For some reason Batman The Brave and the Bold decided to adapt the last, and what most people consider the weakest episode of classic Star Trek, Turnabout Intruder except they called it The Criss Cross Conspiracy.
Batman's decidedly effeminate, not to put too fine a point on it flaming demeanor makes Batgirl and Nightwing wonder what's up with that?
What's up is that failed thrill seeking super heroine Batwoman, forced out of the crime fighting business by having her identity exposed by the Riddler, seeks revenge on the world by using black magic to swap bodies with Batman. There's a lot of twisted sexual politics in the story as she believes that there is a double standard for male and female crime-fighters and only in Batman's body can she have the freedom of power and male authority. Which brings us to Turnabout Intruder...
Same idea. One of the many embittered former conquests of Captain Kirk possesses his body in order to get the power and freedom of a male star-ship captain. Misogyny is implicit in the script and explicit in Shatner's campy, over the top ranting and prancing performance. All hysteria, all the time.
Ultimately Brave and the Bold makes this story work, sort of, in a way that Trek doesn't. Maybe it says something that this story only works as a half hour cartoon rather than a live action drama.
Art is a Hammer.
-Bertolt Brecht, Drums in the Night
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