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Star Trek - Turnabout Intruder
episode 3.24
Raumschiff Enterprise -Gefährlicher Tausch
USA 1969
produced by Fred Freiberger, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Norway Corporation, Paramount/NBC
directed by Herb Wallerstein
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Sandra Smith, Harry Landers, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, Barbara Baldavin, David L. Ross, John Boyer
story by Gene Roddenberry, screenplay by Arthur H. Singer, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Fred Steiner
TV series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The Enterprise answers a distress call of an archeological expedition,
and one of its members turns out to be Janice (Sandra Smith), Captain
Kirk's (William Shatner) ex who's still bitter about him having left her
and also about him having had chances she as a woman never had. So before
being beamed aboard the ship, she pushes him into a machine that switches
their two minds, so that she now commandeers the Enterprise in Kirk's body
while she has him, in her body, quarantined aboard the ship, leaving him
in the care of her cronie Dr. Coleman (Harry Landers). Kirk in Janice's
body makes attempt after attempt to escape and get through to any of his
crew, preferably Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Bones (DeForest Kelley) or Scott
(James Doohan), but Janice as Kirk has cut him off from the others pretty
well. However, Kirk's friends can't help but notice that their captain is
getting more erratic by the hour, and when Kirk as Janice finally comes
through to them, they believe him at face value. An attempt to relieve
Janice as Kirk of the command falls through though, and when she listens
in on them conspiring against her, she insists for them all to be
court-martialed for mutiny and executed on the spot - upon which more and
more of the crew lay down their work. Janice in the meanwhile feels her
mind slipping from Kirk's body back into her own time and again, and
Coleman tells her the only thing to prevent that is to kill Janice's body
- but before she can do that, Janice and Kirk's minds change back
permanently, she collapses, and Coleman begs Kirk to allow him to take
care of her ... The very last episode of the original Star
Trek, and it's pretty much an ending on a fizzle, basically
there's just nothing at all special about this one, it's one set on the
ship mostly for cost-cutting reasons, our heroes don't get a deserved
good-bye, and Nichelle Nichols as Uhura isn't even in this one (with
Barbara Baldavin filling in for her as communications officer) - but
granted at the time of production it was not known this one would be the
series finale. Taken by its own merits though, this is a pretty amusing
episode, it has a plot that reveals some at least from today's point of
view pretty questionable gender politics, and it has William Shatner
hamming it up to the hilt - all of which doesn't make this one of the
better episodes, but at least a pretty good laugh.
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