I walked out on her when it became serious. LESTER (AS KIRK): It’s been a long time since I saw her. The unconscious body of Lester is taken to sickbay, while Kirk tells McCoy to take “special” care of her: Lester takes a moment to consider the possibility: does she raise suspicion and get her goal, by leaving Kirk to die alone on the planet, while she takes his place? Or does she do what she knows Kirk would do and try to save her? She opts for the latter, and they all beam up to the ship. Lester, unconscious on the bed, will die without treatment. In either case (the person who seems to be) Dr. McCoy believes it’s celebium radiation that affected the scientists, but Coleman disagrees. Too late! Damned womanly hesitation! McCoy, Coleman, and Spock return. But as she hesitates she hears footsteps and voices approaching. She hovers over Kirk, who is unconscious and trapped in her weak womanly body, and begins to wrap her scarf around her hands to choke him. It’s better to be dead.Īre we back on Elba II? This woman’s a few warp cores short of an engine. Quiet! Believe me, it’s better to be dead than to live alone in the body of a woman. For you this agony will soon pass, as it has for me. Now you know the indignity of being a woman. Only this Captain Kirk is not afraid to kill. I already possess your physical strength. Now Janice Lester takes the place of Captain Kirk. Didn’t you? You had the strength to do it. Why didn’t you do it? You always wanted to. Janice Lester died of radiation poisoning in the line of duty. LESTER (AS KIRK): You had your chance, Captain Kirk. She carries her old body to the bed and delights in her victory:

Lester 2–awakes first, and switches the machine off. They’ve switched bodies! The captain–now possessed by Dr. Thanks to the wonders of crappy special effects, we see a shadow of Kirk lift out of his body and overlay onto hers, while a shadow of Lester lifts out of her body and onto the captain’s. On the side of the structure are two switches, and she flips one and then stands beside Kirk against the wall. Lester, smiling, gets out of bed easily–so much for radiation sickness–and walks toward him.

With a buzz from the remote he is pulled against the wall and immobilized. Meanwhile, Janice pulls out a remote control and points it at Kirk. With his back turned to Janice, Kirk inspects the strange wall. Against the back wall of the sick room is a lighted structure, with some kind of alien markings all over it. Instead he explores the room he’s in a little bit.

Kirk, in his wisdom, doesn’t respond to that particular remark. And you punished and tortured me because of it. JANICE: Your world of starship captains doesn’t admit women. KIRK: I never stopped you from going on with your space work. JANICE: The year we were together at Starfleet is the only time in my life I was alive. JANICE: I hoped I wouldn’t see you again. Lester arbor some residual tenderness towards one another, they have some resentment issues like you wouldn’t believe: Coleman detect weak lifesigns elsewhere on the station and exit in pursuit. (He’s just that impressive.) He stays with her as Spock, McCoy, and Dr. Kirk goes to her, but she can barely speak. Lester is bedridden from radiation poisoning and seems on the brink of death. Janice Lester, the expedition’s leader and an old flame of Kirk’s. When they beam down they find that only two scientists have survived the mysterious circumstances: Dr. The Enterprise has arrived at Camus II where a team of researchers exploring a long-lost civilization have sent out a distress signal.

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