You can find the rest of my TOS reviews on my "Star Trek TOS: All Episodes Rated & Reviewed" list.
Season 1 Kirk vs. Season 3 Kirk.
This is the episode - i.e. The chance - Majel Barrett had been waiting for. After being (luckily for us) kicked out of the main enterprise cast after the first pilot by NBC's echelon (who for once made a wise decision), this talentless and unfeminine floozy begged her then-boyfriend and future hubby, Gene Roddenberry, to somehow eventually work her back into the show. He kept his promise, but fortunately she only became an irrelevant little nurse, a dull side-character that is barely visible. When Chapel first sees the android Andrea, the jealousy isn't acted: it is very real. You can almost smell the envy Majel has for this gorgeous actress who was everything Majel could only have dreamed of being. Sherry Jackson is hands down the most beautiful woman that ever appeared in any ST episode or movie. (I've barely seen any of the 80s/90s spin-offs (up to 30 seconds is as much as I can take of that plastic crap), but judging from the ugly and average females that infest those crews, they couldn't have had particularly attractive guest stars either.)
Watching Andrea and Nursy in the same scene was a dramatic contrast: like watching a brand-new Ferrari and a worn-down Yugo, parked next to each other. If only Majel's eyes could have killed...
WALGMO has a decent story, a unique feel and location, and plenty of twists and other things going on. The element of cheesiness is smaller than the average episode, but there are still some cute 60s-TV aspects to be amused by, like Kirk getting lifted and thrown down about half a dozen times by Richard Kiel's long-lost brother, plus the grand finale which has most of the androids conveniently killing each other off so that the humane Kirk and his crew of do-gooders wouldn't have to do the dirty deed themselves. The only drawback I can think of in what is one of the best episodes is Michael Strong in the role of the mad scientist; unconvincing. The kiss between him and Majel was a brief but very low point.
Kirk's double is more animated and more grin-happy than the real Kirk - i.e. Much more like the Kirk from Season 3!
This is the only good switcheroo/someone-has-a-double episode.
Season 1 Kirk vs. Season 3 Kirk.
This is the episode - i.e. The chance - Majel Barrett had been waiting for. After being (luckily for us) kicked out of the main enterprise cast after the first pilot by NBC's echelon (who for once made a wise decision), this talentless and unfeminine floozy begged her then-boyfriend and future hubby, Gene Roddenberry, to somehow eventually work her back into the show. He kept his promise, but fortunately she only became an irrelevant little nurse, a dull side-character that is barely visible. When Chapel first sees the android Andrea, the jealousy isn't acted: it is very real. You can almost smell the envy Majel has for this gorgeous actress who was everything Majel could only have dreamed of being. Sherry Jackson is hands down the most beautiful woman that ever appeared in any ST episode or movie. (I've barely seen any of the 80s/90s spin-offs (up to 30 seconds is as much as I can take of that plastic crap), but judging from the ugly and average females that infest those crews, they couldn't have had particularly attractive guest stars either.)
Watching Andrea and Nursy in the same scene was a dramatic contrast: like watching a brand-new Ferrari and a worn-down Yugo, parked next to each other. If only Majel's eyes could have killed...
WALGMO has a decent story, a unique feel and location, and plenty of twists and other things going on. The element of cheesiness is smaller than the average episode, but there are still some cute 60s-TV aspects to be amused by, like Kirk getting lifted and thrown down about half a dozen times by Richard Kiel's long-lost brother, plus the grand finale which has most of the androids conveniently killing each other off so that the humane Kirk and his crew of do-gooders wouldn't have to do the dirty deed themselves. The only drawback I can think of in what is one of the best episodes is Michael Strong in the role of the mad scientist; unconvincing. The kiss between him and Majel was a brief but very low point.
Kirk's double is more animated and more grin-happy than the real Kirk - i.e. Much more like the Kirk from Season 3!
This is the only good switcheroo/someone-has-a-double episode.