Turnabout Intruder

Home Video trivia: The year – 1988 . Turnabout is released on Laserdisc and is the only disc since “The Cage” to only contain just one episode – which not only meant that it had double front and back cover images – it also meant that Side 2 was left totally blank – even though the disc cost the same as any of the rest of the series. Crazy ? Yes ! Check this out. Yes, it’s pertinent to this entry. I love Star Trek Continues … If official canon is whatever Desilu and Paramount put on screen, then Starfleet Command already has a history of allowing women to be in the center seat. ENT’s episode “Twilight” proves this because T’Pol says she was promoted to full captain when Archer developed memory problems. However, their catastrophic alternate future could have prompted them to permit women because they had a shortage of personnel. I actually agree that this episode really wasn’t that bad. Yes it did have some sexist flaws, and it did seem like they were doing a lot, but I didn’t feel like it was rushed. On top of that, I think that Janice Lester was a great villain and she seemed like a legitimate threat. It seemed like she was able to turn things in her favor at every turn. I still can’t believe it when Scotty and McCoy come back in from the p-way after their mutiny discussion only to find that she had recorded everything they said and was able to use it against them. Honestly things didn’t start falling apart until she went too far and threatened them with execution. Had she just thrown all of them in the brig (in separate cells) she might have gotten away with it much longer. In the end she was only undone by her own insanity, but before that she was a fairly brilliant enemy. Lucky you! If only we had known – could have changed the release date for the shows. gigglesnort Re your discussion about Lester in Kirk’s body and what was Coleman gonna do…Clearly, you don’t read enough slash fan fiction. There’s ALWAYS a (legit?) reason for two blokes to fancy each other… HAHAHA! No, I think there’s plenty of stuff out there on the internet about this subject already… Some of it’s almost good, too. Like all of season 3, this episode suffers from the budget issues of that season. This episode was quite good not only for Shatner’s acting a woman in a man’s body, but also the actress playing Janice Lester. She was a “strong” woman when she was playing “Kirk”; calm, and purposeful. It was her Janice Lester -as-Janice Lester that was weak and, of course crazy. Well, I’ve reached the end of the podcasts for the Original Series. I don’t have much to say about this particular episode that hasn’t already been said more elooquently, but I will say I’m really glad to have found these, and look forward to many more hours of listening pleasure! Really appreciate it since we have so much fun putting the show together, and I especially appreciate you dropping in to leave comments on these pages. Thank you again! Of all the Episodes you mentioned in this Podcast – I couldn’t believe that you guys never mentioned this little computer when referencing copying the neural pathways …. What more do you want in a Star Trek episode? One Kirk good, two Kirks better. My best, most generous, optimistic and pollyanna interpretation of that one infamous line is that it was Lester’s perception that women could not become captains, because she could not be a captain. If that denial had coincided enough with her breakup with Kirk, she could have conflated the two and twisted the meaning. After all, by the time we meet her she is certifiably insane (and homicidal). This has been my read on it for the last 40 years or so! Yea, what an unfortunate final episode of a brilliant series. You guys covered most of my thoughts so I’ll just outline my predominant feeling after finishing this episode. The imaginations behind Star Trek TOS, the ones that imagined cities in the sky, silicone life forms, beings with the power of Gods, and an earth that has supposedly