This is thought to be one of the worst Star Trek episodes ever. It is also the last TOS episode. But, to be honest, I didn’t think it was that terrible. Sure it’s dumb, but it had some decent elements to it. I'm also a bit sad to end the TOS series. Even on it's darkest day it was still a damn entertaining show and it doesn't get much better than William Shatner.
The episode starts off with Kirk’s ultimate nightmare, he has switched bodies with a woman. Dr. Lester, bent on destroying Kirk, has switched bodies with him. Now Kirk is the female Dr. Lester, and Dr. Lester is Kirk. “Kirk” is constantly trying to kill “Lester”. Watch as Capt. Kirk beats the crap out of a woman and tries to strangle her, fun stuff. The crew is alarmed at “Kirks” odd behavior and Spock eventually does a mind meld and discovers that Lester is actually Kirk. “Kirk” has Spock sentenced to a court martial and Spock defends himself by telling everyone about the Kirk/Lester body switch. The crew believe him. “Kirk” then has Scotty, McCoy, Spock and “Lester” sentenced to the death penalty. Sulu and Chekov argue against Starfleet using capital punishment. Eventually the whole ship mutiny’s against “Kirk”. They figure out how to switch the bodies back and Coleman and Lester are taken to a Starbase prison.To say that this episode is one of the worst is not correct. Certainly it’s not great, but you can do far worse than this one. The acting is decent, the plot is a bit stupid but they do a fair job of not making it too dumb. How is this any worse that Abe Lincoln flying through space in a chair?! Alas poor Robert Urich, how I knew thee fellatio …. Coming soon, my Star Trek TOS wrap up.
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3 comments:
Holy shit!!! You did it!!!
Now you just have, like, a few thousand more episodes to go.
I've never seen this one. You know...I'm convinced every sci-fi series has had at least one body switching episode, so I'm glad to know Turnabout Intruder exists. Body switching episodes are awesome.
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