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I remember that episode well. What a stinker!! (I watched these as a kid, don't own them on DVD yet.) I always thought that episode was strangely out of place in the Star Trek universe. Worst of all, it wasn't entertaining. The only episodes that I think were worse, or as bad were Spock's Brain and Plato's Stepchildren. P U!
I'd put that ultra-low budget "gunfight at the OK corral" at the bottom, myself.
The episode "Turnabout Intruder" does have one saving grace. The only Captain's Log ever done by a Captain of the Enterprise who was a woman. When the switch of bodies took place, both characters made "log entries". William Shatner's voice as the insane Doctor Janice Lester hiding in Captain Kirk's body. Sandra Smith's as the helpless Captain Kirk trapped in the body of the "insane" Doctor Lester.
Unfortunately, most of Shatner's, and ALL of Smith's narration dialogues have wound up on the cutting room floor over the years. Have to have the full episodes to get the proper effect. The difference in the narrations are quite striking.
Playing the madwoman in a man's body, Shatner's narration delivers his usual hyper-exited performance.
Most of Sandra Smith's scenes as "Captain Kirk" are cut out and/or reduced in the syndicated released versions that went out over television in the 70's and 80's.
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