Episode of the Week : Turnabout Intruder

[feek61]

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[TREK_GOD_1]

Some food for thought:
http://www.trektoday.com/reviews/tos/turnabout_intruder.shtml...I agree with most of it

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[Marsden]

^^^
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And I agree with most of that.

 

[johnnybear]

Guess what? That page don't exist...
JB

 

[JeffinOakland]

Well....shit....sorry about that

 

[HarryM]

http://www.trektoday.com/reviews/tos/turnabout_intruder.shtml

 

[Timo]

One thing that has always bothered me about the episode was that after "KIrk" sentences all his senior officers to death, there wasn't an immediate mutiny and what it says about the Security Division on the Enterprise that they were going along with the executions.

What the Security Division was going along with, from the looks of it, was putting Kirk and pals in a holding cell. A wise course of inaction, doing little harm to any of the parties involved: the security could easily afford to wait it out, letting the top officers sort out their problems the best they saw fit, because all the phasers were in the hands of the redshirts anyway...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[plynch]

Meh. Has that mutiny trial thing with eavesdropping on Scotty in the hall, right? There's worse eps.

 

[johnnybear]

Kirk was mincing? I remember the scenes where Lester sort of felt her hips and body and revelled in her new masculinity but mincing? That's what a guy I know does when he picks his son up from school!
JB

 

[UnknownSample]

Kirk filed his nails. Haw haw haw.

 

[Aaroncarine]

One. This episode is an appalling abomination.

It certainly is. Even by 60s standards, it is shockingly sexist and misogynistic. The message is that women who want to do the same things that men do are psychotic and/or self-hating.

 

[2takesfrakes]

8

The actress playing Janice Lester does a great job at playing Captain Kirk! Really, you can't help but assume that she either watched the show, herself, and/or got some coaching from Shatner. But I'm sold on who she claims to be, after the mind-transference. The hammyness of The Shat has been Up Front & Center for 3 seasons, so far, and just when you thought there was nowhere else to go with it, he takes camp to a whole new level. Very entertaining performances by both actors. The court marshal and mutiny stuff was nice, in that it got the 2nd bananas in on the act. Being as it's so hammy ... so corny ... this episode is a meal, in itself.

 

[UnknownSample]

I've heard defences of the point of view of this ep that were a bit eye opening for me, including from women. I can't relate them well here. I think the gist was that they might have been criticizing the glass ceiling, while Lester is still flawed and psychotic.

 

[Marsden]

It certainly is. Even by 60s standards, it is shockingly sexist and misogynistic. The message is that women who want to do the same things that men do are psychotic and/or self-hating.

Again I see that and I don't see how that applies. Who hates women on Star Trek?

 

[gomtuu20]

I thought Shatner acting like a woman was great fun.
OK, so it was a mediocre episode, but the moments mentioned in the previous posts makes it watchable. I give it weak 6.

 

[Cγrano Mudd]

Ugh. It's a two. As bad as it was,it wasn't anywhere near as abysmal as Spock's Brain!

 

[johnnybear]

Or Plato's Stepchildren?
JB

 

[kkt]

2. Basically a poor concept poorly executed but with a couple of redeeming scenes.

 

[feek61]

Now what are we going to do???
The animated series (or should we start over with TOS, lol)?

 

[3D ChessMaster]

At least in the 60s this episode adressed the possibility of female star ship captains . I think the programme can argue for women doing the job while having a female character Janice Lester who is not suitable for it.
To put it into the 60s context I saw Episode 1 Series 5 of Bonanza on CBS Action that followed Star Trek and that episode was far more sexist than any episode of ST. While in real life at that time , for example there was a maximum quota of female students in medical schools and In some jobs women were forced to stop work on getting married.
As entertainment it is interesting to see how the Two lead actors handle their reversed gender roles and how Kirk convinces Spock it is him in Lester's body. Finally the episode's historic importance to ST and it is also revealing to see how last TOS show ever made is handled.