood hero (Roddenberry, who comes off very badly in both Ellison's recounting AND the afterwords written by Trek luminaries) as a deeply flawed and duplicitous human. But I am reminded, at the same time, that Trek grew out of that duplicitous human to present science fiction (yes, a bland version with serious colonialist echoes) to a vast audience who would take many of the great underlying ideas and move forward with them. Even a seriously flawed person can do good.
It would be an amazing thing for someone to do a big budget version of Ellison's original teleplay. There were reasons why changes had to be made for the Trek episodic format, and the original might have done better on Outer Limits or some other show without cast and character continuity. I believe it would have fit nearly perfectly in TNG or DS9's somewhat more morally ambiguous worlds, where Federation officers could have serious flaws, but the impact of the final choice was, IMO, greatest in Kirk's hands, and should have led to a longer character arc which was lacking in TOS.
Worth twice the money. If you are a fan of any Trek, but especially TOS, or if you are an aspiring writer (especially for episodic television, but really any format where others can piss on your work to make it their own), or if you are any kind of a fan and can appreciate great science fiction written by a master, you want to read this book.
Although I love Harlan Ellison's work in general, I was disappointed with this book. It tells his view of what happened to his Star Trek script, "The City On The Edge Of Forever". For the most part, it is a rebuttal to claims that were apparently made by Gene Roddenberry and others on the convention circuit, and Ellison spend a lot of time and anger repeating both what they have said and setting up proof that it was untrue. Fine. But in this edition, most of the photos of that proof seem to be missing.
The actual story treatment and scripts were interesting to read and very good, but they did not fit into the mold of Star Trek as we know it, hence the rewriting that has so inflamed Ellison. Granted his script is better in a literary way and would have made great tv. The afterwords are written by myriad famous names in the Trek world and are simply there to support Ellison's assertions, save for DC Fontana's, which actually lays out what happened to the script in 1966 and why.
All in all a disappointing read, but if you skip most of it and just read the scripts than you could enjoy it.
I don’t normally get wordy in reviews, but this time I’m going to. As a Star Trek fan (not a Trekkie or a Trekker, just a fan), I’ve been aware of this controversy for the length of its existence. I know all the principles well enough to figure out who is lying, who is not and who is misunderstood. A couple further caveats I’ve had a script turned into a horrible movie unrelated to the original script. I’ve had people take credit for my work. These can easily be overcome by the average person. I have NOT has anyone lie about me for 30 years, so while Harlan Ellison is easily one of the most hot-tempered people in showbiz (and that’s saying something), his page-after-page-after-page bitter rant is completely justified. It’s long winded, but I sympathize. It’s long-winded, but written with such amazing talent that it pulls you through. It’s fascinating to read about the inside story from the most silent (!) member of the controversy.
Let me say again, Ellison is wickedly talented, and his original screenplay is very, very good. It is not, however, Star Trek. He nails Kirk, though, so why Shatner had a problem with it, I don’t know. With his ego, I can’t imagine it’s the same problems I had with it, because in every draft, Kirk is great.
I admit that if this WAS Star Trek, if Ellison’s vision was the guiding vision, Trek would have been a lot more fascinating. But Roddenberry, the true, flawed, guiding visionary established something completely different than Ellison’s take on it.
I’ve been a show runner, too, a guiding producer, and understand the Great Bird's problems with the script (not his lies and continual flaming of Ellison, though). Spock wasn’t Spock. Crewmen, especially officers, in Trek wouldn’t be drug dealers. No matter what he says in the book, the script would have been incredibly expensive to shoot; too expensive. Yet it was well written. Especially at the age Ellison was then, it’s a remarkable script and well worth reading.
Roddenberry says Ellison wouldn’t rewrite it. Ellison did, but he didn’t shore up the problems with it. (I think it’s funny he was shocked at who did the final rewrite; seemed obvious to me. There was only one writer who could clean up Roddenberry and Colon’s butchery, and she did a marvelous job. “He knows, Doctor, he knows.” That line captured everything Ellison went for badly (Spock opining on love is just… wrong. Could Nimoy pull that off? Sure...) Also, bringing McCoy in was necessary. While Ellison’s solution for McCoy getting drugged was better than what was shot, it would have been expensive to shoot. The whole pirate thing was dumb, too, and in the second script, no way Kirk would leave Rand to the mercy of pirates (to his credit, Ellison thought that was stupid, too. Pirates weren’t his idea.)
The City on the Edge of Forever was the best Star Trek show, and it is all owed to Harlan Ellison, but the rewrite into the script we saw was as good as TV gets. Ellison wrote with great watercolor strokes; TV is black crayon on paper). It’s one of the few classic Trek shows that is still mostly watchable.
Also, a word about his treatment and scripts. As a director, I would have hated Ellison. So much of the script was description that was unshootable. It’s an entertaining read, but interpreting would be impossible. There was no way, even if they’d done his original script, that he would be happy with it.
Is this book worth reading? YES. Great story, better commentaries. If you like Star Trek, the essays by Nimoy, Kelley, Takei, et al is worth the price of the book; they are masterful at avoiding the bitterness of the controversy.
I hope Ellison feels better getting all this off his chest. I understand his anger stemming from the lies, but the producer’s professional concerns were right on, though I’d love to see Ellison’s idea of Star Trek fully developed. The Utopian dream of ST made writing for it crazy hard, I’m sure. Ellison’s would have been a hoot. It just wouldn’t be Star Trek.
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