The most amazing thing about this episode is how every one of the actors and actresses were able to say their lines with straight faces. That's some serious professionalism right there.
The world can't be MORE EMPTY. It's either empty or it's not. That the same as a PERFECT CIRCLE. If it's a circle it's perfectly round by definition. The earth can't be partially empty. Partially means not completely so if the earth contains anything, no matter how small, IT'S NOT EMPTY!!!
Can you imagine having been one of the fans who lobbied so hard to save the show, tuning into the first episode of the renewed show full of the flush of success...and THIS is what greets you?!
Can you imagine how demoralising it was for the fans to bombard the studio to not cancel Star Trek and then to sit down and watch this first episode of the third season.....and then watch all of the season. The production crew also seemed to loose heart with every episode. For a show that hit the ground running in season one to end up like this so soon........
Did anyone else keep thinking about Surgeon Simulator? Granted, the first one is replacing a heart, but there is a version where you have to transplant a brain!
I just realized something, the way they act at 16:36 just reminded me of the Tickle Belt from the SpongeBob episode "Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy III". Heck, the designs of the belts even look similar.
Now I want to see all the outtakes of William Shatner spurting "his brain is gone" while desperately trying to keep a straight face. If they exists I will kill to watch these takes!
"It will kill my medical officer..." This always gets me. It is a common theme in Stargate. Some incredible device of knowledge downloads information into a brain; maybe the character goes a bit off the rails, but somehow that knowledge is taken out or fades away on its own. Then in a future episode, when they run into the technology again, it's "it almost killed" so and so... It pisses me off because it is a cop put. It had never been established that the knowledge device would have killed anyone.
A funny thing about this episode is that it's the first time (see 7:00) that they back project the view screen rather than adding it in post production. So they have the actors pace back and forth in front of it constantly, just because they can.
What struck me, even as a kid when I first saw this, is that both of the surgeries (the removal & the reinstallation) left no scars, not even a mark. Not even a hair out of place. After BRAIN surgery.
As remarkably awful as this episode is, what's even more remarkable is that: 1) Someone is critically - if hilariously - reviewing an episode of a tv series that aired *50 years ago* 2) Many people of all ages are familiar with the tv series and the specific episode. I can't think of ANY other tv show from prior to the 1990s that either of those things are true about, except perhaps Dr. Who and The Twilight Zone to some extent. Even reviews aimed at older audiences only feature a few shows from the 1980s at the earliest.
valar You're forgetting shows like The Cosby Show (1984), Full House (1987), Star Trek TNG (1987), Scooby Doo (1969), The Flintstones (1961), Tom & Jerry (1940), The Jetsons (1962), and Fat Albert (1972).
SouthwesternEagle "A few shows from the 1980s at the earliest." One of those is another Star Trek, big surprise! Even then, most people who watched those shows, younger or older, aren't going to remember much in the way of specifics. That leaves the cartoons. I missed those. Absolutely children's cartoons have a much greater longevity. But most people aren't going to remember the plots unless it's Looney Toons, and they sure aren't going to be reviewing the episodes.
One thing is for sure..."Spock's Brain" is truly a QUOTABLE episode! That one line, "BRAIN AND BRAIN WHAT IS BRAIN?!" has certainly stuck in the head of MANY a Trekkie... Whether we want it to or not... 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
Very funny review! I grew up watching ST: TOS, and as a kid took all of these episodes very seriously, but later I got into comedy and was able to see how much silliness was in the show, as well as most other TV science fiction of that era. Great fodder for spoofing and mockery now, but the best thing about the OS was the characters and the futuristic tech like warp drives, transporters, and the Enterprise herself. Always fun to watch Shatner in fist fights, too, because of the obvious stuntman inserts when they pull back to a wide master shot of the melee. The plots are so simple, a child could write them!
There are actually episodes which are harder to watch than this. Plato's Stepchildren, The Children Shall Lead, and Way to Eden are less fun to watch than this episode.
Well this is my fave episode & here's why. I am behind the scenes watching the part where McCoy tries out Spock's finger. Ahem. Original Trekkie here, uber-fan who got invited to Paramount as thanks for helping get TOS renewed after season 2. They didn't name a character after me (like "Geordy LaForge") but Roddenberry & Barrett took me to lunch at the Brown Derby, I watched some scenes being shot, was taken on a personal tour of the studio, met all the special FX guys & got to schmooz with the actors at the wrap party. They offered me a job, but when I saw what was happening with season 3 I decided against that...not apologizing.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned(it HAS been two years). Not all aliens spoke English @8:01. The ship as well as the crew was equip with a Universal Translator...which quickly and conveniently translated unknown languages into English. Oh Star Trek!!
@16.42, I think Kira was a TV critic and punished Shatner for overacting. The thing on Spock's head wasn't for controlling his body it just made that cool noise when McCoy pushed the button. Other buttons made other noises such as farts, kazoo and burps. These scenes were cut because they thought it would make the episode seem silly.
Brain & Brain what is Brain !? Forget the Brain. Just look at the I Magnin & Joseph Magnin gowns and dress! Desilu used local department stores for costumes and would buy bolts of red gold & blue fabric to keep the uniforms fresh that department store was called Orbach’s
Forget McCoy and Spock, I would have had the Enterprise beam down several security officers with body armor and phaser rifles. We would have stun blasted everyone in that underground compound and confiscated all those bracers before reviving anyone for questioning.
+TrueMetis You can get around geo-locks using proxy servers. If you're using Firefox as your browser, install the FoxyProxy Add-on and get a US proxy from the list over at Hide My Ass.
In James Blish's short story adaptation of this episode (he did all of them, published as a series of paperbacks in the 70's) after the surgery Spock looks at Bones and smiles. After everyone's reaction to this, he goes back to stone-faced and says "I was endeavoring to sneeze", thus getting in a good dig at McCoy's surgical skills.
Wow, that mean that he is the real creator of Star Trek, and not Gene Roddenberry, he just take credit for something that he didn't do, the guy created practically most of the Star Trek universe. So why the Star Trek fans worship Roddenberry in he was just a hack writer with a very vague good idea?
Re: Spock directing his own brain surgery. There is a Russian sci-fi book, where one of the characters has a major surgery (not brain surgery, mind you), and insists on not being sedated... because at the same time she is also performing surgery on somebody else. Interestingly, it DOES make sense in context.
@@Gulamaja It's not translated. If you can read Russian, it's called "Космобиолухи" (hard to translate, as it's a play of words, but most commonly it's referred to as "Space biologoofists"), or rather one of the sequels. The character in question is a cyborg, naturally having a much greater pain tolerance, and she is also the best hacker in the team. Another cyborg is attacked by a virus, and she is connected to him remotely and is fighting the virus. She is also physically injured, and doctors need to operate quickly, but she can't disconnect, otherwise the virus would kill the other guy.
I think you did a fine job with this. There are a number of other notable terrible episodes in various series, even if you just stayed within Star Trek. Hell, the warp 10 episode in Voyager was so bad, the show's creators disavowed it from the canon.
From The Star Trek Compendium: "While 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein' was in production at Universal Pictures in 1948, its title was 'The Brain of Frankenstein'. When viewed in context with the remainder of Star Trek, 'Spock's Brain' is almost as funny even without the presence of Abbott and Costello... In 'The Menagerie', Dr. McCoy confirms that medical science in [this] era has learned to tie into all bodily organs EXCEPT the brain. It therefore seems highly unlikely that, while McCoy COULD sustain life within Spock's brainless body in sick bay, he could animate it and still keep it alive OUTSIDE the confines of the ship... When Spock's voice is heard over Kirk's communicator, it is not explained how the Vulcan's brain manages to synthesize Spock's voice although body and mind have been separated."
if you ever do another Star Trek review, you should look at either Star Trek 5 or the TOS episodes The Way to Eden, AKA the one with the space hippies!
This was the third and final season (1968-1969) of "Star Trek" and its episode was "Spock's Brain" became the only episode which I've liked and it's very cool to watch and entertain with someone you care and love.
Actually, Bones never said he didn't know how long he could keep Spock functioning. His actual words were I can't give you any guarantee. But he did know it couldn't surpass 24 hours. Rookies
From what I heard ST only had a 3rd season because RCA wanted to sell more color tvs and Trek was one of the few color shows on. It also explains the shows original screwed up timeslots.
It´s about time... for this comment... being seven years late, that is. *P.S.:* Season three episodes of ST:TOS were, _uh,_ different because Roddenberry left the position of day-to-day showrunner and script editor, because that was the only bargaining power he had in a dispute with NBC... and he lost. *P.P.S.:* The intention of the author of this episode, Cronin/Coon, was that this episode be _high camp._ Or so he purported.
Wait a minute, didn't they recycle part of this plot for the 3rd ST film THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK, in which his conscience (knowledge and memories included) was transferred to Bones' mind from THE WRATH OF KAHN but the body was left on the Genesis planet and had to be retrieved so that Spock could be resurrected in his entirety? Man, the original films were recycling the original series' plots long before J.J. Abrams recycled the plots of the first six films!
Yeah. But Abrams did it badly. (let's show the Klingon moon Praxis demolished in the background 50 YEARS EARLY while we're looking for "Khan" and not even acknowledge what it's going to mean for the planet. Or that "Khan" escaped and stranded himself on a dying planet because he's such a genius)
This is the best Star Trek episode in the history of Star Trek episodes, and any negative opinions you eschew merely illustrate your jealousy and bias.
While this episode may be an embarrassment to The Original Series, bullshit like Sub Rosa & tens of Voyager episodes are an embarrassment to Star Trek in its entirety
IMHO, the worst episode is "Turnabout Intruder". At least "Spock's Brain" had a so bad it's good aspect to it. "Turnabout Intruder" was just bad. Shatner's doubly hammy acting as Janet Lester in Kirk's body almost reached so bad it's good status, but didn't quite, it was just really bad. The story was absurd.
The guest actress in Turnabout Intruder played Kirk better than Shatner did. They could have continued the series with her starring as Jane Tiberia Kirk…
In our humored critique of this episode, I was impressed by it. Gene Roddenberry knew some secrets we will learn later, Star Trek was his humored attempt to share these secrets with us. I will reveal to you that there are other planets with humanoid life forms besides earth, And some of these planets, as in this episode, contain only female forms and some only male forms. Most, more advanced than us. One hundred years ago, if one spoke of the television and radio and cars, one would be deemed insane or accused of wizardry. Today, these are mainstream. Do not let ignorance keep you asleep.
Maybe you should start doing reviews of bad TV show episodes inbetween your movie reviews. Not just shows but maybe ones like Pokemon (There's plenty of bad episodes to pick from), The Simpsons, Doctor Who (The Twin Dilemma perhaps), ect.
It’s not the worst episode in the series. That falls to “And the Children Shall Lead”. Horrible episode, with a trial lawyer (Melvin Belli) playing the villain. This episode was a clunker but that’s it.
The most amazing thing about this episode is how every one of the actors and actresses were able to say their lines with straight faces. That's some serious professionalism right there.
My favorite detail: Spock undergoes multiple brain surgeries without losing one hair on his head.
Yes the future of haircuts is assured. Here's a bit of irony, Leonard Nimoy's father was a barber.
R.I.P Leonard Nimoy...You have and always shall be...remembered,
+Matthew Boedecker Hopefully not for Spock's Brain :)
Last feature was Transformers 3
May the force be with him.
Brain and brain, _what is brain!?_
He's a white lab mouse. ;3
Narf! Point egad!!!
Zort! Troz! Fjord! Natch!
He is that guy from Arthur
Very Homer Simpson-esque!
I've always accepted that they can understand aliens through the universal translator. The aliens don't actually speak the same language.
They are still encountering previously uncontacted extraterrestrial life. How can your device translate a language there is no prior knowledge of?
Rest in peace, Leonard Nimoy the world is a more empty place without you.
The world can't be MORE EMPTY. It's either empty or it's not. That the same as a PERFECT CIRCLE. If it's a circle it's perfectly round by definition. The earth can't be partially empty. Partially means not completely so if the earth contains anything, no matter how small, IT'S NOT EMPTY!!!
Can you imagine having been one of the fans who lobbied so hard to save the show, tuning into the first episode of the renewed show full of the flush of success...and THIS is what greets you?!
I remember being in the O.R. in medical school doing second assist on a back surgery and thinking: "Yes, a child could do it! A child could do it!"
Can you imagine how demoralising it was for the fans to bombard the studio to not cancel Star Trek and then to sit down and watch this first episode of the third season.....and then watch all of the season. The production crew also seemed to loose heart with every episode. For a show that hit the ground running in season one to end up like this so soon........
Rest in Power Leonard Nimoy. Captain Kirk and crew rolling around on the ground. Priceless 😂 😂😂 😂
They should have called the episode "They saved Spock's Brain".
You know, I can't help but wonder if the Duck Dodgers episode They Stole Dodger's Brain was a jab at this episode.
Might've been
+The Shady Reviewer There's a notoriously awful B-movie from the 1950s called 'They Stole Hitler's Brain!' that the title might be parodying too.
Did anyone else keep thinking about Surgeon Simulator? Granted, the first one is replacing a heart, but there is a version where you have to transplant a brain!
Even a great writer can mistakes every now and then.
But seriously...so many questions...
I just realized something, the way they act at 16:36 just reminded me of the Tickle Belt from the SpongeBob episode "Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy III". Heck, the designs of the belts even look similar.
Now I want to see all the outtakes of William Shatner spurting "his brain is gone" while desperately trying to keep a straight face. If they exists I will kill to watch these takes!
A"5 year" contract reduced to three. Those writers must've been really,really,REALLY MAD!
I liked "Spock's Brain". As for 9:45-9:50 - McCoy is humble about his abilities. That he does not trumpet them, does not mean he lacks them. Simples.
"It will kill my medical officer..." This always gets me. It is a common theme in Stargate. Some incredible device of knowledge downloads information into a brain; maybe the character goes a bit off the rails, but somehow that knowledge is taken out or fades away on its own. Then in a future episode, when they run into the technology again, it's "it almost killed" so and so...
It pisses me off because it is a cop put. It had never been established that the knowledge device would have killed anyone.
A funny thing about this episode is that it's the first time (see 7:00) that they back project the view screen rather than adding it in post production. So they have the actors pace back and forth in front of it constantly, just because they can.
What struck me, even as a kid when I first saw this, is that both of the surgeries (the removal & the reinstallation) left no scars, not even a mark. Not even a hair out of place. After BRAIN surgery.
As remarkably awful as this episode is, what's even more remarkable is that:
1) Someone is critically - if hilariously - reviewing an episode of a tv series that aired *50 years ago*
2) Many people of all ages are familiar with the tv series and the specific episode.
I can't think of ANY other tv show from prior to the 1990s that either of those things are true about, except perhaps Dr. Who and The Twilight Zone to some extent. Even reviews aimed at older audiences only feature a few shows from the 1980s at the earliest.
valar You're forgetting shows like The Cosby Show (1984), Full House (1987), Star Trek TNG (1987), Scooby Doo (1969), The Flintstones (1961), Tom & Jerry (1940), The Jetsons (1962), and Fat Albert (1972).
SouthwesternEagle
"A few shows from the 1980s at the earliest."
One of those is another Star Trek, big surprise!
Even then, most people who watched those shows, younger or older, aren't going to remember much in the way of specifics.
That leaves the cartoons. I missed those. Absolutely children's cartoons have a much greater longevity. But most people aren't going to remember the plots unless it's Looney Toons, and they sure aren't going to be reviewing the episodes.
One thing is for sure..."Spock's Brain" is truly a QUOTABLE episode! That one line, "BRAIN AND BRAIN WHAT IS BRAIN?!" has certainly stuck in the head of MANY a Trekkie...
Whether we want it to or not...
😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
Brain, Brain
What is Brain?!?
Very funny review! I grew up watching ST: TOS, and as a kid took all of these episodes very seriously, but later I got into comedy and was able to see how much silliness was in the show, as well as most other TV science fiction of that era. Great fodder for spoofing and mockery now, but the best thing about the OS was the characters and the futuristic tech like warp drives, transporters, and the Enterprise herself. Always fun to watch Shatner in fist fights, too, because of the obvious stuntman inserts when they pull back to a wide master shot of the melee. The plots are so simple, a child could write them!
There are actually episodes which are harder to watch than this.
Plato's Stepchildren, The Children Shall Lead, and Way to Eden are less fun to watch than this episode.
You should have used the Wonder Years clip parodying this episode. :)
Well this is my fave episode & here's why. I am behind the scenes watching the part where McCoy tries out Spock's finger. Ahem. Original Trekkie here, uber-fan who got invited to Paramount as thanks for helping get TOS renewed after season 2. They didn't name a character after me (like "Geordy LaForge") but Roddenberry & Barrett took me to lunch at the Brown Derby, I watched some scenes being shot, was taken on a personal tour of the studio, met all the special FX guys & got to schmooz with the actors at the wrap party. They offered me a job, but when I saw what was happening with season 3 I decided against that...not apologizing.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned(it HAS been two years). Not all aliens spoke English @8:01. The ship as well as the crew was equip with a Universal Translator...which quickly and conveniently translated unknown languages into English. Oh Star Trek!!
The enterprise incident has a beautiful blue & white Liberty House dress that the romulan commander changes into
You gotta do a review of "I, Mudd" too. Another horrific episode.
13:44 Oh god, I cried because I was laughing so hard xD
@16.42, I think Kira was a TV critic and punished Shatner for overacting. The thing on Spock's head wasn't for controlling his body it just made that cool noise when McCoy pushed the button. Other buttons made other noises such as farts, kazoo and burps.
These scenes were cut because they thought it would make the episode seem silly.
Brain & Brain what is Brain !? Forget the Brain. Just look at the I Magnin & Joseph Magnin gowns and dress! Desilu used local department stores for costumes and would buy bolts of red gold & blue fabric to keep the uniforms fresh that department store was called Orbach’s
Forget McCoy and Spock, I would have had the Enterprise beam down several security officers with body armor and phaser rifles. We would have stun blasted everyone in that underground compound and confiscated all those bracers before reviving anyone for questioning.
16:36 So that's where they got the idea for the tickle belt used on Man-Ray.
Great review. The two other episodes that rank up (down) there with this one are: "And The Children Shall Lead" and "The Way To Eden".
The last one with the woman who changes bodies with Kirk because she was passed over for Captain - not exactly a feminist tract.
He's a doctor, not a rocket scientist!
Star Trek for free on CBS? Well It was nice knowing you guys.
TrueMetis Or not, fucking geography lock. Anyone know a place where TOS can be seen in Canada?
+TrueMetis You can get around geo-locks using proxy servers. If you're using Firefox as your browser, install the FoxyProxy Add-on and get a US proxy from the list over at Hide My Ass.
The third season wasn't as awful as people make it out to be. There were some pretty good episodes. I loved Spectre of the Gun.
At the end of the episode, Spock was more uncharacteristically garrulous than any other time
I saw this episode with my dad. We were both in disbelief of how dumb it was.
The best line in the episode: "Brain and brain! What is brain!?" 😂
Great posting....please do more reviews of the series.
This was the first episode of your show I ever saw,and now I'm addicted to your channel. I'm hoping you'll review Star Trek Nemesis one day.
OMG I forgot all about this episode like my brain had blocked it out.
Spock's brain! A great comedy. Even the name sounds funny! Should watch it when you are stoned.
Brain and Brain what is Brain one of the besst lines ever!
Spock's Brain on Feminism...
In James Blish's short story adaptation of this episode (he did all of them, published as a series of paperbacks in the 70's) after the surgery Spock looks at Bones and smiles. After everyone's reaction to this, he goes back to stone-faced and says "I was endeavoring to sneeze", thus getting in a good dig at McCoy's surgical skills.
Smart Watch of Doom = LOL
17:07 This is the best scene in all of star trek and I wish TNG would have TAKEN NOTES !!!
Wow, that mean that he is the real creator of Star Trek, and not Gene Roddenberry, he just take credit for something that he didn't do, the guy created practically most of the Star Trek universe. So why the Star Trek fans worship Roddenberry in he was just a hack writer with a very vague good idea?
Threshold from Star Trek Voyager is easily the worst, but that's only if you count the Next-Gen shows.
“Beverly Crusher F**ks a Ghost” (AKA “Sub Rosa”) in TNG is far far far worse than this.
I didnt think this episode was boring
I beg to differ. Even with today's technology bodies can be kept going indefinitely. The brain...oh well.
BRAIN AND BRAIN! WHAT IS BRAIN!?
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Re: Spock directing his own brain surgery. There is a Russian sci-fi book, where one of the characters has a major surgery (not brain surgery, mind you), and insists on not being sedated... because at the same time she is also performing surgery on somebody else. Interestingly, it DOES make sense in context.
What is this book? I need it!
@@Gulamaja It's not translated. If you can read Russian, it's called "Космобиолухи" (hard to translate, as it's a play of words, but most commonly it's referred to as "Space biologoofists"), or rather one of the sequels. The character in question is a cyborg, naturally having a much greater pain tolerance, and she is also the best hacker in the team. Another cyborg is attacked by a virus, and she is connected to him remotely and is fighting the virus. She is also physically injured, and doctors need to operate quickly, but she can't disconnect, otherwise the virus would kill the other guy.
Spock's Brain should have been on MST3K. It's comedy gold!
The Freiberger season. Still think the space hippies from "The Way to Eden" is the worst episode. Great vid!
I think you did a fine job with this. There are a number of other notable terrible episodes in various series, even if you just stayed within Star Trek. Hell, the warp 10 episode in Voyager was so bad, the show's creators disavowed it from the canon.
Brain and Brain what is Brain!?! One of the best lines ever
From The Star Trek Compendium:
"While 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein' was in production at Universal Pictures in 1948, its title was 'The Brain of Frankenstein'. When viewed in context with the remainder of Star Trek, 'Spock's Brain' is almost as funny even without the presence of Abbott and Costello...
In 'The Menagerie', Dr. McCoy confirms that medical science in [this] era has learned to tie into all bodily organs EXCEPT the brain. It therefore seems highly unlikely that, while McCoy COULD sustain life within Spock's brainless body in sick bay, he could animate it and still keep it alive OUTSIDE the confines of the ship...
When Spock's voice is heard over Kirk's communicator, it is not explained how the Vulcan's brain manages to synthesize Spock's voice although body and mind have been separated."
if you ever do another Star Trek review, you should look at either Star Trek 5 or the TOS episodes The Way to Eden, AKA the one with the space hippies!
Love the old school opening! Of course, they have red shirts to take the fall if need be....premises for episodes back then we're ridiculous....
Yeah, American T.V. Drama was a VERY different place before Steven Bochco came along...
Blooper at 18:10 Spock's belt is gone.
This was the third and final season (1968-1969) of "Star Trek" and its episode was "Spock's Brain" became the only episode which I've liked and it's very cool to watch and entertain with someone you care and love.
Speaking as a Star Wars fan I can still see the importance of this to series
They aired this as the season opener because of the plethora of hot chicks in futuristic costumes.
Actually, Bones never said he didn't know how long he could keep Spock functioning. His actual words were I can't give you any guarantee. But he did know it couldn't surpass 24 hours. Rookies
Love the old CBS special parody titles
1:12 The best pony play in the galaxy!
From what I heard ST only had a 3rd season because RCA wanted to sell more color tvs and Trek was one of the few color shows on. It also explains the shows original screwed up timeslots.
They also wanted more episodes because you couldn't syndicate a TV show with less than 75 (I think?) episodes.
It´s about time... for this comment... being seven years late, that is.
*P.S.:* Season three episodes of ST:TOS were, _uh,_ different because Roddenberry left the position of day-to-day showrunner and script editor, because that was the only bargaining power he had in a dispute with NBC... and he lost.
*P.P.S.:* The intention of the author of this episode, Cronin/Coon, was that this episode be _high camp._ Or so he purported.
Wait a minute, didn't they recycle part of this plot for the 3rd ST film THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK, in which his conscience (knowledge and memories included) was transferred to Bones' mind from THE WRATH OF KAHN but the body was left on the Genesis planet and had to be retrieved so that Spock could be resurrected in his entirety? Man, the original films were recycling the original series' plots long before J.J. Abrams recycled the plots of the first six films!
Yeah. But Abrams did it badly.
(let's show the Klingon moon Praxis demolished in the background 50 YEARS EARLY while we're looking for "Khan" and not even acknowledge what it's going to mean for the planet. Or that "Khan" escaped and stranded himself on a dying planet because he's such a genius)
Thank you for this awesome review!
this episode is the first time, (was nine at the time), that my suspension of disbelief was shattered. you dont mess with brains like that!
@ 8:30 What is with Scotty's pants?
[Insert pathetic comment about Leonard Nimoy's death, solely for the purpose of getting likes]
3:43 Hi Marj Dusay (aka Alexandra Spaulding from Guiding Light.)
this episode makes a great drinking game, drink whenever anyone says "brain"
His brain is gone. Best line in movie history
He speaks English because of the universal translator the humans are carrying around with them.
This is the best Star Trek episode in the history of Star Trek episodes, and any negative opinions you eschew merely illustrate your jealousy and bias.
I read that i t was supposed to be a comedic episode like " A Piece of the Action " Moron Producer, Fred Frieburger, voted to play it serious"
While this episode may be an embarrassment to The Original Series, bullshit like Sub Rosa & tens of Voyager episodes are an embarrassment to Star Trek in its entirety
vikingfortiesfaeroes The 1st movie is a embarrassment also.
Marvel at Star Trek the motionless picture
Theses are the voyages is by far the worst episode of star trek
And that isn't as stupid as having a whole episode of Worf taking a bath?
The Enterprise Incident would have been a great - and better - season opener
I *FUCKING* love spocks brain. Best episode of TOS.
Spock's Brain was taken by Nancy Sinatra look-a-likes. This episode was spoofed on The Wonder Years(1988-1993).
More of that, please!
IMHO, the worst episode is "Turnabout Intruder". At least "Spock's Brain" had a so bad it's good aspect to it. "Turnabout Intruder" was just bad. Shatner's doubly hammy acting as Janet Lester in Kirk's body almost reached so bad it's good status, but didn't quite, it was just really bad. The story was absurd.
The guest actress in Turnabout Intruder played Kirk better than Shatner did. They could have continued the series with her starring as Jane Tiberia Kirk…
I can think of worse episodes not from Season 3. But, The Enterprise Incident probably would've been a much better choice to lead off the season with.
In our humored critique of this episode, I was impressed by it. Gene Roddenberry knew some secrets we will learn later, Star Trek was his humored attempt to share these secrets with us. I will reveal to you that there are other planets with humanoid life forms besides earth, And some of these planets, as in this episode, contain only female forms and some only male forms. Most, more advanced than us. One hundred years ago, if one spoke of the television and radio and cars, one would be deemed insane or accused of wizardry. Today, these are mainstream. Do not let ignorance keep you asleep.
Maybe you should start doing reviews of bad TV show episodes inbetween your movie reviews. Not just shows but maybe ones like Pokemon (There's plenty of bad episodes to pick from), The Simpsons, Doctor Who (The Twin Dilemma perhaps), ect.
This episode was nothing compared to the Space Hippies in "The Way To Eden". That was the WORST!!
I really liked this episode . . . . when I was 8 years old.
Great work. I would love to see more Star Trek related stuff on this channel. Maybe more tv reviews in general, too.
It’s not the worst episode in the series. That falls to “And the Children Shall Lead”. Horrible episode, with a trial lawyer (Melvin Belli) playing the villain. This episode was a clunker but that’s it.