Damn hippies let Hitler win!
Nixon was right all along! :eek:
Interesting how McCoy accidentally killing a man had absolutely no effect on the time-space continuum.
It’s a surreal moment, very effective. I remember one night watching this really late. I was in a particular mood. I found my self dwelling on that moment. McCoy brings the technology from the future and it takes its first victim. We (he) was not ready for the knowledge.
Well, I won’t get into the whole conversation.
Spock, you know what to do. Break her neck. It’s only logical.
Just imagine giving a machine gun to a gladiator. It wouldn’t turn out well.
Obviously. :eek:
Shame the Vulcan death grip isn’t real. It would come in so handy.
Harlan Ellison’s original version of the teleplay won the annual Writers Guild of America Award for best dramatic hour-long script. Gene L. Coon reportedly said at the time: “If Harlan wins, I’m going to die,” and that “there are two scripts up tonight for the Writers’ Guild Award, and I wrote them both.” This quotation is of dubious merit, however, since the WGA rules do not allow production companies to submit scripts, but rather only the credited writers, who may submit whichever draft of their scripts that they may choose. Ellison submitted his original first draft for WGA award consideration, and not any version that had been edited by the Star Trek production staff, so Coon’s supposed version of the script was ineligible and never submitted.
This is only part of the story. I’ll have to dig up.
Oh wait. Big moment coming up.
chills Literal chills, every time.
“Let’s get the hell out of here.”
Best ending EVAH!
WWJTKD?
Kind of a meta question in this case, but if I was him, I would have just taken her into the future. Her tragic death wasn’t needed to prevent her message of peace from taking over the country. All they had to do was remove her from the timeline. Both problems solved. 
Whooah! Duuuuude!
Is that good or bad?
Couldn’t do that. The Guardian was in control. And you know about pleading to a god and how well that usually works out?
It’s a computer. It was obviously only continuing to exist due to Kirk’s mercy. 
That sounds! I reach!
Great Crom!! You’re right!! I think this is the only god/computer that Kirk did not destroy or kill. How the frak?!? And this one certainly deserved his wrath.
Oh, I thought I was Herbert.
One.
Kirk, after jumping through the Guardian carrying Edith, “I restored the past. By changing the past.”
Walks away as the Guardian explodes.
Of course, then Spock couldn’t prevent his own death as a child.
My head hurts. :o