š§ **BRAIN AND BRAIN! WHAT IS BRAIN?!**
The Final Frontier Podcast is BACK for **Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3**, and unfortunatelyā¦ so is **āSpockās Brain.ā**
We kick off Season 3 with one of the most infamous episodes in Star Trek history: **Season 3, Episode 1 ā āSpockās Brain.ā** An alien woman boards the Enterprise, knocks out the entire crew, surgically steals Spockās brain, and leaves McCoy with a Vulcan body he can somehow control with what is essentially a remote control.
Yes. That is really the plot.
Jake and Justin break down everything that makes āSpockās Brainā such a bizarre piece of Star Trek history, including:
š **Robo-Spock** and Leonard Nimoy somehow making the ridiculous premise work
š§ Whether Spock could actually survive without his brain
š The surprisingly REAL science behind **ion propulsion**
āļø The Enterprise crew apparently being unprepared for 40-degree weather
š¤ McCoy piloting Spockās body like a remote-controlled meat suit
š£ The Teacher, the Controller, the purple underground civilization, and the extremely convenient three-hour intelligence limit
š āBrain and brain! What is brain?ā
šŗ The noticeable production changes going into **Star Trek Season 3**
šø NBCās budget cuts and the infamous Friday-night 10 PM time slot
š¬ Why Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner both had less-than-kind things to say about this episode
š¤ And whether āSpockās Brainā really deserves its reputation as **the worst episode of Star Trek: The Original Series**
We also discover one genuinely fascinating thing buried inside this mess: in 1968, **ion propulsion** still sounded like futuristic Star Trek technobabble. Decades later, real spacecraft would actually use the technology.
Soā¦ science wins. Spockās brain may have been stolen, but at least we learned something.
And stick around until the end as Justin attempts to predict next weekās episode, **āThe Enterprise Incident,ā** after spotting a very strange image of Kirk with pointed ears in the closing credits.
š **COMING TO VOLTCON:** Jake and Justin will finally be meeting IN PERSON after three years of doing the show together online. Come find The Final Frontier Podcast at VoltCon!
If you love **Star Trek: The Original Series**, classic science fiction, episode-by-episode reviews, Trek history, behind-the-scenes trivia, and two guys asking why Dr. McCoy thought bringing Spockās brainless body on an away mission was a good idea, youāre in the right place.
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