The DUMBEST Episode of Star Trek (Spock's Brain)

Brain and brain, what is brain?
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[@mathieuleader8601]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spockless Mind

[@jamstonjulian6947]

Internal Darkness of the Mindless Spock

[@Tareltonlives]

The Spock that Wouldn't die.

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

Spocky and the Brain (What are we going to do tonight, Brain? What we do every night, Spock, try to take over the world!)

[@RichardWatt]

The Hot Chick Came for Spock's Brain

[@djackson4657]

Nimoy called this episode a POS,

[@marcushead9985]

The best part about Allison reviewing TOS is getting to hear her Kirk impression.

[@ZekeStaright]

Not Helping... Spock!

[@thrashpondopons2776]

Of all the impressions I've ever heard, her's was the most... Human!

[@willer3399]

Marcus Head That “Surprise, Bitch” was good to.

[@tbirddddd]

I thought the voice sounded familiar! I just started watching this from my recommendations and didn't know it was someone I had seen before.

[@Marshal_Dunnik]

It's...actuallyquitegood

[@Nimmo1492]

"Brain and brain, what is brain?" Somebody got paid actual money to write that.

[@malcolml309]

That's the sad part.

[@indriadrayton1132]

And paid to say it with a straight face.

[@leftcoaster67]

It was written by Gene Coon, co-producer, under his pen name Lee Cronin. I'm sure it was a rejected script, and someone dug it out and said. "Hey this one would be cheap to film, let's use it!".

[@brianjlevine]

Seeing as I use that line frequently when I get frustrated at trying to figure something out, I respectfully disagree. It's a classic line.

[@RaeCarson]

@@brianjlevine Glad to know I'm not the only one who uses this catchphrase IRL in frustrating situations. Although I doubt I could ever make it contain its original, uhm, gravitas?? considering I couldn't/wouldn't ever wear such go-go fashions as those women wear.

[@Amaritudine]

The remote control used to guide Spock's body is a true marvel. It even has a melee attack button, implying that it was assembled with fisticuffs in mind as a realistic possibility.

[@robinchesterfield42]

(Commecial Announcer Voice): "With REAL Kung-Fu Grip!"

[@nomative8915]

The first prototype gamecube controller.

[@hobbygamer6220]

I have one

[@johntabler349]

Even as a kid I realized that the fine motor skills were pushing the envelope of believability but in this episode that bar is set differently than the rest of the series

[@NormAppleton]

If only they had that in the titanic submersible.

[@alexandredesbiens-brassard9109]

What is brain! Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

[@NormAppleton]

UNTZ, UNTZ, UNTZ....

[@seamusburke639]

Reminder to everyone; this was the Season 3 premiere! Huge letter writing campaign to get the show renewed, and THIS is what the audience is rewarded with!

[@Gasoline85]

It’s been a while since I last watched TOS, but IIRC season 3 had most of the stinkers of TOS.

[@planescaped]

@@Gasoline85 That's what people say... but I personally feel there were plenty of stinkers throughout TOS. I have no nostalgia for it, and while I admit some of it is very good... most of it is hideously dated and TNG season 1 level quality. >__> Maybe there was more good in TOS. But all I can recall is Gamesters of Triskellion, Omega Glory and Spocks Brain...

[@xavierfrendick6581]

planescaped I mean... City of the Edge of Tomorrow, Balance of Terror, Squire of Gothos, Children of Plato, Trouble with Tribbles...Okay, two of those were silly, yes, but at least the fun kind of silly.

[@Ireallywouldrathernot]

Doctor.

[@SigEpBlue]

I can only imagine how many people wondered why they took the time to write in, after seeing...this. IIRC, Gene, and most (if not all) of the original writers, were gone by the time the third season got under way. The budget was slashed to a level that'd make Irwin Allen throw his arms up in defeat. To cap it off, the show was stuck in a late Friday night time slot, thanks to Laugh-In. There are a few nuggets of effort and talent in season three, to be sure, but it's kind of like picking the good parts from a moldy loaf of bread: it's gonna end with disappointment.

[@lancebaylis3169]

You can see the look on Shatner's face as DeForest Kelley says the line about Spock's Brain being gone, Shat seems to be thinking, "Ok, this is definitely it, we're cancelled after this season".

[@tasha7726]

Shatner actually wrote in his autobiography "Star Trek Memories" that shooting this episode filled the whole cast with a looming sense of cancellation.

[@BionicBinary]

"Brain and brain, what is brain?" is the official motto of 2019

[@robinchesterfield42]

At least in the White House. ...I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it was right...THERE! I couldn't not! XD

[@douglasrowland9986]

The motto for the DNC

[@craigbryant3191]

Greetings from 2020.

[@planescaped]

@@craigbryant3191 Likely end up being the motto for the upcoming decade in general...

[@Tareltonlives]

2020 Republicans: Hold my beer

[@DarthAzabrush]

Kirk's expression on the line "his brain is gone" is pretty much Shatner's reaction to his first reading of the script.

[@djackson4657]

It was probably everyone's reaction to reading that script. Nimoy said he was embarrassed.

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

Ikr! 🤣

[@tonyjackson4078]

It was Nimoy's reaction to Shatner directing Final Frontier.

[@Goodiesfanful]

I’d say “his brain is gone” sums up the person who wrote this episode.

[@manco828]

@@tonyjackson4078 row row row your boat

[@GamesFromSpace]

I'm pretty sure you meant to say "Rock'em Spock'em".

[@AllisonPregler]

My god you're right

[@tylercarnevale1625]

"Jim I don't know if I can reconnect his brain...but I got him working with my old PlayStation"

[@robinchesterfield42]

Hey, it was good enough to get New Horizons all the way out to Pluto! :)

[@shawnconway6009]

Okay but, imagine an entire episode of a show, told entirely in dramatic music stings. Can you imagine the brilliance of being able to actually tell a story that way?

[@robinchesterfield42]

Star Trek: The Musical! er...Opera? Silent Movie! (with the not-silent part being played by a live pianist/organist). Another thing I would totally watch if it was done right. Heck, even if it was done WRONG--at least it'd be entertaining. XD

[@MrBottlecapBill]

@@robinchesterfield42 It wasn't music strings but that entire Episode of Buffy the Vampire slayer was a musical and there was another one were nobody could talk.

[@kennethcastelino3033]

Well....

[@Humbertcc1]

The pain belt actually gave the men menstrual cramps, that's why they fainted.

[@janna-renee]

I know the show had an absolutely abysmal budget, even for the time, but were the pain belts made from margarine containers painted and attached to go-go belts?

[@nomisunrider6472]

@@janna-renee Probably. This was the episode where they slashed the budget, after all, and it was joked that the episode's horrible writing was a "tribute" to that decision.

[@the81kid]

@@janna-renee The show actually had a pretty large budget per episode for the time. I guess sci-fi was expensive, all those sets and makeup artists. For all its faults, TOS didn't revert to North American Forest Planet too much, like a lot of later Star Trek series did (and Stargate did almost every week).

[@NormAppleton]

Good Catch! That or Searing Gas Pain Land on the Simpsons. I still think Adam West would have had something (clearly labeled) on his utility belt.

[@NormAppleton]

@@janna-renee Ask Teri Garr, she would know.

[@ryanc5572]

Nurse Chapell falling in that overdramatic motion makes me laugh hysterically every time

[@Tareltonlives]

Shatner: Youwill NOT, upstage me, Majel!

[@FumetsuGolf]

Majel Barrett and William Shatner should have received Emmys for those falls, though.

[@justalilguy4871]

My favorite dumb Trek is the TNG episode where everyone gets dangerously addicted to a video game. Everyone got so hooked on it that they were ignoring their responsibilities and the Enterprise almost gets destroyed in the process. But the game was just 'put this frisbee into that hole'

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Not the TNG episode where everyone "devolved" proving that Trek humans are descended from spiders?

[@JacobKaiju]

Sometimes, it's the most simplest game that can be addicting. I mean, look at Tetris or Candy Crush.

[@justalilguy4871]

@@patrickmccurry1563 well maybe only Barclay evolved from spiders, 'cause, honestly, fuck that guy.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Dude, he was the only normal person on that ship. He had realistic fears and issues rather than the near inhuman robots of most members of the Federation.

[@robinchesterfield42]

Yep, simple games can be the most addicting, and I get what they were GOING for in that TNG episode...but man, so badly executed. And the one where they were devolving _was_ silly, but actually everyone was devolving into DIFFERENT things along their species' evolutionary lines. Which is why Troi was an amphibian/fish thing and Worf was still a mammal of some kind. It doesn't make ACTUAL sense, no, but they did kind of think to address that in the script. :P As for Spider-Barclay...yeah I got nothin' on that. But I've got kind of an odd soft spot for that episode in general, though. It's dumb, but it's FUN dumb. Now, the Voyager episode where Paris's tongue falls out and he and Janeway turn into lizard (?) ish things that have _babies_....yeah that one can go........away. :P

[@clearmountain28]

I think we can all agree that the real brain spock needed was friendship......or something.

[@rodrolliv]

Clear Mountain the brains we made along the way

[@clearmountain28]

@@rodrolliv a true brain knows everything about you and sticks around anyway.

[@amadeusmilan3420]

They also sort of reprised this episode in Star Trek: Voyager when they stole Neelix's lungs.

[@kaitlyn__L]

And sort of in DS9 where they remote control a dead guy, except they actually get to have him walk into the wall.

[@Tareltonlives]

LUNG AND LUNG WHAT IS LUNG?!

[@jbwarner8626]

And that was one of the first episodes of Voyager, too. Probably not the best source to be cribbing from if you wanna make a good first impression. Though I give that episode credit, the Doctor's solution of "generate temporary holographic lungs that will only work if Neelix remains bedridden" sounds at least slightly more plausible in-universe than McCoy hooking Spock up to a mind-control headband and operating him with a remote that only has 12 buttons on it.

[@MrBottlecapBill]

Most trek is just recycled episodes reimagined. It's sad really.

[@jbwarner8626]

@@MrBottlecapBill In all fairness, even TOS went back to a few of the same wells on occasion. How many societies did they uncover that were secretly run by a computer?

[@klisterklister2367]

james t kirk is a swooning damsel in distress, that's why he faints like a queen and why i love him

[@NormAppleton]

Shatner is Scarlett O'Hara

[@Canadamus_Prime]

Apparently this episode was written as a joke, but for some reason they went ahead with it anyway.

[@WitchfinderGeneral56]

God bless them for that

[@jm4954]

When you said "City on the Edge of Forever" I nearly had a heart attack

[@argonwheatbelly637]

They altered it so much! The best part is the voice of the guardian, but it really pissed off Harlan. The original story he wrote was better. Like comparing Herbert's "Dune" novels to the 1984 movie. Gerrae! Only the decor was good, and the Guild-eventually-become-Borg-prototypes' voice through the translator. The rest made me laugh. However, I still liked CotEoF better than Dune, even in Toto. *crap double entrendres WAY intended*

[@brucegrossman3531]

Brain. brain. What is brain. That's Emmy worthy dialogue.

[@Mary-lr8ln]

My parents were huge trekkies and so we started with TOS when I was 10 and honestly my biggest memories of it are 1) tribbles are cute 2) the salt monster in like, the second episode terrified me 3) brain and brain, what is brain??? also being confused, and not a fan of Mudd

[@cindygreene3353]

Oh, I loved Harry Mudd!

[@thetooginator153]

@@cindygreene3353 - “Norman, coordinate!”

[@the81kid]

The salt vampire one was a nice creepy little episode. It's strange because Trek has tried to do horror since but it usually doesn't work.

[@NormAppleton]

Mudd? HARCOURT FENTON MUDD?!!

[@markiangooley]

The line, “Brain and brain! What is brain?” is probably the best reaction to much of the nonsense one sees on line, including many tweets

[@AbsoluteTravisT]

Fun fact, after hearing Allison's amazing Kirk impression I wanted a true himbo crossover of Star Trek and Baywatch, turns out if you look them both up you get a tweet from you!

[@rikukicksass07]

Man, every time I hear those dramatic stings I think of McCoy saying “He’s dead Jim”

[@MerelyAFan]

The most amusing element in this episode is DeForest Kelly giving it his all in a performance that has far more effort than a story this bad really deserves: "Jim, where are you going to look? In this whole galaxy, where are you going to look for Spock's brain? How are you going to find it?" That's how you know he's a professional, when he's in silliness like this or Night of the Lepus and he's taking it dead serious.

[@jamstonjulian6947]

I'm a doctor, not a person that understands basic human anatomy.

[@indriadrayton1132]

Deforest Kelly was in Night of the Lep- I can't even finish the sentence..

[@Jokie155]

From the episode 'Shore Leave' "I've got a personal grudge against that rabbit, Jim!"

[@dragonknightleader1]

I'm of the opinion Kelly would have made for a better Kirk than Shatner. Not in a fist-fighting kind of way, but in acting like a senior officer weighing responsibilities. Shatner would have been better as a First Officer, like how they planned to use Riker in season 1.

[@limalepakko6074]

I like the way he says "life support"

[@sisandamatomela3272]

"Spooock, what the hell am I looking at" that was delivered in a hilarious way !!

[@aaronbays4]

This is by far my favorite "bad/campy" episode in all of Trek. Its just so absurd(and keeps getting more absurd) that you can't help but laugh. I kind of wonder how many takes they had to do because nobody could keep their shit together and deliver the lines with a straight face.

[@oddish4352]

Brain, what is brain?

[@Endocrom]

Shame, they had this interesting concept about a society dependent on a computer and the most memorable part is "BRAIN AND BRAIN, WHAT IS BRAIN?"

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

And they've had better episodes about that premise!

[@billcasey3492]

Kara: What is brain!?! Pakled: Things that make us go

[@steve1978ger]

He is smart.

[@indriadrayton1132]

The best script ever.

[@handsomebrick]

That would be an amazing team-up.

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

It is not just Vulcans who become telepathic when their brains are removed. I think about a dozen horror and sci fi movies were based on the premise that a brain in a jar develops terrible new powers, almost always including telepathy. But being put in a jar also seems to automatically turn them evil, so there are tradeoffs.

[@Tareltonlives]

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NECK JUICE?

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

@@Tareltonlives Wouldn't you only worry about neck juice with disembodied heads? They're a whole different beast, usually tragic figures hoping for death, not the evil geniuses disembodied brains are. (Though sometimes disembodied brains are victims, exploited by some villain. Though even then they seem to have superior mental powers, often killing their exploiter with telekinesis. One Wild, Wild West episode comes to mind. Strange how that show keeps popping up in my comments today.)

[@robinchesterfield42]

Jan in the Pan! JAN IN THE PAN! XD (For those of you going "Buh?" at this, I'll be nice. Look up "The Brain That Wouldn't Die", and do the MST3K version for the full Nerd Cred experience. Reviewers like Lupa here and Linkara get a LOT of their humour style from MST3K one way or another, so you'll learn _two_ Nerd History things that way! :))

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

@@robinchesterfield42 Jan is one of the few disembodied heads that kind of straddle the victim/villain line.

[@Tareltonlives]

@@MyMagnificentOctopus Yeah, her husband was the villain protagonist

[@BlazingOwnager]

After Jack's visit I am now convinced that Rich and Mike need to talk Star Trek with Allison.

[@christopherwall2121]

As Jay just sinks further and further into a black, endless void.

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Kirk: Mr. Spock, what is that disgusting thing floating out there? Mr. Spock: The scanners read that is the great and terrible Phoebe Halliwell, the monster who ate the planets Berkon 9 and the thamaranian Star System to satisfy it's ego, and is heading to earth. Kirk: FIRE ALL WEAPONS!!!!!

[@Tareltonlives]

An egoistical hot chick? That actually sounds like Kirk's dream come true

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Tareltonlives Kirk: No one is allowed to be more egotistical and selfish than me!

[@robinchesterfield42]

@@Tadicuslegion78 "If there's anything bigger than my ego out there, I want it caught and shot now!" Okay so that's Zaphod Beebelbrox, but c'mon, it WORKS... XD

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Robin Chesterfield you mean Zap Branagin?

[@EnsignRicky011]

As I recall in Nimoy's "I Am Spock", Nimoy was completely tuned out during the zombie Spock scenes. Spock and Spock, what is Spock?!

[@MforMovesets]

What is a brain? A miserable pile of secrets!

[@ananousous]

But enough Trek... have at you!

[@1980rlquinn]

This was delightful. Please do more Star Trek. Please do ALL the Star Trek!!

[@Robert08010]

I would accept that IF Spock's brain could be interfaced with their systems that he might be able to speak over some radio transmitter BUT what is there to make his voice over this brain interface to sound exactly like his regular vocal cords? That's well beyond unlikely. Its highly improbable.

[@grkpektis]

I saw TOS for the first time a couple years ago and I was also shocked at how good it was. The mirror episode especially I thought the alternate reality characters were going to be cartoonishly evil but they were actually very believable

[@the81kid]

Mirror Mirror is just an excellent little sci-fi story. When TOS was good, it was really good. It's just a shame that it also had its fair share of atrocious episodes. It's a credit to the quality of the good episodes that they managed to make TOS a classic, despite the bad episodes.

[@GuineaPigDan]

Purportedly Gene L Coon (one of TOS’s best writers) wrote this episode as a joke to protest Star Trek getting the Friday Night Death slot when it received a 3rd season. Sadly the joke was lost on the show runners and producer Fred Freiberger. At least this episode is enjoyably bad compared to other really crappy third season episodes.

[@the81kid]

Those space hippies... I love Trek. But I still can't finish that episode.

[@theID2]

got to say i really like the narrator here. she's quite good.

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

"It is a rock-hard 60's mind." Not to be confused with a green-tinted 60's mind.

[@rentless666]

I remember this episode. Also, Shatner is the Hasselhoff of his generation.

[@CorbCorbin]

Coblin No. Maybe they’re comparable in the U.S., but Hasselhoff became an International Mega Star, with music and then Baywatch. The Germans had him sing when the Berlin Wall came down! 🤣 That was so surreal.

[@thedevilsadvocate5210]

Two marvelous looking Jews

[@indriadrayton1132]

@@CorbCorbin surely you're joking!!

[@CorbCorbin]

indria drayton Nope. And don’t call me Shirley.

[@CorbCorbin]

indria drayton In as much seriousness as I can muster, Shatner is now much more revered, but Hasselhoff had a much bigger career in both television and with his singing(Europe). They had the Knight Rider car at the wall! 🤣 He sang his Freedom! song, it was all on PPV, if I’m remembering correctly. Shatner has a long career, but other than Star Trek TOS, and the subsequent films, his spoken word music was his second biggest success. I can’t argue who was more influential, or the better actor, as Hasselhoff is now mostly a joke, or a living meme for years, and Shatner is revered by most fans, even when being made fun of.

[@StarlightPrism]

Great video! And OH SHIT, YOU'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE ANIMATED SERIES! HELL YES!

[@klisterklister2367]

please please i want the ep about lucifer in tas

[@Endocrom]

Don't forget the one that teaches kids about euthanasia.

[@thrashpondopons2776]

Animated ST had some good premises from Alan Dean Foster. When you hack the story to 20 min. blurbs it loses a lot!

[@littledikkins2]

@@thrashpondopons2776 And they could do things in animation that couldn't be done on film at that time.

[@fluffysaffron5719]

It was an interesting mix of episodes that genuinely had a good blend of action and stuff that made you think (or it did for me as a kid, anyway), and stuff that was kind of goofy but also incredibly fun, where the writers just seemed to be going wild with the fact that they could do things in animation that they couldn't do with live-action. Like the episode where everyone learns to use magic, and the one where the crew all got shrunk. (Which are still some of my favorites for some reason...)

[@caileanthomson1286]

Well, I reckon we all know what Kara, aka, "Purple Hot Chick" wanted Spock's Brain for. She wanted it for the next stage in her planet's ultimate in law enforcement. *ROBOCOP 2!*

[@indriadrayton1132]

BAHAHAHA!!

[@jasonwheeler826]

RoboSPOCK!

[@chicostephenson]

"the givers of pain and delight"

[@marcherwitch9811]

see! there have ALWAYS been strong roles for women in scifi! #WhatIsBrain

[@marcherwitch9811]

@ULGROTHA thank you! DS9 is one of the onlh 9nes i saw as a kid... my aunt still has all of the VHS tapes, her learning klingon casette and such...

[@robinchesterfield42]

Technically there ARE some halfway strong, or at least not uesless, women in the original series. But I wouldn't look for them in this episode. They mostly didn't get lines or got knocked out early on. :P

[@CorbCorbin]

Farscape has some of my favorites.

[@marccolten9801]

Well Majel Barrett was supposed to be #1.

[@indriadrayton1132]

@@marcherwitch9811 WOW!!! Learning Klingon!!! BAHAHAHA!!!

[@Kolbatsu]

This is a hard Sci-Fi series where everything has an internal logic and is based on real science. So we made an episode where Spock's brain was just taken like something out of a 90s Nicktoon.

[@markelijio6012]

The most surprising Star Trek episode of them all was "Spock's Brain" in its 3rd and final season (1968-1969) which the producers, writer and director were done an brilliant job. All of which Star Trek made television history followed by a few spin-offs and series of feature films were all became successful and profitable like Babylon 5, Time Trax and more.

[@Kohdok]

>Not calling him "Rock 'em, Spock 'em Robot".

[@1000huzzahs]

6:38 me before I've had my coffee

[@Gojiragon]

Ahh, yes. The episode that was written as a joke, and then filmed seriously because there was nothing else to film.

[@WhaleManMan]

Really?

[@TetsuDeinonychus]

Explains so much (in fact I think that happened a lot on old TV shows.

[@handsomebrick]

The story goes that when the series was brought back from cancellation for an extra season, the writer initially wrote a different script that was rejected for being "not Star Trek enough," and started hate-writing a new script intended as a scathing satire of what they wanted, this script was "Spock's Brain" which to everyone's horror was accepted for the final season's first episode.

[@ksol1460tv]

@julianarwen Not true. It was deadly serious. Then the rewrites started in, trying to *make* it into a joke, and it ended up a disaster.

[@djackson4657]

@@handsomebrick not everyone's the network thought it was real

[@CultureFusionSite]

How can you not love a series (Star Trek: Animated Series) in which Captain Kirk fights Space Puritans to save Satan...by using Magic?!

[@fluffysaffron5719]

I remember liking that episode when I was a kid, lol. It actually did make 6- or 7-year-old me think about "what if people think some things are evil just because they don't understand them and are scared?" Of course, as an adult, I enjoy it on a different level.

[@paulgibbon5991]

The only thing I remember about that series is an episode concerning a "Stasis Box", and I was wondering who the heck Stacy was.

[@tyburvandeezo8218]

I'll never get tired of your "Benny Hill" style editing... I swear if I muted the audio I would still hear kazoos playing "Yakety Sax".

[@usmanahmed89]

There's so much Star Trek that I can't remember it all despite having seen most of it. Thank you Allison for the walk down memory lane.

[@monroeriddell5822]

If you take a shot everytime Allison or someone says "Brain" you'd probably be dead halfway through...

[@Tareltonlives]

I'd love a Star Trek crossover with Lewis Lovehaug.

[@AMPMASTER10]

"Brain and brain, what is brain?" - Some Politician

[@suedenim]

This episode was supposed to be "topical" at the time, because the first transplant surgeries had recently been performed. Because transplant surgery quickly became common and uncontroversial, whatever topicality the episode had is lost in modern viewers.

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

Oh okay, this makes a little more sense. Thanks for the info!

[@zarrg5611]

That sounds similar to the origins of Dr Who's _The Tenth Planet,_ The writer thought that prosthetics would make humans more emotionless and came up with the Cybermen.

[@suedenim]

@@zarrg5611 I'm also thinking about all those stories about hand transplants where the pianist gets the hands of a condemned murderer or whatever.

[@BlackAdam1231]

Who wouldn’t want a little dog with a unicorn horn on it’s head

[@HiperPivociarz]

Kirk is the 60s equivalent of Mitch, isn't he... Now that I mention it, it's a shame Hasselhoff never got to play Kirk

[@Fanimati0n]

It would only feed his ego

[@HiperPivociarz]

Exactly! Perfect for Kirk

[@HiperPivociarz]

No, I mean if they made a reboot in the 80s or 90s, Hasselhoff should've played Kirk, and I would like to see how that would pan out.

[@handsomebrick]

@@BondFreek Prequel series!

[@littledikkins2]

@@BondFreek Hasselhoff would have been 14 when the series premiered as he is now 67.

[@CS-hx8hy]

"script and script! what is script?" probably the funniest, most needed question in all of filmdom. followed very closely by "plot and plot! what is plot?"

[@chrisridenhour]

I always loved the scene when McCoy puts on the genius machine and finds the most impossible tasks simple. 9:53

[@BlownMacTruck]

Let me congratulate you on having an amazing narrating voice which is something of a rarity in the KZbin community; most people think "THE FASTER I SPEAK THE MORE EDGY AND INTERESTING I AM". That plus no jump cuts every other word because you can actually speak a sentence properly without an edit makes it far more relaxing / easy-going versus "I AM IN YOUR FACE WITH THESE JUMP CUTS!!!!". You also enunciate like a proper voice actor and you're gifted with a regular speaking vocal range that is weirdly satisfying (I don't know why, but there you go). God I wish more people leaned into this more traditional style.

[@Platanov]

"But hey, conveniently we can just put a weird thing on his head and BLAMMO" is the entire text of the star fleet medical textbook.

[@BloodrealmX]

Nobody ever said Starfleet was good at their job.

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

I don't know I kinda loved Nemoy doing his best Robot impression and McCoy's impressive remote controller. 🤣

[@WilliamGarland]

I remember when I first saw this episode I kept expecting Femputer to show up.

[@hansmeyer7225]

Snusnu

[@ryanbarker5217]

scantily clad beautiful bimbo: what is brain? kirk: gentlemen, i'm home.

[@indriadrayton1132]

BAHAHAHA!

[@wstine79]

This is the Bat Boy of Star Trek TOS episodes.

[@charleshetrick3152]

We didn’t get a reference to how this remote control business was used in DS9 “The Magnificent Ferengi”. They were bold enough to run the dead Vorta into a wall.

[@wstine79]

Star Trek don't speak Gobbledy Goop. They speak Techno Babble.

[@MisterTutor2010]

Trek-nobabble :)

[@moaningpheromones]

@@MisterTutor2010 well spocken

[@perturbedsun5508]

Oh my gosh Lupa you just hooked me forever. More Trek commentary please.

[@Razakage]

Brain

[@GrymsArchive]

Year 3 of Star Trek and year 2 of Space 1999 have one thing in common: *Fred Freiberger*

[@ksol1460tv]

Boy, *that's* the God's own truth. Freiberger was a line producer, didn't know jack about science fiction and after sitting through a few episodes, said (in front of female writers), "Oh, I get it. Tits in space." I'm sure Roddenberry was happy with that. Nobody else was.

[@cindygreene3353]

Space 1999 is cool! I have the whole series on DVD.

[@victorbrown3032]

I saw this review a year ago. Just watched Spock’s Brain again and realized this review is now a required second part of the episode! Watch the goofy episode then here for the belly laugh! 🤣 How cool would it be to have that narration follow you around for a day?! 🤪

[@bobbun9630]

I dunno. I think that "His brain is gone!" line from McCoy is perhaps the best Star Trek line of all time.

[@cjermevpg6372]

Rock'em Spock-em! How did you miss this joke?

[@Mineav]

What is brain? Life's eternal question.

[@Jason-nosaJ]

This is the origin story to the Pakleds.

[@JasonArmond]

My dad loved the original series. As a kid, whenever I'd do something stupid, he'd laugh and say "BRAIN BRAIN, WHAT IS BRAIN" and it made me cry. This video gave me horrific flashbacks. You've earned a sub!

[@MeganKoumori]

This is going to be my new favorite from you.

[@Tareltonlives]

I'm binging these for no reason whatsoever other that they're hilarious

[@KasumiRINA]

OMG, this is hilarious!.. I thought by this point humans moved on past Aristotle thinking that brains are just a radiator, and kinda figured out the connection between its computing powers and the body's life support... I mean, THEY HAVE ACTUAL COMPUTERS IN STAR TREK!!! Least they could do is hook Leonard Nimoy up with some wires to a magical CPU within 0.001 seconds so he could at least... BREATHE, circulate blood and oxygen, else body... CEASES TO FUNCTION, EH?! xD

[@robertholtz]

I actually love the original series and I WANTED to hate this video. I usually despise the typical “pithy banter over show clips” format KZbin video but this here was high art. Clever, informed, genuinely funny. You completely won me over and I laughed through just about every scene. What a pleasant surprise. Yes, TOS had some silly episodes and a painfully limited budget that made for some cheesy production values. But it also really pushed the envelope and blazed a path for a whole higher level of storytelling newer generations now simply take for granted and can’t possibly appreciate now that television has become so sophisticated and elaborate. Anyway, BRAVO and subscribed!!

[@edisonlima4647]

I would definitely not mind having you review the whole series, the good and the bad.

[@JICheshired]

I don't know what I want more. An entire Star Trek episode with all dialogue removed with only music stings, an episode cut only with Kirk's dramatic hand motions, or an episode with the camera only focusing on everyone's chronic intense brow.

[@robinchesterfield42]

Yes.

[@sharona1981]

Girl, your Kirk impression is epic, showing just how hilariously bad Bill Shatner's vocal emphases were. This episode was truly illogical.

[@jaycurtis5036]

Every time I hear someone say this is the dumbest episode I have to say "Didn't you ever see And The Children Shall Lead".

[@indriadrayton1132]

BONK BONK ON THE HEAD! Man, those kids jacked Kirk up!!!!

[@weirdandproudofit1]

I was always a bit reluctant to watch the original series so your endorsement means a lot. My mum's always loved both this and Stargate and I've always meant to try them properly

[@mick7909]

"Brain and brain, what is brain" best line in the episode

[@spacepisces9287]

Mic k I love that line

[@sf6555]

Spocks Brain : I am the worst episode Threshold: Hold my coffee, black Code of Honor: Hold my Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

[@brendakrieger7000]

The City on the Edge of Forever is my favorite episode of any Star Trek series.

[@kahemingway88]

"Spock, do you even want us to help you?!" I was actually thinking the same thing when I watched this episode. Spock's nitpicking at them over the communicator almost made me wonder if he was content to remain a brain in a jar for the rest of his life. As for 1:55, I've often thought that positioning himself like that was his not-so-subtle way of expressing what he thought of the episode.

[@Tareltonlives]

"WHY IS THIS A SUBGENRE OF STAR TREK STORIES?!" - Lewis Lovehaug

[@MeepChangeling]

"Still hold sup pritty wel today!" Anyone else remember that episode where everyone is staring at what is obviously a spraypainted potato peeler all "My god, what is this... alien, device?"

[@indriadrayton1132]

BAHAHAHA!!! I wish they could have the same campy sets, too.

[@genxlife]

"Brain and brain!! What is brain?!?" I'm suddenly reminded of Pinky and the Brain.

[@Tareltonlives]

LOL ♫Kirk, Bones and the Brain brain brain brain brain brain brain brain brain! ♫

[@creativerealms]

While I saw Spock's brain coming I was hoping for another episode. One that isn't reviewed as often. Anyway I want to see Allison take in the movies. All of them.

[@goku-san]

Ok. Yes, the episode dumb and the remote controlled Spock is hilarious but I think I have a guess how theoretically Spock's body could survive without a brain based on the dialogue between Kirk and Bones early in the episode. Bones mentioned the autonomic functions continue to function. The aliens must have left Spock's brain stem behind and intact. The brain stem is what controls said autonomic functions (breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, etc.) So I guess Spock was the Vulcan version of Headless Mike the Chicken. Headless Mike was a chicken that managed to survive a beheading because his brain stem was left intact and a clot had kept him from bleeding to death. He still behaved normally despite not having a head. Even did things like attempting to preen, peck for food, and crow. He lived for 18 months before his passing from a choking accident after a feeding.

[@BeautifulRhodeIsland]

Damn girl, you made this review a million times more entertaining than the original show could have ever done! Good work! Instant sub..:)

[@zaphenath6756]

I LOVE the sound effects you make for the dumb characters! @Allison Pregler