What you are about to see may disturb you. It certainly creeps me the hell out. It's a bizarre skit from a now-forgotten early '90s attempt to resurrect The Carol Burnett Show, in which the original crew of the Enterprise flies through some sort of magic gender-bending space cloud. The clip starts a ways into the sketch, but you'll get the gist in a hurry. Burnett's Shatner is actually pretty good, which only makes the whole thing that much wrong-er. That's SCTV's Andrea Martin as Spock. So, in addition to the squirmy horror of Kirk and Spock as improbably buxom ladies feeling each other up, there's the additional touch of ick from seeing this little scenario enacted by two classic comediennes of your youth.
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"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden
Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?
Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.
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