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🧠 *BRAIN AND BRAIN! WHAT IS BRAIN?!*
The Final Frontier Podcast is BACK for *Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3**, and unfortunately… so is **“Spock’s Brain.”*
We kick off Season 3 with one of the most infamous episodes in Star Trek history: *Season 3, Episode 1 — “Spock’s Brain.”* An alien woman boards the Enterprise, knocks out the entire crew, surgically steals Spock’s 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 “Spock’s Brain” such a bizarre piece of Star Trek history, including:
🖖 *Robo-Spock* and Leonard Nimoy somehow making the ridiculous premise work
🧠 Whether Spock could actually survive without his brain
🚀 The surprisingly REAL science behind *ion propulsion*
❄️ The Enterprise crew apparently being unprepared for 40-degree weather
🤖 McCoy piloting Spock’s body like a remote-controlled meat suit
🟣 The Teacher, the Controller, the purple underground civilization, and the extremely convenient three-hour intelligence limit
😂 “Brain and brain! What is brain?”
📺 The noticeable production changes going into *Star Trek Season 3*
💸 NBC’s budget cuts and the infamous Friday-night 10 PM time slot
😬 Why Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner both had less-than-kind things to say about this episode
🤔 And whether “Spock’s Brain” 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.
So… science wins. Spock’s brain may have been stolen, but at least we learned something.
And stick around until the end as Justin attempts to predict next week’s episode, *“The Enterprise Incident,”* after spotting a very strange image of Kirk with pointed ears in the closing credits.
🚀 *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 Spock’s brainless body on an away mission was a good idea, you’re in the right place.
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💬 *COMMENT:* Is “Spock’s Brain” actually the worst episode of TOS—or is there something even worse waiting for us in Season 3?
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*Next Episode: “The Enterprise Incident”*
Watch long and prosper. 🖖
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