In this show, the location of Janice's quarters is given as on Deck 12. According to the original Star Trek blueprints (which Phil gives as an authoritative source in his guide) Deck 12 is a small observation deck which contains no crew staterooms.
After the commercial break in which Spock deduces an imposter is aboard, the opening shot of Act II shows the Enterprise leaving the planet orbit!
When the transporter duplicates Kirk, his uniform is replicated too. During the show, however, both Kirks change their shirts. When they are reunited at the end, the uniforms are combined too - but their shirts should not have been merged together as they hadn't been split apart in the first place: they came from ship's stores (or wherever uniforms come from on the Enterprise!) Kirk should have reappeared wearing two shirts, one inside the other, or else wearing a single, very large one! <g>
So what happened to the missing shirt? My theory is that the molecules hung around for a while before spontaneously rematerialising on Kirk's body, which epxlains how he can enter the turbolift in 'Charlie X' wearing a yellow shirt and emerge moments later in a green one!
I still want to know how Kirk & Co. switched uniforms with their counterparts in Mirror, Mirror.
Rand seems to think that the captain just appearing in her quarters is just ok. She does seem surprised but then she's calm, until he tries to rape her. This was kinda disturbing to me actually.
That's because Rand trusts the captain. And because she has a crush on him.
The nice thing about this episode is that this wasn't an "evil" Kirk trying to rape Rand, indulging in drink, etc. - - this is in fact our boy Jim, stripped of his more civilized qualities. Modern Trek would've copped out - it would've been a defective clone or something.
There is a problem in the stardates of this episode. At one point Kirk gives the stardate as 1673.1. Later on he gives it as 1673.5. Even later Spock gives the stardate as 1673.1 again.
As soon as the evil side of Kirk appears on the transporter pad, the good side of Kirk mentions him in a log. He hasn`t found out about him yet! A possible answer is that at this point in the series the creators meant Kirk to make his log recordings afterwards, which would explain how he knows about the cube while in sickbay in "The Corbomite Manuever" and clear up the "unknown to us...." nit from "The Naked Time"
In his log recording (see my first nit) Spock calls himself second officer. He`s really the first officer.
When the good side of Kirk arrives on the bridge a helmsman appears out of nowhere.
Alpha 177? Are there really one hundred and seventy-seven planets (at least) in the system?
Kirk does the same thing in the Man Trap - refers to the fact that all three are seeing different women. These were all early episodes.
The idea that Kirk is making some of his log entries after the fact and some during the events also might explain why so many stardates are out of sequence in the early shows.
Is it just me or did Rand say in Sickbay that she didn't mind the Captain raping her, the only reason she mentioned it was that Fisher saw it too? That just seems really odd to me.
My real problem with this episode is...
Why the heck do good Kirk and the crew refer to evil Kirk as the "imposter"?
Why is evil Kirk an imposter? He's not an imposter...he's just the evil side of Kirk.
For a very good reason, which Trek writers have forgotten along the way - a military officer - especially a CO - is not one of the men. He cannot be seen as vulnerable in the eyes of his crew.
Well, then, good Kirk should be referred to as the imposter. Whatever faults evil Kirk had, weakness wasn't one of them. Good Kirk was almost incapable of making decisions.
Alone in sickbay with the evil duplicate, Kirk receives a call from the landing party. Crank up the volume on your set, and you'll hear a crew member sneezing! Then you'll hear another crewmen cuss him out! I ain't making this up.
About the Deck 12 thing...
The aforementioned blueprints do not agree with the TV series on many points. (I haven't actually seen them in full, but I suspect that the plans appearing in the STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL show some of them too. Can anyone confirm this for me?)
Here are a few:
The Engineering room for instance; in the TV series there is no turbolift leading directly onto it.
The corridor outside sickbay looks quite different as well, and sickbay is on Deck 7 in the blueprints, while several episodes tell us it's on Deck 5 ("Amok Time" is one off the top of my head, although there are better examples too)
The transporters; the bluprints give us four personnel transporter rooms. The Classic Nitpickers' Guide points out the fact that there can only be one (several other episodes support this statement besides "Tomorrow is Yesterday")
In short, the blueprints do not agree with the TV series - are they both considered canon? Or is it that the blueprints are of the USS Constitution (this last fact is another on which I'm a little shakey - help?)
Of course it's not the only occassion where canon sources have clashed (ie Oxmyx/Okmyx or whatever), but personally I go for the TV series as being most authoritive, what with them coming first and everything
Therefore - the blueprints are WRONG (IMHO)
Did Rand Say that she wouldn't have mentioned anything about he captain attacking her if Fisher didn't see her? That seems odd. Maybe Spock's line at the end of the episode does make sense.
If I recall correctly, the good Kirk changes to the green V neck shirt after the transporter accident, the evil Kirk wears the gold long sleeve shirt. At the end they transport out wearing these two different shirts, but come back in just the one shirt. (I believe it was gold, which would be odd since it was only half of the original shirt.) Contrast this with the Star Trek: Voyager episode Tuvix where the creators did a very nice job of integrating Neelix and Tuvok's outfits into one.
Another good question is, where did the transporter get the extra matter to make up two Jim Kirks? (Plus those two dogs.) Since Kirk is being split in two shouldn't he arrive on the Enterprise half his size?
Same question with the two Rikers. Probably the whole replicator thing - which raises serious cloning questions.
I recently saw this one. William Shatner--Scenery Chewer, Esquire. Still, I guess he was supposed to be over-the-top as the evil Kirk, but it look silly. He did a much better job with the "good" Kirk.
GOOD SCENES
*The part where Spock and McCoy talk with the good Kirk about the pros and cons of the transporter. Each time a point is raised, the good Kirk goes along with that person, and then recants, upon hearing another point. That scene for me totally communicated how incapable of making decisions the good Kirk was.
*The ending. The part where Kirk triumphantly says "The imposter is back where he belongs!" While that's supposed to be a happy moment, it's a little sad, since Kirk is basically denying his "evil" side here. Spock gives him a little puzzled look.
I really like the scene where Scotty is talking about being unable to use the transporter to beam up the party. He says to Kirk "They might all be duplicated like y-" and almost says "you", but then catches himself and says "like the animal." It's something you might not catch the first time you see it, but it's there and it shows that Scotty is no fool, he's figured out what's going on, but he's being discreet about it.
The doors to Rand's quarters behave strangely as she tries to escape Kirk and call for help.
McCoy is nonchalant about aiding the landing party after they are finally beamed aboard. You'd think he'd rush off to attend to them.
Just before Sulu gives his last message from the planet surface, Kirk is paged by......
Lieutenant Uhura!
Lieutenant Uhura is not in this episode nor is she mentioned in the credits!
Some gentleman in yellow is at the communications panel!
I knew Uhura wasn`t in the epsiode, but that`s interesting! I must check that!
It's kinda obvious that Rand has a crush of Kirk.
When Kirk comes to sickbay, Rand tells her story of "what happened" and says something along the lines of "not reporting Kirk because she doesn't want him to get in trouble"
I guess this explains Spock's closing remarks to Rand about the "evil Kirk" having "interesting qualities"
I wonder if Rand was thinking while she talked to "evil Kirk" ... "it's about time". Too bad they removed her from the show later that season.
Grace Lee Whitney is a babe!
I understand that one of the reasons they got rid of her character was to free Kirk up to interact with various women without having Rand there in the background, looking jealous.
I'm not trying to make fun of Grace Lee whitney or anything, but I've also heard that she had a bit of an alcohol problem then too, and that was one of the reasons she was removed from the show also. I do agree, though, Mr. Lang, she was a babe.
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I only wanted to ask if anyone else has notced that practically all of the women on the classic series are...uh, how do I put it delicately...well shaped. The tight little outfits they wear are pretty revealing. As a man it makes me a little uncomfortable. I don't like to leer at women but quite honestly you can almost look up their skirts in some episodes. (To Quote Patsy on "Absolutely Fabulous" when she commented on short skirts "Everyone's a gynecologist!")
QUOTES FROM GRACE LEE WHITNEY (http://members.aol.com/starparty/glw_index.html):
On the Classic Star Trek Uniforms:
"...Everybody thinks we got rooked into it, but that's what we wanted to wear. I was very instrumental in getting us those miniskirts -- which by the way were 'skorts.' We all had shorts underneath. It started the day they were taking preproduction publicity shots of me, Shatner and Nimoy, all in the same unisex uniform. I told the costumer, 'Hey, I look just like the men. What a shame to waste my legs. You know, I've got great legs'... So we got that look together and showed it to Gene (Roddenberry). He just about fell off his chair!"
>"We all had shorts underneath"
Shorts? Those are some pretty high cut shorts . . .
There's a shot that slips by the censors
When Rand does her forward roll....
Let's just say... I see London, I see France...
(You know the rest)
GREAT LINE....
"I....AM...CAPTAIN KIRK!!!!!!!"
Delivered by the captain after he slaps the viewer off the table then bares his teeth.
It may be overacting on Shatner's part but it's believable.
DOUBLE NIT!
The "Dead alien dog" is a stuffed toy. Look carefully.
When the evil Kirk comes to the Bridge, the good Kirk shows up. The camera switches to the evil Kirk---in the background is a blank viewscreen! No planet, no stars, nothing!
Actually, I was going to send that in before but I didn`t get round to. I think it was something to do with it also being in the Compendium.
I found an even more amazing fact while sifting through my notes: Your Uhura "nit" is also there! I must ahve forgotten to send that in, or not found it interesting enough.
One thing the creators overlooked was the "Wind chill factor" on this planet.
Yesterday in Illinois, it was -10 below zero with a wind chill of -35 below zero.
So with the temperature being more than -50 degrees....
BRRRR...I'm not going to even try and figure out how cold it was when Sulu signaled the last time.
Those guys below should have been dead....sorry.
Not that I don't like Sulu & the others, mind you....it seems a bit unrealistic.....and not to mention they were diagnosed with "just" frostbite instead of MAJOR frostbite ...which can cause your extremities to break off.... well...you get the picture.
MISSED OPPORTUNITY...
After Rand finds out there's 2 Kirks running around from a transporter accident (one good, the other evil)...Rand should have stepped into the transporter too and caused herself to be split in two halves and have the evil Rand go for evil Kirk! No doubt the "evil Rand" would slip into skin tight leather and carry a whip! That would've made this episode a lot more interesting!
GREAT SCENE: The "good Kirk" sits in a chair with the "evil Kirk" lying in the sickbay bed.
FLAWLESSLY EXECUTED! KUDOS!
Once again, the doors show remarkable sensitivity in this episode...when "evil Kirk" enters the Captain's quarters, he leans against the doors and they stay shut! I guess those doors DO know when someone is ailing and needs their support!
(It happened before in "The Naked Time")
After the Captain beams up, he goes to his quarters...and Yeoman Rand is there waiting for him. Proof...PROOF that Kirk has a "Beautiful Babe Bypass Button somewhere on the outside of his cabin. [BBBB]
This incident adds to the "interestest qualities" remark too (IMHO)
I counted at least two times in which Kirk's "dark side" leaned on the wall near a sliding door...once in Rand's quarters, the other time in his own...at what point do these doors open anyway?
Freeze frame the scenes of Kirk screaming, "I'm Captain Kirk!" as the good-Kirk is warning the crew that the imposter can be identified by scratches on his face, and you'll see a truly scarey, animal-like expression on Shatner's face. Way to go, Bill!
If the thermal heaters duplicated when they were beamed down, why not beam down ten blankets, which would duplicate into 20 blankets, hmmmmm????
I don't think anyone can get past the why-not-send-the-shuttlecraft syndrome. Okay, the mock-up wasn't built at that time, but in the original drawings of the Enterprise for the tv show as she was in pre-production design, the hangar deck is clearly marked, which means they always intended for shuttles to be used. If only they'd included a line of dialogue explaining why the ship didn't have any on board...
Or better yet, if the thermal heaters were duplicated, why not take some of the parts from heater "A" and combine them with heater "B" to make at least one functioning heater unit?
Maybe the heaters weren't just rendered inoperable, but maybe their molecular structure was unstable and they fell apart? Blankets beamed down would just disintegreate, too.
Curse that yellow ore that Fisher brought up!!!
Or perhaps the same parts were damaged in both heaters.
Why does the rejoined Kirk speak from the point of view of good Kirk at the end? And he gets surprised when Janice tells him the "imposter" explained everying? Shouldn't rejoined Kirk have the memories of evil Kirk too?
TRIVIA: What is Rand's cabin number?
The opening shot of the Enterprise approaching the planet is flipped.
Some of the #2 phasers have tan handles on them...normally, the handles are black.
Kirk must be hard of hearing....
After Spock leaves Kirk's quarters, the creators cut away to the Transporter room, Kirk enters, Scott explains that the alien doggy was duplicated via the transporter malfunction. Not too long after that, after Spock says, "We have an impostor on board" and the shot of the Enterprise "leaving" the planet, the creators take us back to the Transporter room and Scotty is informing Kirk about the alien doggy & the transporter malfunction AGAIN!!!! Deaf, Kirk?
SILLY LINE: Wouldn't ya' know it? McCoy's classic line of "He's / She's / It's / dead, Jim" comes at a silly time....Specifically, after the alien doggy is restored back to normal, it just lies there motionless...McCoy says, "He's dead, Jim!"
Well, of course he is...it's only a stuffed toy....it was never alive to begin with!"
ANSWER: 3C 46
FUNNY THOUGHT: Phil noted that Kirk & Sulu are missing their insignias during the opening scene on the planet surface...It's possible they were missing because Kirk & Sulu just got done performing for the crew a rendition of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" ("Badges? We don't need no steenkin' badges!) and forgot to put their insignias back on!
One of the shots of the Enterprise has no planet below it...and they're supposed to be in orbit!
NANJAO: This episode gives us the "first look" at phaser # 2
Interesting line: "Oh, my"
Kirk says it after he views the good & evil alien dogs for the first time.
It's interesting because he says, "Oh, my" in "Generations"
The phasers in the early episodes had white handles. I think TPTB changed to the black handled ones midway through season one. In the shot John spoke of, I believe the phaser had a white handle. (Pick, pick, pick.)
Posted by John A. Lang
GREAT LINE....
"I....AM...CAPTAIN KIRK!!!!!!!"
Delivered by the captain after he slaps the viewer off the table then bares his teeth.
The best part of that scene is when Kirk is saying the line, you can see a filled tooth in the lower left of his mouth ... it's nice to see that 23rd century dentistry is still using some of the "old standards".
LESLIE ALERT!
Mr. Leslie is one of the technicians in blue that is stranded with Sulu.
(Gadzooks! Mr. Leslie is a "jack of all trades, ain't he?)
Mystery solved!
Why did McCoy have a bottle of Saurian brandy in sickbay? Because if Phlox's methods of using cures other than drugs is any indication, the stuff is probably also used for actual medicinal purposes! McCoy isn't an alkie, after all. Does Scotty know that bottle is there? Maybe that's Scotty's 'prescription' for when he visits?
Is that the brandy from the Island of Saur on the Planet Trichinosis, or from the planet Saurianita that happens to have a production facility that makes brandy?
Maybe it's a brandy made from lizards?
It's the brandy that the morning after you drink it you're real sauri.
When Rand is being questioned about the attack, she says, "He said he was the captain...he could order me..." But evil Kirk never said that. Is she wishing that he had?
When she leaves sickbay in that scene, the door sound effect is heard while the door is visible behind Kirk and is closed.
Spock says he has a human half and an "alien half." From Spock's point of view, his own half-heritage wouldn't be alien. That would only be true from humans' point of view.
If I recall correctly, the good Kirk changes to the green V neck shirt after the transporter accident, the evil Kirk wears the gold long sleeve shirt. At the end they transport out wearing these two different shirts, but come back in just the one shirt. (I believe it was gold, which would be odd since it was only half of the original shirt.)
Actually, they were both wearing a green shirt when they go through the transporter together at the end. Of course, those shirts were never split, so they shouldn't be "reunited."
Kirk and Spock told the crew that the double was an imposter. But wouldn't they be curious later why the imposter never showed up in the brig? Also, Kirk was saying "Can half a man live?" in front of the bridge crew. That should have made them doubt the official story. But on the other side of the coin, he refers to the double as an imposter at the end when he's talking only to Spock, who knows that isn't true.
Seems a little unusual for Scotty to use a handheld communicator for an intraship call to Kirk in sickbay.
When did the evil Kirk get bloody knuckles? Rand only scratched his face, so either his fight with Fisher was longer, and we didn't see it, or Fisher was knocked out, and Rand fought the evil Kirk a little more. That might explain why she said that Kirk said he was the Captain, but we never saw this line spoken, making it look like Rand is confused or making up parts of her story.
To confirm that there's a double, why not give the good Kirk a breathlyzer test for traces of saurian brandy? They'd find zero trace amounts of alcohol in his system, thus confirming the existence of a double.
What would have happened if the evil Kirk had beamed back down to the planet, alone? Would he have been split into a second evil Kirk? Or would his dark side have been split into a Kirk that was evil, and one that was just plain vicious?
And just imagine how evil the Mirror-Universe Kirk would be if he were split into two!
Although the evil Kirk is part of the real Kirk's character (as all of us have a 'dark side'), I guess you could say when Kirk loses control we see the 'evil' Kirk again. Times such as in 'Star Trek II'; "Khan, you bloodsucker!!!" & "KHAAAAAANN!!", and 'Spectre Of The Gun'; "Can't you get it through your head! I can't murder them! I can't kill them!!!" & his fight with Earp that was a little more brutal than usual.
WHOA--Rand is HOT! I mean, REAL HOT! So hot, she steams up the mirror when she looks into it. (There is definately a frost or mist on Rand's mirror when she looks into it)
I'm REAL ticked off at the editors at the Sci-Fi channel. Two of my favorite shots from this episode were cut:
When Spock and the good Kirk first walk into Engineering looking for the Impostor, we see a wide shot of the Engine Room, with Kirk and Spock filmed from the back of their legs.
When the two Kirks enter the Transporter chamber, we also see them photographed from the back.
Some scenes that were cut by WPIX are back in. Still, these shots represented excellent work by Jerry Finnerman. They total no more than seven seconds. Would it have killed them to have left the shots in?
That's why I stick with my DVDs when I want to watch TOS...they're uncut.
Just today I noticed a weird thing when Kirk beams in at the beginning. It appears that there is "smoke" at the top of his head while the beaming in effect is going on. Perhaps thats what Scotty meant by the transporter burning up or burning in. I wonder if that was there from part of the effect that was used to make the beam in and now I wonder how many other episodes have this in it.
Now that I watch other beamins.. It does! Perhaps this is common knowledge but in being a devout trekker over 30 yrs, I have never noticed this and I have watched these episodes on tape 10s and 20s of times!!
Leo Penn, who directed this episode, is the father of actor Sean Penn. Maybe Sean Penn modeled his famous temper tantrums after the evil Kirk seen here.
If the thermal heaters duplicated when they were beamed down, why not beam down ten blankets, which would duplicate into 20 blankets, hmmmmm????
For that matter, why couldn't they try to beam down tents of some kind? They would have provided better protection against the cold.
A long time ago, I saw the question about using the shuttlecraft to rescue Sulu's team in Trek fanzine. Their version of Phil posited that, the planet had some VERY BAD storms at night (hurricane force, perhaps?) which made it absolutely necessary to forgo flight operations.
My impression of the thermal heaters: once beamed, mechanical/electronic parts failed. Blankets would not have them, therefore they should have been easily duplicatable. Tents...maybe even corridor walls could have been sent down to provide some shelter. Maybe the planet has trees or even a forest (the dog is mammalian, implying a somewhat temperate climate...); beam the trees up, then down toward's Sulu's camp, then phaser them to create bonfires...
"If the thermal heaters duplicated when they were beamed down, why not beam down ten blankets, which would duplicate into 20 blankets, hmmmmm????"
Because they would be EVIL blankets and attack and devour Sulu and co. during the night.
The whole reason behind the two 'Kirks'; the transporter malfunction. Why didn't they use the shuttlecraft to rescue Sulu. At the temps mentioned on the planet's surface, I would have thought Sulu would have froze to death.
NGen, see these posts:
If the rejoining of Kirk is such a tricky operation, why isn't Scotty---the Chief Engineer performing this operation?
I'm not entirely convinced that the opening scene is photo-flipped, despite the missing insignias. Phil says it goes back to normal after Fisher falls, but the curl on Sulu's forehead stays the same. The label on the specimen box says something about "botany" forwards, not backwards.
The insignia on the evil Kirk's shirt disappears and reappears. It's gone while he's screaming on the sick bay bed, but back when the good Kirk is holding his hand.
The filming of the two Kirks in engineering was clever for the most part. There's a slight twitch a few times when they cut between Kirks. A conveniently-placed screen veils Shatner's double. However, they blow it after Spock pinches the evil Kirk. There's a closeup of Kirk, and somebody that only vaugely looks like Kirk. They should have had him face away from the camera or put his arm across his face.
The switch from "the transporter will take a week to repair" to "we may have found an answer" was awful quick. Maybe Spock collared Scotty and told him this was the wrong time for a 4x repair estimate.
Anti-nit (to a comment above): by the time they're rejoined, they are both wearing the green wraparound tunic. The evil Kirk switched to it to try to impersonate the good Kirk after knocking him out in sick bay.
Anyway, I meant that that's why he didn't end up wearing a merged gold/green uniform. As for why he didn't end up with two, I think it's just that initially, anything that went into the transporter got doubled. When Kirk was rejoined, Spock had it set to merge anything that was in the transporter. It didn't matter whether it was something that had been split before. Good thing there wasn't a fly on his uniform. (Though I can really hear Shatner screaming "HEEELPP MEEEEEE!")
I remember the first shot of the episode being reversed at one time, too. Now, it's not. My only explanation is - someone fixed it, either for the DVD, or even as far back as 1985, when new syndication prints were made.
The one shot of Scotty at the transporter console was re-used in "Assignment: Earth." By the way, whatever happened to that picture of space on the starboard bulkhead of the transporter room? It disappeared after "The Doomsday Machine," the last episode I remember it was there.
Ed Madden, who plays Fisher, had a similar role (a geologist) in "The Cage." Was his name Fisher there, too?
I've been watching the Season One set, this and "Mudd's Women" just today before coming online, and I've been watching out for something that I'd heard about only within the last few years but never noticed before cuz when I used to watch ST the most I'd never heard of the word "nitpick" or knew to watch out for mistakes or even just thought of it at the time.
Anyway, what I've been watching out for is any tiny showing of James Doohan's hands to see which one has a missing finger cuz I couldn't remember which one it was. In the first few eps he's in I noticed him hiding his right hand a lot, like behind objects or tucking it against himself, and then I finally noticed the missing finger in this episode - twice! The first time is at one point when his hands are shown in closeup as he operates the transporter slide control and there's a noticable gap where a third finger should be curled alongside the others. The second time is when Scotty and Spock are looking down into the cage of the "evil" alien animal and Scotty reaches inside to grab it by its scruff and you can clearly see (especially if you freezeframe at the exact right time) his right middle finger is missing.
What I DON'T understand is, if
Sulu and the other Crewman were freezing to Death on the Planet Surface, and the Transporters weren't working,
Why Not Rescue them using the ShuttleCraft
Maybe the shuttlecraft couldn't navigate through the storms.
The shuttle nit has been discussed many times before. In fact, Phil mentioned it in the Guide.
The SciFi cut of the episode doesn't have the photoflipped opening.
CG enhancing: Following up on an idea in the Space: 1999 threads, if Star Trek the Classic Series could be enhanced with CG, these are ideas I have for this episode.
There is a cutting error in this episode.
1. Spock leaves Kirk (Jekyll) in his quarters trying to recover from being split.
2. Then, Spock and Kirk (Jekyll) enter the transporter room at Scotty's summons. Kirk looks at the savage Alfapooch (that's what I call the dog-like critter found on Alfa 177) while Scotty says, "If this should happen to a man!" Kirk has the horrific realization that this is what happened to him, and it explains "his" assault on Rand and Fisher.
3. Then, we go to Janice Rand returning to her quarters and having her unfortunate encounter with Kirk (Hyde). After Kirk (Hyde) belts Fisher, we cut to Kirk (Jekyll) saying to Spock, "Me?! I've been resting here since you left me." They go to Sick Bay, where they interview Rand, and Spock says, "We have an impostor aboard."
4. Next, they are back in the transporter room with Kirk (Jekyll) holding the docile Alfapooch. Why aren't they searching for the impostor? Why are they back in the transporter room?
Scene 1 should be followed by Scene 3, then by Scene 2, fade, then go to Scene 4. (1) Kirk (Jekyll) stays in his quarters while (3) Rand returns to hers, has the encounter with Kirk (Hyde), then Spock comes to speak to Kirk (Jekyll) about his alleged assault of Rand and Fisher, and demanding brandy from McCoy. They visit Sick Bay, interview Rand, and Spock assumes there is an impostor aboard. Then (2) they show up in the transporter room at Scotty's request, and they realize the Alfapooch gives them evidence of what they can now conjecture happened to Kirk. Fade. Now, (4) Kirk (Jekyll) is holding the docile Alfapooch.
Other than that, this episode doesn't seem to have any glaring problems except in terms of plot holes: why didn't they use the shuttlecraft? I suppose you could insert a tactical display on various view screens, including the one in the briefing room, with a condition statement stating that the planet's ionosphere is crystalized (an idea from the novel "Ship of the Line").
When Kirk (Hyde) looks at Janice Rand's door plate and smiles, there is an open turbo-lift visible behind him.
When Spock comes to Kirk's quarters, we hear a knock! Should be the buzzer that was in use at least as of "The Conscience of the King".
When the two Kirks fight in Sick Bay and the evil Kirk wins, during the fight, the medpanel heartbeat thump sound continues, even though neither man is on the cot any longer. If there is music that can be used instead, it could be dubbed in here instead of the heartbeat sound.
Scenes on the bridge during the final confrontation between Kirk and Kirk show a white main viewscreen.
I've got a crazy new theory about the two Kirks;
The 'evil' Kirk is the 'real' Kirk!
Here's why;
Humanity started out with a pretty nasty savage streak, and only through thousands of years of civilization has it evolved into what we are now, with common sense, logic, and compassion overriding our basic desire to kill or hurt others that we don't like.
Therefore, the 'evil' Kirk was the 'true' Kirk, the one that was born, whereas the 'good' Kirk was the person he evolved into as he grew up, learned what was right and what was wrong, and taught to care about others over his primal needs or urges.
The 'evil' Kirk came up second, you say? True, but that could mean the 'true' Kirk was in stasis, while the transporter reconstituted his opposite nature first.
I wonder what these events seemed like in the Mirror Universe? They wouldn't call Kirk's 'evil' side 'evil'. Probably his 'command' side, and the 'good' side would be his 'soft' side. Maybe they didn't even recombine his two sides, and just left the 'evil' side, thinking that it was an improvement
I own a copy of Matheson's script. His end for ACT I is the Transporter room "Oh My God" scene. For whatever reason this scene was put in earlier and a scene that Matheson had written for earlier in the script was put in as the Act I end instead (Spock's "We have an imposter onboard").
Makes everybody look dumb.
Sir Rhosis
Maybe it's just my DVD player, but watch the transporter carefully in this episode. I think I saw weird-looking wisps of smoke when Kirk was being transporterd.
That would be consistent with Scotty musing about the problem beaming up Fisher and saying, "That acted like a burn-out.". Obviously, the system was getting fried as Kirk beamed up.
Once the two Kirk's are re-joined, the whole Kirk should have two sets of memories; those of his 'good' side talking to Spock about McCoy in his quarters, in the transporter room finding out about the two alien dogs, and his conversations with Sulu on the surface, while he should ALSO remember attacking Rand, the feel of her nails scratching his face, Spock neck-pinching him, and attacking his weaker twin in sickbay. That ought to scramble his perception somewhat! Rand tells the re-joined Kirk that the so-called 'imposter' told him what had happened, and Kirk says, "Oh?" as if he was unaware of it, but he should know what happened! The imposter was never an imposter, it was him!
And while I'm on the subject of Rand, it seems like she was apologizing to Kirk for accusing him (the good Kirk) of the assault, when in fact I think Kirk owes Rand a big apology. Kirk is responsible for the actions of his crew, but moreso for himself, in whatever form he possesses, so Rand shouldn't have acted like she was sorry for the attack.
Yes. She was sorry for not being more submissive. 
Once the two Kirk's are re-joined, the whole Kirk should have two sets of memories; those of his 'good' side talking to Spock about McCoy in his quarters, in the transporter room finding out about the two alien dogs, and his conversations with Sulu on the surface, while he should ALSO remember attacking Rand, the feel of her nails scratching his face, Spock neck-pinching him, and attacking his weaker twin in sickbay. That ought to scramble his perception somewhat! Rand tells the re-joined Kirk that the so-called 'imposter' told him what had happened, and Kirk says, "Oh?" as if he was unaware of it, but he should know what happened! The imposter was never an imposter, it was him! - Will
Let's remember, throughout the episode, it's mentioned that for the most part, men repress their darker sides. It's possible that while Kirk does retain the memories of the Dark-Kirk, those memories are buried deep within his subconscious and not readily accessible.
Live long and prosper.
NANJAO: Just read a copy of Matheson's FIRST DRAFT. Rand is the one who coyly mentions that she hopes the "evil Kirk" is not "dead," as she found him to have some "interesting qualities." At which Kirk looks taken aback and Rand smiles suggestively and walks off.
I'm not kidding. It is written this way. I'll send a scan of the final two pages to anyone who asks.
Sir Rhosis
Sounds like something I would've written.
McCoy orders an "autopsy in depth" of the "dead alien dog" (thanks John) from Alpha-177 when recombining its halves kills it. But, the correct term for an animal autopsy is "necropsy," and McCoy should have known that. Plus, that may establish that the Enterprise carries a veterinary surgeon.
The shuttlecraft nit did not need to occur. After realizing that the transporter was unusable, Kirk could have ordered someone to go pick up the landing party with a shuttle, with Sulu and company being seen back on the ship a little later. There was no real need to show the shuttle, just suggest through some lines dialogue that it was being used.
However, if you insist on stranding the landing party on the planet, then Sulu himself provided the perfect way to keep them warm and safe until the transporter could be repaired. He was using hand phasers to heat up rocks that were then used to provide some warmth. Why not use the ship's phasers to heat up a whole hill upwind from the landing party? That would have very effectively protected them from the cold.
I suspect that they hadn't yet come up with the concept of a shuttlecraft. Of course, us Nitpickers don't deal with reality!!! 
Francois - Why not use the ship's phasers to heat up a whole hill upwind from the landing party?
Possibly starting a fire?
Probably killing any plants & animals that live there?
Perhaps activating a volatile substance that explodes when heated too quickly?
Although it is an interesting idea.
IIRC didn't Sulu & company just stay out in the open? Couldn't they have found a cave or something that would give them shelter?
>The shuttlecraft nit did not need to occur. >After realizing that the transporter was >unusable, Kirk could have ordered someone to go >pick up the landing party with a shuttle, with >Sulu and company being seen back on the ship a >little later. There was no real need to show the >shuttle, just suggest through some lines >dialogue that it was being used.
But this would have completely removed the primary dramatic crisis from the storyline - the need to find a solution to the transporter malfunction before the landing party froze to death.
What they could have done was added a line of dialogue stating that the hostile climate of the planet made safely piloting a shuttle down to it impossible.
>But this would have completely removed the
>primary dramatic crisis from the storyline -
>the need to find a solution to the transporter
>malfunction before the landing party froze to
>death.
Indeed, but this is an example of CDTOSFDE, Conveniently Disregarding The Obvious Solution For Dramatic Effect. Simply saying that the shuttle could not land because of weather condition would have been almost as bad. First, these shuttles strike me as very sturdy ships, capable of handling very bad conditions. The weather would have needed to be REALLY bad to stop one. Second, knowing how the crew of the Enterprise normally behaves, they would have tried anyway. That could even have escalated the dramatic crisis, by adding a stranded shuttle crew in need of rescue. Finally, if the writer didn't want to send a shuttle to the rescue, he could have come up with a reason why there was no shuttle available at that particular time, especially a writer of Matheson's caliber. Oh well, I guess hindsight is always 20/20 =8)
Why is Spock injecting the alien dog? Is he the ship's vet?
INTERESTING NOTE:
When Spock orders, "Survival procedures", Sulu replies, "Per YOUR training program, Mr. Spock" (Emphasis mine)
Apparently, Spock has offered to the crew some Vulcan training procedures on top of Starfleet's survival procedures. This would make sense seeing how Vulcan survival procedure may differ from Starfleet survival procedures.
yeah, but vulcan survival procedures probably don't place emphasis on finding water and other human requirements
Perhaps not. But they probably focus on survival in harsh environments. (IE extreme heat, extreme cold etc.)
this epasode promotes nothing but sexual violence agaisnt women. its pathetic. it should be banned from the airwaves.
Rona, is that you?
This 'epasode' does NOT promote violence against women! It's a fictional story of a fictional man whose soul is split into a good part and a bad part and offers insight into the fictional character of that fictional man. Evil Kirk also beats up THREE MEN during the course of the episode, so are we to believe it promotes violence against MEN because they outnumber Rand?
To quote Bill Shatner; "It's JUST a tv show! Get a life!"
Well, it's the issue of confusing character motivation with writer motivation. Believe me, I've had and to be honest still have this problem at times when it comes to fiction.
Maybe it's something Kirk's evil side (ie, his id or desires) maybe had thought about doing but his good side (ie, his Superego or conscience) kept him from doing. Take away the conscience and the desire has nothing to keep it under control. Hense, you have "evil" Kirk.
To have Evil Kirk not behave as such would be unrealistic. It's in the same way that not showing or mentioning the Borg assimilating people (or at least trying to) woulden't make much sence.
What it boils down to is, if one doesen't like portrayals about such behavior, one shoulden't watch shows or episodes of shows that portray it.
ENHANCED LETDOWN
Yes...there's one letdown so far.
One of the closeups of Scotty in the Transporter Room is still dirty and scratchy.
I guess the film was too far gone to restore.
I saw this episode while in college and they always cut out the forward view of the Enterprise in act 4, usually its the rear shot.Suddenly it was spliced in..the vhs uncut version I bought
showed the rear view silent shot..
mmmmmmmmmmmm...hope the enhanced version get forward view shot
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the actors coulda explained why not use a shuttle!
(I know, I know they werent there until Galileo 7)
The remastered "The Enemy Within" airs next weekend. Very little to do here, just a few orbital establishing shots.
For some reason, my local station aired it today rather than Sunday.
Anyway, the only changes are the new orbital shots around Alfa 177. Sulu's phaser shot on the rocks is unchanged.
In addition to being plain white, the viewscreen at the end is missing the blinking lights below it.
I wonder if CBS Digital could have added the missing insignia on Kirk's shirt. If they could, they chose not to.
I saw it at midnight Saturday here in the NYC area by dumb luck; I was preusing the digital channel guide, and I found out that the usual Sunday at 6 run was being pre-empted.
Fortunately my TiVo caught it.
I thought it would be more likely they'd add a starfield or planet scene to the blank viewscreen.
Another goof is the scene where good Kirk stands over the unconscious evil Kirk after Spock pinches him in Engineering. It's all too obvious it's Shatner's double lying on the floor. I suspect they planned a split-screen, but didn't have the time/money to complete the effect. The rest of the shots are cleverly set up so you don't see both faces at once.
Hey Alan, and Adam- I caught the end of act 4 while channel surfing, Kcba Fox 35...wish they'd be consistant...Sunday at 4pm pst.
I wish they'd fixed the scene sequence error, but they didn't. Back in the 1970s, Lincoln Enterprises sold shooting scripts - anyone here ever buy them? That would establish once and for all if it was written correctly but edited incorrectly for broadcast.
Enemy within is one of the last two episodes to be remastered.or repeated anyways, next week.
Alien upon us, the enemy from within! The enemy! Next week! (Yes, the quote is from a different episode.)
As far as I know, remastered TOS will continue in syndication after the season ends on 9/6 (with "The Ultimate Computer"). I haven't seen a schedule yet.
If you haven't seen a schedule yet, then how can you say it will continue as far as you know?
TrekMovie.com seems to think so: http://trekmovie.com/2008/04/18/trek-remastered-schedule-change/
Adam Bomb: McCoy orders an "autopsy in depth" of the "dead alien dog" (thanks John) from Alpha-177 when recombining its halves kills it. But, the correct term for an animal autopsy is "necropsy," and McCoy should have known that. Plus, that may establish that the Enterprise carries a veterinary surgeon.
Perhaps that phraseology has changed by Kirk's time. They live in a world that has aliens it could get rather complicated to decide what constitutes an animal vs a being as it were.
Scotty says, "We don't dare send Mr.Sulu and the others up..."
Shouldn't that be 'BRING Mr.Sulu and the others up..."?
Kirk tells Spock there's no problem, and he'll let McCoy that Spock was 'properly annoyed'. There is definite annoyance on Spock's face, but that's an emotion that he shouldn't possess, and should argue that he's incapable of that.
Spock's superior hearing was established later on, but if we're nitpicking here that it should still count, then Spock should have heard evil Kirk jump down from the engine/reactor.
Act 2 begins with a log entry by 'Second Officer Spock'. Who's First Officer? Did the writer think that the Second Officer was second-in-command after the captain and didn't know the term 'First Officer'?
I think the producers decided to change the cliffhanger for Act 1, judging by the awkward change of events.
-Starting with...Evil Kirk demanding brandy.
-Spock visits Kirk, telling him McCoy said he 'acted like a wild man'.
- Kirk and Spock visit Scotty in the transporter room, who reveals the 2 dogs and says they don't dare beam up Sulu and the others. Close-up on Kirk as he mutters, "Oh, my..."
-Evil Kirk attacks Janice Rand
-Spock confronts Kirk about the attack, and Kirk insists that he hasn't left his quarters, 'since you left me', meaning Spock's concern about McCoy's 'wild man' comment.
- Kirk, Spock, and McCoy talk to Janice in sickbay, leading Spock to suggest, "We have an imposter on board." Close-up of Kirk as he considers this.
-Act 2 begins with Kirk and Spock in the transporter room, holding the alien dog.
It seems like they switched the alien dog scene with the imposter claim, because Kirk seems to refer to the first visit by Spock, even though he didn't stay in his quarters-- we saw him go to the transporter room, and then Act 2 begins as if it lead right from Scotty's warning not to beam up Sulu.
This is an obvious cutting error that ruins a proper sequence. I'd hoped they'd fix it for the remaster, but they didn't.
The following are numbered in ideal sequence:
1. Spock leaves Kirk (Jekyll) in his quarters trying to recover from being split. Kirk seems content to stay there, feeling tired and unenergetic.
3. Then, Spock and Kirk (Jekyll) enter the transporter room at Scotty's summons. Kirk looks at the savage Alfapooch (that's what I call the dog-like critter found on Alfa 177) while Scotty says, "If this should happen to a man!" Kirk has the horrific realization that this is what happened to him, and it explains "his" assault on Rand and Fisher.
2. Then, we go to Janice Rand returning to her quarters and having her unfortunate encounter with Kirk (Hyde). After Kirk (Hyde) belts Fisher, we cut to Kirk (Jekyll) saying to Spock, "Me?! I've been resting here since you left me." They go to Sick Bay, where they interview Rand, and Spock says, "We have an impostor aboard."
4. Next, they are already back in the transporter room with Kirk (Jekyll) holding the docile Alfapooch. Why aren't they searching for the impostor? Why are they back in the transporter room?
Scene 1 should be followed by Scene 2, then by Scene 3, fade, then go to Scene 4. (1) Kirk (Jekyll) stays in his quarters while (2) Rand returns to hers, has the encounter with Kirk (Hyde), then Spock comes to speak to Kirk (Jekyll) about his alleged assault of Rand and Fisher, and demanding brandy from McCoy. They visit Sick Bay, interview Rand, and Spock assumes there is an impostor aboard. Then (3) they show up in the transporter room at Scotty's request, and they realize the Alfapooch gives them evidence of what they can now conjecture happened to Kirk. Fade. Now, (4) Kirk (Jekyll) is holding the docile Alfapooch.
The way the episode was assembled, Kirk returns to the transporter room and then he and Spock continue discussing the double. Yet in the immediately preceding scene, Spock told Kirk in Sickbay, "We have an impostor aboard!" And in the scene before that, before Janice's assault, Kirk's exclamation at Scotty's remark "If this should happen to a man..." indicates he's figured out the as-yet-unmentioned impostor.
Back when I had the VHS tapes of the episodes, I actually made a copy of the episode from it, cut into proper order by retaping, pausing, fastforwarding, then going back, then fastforwarding.
I counted at least 3 bottles of Saurian Brandy in the cabinet in Sickbay.
Someone call AA
All the good nits are taken
However, as far as news is concerned, it seems TV is still around...
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In a scene deleted from the theatrical version of Star Trek VI, but seen on the original tape and DVD releases, Valeris slides down a pole, and informs Spock and Scotty that Gorkon's daughter was appointed the new Klingon chancellor. She says "It was on the news". Whether she got her news from a 23rd century form of TV or radio was not noted.
Kirk says, "Our good doctor has been putting you on again!", which sounds like previous to this episode McCoy has had a habit of playing pranks or teasing Spock.
Scotty tells Wilson to get a 'synchronic meter', just before they beam Kirk up. Wilson leaves, and Scotty beams up Kirk, anyway, without this device. Shouldn't he have waited, just in case something else went wrong in beaming?
Kirk obviously feels weak and totally out of it upon returning, but he doesn't mention this to Scotty or McCoy. Shouldn't he have told either one or both that something went wrong during beaming? Instead he was too macho to complain about a legitimate problem. He should have mentioned this, because the next men to be beamed up, Sulu, Leslie, and the others, would probably encounter the same physical draining that Kirk experienced.
Here's a funny "Scene We Didn't See" 
from this episode, courtesy of the blog "My Star Trek Scrapbook". Enjoy.
I realize this episode was made long before DNA testing became standard practice, but in that reality, McCoy could have examined the bits of skin and blood under Rand's nails to match it with that of Kirk. It might make it seem like Kirk is guilty, but a full body examination of 'good' Kirk would show that it wasn't him, but rather the 'imposter'.
Some behind-the-scenes info on this episode can be read here, courtesy of These Are The Voyages. Note the stills of Shatner with his double, Don Eitner.
Greg Cox revisited this idea of the transporter splitting someone into two halves in his novel, Foul Deeds Will Rise (this novel also brings back Lenore Karidian).
I realize this episode was made long before DNA testing became standard practice, but in that reality, McCoy could have examined the bits of skin and blood under Rand's nails to match it with that of Kirk. It might make it seem like Kirk is guilty, but a full body examination of 'good' Kirk would show that it wasn't him, but rather the 'imposter'.
Another instance of reality catching up with the show.
I can't find my copy of Phil's book, so apologies if this has already been mentioned.
Wilson is sent to get a synchronic meter and exits the transporter room. After "bad" Kirk transports aboard, Wilson returns. We can't see his hands, but the position of his arms would seem to indicate that he isn't carrying anything. Of course, we could explain this by suggesting that he couldn't find the meter.
That's probably what happened.
Of course, the real reason was to get everyone out of the Transporter Room, when "evil" Kirk materialized.
It's always bothered me that the transporter sound effect went on so long after evil Kirk beamed aboard and the sparkle effect dissipated, but maybe this was intentional? It proves the transporter isn't functiuoning properly!
Neck pinches from Spock sure do vary in the series. Sometimes somebody can recover in a short time, and others like this one, where evil Kirk is able to be carried all the way up from engineering to sickbay, last a long time.
Kirk's evil twin in the transporter room, prior to the rejoining, sure is quiet and submissive. He was freaking out on the bridge a few minutes ago, and now he can just stand there, silent, as his good side hugs him.
This was clearly the inspiration for the Logan's Run episode, Half Life.
In that episode involves a city that splits its citizens into positive and negative halves using a transporter like device. While the positive halves get to live in the city, the negative halves are exiled to the wilderness outside.
Needless to say, the negatives are not happy.
During the course of the episodes, Jessica too is split into a positive and negative half.
In the end, it all works out. The people of the city realize that they were wrong and plans are made to reintegrate all the positive and negative halves back together.
And this isn't the only Star Trek connection between the two, as Half Life had a young Kim Cattrall (who would have been about 21 at the time) as a guest star.
She would play Valeris in STVI: The Undiscovered Country.
D.C Fontana worked on both shows, after all.
Kirk comments on how cold the planet's temperature would fall, and Sulu playfully comments, "That's nippy!". Looking back, an Asian actor saying the word 'nippy' seems a little...bad...these days.
Spock knocks on Kirk's cabin door to announce his presence. Is Kirk's buzzer broken?
Never noticed this in all of my viewings; forget Kirk's Starfleet emblem on his shirt disappearing and later appearing, because in Engineering his phaser changes shape! Far shots of evil Kirk holding a phaser are pretty clearly of the smaller Phaser # 1, while a close-up of Kirk's hand shows a phaser pistol, which is what Wilson had on him, until evil-Kirk took it from him.
Spock speaks to Sulu on the planet via the computer in the briefing room, instead of an intercom link. The intercom isn't lit as he speaks to Sulu, and he even closes communications with a button on the computer, not the intercom.
I've never understood Sulu's line, "Can't see clearly, Doctor, to read top indicator. Think the cold...penetrating...communicator." Maybe the cold is making Sulu delirious, but what does 'Doctor, to read top indicator' mean?
I don't think it was good-Kirk's pep talk to his evil double that brought his life readings back up, when they determined evil-Kirk was dying. I think it was the holding of hands, skin-to-skin contact that did it, since that would be the only time they were close to being a 'whole' lifeform.
Kirk comments on how cold the planet's temperature would fall, and Sulu playfully comments, "That's nippy!". Looking back, an Asian actor saying the word 'nippy' seems a little...bad...these days.
Spock knocks on Kirk's cabin door to announce his presence. Is Kirk's buzzer broken?
Never noticed this in all of my viewings; forget Kirk's Starfleet emblem on his shirt disappearing and later appearing, because in Engineering his phaser changes shape! Far shots of evil Kirk holding a phaser are pretty clearly of the smaller Phaser # 1, while a close-up of Kirk's hand shows a phaser pistol, which is what Wilson had on him, until evil-Kirk took it from him.
Spock speaks to Sulu on the planet via the computer in the briefing room, instead of an intercom link. The intercom isn't lit as he speaks to Sulu, and he even closes communications with a button on the computer, not the intercom.
I've never understood Sulu's line, "Can't see clearly, Doctor, to read top indicator. Think the cold...penetrating...communicator." Maybe the cold is making Sulu delirious, but what does 'Doctor, to read top indicator' mean?
I don't think it was good-Kirk's pep talk to his evil double that brought his life readings back up, when they determined evil-Kirk was dying. I think it was the holding of hands, skin-to-skin contact that did it, since that would be the only time they were close to being a 'whole' lifeform.
I've never understood Sulu's line, "Can't see clearly, Doctor, to read top indicator. Think the cold...penetrating...communicator." Maybe the cold is making Sulu delirious, but what does 'Doctor, to read top indicator' mean?
You've answered your own question, Steve.
Freezing to death does make one delirious.