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Synopsis
White Wolf Publishing presents, for the first time in unlimited edition trade paperback, the unrevised, unadulterated version of Harlan Ellison's award-winning Star Trek script, The City on the Edge of Forever - the spark that incited Ellison's vehement and long-lived feud with late TV producer Gene Roddenberry!. The City on the Edge of Forever is, at its most basic, a poignant love story. Ellison takes the reader 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 - or his one true love. White Wolf's Borealis Legends imprint makes available this astonishing teleplay as Ellison intended it to be aired. The author's introductory essay (expanded by 15,000 words from the limited edition) 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?
Is City on the Edge of Forever appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
This is the original unrevised Star Trek teleplay featuring Kirk and Spock in a time-travel adventure with mild action and a tragic love story requiring an impossible choice. Some emotional intensity and romantic themes, but appropriate for teens.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, mild sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death and heartbreak.
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Who'll love this
Teens will be gripped by Kirk's impossible choice between saving the universe and saving the woman he loves.