Great Caesar\u2019s ghost!<\/p>\n
If there had been no other reason to cancel the Star Trek series, this episode, in and of itself, would provide that rationale.\u00a0 But it is the last episode so here we go.<\/p>\n
Kirk, Spock and McCoy, the holy trinity of landing parties, arrive at planet blah, blah, blah where Dr. Janice Lester, an old flame of Kirk\u2019s from his Starfleet Academy days, is sick with radiation poisoning.\u00a0 Dr. Coleman, her private physician, \u00a0informs McCoy that she needs space medicine or something.\u00a0 But when they leave Kirk alone with Janice to tend to a patient who\u2019s already dead, Janice shoots Kirk with a petite phaser that she had hidden in her purse.\u00a0 Then she drags him to a wall full of lights and standing next to him pushes a button that exchanges their personalities.\u00a0 Now Janice in Kirk\u2019s body (JIKB) carries Kirk in Janice\u2019s body (KIJB) over to the bed and starts strangling KIJB with a stylish pastel scarf.\u00a0 But the others return before JIKB can get the job done.\u00a0 Coleman is in cahoots with JIKB and is given medical authority over KIJB by JIKB, much to the chagrin of McCoy who feels his authority has been trampled on as ship\u2019s physician.<\/p>\n
Coleman keeps KIJB sedated to keep up the charade but KIJB fools dim-witted Nurse Chapel into leaving the room and smashes a drinking glass that the sedative was in, to provide a tool to cut through her restraints.\u00a0 But JIKB happens to see KIJB running by and punches her out, which raises eyebrows on both McCoy and Spock.\u00a0 And as you know both characters love raising their eyebrows.\u00a0 At this point everyone in the crew has noted the highly emotional, annoying and sometimes hysterical actions of JIKB.\u00a0 Spock is so suspicious that he interviews KIJB in the holding cell.\u00a0 And he uses the Vulcan mind meld and learns the truth of the personality transfer.\u00a0 When Spock acts on this knowledge he is accused by JIKB of mutiny and is court-martialed.\u00a0 JIKB\u2019s bearing and words during the trail soon raise doubts in the minds of all the officers.\u00a0 When Scotty and McCoy discuss in the corridor outside the trial the outcome if Spock is acquitted Scotty states clearly that they will have to commit mutiny.\u00a0 But they were recorded secretly by JIKB.\u00a0 Now Spock, McCoy and Scotty are declared mutineers by JIKB and he declares that they will be executed.\u00a0 Sulu shouts out that the death penalty is forbidden and JIKB flips out and has a hissy fit.\u00a0 Now Sulu and Chekov as the most senior remaining officers decide to defy JIKB and when this occurs on the Bridge JIKB spazzes out and we see the personalities reverse for a brief moment before reversing again.<\/p>\n
Now JIKB freaks out and runs down to Coleman and says he\u2019s afraid he\u2019ll lose the Kirk body.\u00a0 Coleman tells JIKB that he must kill KIJB right away to prevent permanent reversion.\u00a0 But when they go down to do this KIJB attacks Coleman and suddenly the reversion happens spontaneously.\u00a0 Now we have Kirk and Janice back in their own bodies and she wails and moans about losing the Enterprise and being just a poor weak woman being discriminated against by strong cruel men.\u00a0 Kirk says some incoherent things about coulda, woulda, shoulda and the thing mercifully ends.<\/p>\n
Just to put it right out there this episode broke the Shatner Mockery Index Meter so it gets an 11 for that.\u00a0 JIKB snapping at everyone in the crew and behaving like a refugee from the tenth-grade mean-girl\u2019s lunch-table is something to behold.\u00a0 It makes me wonder if Shatner was given a course of estrogen injections before the filming began.\u00a0 But my favorite scene is where Spock informs JIKB on the bridge that the same star course he had ordered could be made in less time by going faster.\u00a0 She flounces off the bridge with her nose in the air.\u00a0 In other words, he was attacking her driving skills.\u00a0 Well, what can I say?\u00a0 It\u2019s finally over.\u00a0 Free at last.\u00a0 Free at last.<\/p>\n
Score:\u00a0 4 \u00a0\u00a0\/\/\u00a0 \u00a011<\/p>\n
Note: \u00a0this is the last episode.\u00a0 When I have recovered sufficiently from the strain, I intend to do some follow-up posts on the whole series, but not right now.\u00a0 Oh, the pain, the pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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