Star Trek episode "Turnabout Intruder"

"Turnabout Intruder"

Season 3, Episode 24.

This episode was the finale of The Original Series, and what a horrible way to go out.

We get to see Kirk prance around like a woman.

The Enterprise is sent to rescue archaeologists studying the ruins of a dead civilization on Camus II. One of the scientists is Dr. Janice Lester, a woman from Kirk's past and a one-year love of his. "Your world of starship captains doesn't admit women," she says. And that is why she hates Kirk now, with a passion to rival the wrath of Khan.

Apparently, it's a setup because with the help of those ruins, she switches bodies with Kirk. Lester in Kirk's body says, "It's better to be dead than to live alone in the body of a woman." But she is interrupted from strangling Kirk in Lester's body. She says she has studied for years to take over command of a starship.

It's funny to watch Kirk put an emory board to his fingernails!

I don't know if they are making fun of the idea of a woman as captain or not. With the doubts of Spock and McCoy, because Lester is being freaky (had she been normal, this would have worked), this is another cause for a code-word known only by upper echelon of the ship. I have a code-word with my daughter Morgan, for pity's sake.

Bones has some kind of test, dermal optic, to "reveal the basic emotional structure" in order to compare with a previous reading. The first security guard that Spock tries to take out has his first Vulcan neck pinch blocked!

The number one crazy stupid thing about this episode is that if Lester hadn't been so %$#%^ crazy, she'd probably have gotten away with it.

SIDEBAR: It is said in this episode that General Order 4 is the only exception for dishing out the death penalty. This contradicts General Order 7 regarding Talos IV in "The Menagerie" but this must be like the concept of Stardate, never intended to be so serious.