A review by taaya
Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison, Scott Tipton, David Tipton
2.0
The backgrounds are beautiful, but the characters look like badly done green screen - and sometimes even distorted.
And then there is the plot. Well, it's the original screenplay that was done before the first season was finished, so it is understandable that it's far from canon. But it's racist, sexist (even Spock has a girl in every port and that's okay and completely normal, wtf?!), heteronorm and somehow the moments that are supposed to have emotional depth come suddenly without any explanation, which makes them feel out of sync with the plot and shallow. Sometimes it even feels as if there were whole pages missing so that there is no context to some panels.
In the end it's good this was not filmed. City at the edge of forever has always been one of my most hated episodes, but plotwise this was even worse. Not in technique, but in logic, characterization, lessons taught,...
And then there is the plot. Well, it's the original screenplay that was done before the first season was finished, so it is understandable that it's far from canon. But it's racist, sexist (even Spock has a girl in every port and that's okay and completely normal, wtf?!), heteronorm and somehow the moments that are supposed to have emotional depth come suddenly without any explanation, which makes them feel out of sync with the plot and shallow. Sometimes it even feels as if there were whole pages missing so that there is no context to some panels.
In the end it's good this was not filmed. City at the edge of forever has always been one of my most hated episodes, but plotwise this was even worse. Not in technique, but in logic, characterization, lessons taught,...