Turnabout Intruder
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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:
Links
[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | Amazon US Blu-Ray | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek Ep 79 - Turnabout Intruder - 3 Jun 1969 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) July 24, 2024
TOS ends with this stinker - where a woman is jealous of Kirk's career so she does a forced mind swap and wants to take control of the Enterprise. The only real good parts of this are William Shatner pic.twitter.com/s57K7PfhnI
#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek Ep 79 - Turnabout Intruder - 3 Jun 1969 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) July 24, 2024
pretending to be a woman pretending to be Kirk. He was very ill at the time which helped his performance I think. Beyond that, a lame way to go out. There was to be more, but show canceled mid production. pic.twitter.com/snswqdbNvp
#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek Ep 79 - Turnabout Intruder - 3 Jun 1969 3/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) July 24, 2024
Thus ends TOS. Always loved this Trek, grew up with it. I also loved at the end of the ep, they had the Enterprise sailing off into the sunset in the remastered version.
There's also this vignette from the… pic.twitter.com/f4gWblwY5i
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