Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 28 - "The City on the Edge of Forever"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

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🗓️ 14 February 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever," Kirk faces an ethical and moral dilemma: Let the woman he loves die? Or let the Nazis win World War II? It's a hard knock life in The City on the Edge of Forever.

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering Nerstist.com.
0:05.0	Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 28, The City on the edge of forever. Welcome in to another episode of Mission Lock, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:33.0	I'm the host of Forever, Can Ray.
0:36.0	And I'm the host on the edge of Forever, John Champion.
0:40.0	Each week, we dial back the Star Trek timeline, jump in where we may, take it apart from morals, messages, and meanings and try not to kill our loved ones or destroy history as we know it in the process.
0:51.0	Want to jump in with us?
0:53.0	You can reach us on Facebook, Skype, and Twitter at the Handle Mission Log pod.
0:57.0	You can even call us at 323.525,641.
1:01.0	You can email us at Mission Log at rodenberry.com and don't forget to check out our very nice home on the internet, Mission Log Podcast.
1:10.0	Remember, we may use your comments on an upcoming episode of Mission Log.
1:15.0	I got to say, I feel weird doing this episode now.
1:19.0	Why right now? I feel weird doing it at all.
1:22.0	Well, I feel weird doing it now all. Well I feel we are doing it now because I mean the
1:24.8	question is do you want to start strong or do you want to end strong right?
1:28.0	And here we are right in the middle doing the episode of the original series.
1:35.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:37.0	Well, and here's what's tough about it.
1:40.0	I mean, Star Trek is one of those rare shows.
1:42.0	I apologize, before you do anything else we should actually say what it is. I know we've alluded to it. We assume that people know we're doing sitting on the edge of forever today.
1:49.0	Oh, that's sitting on the edge of forever. That episode of Star Trek. The episode of Star Trek, right?
1:54.4	This is not, this is not, Mary.
1:57.6	No.
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