From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise{at}yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Just A  Few Odd Things?

Graeme  wrote in
news:2731bc00-9cbb-4d3a-ad05-c8fc42b04221{at}googlegroups.com: 

> On Monday, November 4, 2013 7:11:54 AM UTC-6, Allen W. McDonnell
> wrote: 
>> The Guardian on the Edge of Forever displays the key points in
>> history and lets its users interact with those key point by sending
>> them to the period before each key point.  What is so hard to
>> understand about that? 
> 
> What's hard to understand is that it doesn't seem to be true.  Spock
> explicitly says that to step through at the time they wish would be
> impossible.  And it's never stated that the Guardian displays only
> "key points".  
> 

Not everything has to be explained.  The Guardian obviously has some 
type of intelligence even if only a computer-type intelligence otherwise 
it couldn't have a conversation with Kirk.

The Guardian did show key points.  I don't recall seeing anyone drinking 
coffee and reading the newspaper.  The Guardian showed key scenes from 
history from whatever archival footage Desilu could come up with. 

It is impossible to step through at the time they wish because the 
images are going by so fast. Spock specifically states this. Once McCoy 
goes through to the past, the Guardian knows what was changed 
(people/Guardian on the planet know that things were changed but do not 
cease to exist as they would if they weren't there) and can send Kirk 
and Spock to the same place and approximately same time. Maybe the 
Guardian is a race of beings/group of computers that like to play games 
with space travellers (like Trelane).  
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