Edith Keeler is a character from Star Trek: The Original Series, featured in the acclaimed episode "The City on the Edge of Forever." A compassionate social worker running a soup kitchen in 1930s New York City, she was a vocal pacifist whose ideas about peace and space travel were far ahead of her time.
When a time-displaced Doctor McCoy inadvertently saved her from a fatal accident, the resulting alternate timeline altered the course of history, forcing Captain Kirk, who had fallen in love with her, to allow her death in order to restore the timeline. She was portrayed by Joan Collins.
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