Lester, of course, pretends to be Kirk, beginning a Tyrant Takes the Helm plot. Lester-in-Kirk prepares to kill Kirk-in-Lester, but the rest of the landing party walks in at the wrong moment. Meanwhile, Lester's body is unconscious once more. Now in Kirk's body, Lester quickly reveals herself to be Ax-Crazy, supplying us with some of Shatner's trademark evil acting. Janice Lester plugs Kirk into an ancient machine which causes a "Freaky Friday" Flip. In any case, the idea that women can't be starship captains is never mentioned again, a female starship captain was seen in Star Trek IV, there was later an entire series about one, and both Enterprise and Discovery featured female captains predating this episode. Nichols furiously "pitched a bitch" at Gene and got told "You can't have females running a man's ship." Nichelle Nichols revealed that a scene in which Uhura took the helm (as she'd done in a couple of first season episodes) was rewritten so that she didn't. There's no reason not to believe this given Gene's attitude at the time. Leonard Nimoy stated flatly and unequivocally in interviews that Gene Roddenberry intended for this to mean women can't be captains.Or Kirk thought she meant the first one, and was agreeing to that statement, when she was actually just talking crazy-talk. He chooses to be ambiguous in order to tactfully avoid arguing with her. Given that she's an old flame who went crazy when she didn't become a captain, the answer might be subtextual: he's not agreeing with her, but rather saying her mental illness and delusions are "not fair" she did not deserve this fate. This does raise the question of why Kirk agreed with her.The offical Retcon from Paramount seems to be that Lester is just insane, which is very much supported by the rest of the episode and she deludedly believes she was barred from command because of her gender when it was because of her instability.This does make sense within the context of this scene, but makes the rest of the episode somewhat nonsensical. A popular alternative reading is that it refers to Kirk being unable to carry on his relationship with her after he became captain of the Enterprise.Lester: Your world of starship captains doesn't admit women. It becomes apparent that they had some serious Belligerent Sexual Tension going on back in the day. After Kirk is left alone with her, she comes to and they chat about olden times. Lester turns out to be an ex-girlfriend of Kirk. (One wonders if the writers forgot there used to be another "Janice" on this show or if they averted One-Steve Limit on purpose.) Shock of shocks, Dr. The Enterprise goes to some planet to rescue the two survivors of a doomed archaeological expedition. But hey, it's not the last we'll be hearing from these characters.Īlternatively, you may regard it as the Star Trek version of Freaky Friday. Of course at that time an episode intended as a series finale was quite rare. It's known for being the most overtly sexist episode of the show and certainly not a worthy Series Finale, and many fans prefer to think of the previous episode, " All Our Yesterdays", as the true finale. However the Stardate for this episode 5930.3 shows that chronology the last voyague of the UFP Enterprise NCC-1701 is actually the episode which is usually shown preceding this one: "All Our Yesterdays" at Stardate 5943.The last episode of the original Star Trek series. Final episode of the series filmed and usually shown as such.Captain Kirk is in the fight for his life when a murderous hateful ex-lover of his switches his "persona" with her own and then tries to kill both Kirk and her old body!
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