It would have been much better if someone had pushed him around in an old style wheelchair, still with the medical device on his head to regulate his vitals.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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Then, how could he push his buttons and stop the sadistic chick with her finger on their buttons.
Being without a brain has to be a shock to Spock's system. No other invalid would be allowed to walk around so soon after a major operation...
Poor Spock. Deprived of a physical brain in one episode, deprived of his katra in a later movie.
Poor Spock. Deprived of a physical brain in one episode, deprived of his katra in a later movie.
Yup. He does a Reverse Decius, and gets increased two steps in rank. Argh, that lack of LTJG insignia.
I think he's also the guy who was guarding Gary Seven in the brig.
Yes. I was referring to the fact that after poor Joey (
), in something like the fifth or sixth episode produced, we hardly ever saw the single broken braid again. 
It would have been cool to see it on random security doods and bridge busybodies.
The waist bands put around the crew in the underground complex or bringers of pain had no effect when used on Spock! So I wondered why the women put one on him? 
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They were kind of dumb. "Brain and brain! What is brain?"The waist bands put around the crew in the underground complex or bringers of pain had no effect when used on Spock! So I wondered why the women put one on him?
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They only seemed to know what the controller told them and that was gone in a few hours anyway apparently!
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The waist bands put around the crew in the underground complex or bringers of pain had no effect when used on Spock! So I wondered why the women put one on him?
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Because they didn't know any better, and had forgotten that this was the guy whose brain they stole.
Cummerband!!!! I preferred Montalban myself!
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They were kind of dumb. "Brain and brain! What is brain?"
You know, that's another thing everyone says but it actually wrong.
The Eymorg leader Kara was not stupid. She was, like the others, atrophied from having no need to do a lot of problem solving, but that line was just her not understanding what they were talking about. The next time an alien lands and starts asking for it's shizzmar, tell me you wouldn't be confused. Then she does figure out what it is, "it's the controller" and then she doesn't fall for Kirk's great leader shtick for a second, then she was the one that picked the knowledge the teacher gave her. I don't think she was dumb at all.
Much like "The Mark of Gideon," "Spock's Brain" has an alien society doing something impractical that draws our heroes in.
- If you just need a humanoid brain, wouldn't your own planet be the place to get it? It's quicker, cheaper, and a sure thing, compared to going out into the galaxy looking for one.
- If you go to all the trouble of mounting an interstellar space mission, what are your chances of running into an alien ship with a prime specimen like Spock on board? Seems more like an impossible dream than a sensible plan. Kara must have been heading for a specific solar system where she knows there are humanoids.
- If only a superior "brain from space" will do, then they should have preserved tissues from the old Controller and cloned him as needed. Or when they got the old one 10,000 years ago, they should have gotten some spares and kept them frozen for later use.
- It's not clear what Spock's brain could be doing in that box, that an electronic computer could not do.
I like "Spock's Brain" for its good points, but it also seems like a first-draft, wild-idea story that should have evolved into a more respectable plot about visiting Sigma Draconis, with no brain stealing involved. Who knows what it could have been, if more work had been put into the plot.
- If you just need a humanoid brain, wouldn't your own planet be the place to get it? It's quicker, cheaper, and a sure thing, compared to going out into the galaxy looking for one.
- If you go to all the trouble of mounting an interstellar space mission, what are your chances of running into an alien ship with a prime specimen like Spock on board? Seems more like an impossible dream than a sensible plan. Kara must have been heading for a specific solar system where she knows there are humanoids.
- If only a superior "brain from space" will do, then they should have preserved tissues from the old Controller and cloned him as needed. Or when they got the old one 10,000 years ago, they should have gotten some spares and kept them frozen for later use.
- It's not clear what Spock's brain could be doing in that box, that an electronic computer could not do.
I like "Spock's Brain" for its good points, but it also seems like a first-draft, wild-idea story that should have evolved into a more respectable plot about visiting Sigma Draconis, with no brain stealing involved. Who knows what it could have been, if more work had been put into the plot.
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^^^^They were kind of dumb. "Brain and brain! What is brain?"
One of the BEST written lines in all of Star Trek - loved it from the first time I heard it.
"It is controller, is it not?" Is even better! 
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The givers of pain and delight.
Is as an apt description of the makers of Star Trek as any.
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