Turnabout Intruder

This Story: Season 3 Episode 24 (production code 3.24)
TOS Overall: Story 79, Episode 80
Trek Overall: Story 79, Episode 80
Airdate: 3 Jun 1969
Written by Arthur H. Singer & Gene Roddenberry
Directed by Herb Wallerstein

Notes

• The final episode of the original Star Trek series to air.
• This episode was supposed to air on 28 Mar 1969, but was pre-empted due to the death of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Due to various other scheduling issues, it never aired until 3 Jun 1969.
• When filming this episode, Shatner was extremely ill with a high fever, it somewhat shows in his performance, which I think actually benefitted him.
• Nichelle Nichols did not appear, and the communications officer was played by Barbara Baldavin, who appeared in the first season episodes “Balance of Terror” & “Shore Leave“.
• Leonard Nimoy & Majel Barrett were the only two actors to appear in this, the final episode as well as the original pilot, “The Cage“.
• The 25th and unmade episode of the season which would have come after this entitled “The Joy Machine” was to be directed by William Shatner.
• The final scene ever filmed for the original series was of William Shatner and Sandra Smith in front of the alien transference machine.
• The Star Trek Continues folks created a vignette for the end of this episode which is worth watching.  I’ve embedded that on the page below:

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