Spock's Brain- what the %*$(#% is Kirk doing??
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Don't be a wet hen; go with the fowl! 
The wolf in the fowl.Don't be a wet hen; go with the fowl!
Well said. The theme for Dusay is one of the most memorable of that season, if not the entire series.
Add me to that club.
I'd say Marj Dusay was not to be underestimated, either. Everything I've seen her in, she always played her roles well. In Hawaii Five-O, she played both a woman who was on the run from being killed because she was going to testify against some biggie, and an agent undercover to trap gold thieves. In both she was so appropriately different, and convincingly so.
Even here, she treats her character as seriously as she needs to. I particularly love the change in her demeanor and body language after she receives the 'education' from the 'great teacher'.
That moment, one I've always enjoyed, is weird (which I guess is apporpriate for this episode). It feels very much like a Shatner "ad lib." No idea if it's in the script, but it really feels more like "Shatner" than "Kirk." Still pretty amusing, but off a little.
Yes, but but I think this humorous fade-out was done better than "Shore Leave" and much better than "The Galileo Seven." It seemed free and natural rather than forced.
I guess it was just TV style to have a forced humorous fadeout. I find them bizarre. You have 45 minutes of drama and then it has to end with a forced laugh.
Just watch this episode again today and waited until the end where Kirks fiddling around with the device was cut out as people have pointed out in the remastered version. Disappointing.
Just to hijack this thread I also notice that Kirk just pretty well disregarded the PD here. He stunned the male primitives without establishing if they had the technology to steal pock's brain. In 'Bread and Circuses' which I just watched yesterday I think McCoy said the PD said there were never to be any demonstrations of advanced weaponry.
Just to hijack this thread I also notice that Kirk just pretty well disregarded the PD here. He stunned the male primitives without establishing if they had the technology to steal pock's brain. In 'Bread and Circuses' which I just watched yesterday I think McCoy said the PD said there were never to be any demonstrations of advanced weaponry.
As someone else once said, Kirk wiped his a** with the prime directive on a regular basis.
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Maybe because they were primitive, Kirk thought using phasers would do less damage because they were likely too primitive to be recording history.
Maybe because they were primitive, Kirk thought using phasers would do less damage because they were likely too primitive to be recording history.
I'm probably the five millionth person to notice this, and apologies if so, but I watched "This Side Of Paradise" last night on DVD.
In the pictures in the first post of this thread, Nimoy appears to be wearing the same coveralls in Spock's Brain as he wore on Omicron Ceti III.
Spock's Brain is an episode I generally avoid, so I had not noticed this before just this minute.
In the pictures in the first post of this thread, Nimoy appears to be wearing the same coveralls in Spock's Brain as he wore on Omicron Ceti III.
Spock's Brain is an episode I generally avoid, so I had not noticed this before just this minute.
All that's missing is the rim shot!
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