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130			      SPOCK'S BRAIN
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WRITER: Lee Cronin

GUESTS:	Marj Dusay (Kara)
	Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel)
	James Daris (Creature)
	Sheila Leighton (Luma)

AIRED: 	September 20, 1968

HACK-MAN rating: .115
Usenet rating:   .163

QUOTES:
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 - "[Givers of] pain and delight  [she said...]" --Kirk  "[Well, surely you
   noticed]  the delightful aspects."  --McCoy    "[I certainly did notice]
   those delightful aspects." --Kirk
 - "Brain and [more] brain; what is brain?" --Bimbo
 - "[Yes, it's so simple] a child could [do it]..." --McCoy
 - "He's operating at warp speed." --Scotty.
 - "While I might trust the doctor to remove  a splinter or lance a boil, I
   cannot trust him to replace a brain." --Spock
 - "[The knowledge  to reconnect  a brain]  does  not  [exist  yet  in  the
   galaxy.] --Spock
 - "I never should have re-connected his mouth." --McCoy


			      SPOCK'S BRAIN

PLOT:
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A race  of  imbecile women  steal Spock's  brain to  lead them.   McCoy and
Scotty hook up Spock's body to move via remote  control.   Kirk must decide
which of three habitated planets Spock's brain was taken  to, although none
of them  should  possess  the  technology  to  surgically  remove  a brain.
Naturally, after  Chekov's  descriptoins  of  the   planets  evolution  and
population, Kirk chooses the most primitive planet.

Women live  underground in  a climate-controlled  cave, while  the men must
survive in  the  Arctic  temperatures on  the surface.   McCoy  puts on the
"Teacher", a  thinking cap  that gives  you lots  of knowledge  for a short
while (in  order  to  re-install  Spock's  brain.)   Without  Spock to keep
everything running, the women have to start *thinking* again.

FACTS:
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 - Planet is Sigmus Dricomus 7.
 - Givers of pain and delight.
 - How come when everyone is unconscious Kirk always wakes up first?
 - The bimbo's  ship uses  ion-propulsion,  so they  know it  is highly ad-
   vanced.
 - Star Date goes from 5431.4-4351.5-5431.6-5432.3
 - They have 24 hours to put Spock's brain back in.
 - At Star Date 5431.4 they have 8.x hours left.
 - At Star Date 4351.5 they have 8.x hours left.

OPINIONS:
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Not as bad as some people claim,  as long  as you  take it  for its comedic
value rather than looking for a deep plot.  There  are times  I find myself
laughing out loud at this episode.