Was "Spock's Brain" really an intentional parody?

[Vance]

I've been meaning to ask... Warped9, Number6? Are you two actually married? I mean, there's a shitload of sexual tension between you two that you really need to resolve somewhere else.

Now to the point:

I think the story outline was meant to be played straight, got tweaked into a 'lighter camp' episode (not unusual for the time, as well as for who Star Trek was going up against back then), then that intended tweak got played straight.

So, not a 'parody' but more light-hearted in feel akin to some (maybe most) of Coon's other episodes. Someone just didn't pass along the memo.

 

[T'Bonz]

Vance, no personal stuff like that. Trek talk only, please.

 

[Vance]

Vance, no personal stuff like that. Trek talk only, please.

Oh, come on, I know you're dying to know. (I meant it, obviously, as a light-hearted joke, sorry if it came across in any other way.)

 

[T'Bonz]

No, no, I'll stick with the Kirk/Spock slash, thankyouverymuch.

 

[Vance]

"Jim, what's wrong?"
"Bones, you didn't tell me that it wasn't just the EARS that were that pointy!"

 

[Warped9]

I've been meaning to ask... Warped9, Number6? Are you two actually married? I mean, there's a shitload of sexual tension between you two that you really need to resolve somewhere else.

 

[scotpens]

If the Morgs and Eymorgs needed Spock's brain to run the machinery that supported their civilization, how did it run before? Do they have to install a new brain every couple hundred years or so?

 

[Vance]

If the Morgs and Eymorgs needed Spock's brain to run the machinery that supported their civilization, how did it run before? Do they have to install a new brain every couple hundred years or so?

Oddly enough, yes, and they even said that in the episode. (Makes me wonder, though, when the 'keeper' realized that their own population was screwed and had to send someone out to find a suitable replacement in space.)

 

[Joker]

The "worst of TOS" has little more at its heart than the nostalgia of a 60's television show to endear it.

 

[Captain Robert April]

^ Whatever, dude.