Star Trek: Spock's Brain

"His brain is gone!"

- Doctor McCoy

"Spock's Brain"' is the title to the first episode from season three of the science fiction television series Star Trek and is the fifty-sixth episode of the series overall. It was directed by Marc Daniels with a script written by Lee Cronin. It first aired on NBC on September 20th, 1968.

Notes & Trivia

 * "Spock's Brain" and "TOS: Spock's Brain" both serve as shortcut redirects to this page.


 * This episode is production code number 60043-061.


 * Stardate: 5431.4. The events of this episode take place in the year 2268.


 * This is the sixty-second episode produced in the series. It is the fifty-sixth aired episode of the series, but the fifty-seventh episode in chronological order if one includes the original unaired pilot episode, "The Cage".


 * This is the fifteenth episode of Star Trek directed by Marc Daniels. It is also his final work on the series. As this episode is a season premiere, it is naturally Marc Daniels' only work on season three.


 * Teleplay writer Gene L. Coon is credited as Lee Cronin in this episode.


 * This is Gene L. Coon's tenth episode of Star Trek as a writer. It is his first episode where he is credited under the pseudonym Lee Cronin. He works on a total of four episodes from season three.


 * Hikaru Sulu has the first speaking lines in this episode.

Bloopers

 * Nurse Chapel's skirt hikes up a bit in the early scene where she collapses on the floor revealing her undies.


 * During one of the Captain's Log narratives, James T. Kirk incorrectly calls the planet that the landing party visits Sigma Draconis VII. It is actually Sigma Draconis VI.

Quotes

 * Leonard McCoy: His brain is gone!

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 * James T. Kirk: Readout, Mister Chekov?
 * Pavel Chekov: No structures, Captain. No mechanized objects that I can read. No surface consumption, no generation of energy. Atmosphere is perfectly all right, of course. Temperature, a high maximum of 40. Livable.
 * James T. Kirk: You have a thick skin.

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 * James T. Kirk: Have the transporter room standing by. I'm taking a landing party down to planet six.

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 * Pavel Chekov: What if you guess wrong, Captain?"
 * James T. Kirk: If I guess wrong, Mister Spock is dead. Spock will die
 * Spock: While I might trust the doctor to remove a splinter or lance a boil, I do not believe he has the knowledge to restore a brain.
 * Leonard McCoy: Thank you.

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 * James T. Kirk: How do you feel, Spock?
 * Spock: On the whole Captain, I believe I'm quite fit. It's fascinating! A remarkable example of a retrograde civilization at the peak, advanced beyond any of our capabilities and now operating at this primitive level which you saw. And it all began thousands of years ago when a glacial age reoccurred. You see, this underground complex was developed for the women. Men remained above. And male/female schism took place. A fascinating cultural development of a kind...
 * Leonard McCoy: I knew it was wrong, I shouldn't have done it!
 * James T. Kirk: What's that?
 * Leonard McCoy: I should have never reconnected his mouth!
 * James T. Kirk: Well, we took the risk, Doctor.

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 * Kara: How will we live?
 * Spock: You'll learn to build houses to keep warm. You'll work. Humans have survived under worse conditions. It's a matter of evolution. Give it time.

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 * Leonard McCoy: I'll never live this down... this Vulcan telling me how to operate.