"Star Trek" Turnabout Intruder (1969)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Herb Wallerstein

Writers:

Arthur H. Singer (teleplay)
Gene Roddenberry (story)

TV Series:

"Star Trek" (1966)

Original Air Date:

3 June 1969 (Season 3, Episode 24)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The Enterprise is answering a medical emergency of an archaeological expedition. Kirk is confronted with the deep hatred of an old love...

Plot Keywords:

Body Switching | Female Stereotype | Switching Bodies | Spurned Woman | Gender Bender

Cast

William Shatner	...	Captain James T. Kirk / Janice Lester
Leonard Nimoy	...	Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley	...	Dr. McCoy
Sandra Smith	...	Janice Lester / Captain James T. Kirk
Harry Landers	...	Dr. Coleman
James Doohan	...	Scott
George Takei	...	Sulu
Walter Koenig	...	Chekov
Majel Barrett	...	Nurse Chapel
Barbara Baldavin	...	Communications Officer
David L. Ross	...	Lt. Galloway
John Boyer	...	Guard

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

Though her voice is muffled, Dr. Lester protests to the sympathetic Dr. Coleman, "Go to Hell!"

Goofs:

Continuity: When Spock and McCoy are conversing in sickbay, McCoy is wearing his medical garb. However, in the first couple of close-ups, his shirt changes to his regular uniform.

Quotes:

Sulu: The captain really must be going mad if he thinks he can get away with an execution.
Chekov: Keptin Kirk wouldn't order an execution, even if he were going mad. That cannot be the keptin.
Sulu: What difference does it make who he is? Are we going to allow an execution to take place?
Chekov: If security backs him up, how will we fight him?
Sulu: I'll fight him every way in any way I can.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Legacy (#4.6)" (1990)

See Kirk get a sex change and undergo excruciating PMS!

Kirk and crew land on a lonely planet where one of Kirk's old girlfriends resides (what are the chances of Kirk running into an old lady friend--pretty good it seems for this intergalactic super-stud). The lady appears to be gravely ill, but when she is alone with Kirk, she is surprisingly spry and zaps him--dragging him to an ancient sex-change machine that puts the woman's mind in Kirk's body and vice-versa. The results are unintentionally hilarious--almost as campy and silly as PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE!!! Normally, Shatner isn't exactly subtle in his role as Captain Kirk, and most of us have come to love this campy overacting. However, here, he plays a hysterical and mentally ill woman now residing within his body and the results are just bizarre and completely off the top of the overacting chart! He shrieks and belows and pounds and behaves like a woman who is experiencing every pain of a lifetime of PMS all in one very, very bad day!!!! So, what we have here is a mighty stupid premise combined with shameless overacting as the rest of the actors watch Shatner bellow and wildly gesticulate. No wonder the series was canceled with episodes like this one! Nowhere is there any evidence of the brilliance of earlier episodes.