The first episode of season three and I think we can all agree that this episode is shit. A an all female alien group steals Spock's brain and use it to run their home base. The woman on this planet live underground and are highly advanced and the men live on the surface and are stuck in the ice age. I think. This has nothing to even do with the plot really.
The plot holes in this episode are too numerous to count and it's just flat out embarrassing to watch. How did this woman remove Spock's brain in a matter of minutes, also Spock lives. Bones then turns Spock into a robot. Kirk goes down to the planet to retrieve Spock's brain, they meet these sort of hot alien girls. They have Spock's brain running the underground lair and somehow it can talk. Kirk gets the brain and then in a rediculous scene, Bones reattaches the brain ... with Spock's help vocally. That's it, I'm done talking about it.
The network seriously cut the budget for Star Trek in season and the show really suffered. This is the type of episodes that had been produced, they just didn't have the money to be as creative as they wanted to. A funny thing is that Spock's Brain is written by Lee Cronin ... who is actually Gene L Coon using a fake name.
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I can't remember where I read it, but on some Star Trek history book they posited the theory that Gene Coon wrote this script as a fuck you to the network after he was fired or forced to quit or whatever. I'm not sure if there's any truth to that... but I hope there is. And even if it is true... did nobody read it?
This isn't the worst episode in Trek history, but it's probably in the top five.
It's definetley not the worst episode in trek history, but yeah it's pretty close. That's not to say I didn't get a good laugh out of it.
back from the brink of cancellation...lets start this season off with a bang to get the fans really excited
spocks brain
That was a weird move on their part
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