Let That Be Your Last Battlefield : The Enemy Within : The Changeling.
Summary[]
A strange magnetic ore leads to a transporter malfunction that splits Kirk into one aggressive and one cautious person. The two Kirks struggle for the control of the ship, but it also becomes obvious that they are dependent on one another. After the malfunction has been discovered and, moreover, the "evil" Kirk has damaged the transporter circuits, Sulu and his landing party down on the planet can't be beamed up while the temperature is falling rapidly.
Spock and Scott devise a method to merge the two Kirks again. When they test it on an alien dog that has been split up in the same fashion, the animal dies because of the stress. But Spock affirms that his intelligence would spare the captain that fate. The two Kirks are re-assembled successfully, and the landing party can be beamed up in time.
Errors and explanations[]
The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers[]
Plot Oversights[]
- Rand acting as if everything is back to normal, so soon after being attacked by 'evil' Kirk. She is a professional, and understands the uniqueness of the situation.
Equipment Oddities[]
- Non appearance of a shuttlecraft. They may be out of service for maintenance, or rejected for use in case contact with the magnetic ore damaged them enough to prevent their return.
- The beam from Sulu's phaser sweeping across the rocks. This could be an experimental setting.
Continuity and Production Problems[]
- Kirk turning twice after being restored. He must be testing the integration of his two halves.
Nit Central[]
- Anonymous on Saturday, December 26, 1998 - 7:31 pm - 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. Mf on Sunday, December 27, 1998 - 11:44 am - That's because Rand trusts the captain. And because she has a crush on him.
- Johnny Veitch on Thursday, February 18, 1999 - 12:56 pm - 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 Maneuver and clear up the "unknown to us...." nit from The Naked Time Todd Pence on Friday, February 19, 1999 - 2:34 pm - 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.
- John A. Lang on Saturday, February 19, 2000 - 11:14 pm - The "Dead alien dog" is a stuffed toy. Look carefully. The creature's physiology may cause it to resemble a stuffed toy when it dies.
- Will S. on Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 10:04 am - If the thermal heaters duplicated when they were beamed down, why not beam down ten blankets, which would duplicate into 20 blankets, hmmmmm???? John A. Lang on Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 11:38 am - 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? Will S. and Will S. on Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 1:34 pm - 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!!! margie on Friday, April 13, 2001 - 5:29 am - Or perhaps the same parts were damaged in both heaters.Seniram 14:56, August 24, 2015 (UTC) All this assumes the duplication effect works on equipment as well as life forms and clothing materials.
- Francois on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 4:45 pm - 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. KAM on Saturday, October 14, 2006 - 12:57 am - Possibly starting a fire? Probably killing any plants & animals that live there? Perhaps activating a volatile substance that explodes when heated too quickly?
Internet Movie database[]
Character error[]
- After the dog-like creature dies, Dr. McCoy orders an autopsy on the animal; the term he should have used is "necropsy", which is used to describe post-mortem examinations on animals. McCoy is used to dealing with humanoid life forms rather than animals, so his use of the word autopsy would be an automatic reflex.
Plot Holes[]
- Non use of the transporter to send extra blankets, firewood and matches to the landing party. The transporter malfunction could have disrupted the rematerialisation and targeting systems, making it difficult - if not impossible - to send supplies to the landing party without them being damaged or lost. This would also preclude any attempt to physically drop the items from orbit.
Fandom[]
- Fabben (talk) 16:17, 22 November 2022 (UTC) The stardate 1673.1 appears twice. The story begins at stardate 1672.1. At 14:54, after being split, the good Kirk tells the stardate 1672.9. At 18:05, he is telling the captains log "stardate 1673.1". Later, at 28:40, he tells "1673.5". Futher on, at 36:21 when Mr. Spock telling the captains log he say "stardate 1673.1" despite this date seems to have been passed. Fabben 16:17, 22 November 2022 (UTC) Being a unfocused captain after the split, Kirk may have read or remembered the chronometer wrong. The dates 1672.9, 1673.1 and 1673.5 may have been other numbers between 1672.1 and 1673.1.
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