A review by dickh
The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay by Harlan Ellison

4.0

First, this is really two books. The first part is a lengthy diatribe by Harlan Ellison, venting his spleen at Gene Roddenberry. Personally, I enjoyed this because there is no one, never has been and never will be, who does this quite so well as Harlan Ellison. If you were going to enter a word fight, you would always want Mr. Ellison as your hired gun. The second part is the original teleplay for the very well known Star Trek episode of the same name. After you read the teleplay, you realize how vastly superior this version is compared with the televised episode and you are left wondering, why would anyone not have filmed Ellison's original version with no changes? The script is phenomenal.