Development of emotional instability and erratic mental attitudes...

[dolari]

I'm watching an episode of Star Trek where a woman takes over Kirk's body...

1) Sandra Smith does a great James T Kirk.

2) Kirk-with-female-mind doesn't pass. Sorry, he just doesn't pass.

2) If this IS a Female Shatner, though, and someone went back in time and flipped that one chromosome marker and left everything else alone...well...I think I just explained the existence of Shelly Winters. Or Ethel Merman.

Since Christmas, I've seen all 79 episodes of Star Trek. Dear God, I'm a geek.

Comments

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Dear God, I'm a geek.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Yeah - appreciate your geekiness for what it is!

Kirk-with-female-mind doesn't pass. Sorry, he just doesn't pass.

Um, I don't think Denny Crane passes either.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

None of them. I like the CGI masters (except when the Enterprise moves around like an X-Wing ::coughDoomsdayMachinecough::), but when it came time to get them on DVD, I went with what I saw as a kid.

I actually havne't seen too many of the remastered episodes, because in San Marcos, KXAN is only available as an analog channel with a nasty nasty buzz on the left speaker.

[sailorrob.livejournal.com]

Well in defense of the Kirk-with-female-mind she did have this little problem of being completely insane.

So that kind of tosses the "passing as female through behavior" standards right out the window.

[makkabee.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much the point I was going to make. It would have been interesting to see Shatner playing a sane woman, say, if he and Uhura had switched bodies.

Actually a story where everybody's minds got switched around and they all got to play each other's characters would have been pretty darned cool. Not any point to doing it in a fanfic, since the fun would have been seeing the actors' interpretations of each other's work, so that boat has sailed. Oh, well.

Also, I too have done the "all 79 episodes in as short a stretch as possible" marathon bit. Right after I got my DVD sets, I think. I also kept track of the body counts to see if the the thing about the red shirts being death magnets was true or not. Turns out it wasn't true in the first season but was in the third, in case anyone cares.