I never realized that DeForest Kelley's final on-screen role was in this postmodern masterpiece!

That feels like the type of thing someone on the staff had to stop Roddenberry from putting in an episode.

This is false. This is one of the 4 VHS tapes I watched endlessly as a kid. She actually gives up her hair, which is something she has been proud of the whole time to be microwaved. She eventually gets new hair at the end of the movie but shes sad to be bald for a while.