turnabout intruder


shatner did a good job in this episode.

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A decent but not great episode. The biggest problem I see is what was Dr Coleman going to do with Dr Lester in Kirk's body when the two were presumably lovers before that. In the vernacular of Seinfeld was Dr Coleman going to switch teams?

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Exactly, even as a prepubescent teen I thought what good was Captain Kirk's body going to do for Dr. Coleman?

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Coleman was nuts ... he was not in love, he was not sexually attracted to her, it seems to me that those two should have switched bodies.

That would make a better story ... they switch bodies, and the Enterprise arrives to try to save them, and they find something weird, and unravel the story, which has some kind of odd meaning or result that perhaps killed the rest of the party.

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I always thought the same thing.

When he was alone with Coleman, he had a slightly feminine vibe to him, and not just that scene when Lester was trying to get Coleman to kill for her.

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It's kind of an almost comedic episode, at least at the time
it was so out there, but I agree. Shatner is such a ham actor
that for some magical reason he just fit the character of Captain
Kirk.

In the movies Star Trek just never scaled, at least they way they
did it. One thing Star Trek did wrong was to make the ship too
big and then never deal with the crew.

There was what ... I forget how many people there were supposed
to be on the ship, but what were they all doing? Especially today,
look at how everything is mechanized ... to have someone on a ship
in that time they would need a specific reason, and probably the
comment crew would be very small.

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I felt the same way. The plot was so full of holes it was laughable but Shatner's portrayal still made it watchable.

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