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Dumb question about TOS novels...

Kor

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Have any of the novels followed up on "Spock's Brain" in any significant way, or even just passing references?

As much as everyone hates the episode, one can't help but wonder what happened to the Morgs and Eymorgs... not to mention Spock's physical, mental (and emotional?) recovery from having his brain removed from his skull and put back in. :vulcan:

Kor
 
"Don't even think about it, Greg," an editor once told me.

They know me too well . . . :)
 
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I'm thinking a trilogy.

Book One: "Brain?"
Book Two: "Brain!"
Book Three: "What is Brain?"
 
I do feel like there was a passing reference to it in some relatively recent book, in all seriousness. Something about McCoy drawing on experience from having to reconnect Spock's nervous system while performing another medical procedure? I can't seem to remember the details, though.
 
In every franchise there is an episode, an instalment, a product, that reaches the peak of what that franchise has to offer; to the extent that any tie-in attempting to add to the experience or expand upon its content will inevitably appear cheap, soulless, and unnecessary - indeed will detract from the perfection on offer.

Spock's Brain is that episode. Profane it not.
 
They came for his brain. He got it back.

Now they're here for something even more important.

Coming Fall 2015... Spock's Pinky.

How will he ever drink tea again?!
 
Seems to me that there was a book that was had a scene set on the Morg/Imorg planet --- I seem to recall that the book also contained a scene on the homeworld of Admiral Leonard Akaar, and I think the book was from the 24th century relaunch books. But I don't recall a whole book on the planet (aside from James Blish's short-story adaptation in the 1970's).
 
There was that awful, little-known franchise crossover/sequel film starring Ashton Kutcher, but I do not include "Dude, Where's My Brain?" as part of my own personal continuity.....
 
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I find the idea of Greg doing that book equally terrifying and enthralling, in nearly-perfect equipoise... :eek:
 
Pretty sure I would love to read any novel based on a TOS episode, even ones that are, er, not my favorites. Really enjoyed Jeff Mariotte's "Serpents In the Garden" not too long ago, which I will definitely reread sometime.
 
Spock goes through another Pon Farr, and a Vulcan Princess "F's" his brains out.

(I'm sorry, was that a "story idea?")

:)
 
Jeri said:
Pretty sure I would love to read any novel based on a TOS episode, even ones that are, er, not my favorites.
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Hmm. As part of a short story workshop class at the local junior college, I wrote a Borg origin story, and a sequel to The Man Trap. Even though I'm really tired of Borg stories, and even though The Man Trap was, of the entirety of TOS, the episode I found least appealing (more like utterly loathesome, in part because of the nightmarish natural form of the Salt Vampire).
 
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