Spocks Brain would have been a passable episode if they had changed two things

[johnnybear]

Season three of LIS really did improve but sadly it wasn't long before Irwin returned to form!
JB

 

[Warped9]

Is it savable? The concept of a biological brain being needed to run HVAC is pretty silly on it's own. The idea that said biological brain could last 10,000 years is icing on the silliness cake. And can you imagine being the consciousness in that disembodied brain for those 10,000 years?

The concept had already been used in the book The Ship Who Sang where a living mind guides a spaceship. It wasn’t a totally new idea and we’ve seen even more of mind/machine interface since then in tv and film.

 

[MAGolding]

The concept had already been used in the book The Ship Who Sang where a living mind guides a spaceship. It wasn’t a totally new idea and we’ve seen even more of mind/machine interface since then in tv and film.

This question: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/que...-human-brains-as-computers-idea/115570#115570

has several answers. My answer lists a number of similar concepts in stories dating back several decades before TOS.

 

[MANT!]

Only 2 things needed to be changed, the premise and the dialog...or add one thing..Space Hippies!...

Do we "Reach"?

 

[BK613]

The concept had already been used in the book The Ship Who Sang where a living mind guides a spaceship. It wasn’t a totally new idea and we’ve seen even more of mind/machine interface since then in tv and film.

Just because the idea has been around forever doesn't on its own make it a good one.

 

[Warped9]

^^ It’s really a matter of execution because it is a viable science fiction concept.

 

[Commishsleer]

It's usually a bad thing when scripts serve actors, rather than actors serving the script. But in this case, Nimoy's eerie, robotic performance actually added something to the episode, and teed up the music score for some wonderfully dramatic stingers.

It was pretty bad though. It was what everyone one remembers from the episode. Its just that non-one can believe a three button controller could be used by McCoy to disarm someone let alone walk.
The rest of Nimoy's performance was more annoying though. His smart alec comments during the operation.were dreadful not at all funny.

 

[Talos IV]

That one was very moving, in part for its accompanying music. Don and Smith got along for TEN WHOLE MINUTES!!!!!

Yes. That music composed by Star Trek virtuoso Fred Steiner, who rarely worked on Lost in Space.