Let's talk "Spock's Brain"

[Metryq]

It was clearly shielded from sensors

Although Chekov could find it with a mere tricorder.

"Captain, five hundred metres in that direction there's a foundation under the surface. A huge one. Registrations all over the place... Immensely old, completely buried."

It's a silly episode. ("Ion power!") Enjoy it for that, but don't try to inject any logic into it that isn't there. Some dislike "A Piece of the Action," but I enjoy that one for a tongue-in-cheek allegory about the consequences of what later became the Prime Directive. It's like International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Imagine the fun they could have with that one: walking the Planck with the locals "parroting" the Federation, matey.

 

[Set Harth]

walking the Planck

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Okay, the first new one who wasn't stuck with them, anyway. He wasn't in their hierarchy.

 

[Maurice]

Okay, the first new one who wasn't stuck with them, anyway. He wasn't in their hierarchy.

He wasn't even a he; he was an organ.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Still, he's approaching the experience from Spock's POV; his consciousness is still with the brain. That would have been weird if they'd taken his ability to regulate systems and left his body only with his thoughts.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Still, he's approaching the experience from Spock's POV; his consciousness is still with the brain. That would have been weird if they'd taken his ability to regulate systems and left his body only with his thoughts.

"Try to cross brains with @Maurice... he'll cut ya to pieces, every time."

 

[ZapBrannigan]

He wasn't even a he; he was an organ.

But it's a known fact that the brain is a Vulcan's most important sex organ.

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[fireproof78]

But it's a known fact that the brain is a Vulcan's most important sex organ.

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"Why this constant preoccupation with sex?"

 

[The Salt Umpire]

(Shatner brain flashes yellow) "Must...per-petuate....the DNA."

I think Kirk had a green fetish. Or green women like him.

 

[johnnybear]

Well Trek was shown by the BBC here in the UK and they don't screen commercials yet sliced huge chunks of Trek out of most episodes.
The first time I ever saw a complete episode was with the dvds.
I used to be confused as the Salt Monster pics never happened in the BBC screening, we only saw it dead on the floor. Until 2000 when they showed it uncut but I wasn't recording it!!!
JB

 

[johnnybear]

I've always found Spock's Brain and And The Children Shall Lead to be very watchable episodes. The only two episodes I have any trouble with are Plato's Stepchildren and Whom God's Destroy. One is embarrassing to watch and the other is just not very good ,it being a bad rewrite of Dagger of The Mind.
JB

 

[Metryq]

And "The Alternative Factor"? What of Lazarus?

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

He wasn't even a he; he was an organ.

Yet somehow the computer duplicated----or somehow stole Spock's familar voice......which gives Nimoy something to do, while providing Kirky and crew critical information along the way.

"Try to cross brains with @Maurice... he'll cut ya to pieces, every time."

Plus, unlike some Vulcans, he can wake up properly with slapping assistance.

 

[johnnybear]

I quite like the Lazarai conundrum to be honest. It was deeply routed in my mind as a child and although it's not Arena, Doomsday Machine or Day of The Dove I like it.
JB

 

[Ssosmcin]

And "The Alternative Factor"? What of Lazarus?

The hate this one gets is overdone. It's - at worst - not very good. But it's a lot of fun with the right mindset.

 

[Noname Given]

It has the best line ever written for a Villain:

"Brain and brain!!!...What is Brain??!!"
^^^
Pure Shakespeare.

 

[fireproof78]

The Alternative Factor introduces a nice sci-fi element that is fine.

Spock's Brain doesn't.

 

[Farscape One]

The Alternative Factor introduces a nice sci-fi element that is fine.

Spock's Brain doesn't.

There's good scifi elements in "SPOCK'S BRAIN".

Using an organic brain as the computer to run a society, instant downloading of an entire society's knowledge into a person's mind, a society forgetting to use all their technology over time, division of two societies of a world due to technological differences and gender.

 

[fireproof78]

There's good scifi elements in "SPOCK'S BRAIN".

Using an organic brain as the computer to run a society, instant downloading of an entire society's knowledge into a person's mind, a society forgetting to use all their technology over time, division of two societies of a world due to technological differences and gender.

It attempts to but doesn't execute well. Every aspect of it falls flat to me.

 

[Shawnster]

Nevermind