Edith Keeler

If, if I could be so bold as saying that, like Kirk actually, you know, like I just don't know.

I just two words, Edith Keeler.

He's, he's not that much of a womanizing womanizer of all the space babes out there.

He actually, Kirk, Kirk's got some, some dimensions to him.

It's been a while since I watched that.

haven't just seen a city on the edge of forever as part of that screening the other night they um that soup kitchen reminded me of Edith Keeler soup kitchen.

Oh yes.

Yes.

They steal clothes from a fire escape to blend in, and while fleeing a policeman, hide in the basement of the 21st Street Mission.

There they meet the soup kitchen's operator, Edith Keeler.

She senses something odd about the intruders, but nevertheless offers to pay them to clean up the basement and to find them a place to stay.

Later, Spock attempts to discover how McCoy changed history by accessing the record, the recordings on his tricorder, a task made difficult by the available technology of 1930, which Spock likens to stone knives and bear skins.

Um, so I knew of the episode and its importance and how powerful of an episode it was, but oddly, at the time, I didn't really appreciate it.

Uh, and I now appreciate it more oddly.

So it was really fun to go back and to watch this episode and, you know, you have this character of this Edith Keeler in 1930s, right? She's such a dreamer, and it's so incredible to think of the fantastical dreams that she has as a person in 1930s, knowing of what we're going through here in the US, and especially in New York and everything, and, and to have these fantastical dreams.

But she's also this wonderful social worker who, you know, just wants to help people.

that seemed to last forever because of the technical difficulties.

Uh, and they finally played the scene where Edith Keeler dies.

And again, that, uh, thematic through line of, you know, you, you could have gone left, but you instead went right.

Um, allowing that to happen.

While in the Nexus, Kirk is living with a woman named Antonia.

So whenever I see Generations, I always wish Kirk's partner in the Nexus was either Edith Keeler from City on the Edge of Forever or Carol Marcus.

Ooh.

Bibi Besch was still alive at that point.

While in the Nexus, Kirk is living with a woman named Antonia.

So whenever I see Generations, I always wish Kirk's partner in the Nexus was either Edith Keeler from City on the Edge of Forever or Carol Marcus.

B.B. Besch was still alive at that point.

Instead, it was Antonia for some reason who we never see prior to the events of Generations.

Right? Yeah.

Just ready to step in to Edith Keeler.

Right.

it's an interesting thing also because jms does reference the sun dying earlier than it should and this is to kind of maybe bolster the fact that it might be a vorlon he says what if you say interfered substantially with the mass of the sun by say causing a series of jump points to open up inside the sun across several days i mean i guess you would siphon off

And it's like, it kind of, they don't have enough time in that episode to establish.

And they didn't do like in city on the edge of forever where you, they, they Spock and him have been in the past for two weeks, gives them enough time to fall in love with Edith Keeler.

Now it's just literally that day, you know? So it's like, it kind of reminds me of the, you know, it's like kind of the same thing.

It's like, ah, you're accepted, expected me to jump into this too quickly.