Scripted by Harlan
Two of the best science fiction scripts of the sixties were written by Mr. Ellison, the Star Trek episode called City on the Edge of Forever won a Hugo award. McCoy is accidentally sent back in time where he meets Edith Keeler a forward-thinking social worker. He saves her life and thus changes the course of history. Needless to say Kirk and Spock follow him through the same time portal and when they are reunited Kirk prevents McCoy’s action and history spins out as it should. The second script was for The Outer Limits called Demon With a Glass Hand. The hero of this story is an amnesiac with a glass left hand which is a complex talking computer missing three fingers. The other fingers are in the abandoned office building he finds himself in and will provide the answers he needs. His quest is made more difficult by evil, time traveling aliens and the knowledge that 1000 years into the future all humans are missing.
Both stories are complex, relatable to the human experience, and offer no easy solutions. The You Tube clip I mented yesterday is from a new documentary called Dreams with Sharp Teeth from Grizzly Man producer, Erik Nelson. It is being released in New York the first week in June.
