English actress who played Edith Keeler in The City on the Edge of Forever.
Joan Collins (born 1933) is an English actress and author whose career began in British and Hollywood films of the 1950s. She became internationally famous as Alexis Carrington in the soap opera Dynasty, winning a Golden Globe Award, and she was later made a Dame.
In The City on the Edge of Forever (1967) Collins played Edith Keeler, a compassionate social worker in Depression-era New York. Kirk falls in love with her after he and Spock travel back in time, only to learn that history depends on her dying in a traffic accident. The episode is often ranked as the best of the original series.