Star Trek (TV Series)

The City on the Edge of Forever (1967)

Joan Collins: Sister Edith Keeler

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• Edith Keeler : If you can leave right away, I can get you 5 hours of work at 22 cents an hour.

  [seeing Spock's arcing and sparking tricorder adapter] 

  Edith Keeler : What... what on Earth is that?

  Spock : I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

• Edith Keeler : [privately with Kirk]  Why does Spock call you "Captain"? Were you in the war together?

  Capt. Kirk : [warmly but discreetly]  We... served together.

  Edith Keeler : And you, um, don't want to talk about it? Why? Oh. Did you... did you do something wrong? Are you afraid of something? Whatever it is, let me help.

  Capt. Kirk : "Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you."

• Edith Keeler : [to Kirk]  I still have a few questions I'd to ask about you two. Oh, and don't give me that "Questions about little old us?" look. You know as well as I do how out of place you two are around here.

  Spock : Interesting. Where would you estimate we belong, Miss Keeler?

  Edith Keeler : [to Spock]  You? At his side, as if you've always been there and always will.

  Edith Keeler : [to Kirk]  And you... you belong... in another place. I don't know where or how... I'll figure it out eventually.

  Spock : [to Kirk]  I'll finish with the furnace.

  Edith Keeler : [to Kirk]  "Captain." Even when he doesn't say it, he does.

• Edith Keeler : One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom... energies that could ultimately hurl us to other worlds in... in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will be able to find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world and the cure their diseases. They will be able to find a way give each other hope and a common future. And those are the days worth living for.

• Dr. McCoy : [after coming out of a faint]  The most common question to ask would be "Where am I?". I don't think I'll ask it.

  Edith Keeler : Why not?

  Dr. McCoy : The only possible answer would conclusively prove that I'm either unconscious or demented. This looks like old Earth around 1920, '25.

  Edith Keeler : Would you care to try for '30?

  Dr. McCoy : I *am* unconscious or demented.

  Edith Keeler : I have a friend that talks about Earth the same way that you do. Would you like to meet him?

  Dr. McCoy : I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist. I am Leonard McCoy, Senior Medical Officer aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

  Edith Keeler : I don't mean to disbelieve you, but that's hardly a Navy uniform.

  Dr. McCoy : That's quite all right. That's quite all right, dear, because I don't believe in you, either.