Star Trek: Spock's Brain (First Watch: S3E1)

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Death/injury count: well, the entirety of the Enterprise is asleep.  Well, this one is very literal—someone scooped out spock’s brain.  Kirk, bones, and scotty with pain devices.

Oh good we start in red alert that’s a good thing

Magnification is used with different lenses maybe?

Ion propulsion…I remember that conversation somewhere around ‘lifters’.

So, class M then.

Stop beaming on board!!!

I might be Spock in that my first reaction is ‘that clothing doesn’t look particularly practical’.  Though I like the purple.

Kirk.  Stop showing off your butt.  (that’s exactly why you fell the way you did, don’t deny it.)

Do the red lights on the outside reflect the red alert status?

Kirk wakes up and is immediately all business.  Strange woman on board—flirt if there’s the possibility of friendly relations.  The second she proves hostile she’s just as dangerous as any male-looking hostile entity.  (though he employs that with guys, too—interrogators, not quite the Klingon—who was flirting with him although flirting might be a mild word for it)

What d’ya mean worse than dea—

Oh, yeah, that’d do it.  Organ smugglers.  I didn’t realize that was still a problem in space.

Kirk’s just like ‘that’s barbaric’.  That’s just such a look of horror.

Wait, you can’t have it both ways, either his body worked fine to get him on life support & will continue to sustain him or not.

Bones with the hard truths.

This is Jim he’ll manage a miracle even if he has to pull it outta his butt.

Technical ratings.

Outta all the Vulcans, too.

Distress signal?

(why don’t you send landing parties down to multiple planets, cover your bases? It increases the odds)

WAIT SUIT TEMPERATURES?  THOSE THINGS ARE SUITS?  YOU CAN CHANGE THE TEMP—well that explains a bit of how Sulu was just extremely cold on that one planet way back when.

I love that he didn’t say that’s Russian.  Because it is and that wouldn’t be trolling.

“I want them conscious” really, that’s what stun does???

Still using farenheit?? (though even those in european cultures occasionally use farenheit, mostly for weather & body temp from what I was reading)

Kirk being friendly.

Chekov’s aghast at someone not knowing the word ‘female’.  Kirk’s a little curious but not as freaked out (well, it would be weird for a society to do that, mostly because you couldn’t reproduce and continue the species) but I’m gonna go with Chekov & scotty are def straight, kirk is bi, who knows on most of the others.  Sulu liked Uhura in mirror!verse.

I got me a remote control Vulcan.

Oh, huh, the phaser warmth trick is common.

Bones just making faces in the back.  Great.

Kirk’s not one of those people who’s like “I couldn’t hit a girl.”  Just phasered her.

Lie detectors, good.

One in charge being a guy?? Realllly?  You’re not picking up on the the Others are women thing?

“Hers is the mind of a child”? bones you sexist really???

Kirk, stop it with your sex line imitation.  I need to breathe.

“there is a definite pleasurable sensation connected with the hearing of your voice” do we need to leave you two alone to have your comm sex??

“are you with the Captain?” “where else would I be?” honestly, I’m not sure why they’d just ship spock/kirk and not mcspirk it makes the most logical sense.

Are you diagnosing her with multiple personality, doc?

That was a great intuitive leap.

Funnily enough I was just reading again about the lovely B5 Shadow ships.

Them just having an entire conversation in code.

Waltzes in knowing she said she was going to be in there.

The many uses of a remote control spock.

This is what the future of education looks like.  Aside from the giant lovely needle-looking things.

“knowledge is forbidden” is this another Christian allegory?  Dammit, man, they’re everywhere!  (I’m being silly>)

He actually looks scared.

Need of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Scotty did you just pretend to faint to distract her??

Why not give her the alternative of, say, a dying Vulcan scientist?

Jim just grinning a little because he knows bones has him.

Time for your needle perm bones.

You totally look like you’re going to kiss him.

Bones I believe in you.

Brain transplants were at least theoretical.

Sonic separator sounds like it’d be utterly useless in fixing things.

Hey, bones, it’s a team effort.  You + spock couldn’t have done it without each other.

Hey, you don’t get to see Spock geeking out about stuff much, bonesy. Let him be enthusiastic for a bit.

We never saw the ‘pleasure’ bit.  I thought it was another function of those belts.  And Chekov just is up there in the cold the entire time.