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Star Trek: The Original Series
Season 3 » Episode #01 - Spock's Brain
 A woman from a strange alien ship transports to the Enterprise. She stuns everyone on the bridge with a device on her forearm and takes an interest in Spock. When Kirk and McCoy wake up, they discover that that the woman has taken Spock's brain! They rig up something to keep his body alive but even a Vulcan can only survive a limited time without a brain, so they must track down the woman's ship and recover the missing organ. |
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Episode Quotes
Sulu: That ship, Captain, either was many years ahead of us, or it was the most incredible design fluke in history.
Mr. Spock: [voice] I seem to have a body which stretches into infinity.
Scott: Body? Why, ya have NONE.
Mr. Spock: Then, what am I?
Dr. McCoy: You are a disembodied brain.
Mr. Spock: Fascinating. It could explain much, Doctor. My medulla oblongata is hard at work apparently breathing, apparently pumping blood, apparently maintaining a normal physiologic temperature.
Scott: Body? Why, ya have NONE.
Mr. Spock: Then, what am I?
Dr. McCoy: You are a disembodied brain.
Mr. Spock: Fascinating. It could explain much, Doctor. My medulla oblongata is hard at work apparently breathing, apparently pumping blood, apparently maintaining a normal physiologic temperature.
Dr. McCoy: Where are you going to look for Spock's brain? How're you gonna find it?
Captain James T. Kirk: I'll find it.
Dr. McCoy: Even if you do, I can't restore it. I don't have the medical technique.
Captain James T. Kirk: It was taken out. It can be put back in.
Dr. McCoy: But I don't know how!
Captain James T. Kirk: The thief that took it has the knowledge. I'll FORCE it out of her!
[More Quotes]Captain James T. Kirk: I'll find it.
Dr. McCoy: Even if you do, I can't restore it. I don't have the medical technique.
Captain James T. Kirk: It was taken out. It can be put back in.
Dr. McCoy: But I don't know how!
Captain James T. Kirk: The thief that took it has the knowledge. I'll FORCE it out of her!
Mistakes/Goofs
- Goof (continuity error): When the landing party reaches The Controller's room, Kara inflicts pain with the belts that had been placed on them earlier. McCoy drops the device that controls Spock's body, and Kirk painfully reaches for it. When the camera angle changes, Spock's body is not wearing a pain belt. When the angle changes again, Spock is once again wearing a belt.
- Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When making his log entry, Sulu commits a breach of military etiquette by referring to Mr. Spock simply as "Spock", without any sort of honorific, title, or rank.
- Goof (continuity error): The planet in question has repeatedly been labeled as "Sigma Draconis 6," but when in the lair of the Eymorg, Kirk's log entry refers to it as "Sigma Draconis 7." Sulu's subsequent log entry also refers to the planet as "7."
- Goof (continuity error): The "star date" starts on 5431.4 but in mid-show the date is inexplicably given as 4351.5.
Trivia
- Gene Roddenberry was fascinated by the idea of a matriarchal society, and revisited the idea in Genesis II (1973) (TV) and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) {Angel One (#1.13)}.
- Written by Lee Cronin, the pseudonym of Gene L. Coon. Some have assumed that it was used because he was unhappy with the results. Actually, it was because he had left Paramount and was under contract with Universal, so he was not supposed to be working for Paramount as well.
- In his book, William Shatner referred to this episode as "one of the worst." Leonard Nimoy has stated that he was embarrassed during the entire shooting of this episode.
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