To state, “Mindwalk” isn’t the very first body-occupied-by-another-consciousness episode of “Celebrity Trip.” To point out a couple of instances: in the initial collection, the bad Dr. Janice Lester (Sandra Smith) took control of the body of Captain Kirk (William Shatner). Information (Brent Spiner) was taken control of in an episode of “Future generation,” the previous host bodies of Jadzia Dax (Terry Ferrell) inhabited her crewmates on “Deep Area 9,” and, most just recently, Spock (Ethan Peck) and T’Pring (Gia Sandhu) switched bodies on “Weird Brand-new Globes.” The Bensons kept in mind that Vulcan mind-melds can additionally permit personalities to exchange awareness for a little, as shown in a third-season episode of “Future generation.” The Bensons, provided created responses, clarified:
“There have actually been really couple of ‘Freaky Friday’-design body swap episodes in Trip tradition as the majority of are a variant of mind fuses (like in TNG’s ‘Sarek’) or ownership by an entity, however not a real body swap. The closest variation we can call was ‘Turnabout Trespasser,’ when among Kirk’s ex lovers takes control of his body and attempts to eliminate him in her body.”
Certainly, when it concerns full-on “Freaky Friday”-design body swaps, the “Weird Brand-new Globes” instance is the just one that counts. Rather than counting on “Trip” criteria, the Bensons aimed to “Breakthrough” for concepts, composing:
“[W]e were even more motivated by our love for the television collection ‘Breakthrough’ which has actually been restarted because we created the episode. Actually, our initial title for this episode was ‘Breakthrough!’ Yet past ‘Celebrity Trip,’ the trope shows up commonly since it is abundant for wit and offers stars a possibility to do something a little various with their personalities.”
Mulgrew particularly appeared to be enjoying playing an adolescent kid, while Gray reached extend playing a grown-up lady.