She orders the landing party to return to the Enterprise.

This is too awkward for me, so I won’t be doing that for simplicity’s sake.) Lester tries to strangle Kirk, but Spock and Bones stop her. (Note: In reviews I’ve seen of the episode, Kirk is referred to from this point on as Kirk-in-Lester, and Lester as Lester-in-Kirk. She traps herself and Kirk inside a device and swaps her persona with Kirks: Kirk is now in Lester’s body, and Lester is in Kirk’s. While McCoy and Spock tend to the other survivor, Lester hatches her plan for revenge. All of them are suffering from radiation poisoning, which may explain Lester’s instability. There are only three survivors, including herself and Dr. The Enterprise is answering a distress call from Camus II, where she is participating in an archaeological expedition. That’s my first problem with this episode–how are we to believe that Roddenberry’s future is so great when this form of discrimination still exists? Then again, considering how unstable Lester is, maybe I’m falsely sympathizing. In this episode, we meet Janice Lester, a feminist Starfleet officer who blames Starfleet’s “glass ceiling” for preventing her from having a Starship of her own. Sure, now you fix the death slot, when you had one episode left and it didn’t matter! Given what we got, they should’ve just left it unaired. The original series’ final episode almost didn’t air! It was pre-empted because former president Eisenhower died, and didn’t air until June 3, two months later in a new time slot. The Star Trek spin-offs always ended in grand fashion, beginning with The Next Generation’ s “All Good Things”.

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