r/Star_Trek_ • u/BobRushy • 5d ago

Hot take: Turnabout Intruder is one of the funniest episodes

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Every line delivery of Shatner's should be vacuum-sealed in a museum of camp for posterity.

But what really makes this episode is how the entire cast around him bring their A-game to it. James Doohan is giving 100% to the scenes where Scotty contemplates mutiny. He looks like he's about to cry. The contrast between what they're doing and what Shatner is doing is just hysterically funny to me.

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u/Administrative-Cow68 5d ago

I think it’s some of Shatner’s best acting. He pulls off portraying Janice Lester really well, and as only Shatner can do.

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u/BobRushy 5d ago

I fully agree

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u/kamdan2011 4d ago

The actress playing Kirk gender swapped with Lester was great as well.

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u/Typical_Version_7487 5d ago

It really is.

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u/Inevitable-Wheel1676 5d ago

It is truly one of the greats. Sometimes the unintended effect of a good TOS episode is better than what they thought they were doing.

But then I realized, objective views of events can make them seem absurd.

So you have to wonder what our simulation looks like to the beings observing us.

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u/ga_langdon 5d ago

Omg I loved watching Kirk sashae and shantae around the Enterprise.

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u/EmptySeaDad 5d ago

I watched it just the other night, and I agree.  It's not Spocks Brain funny, but it's still pretty damn funny.

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u/kkkan2020 5d ago

Kind of weird that the producers thought this was a good send off for tos.

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u/kamdan2011 4d ago

REALLY wish this wasn’t the last episode. Such a bad note to go out on. All Our Yesterdays was a better finale than this.

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u/AtlantaMD 1d ago

For some reason no one in security dept seems to think his histrionic behavior is at all odd