Edith Keeler

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Edith Keeler is a fictional social worker from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". Keeler should have died in a street accident in the year 1930.

In "The City on the Edge of Forever" (episode 28), on Stardate 3134.0, centuries later, during a survey of the Guardian of Forever by the USS Enterprise, the ship's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard McCoy, during a temporary mental illness brought on by an accidental injection of cordrazine, escaped into Earth's past.

While there, he saved Keeler from dying, which sparked a chain of events throughout the timeline, changing history. In the altered timeline, Keeler, a passionate believer in peace, spearheaded a movement which delayed the entry of the United States into World War II, would have set into motion a chain of events which ultimately would have led to a Nazi victory in World War II. This created an alternative timeline in which Starfleet, the Federation and the USS Enterprise no longer existed.

Due to the proximity to the Guardian of Forever by the landing party, Captain James T. Kirk and First Officer Spock still existed with their memories and equipment intact and pursued McCoy into the past. Kirk and Spock were able to prevent McCoy from saving Keeler's life, reinstating the timeline. These events were particularly trying for Kirk, as he had fallen in love with Keeler.

Edith Keeler was played by Joan Collins.

[edit] External links

• Edith Keeler article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.