Star Trek S3E01: Spock's Brain
This one's a definite stinker. It also gave me very strange dreams when I watched it back in November.
It starts off well. The Enterprise is chasing after a spaceship, then a mysterious woman suddenly pops onto the bridge and does something with her wrist remote thingy. BOING! Everyone passes out.
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Anyways, everyone wakes up on the bridge. Spock is missing, and Dr. McCoy is insisting that Kirk get down to sickbay, RIGHT NOW, because, well:
I love how DeForest Kelley delivers such ridiculous dialogue like "his brain is
gone!" with such conviction.
Anyways, a lengthy segment of them tracking the ion trail of the mysterious spaceship, then deciding to beam down to "planet six." Which is later referred to several times as Sigma Draconis Seven. Yeah, that kind of sums up the episode.
After a while hanging out on Sigma Draconis 6.7 and getting into fights with cavemen, McCoy beams down with the brainless Spock.
They leave Mr. Chekov and the two redshirts behind on the surface. They decide they might as well get comfortable.
Later on, we get such amazing dialogue as:
Kirk: What is this place?
Woman: This place is... here.
And this:
At one point, they manage to contact Spock's brain on the communicator. Who promptly admits that "there is a definite pleasurable experience connected with the hearing of [Captain Kirk's] voice." Oh, okay then.
At another point, the women leave, leaving the cavemen guarding the prisoners. They also conveniently leave all their equipment in the room.
Kirk: This fellow is keeping us from our property.
Scotty: Isn't there a way to correct that situation?
Kirk: I certainly think that science might provide an answer.
McCoy: It does, Captain.
(Okay, this part genuinely made me laugh.)
So eventually, the plot leads up to sticking Dr. McCoy into a futuristic hairdryer in order to give him the knowledge to re-implant Spock's brain.
"Of course. Of course. A child could do it. A child could do it!" Of course, he starts forgetting halfway through, so they re-connect Spock's speech center so he can direct his own brain surgery. Makes perfect sense.
His hair is fully intact afterwards. Dr. McCoy regrets re-connecting his mouth.
... honestly, it's kind of a fun episode if you don't take it too seriously.
