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Marj Dusay
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Marc Daniels
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: Not Rated
: Paramount Home Video
: Science Fiction , Television, Vintage TV, Sci-Fi TV, Sci-Fi TV
: 101 min.
: English
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Episode 61: Spock's Brain. A mysterious alien kidnaps Mr. Spock's brain in this appropriately titled episode of the original Star Trek television series. The theft occurs soon after the Enterprise encounters an unknown starship, which beams a female crew member on board the Enterprise. Before the enigmatic woman can be captured, she somehow knocks the entire crew unconscious. When they awaken, a medical exam shows that Spock's brain has been removed. While Dr. McCoy does his best to keep the stricken Vulcan's body alive, Captain Kirk embarks on a quest to, against all odds, recover his friend's brain in enough time for a successful transplant. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
Episode 62: Is There in Truth No Beauty? In an episode that comes the closest to creator {$Gene Roddenberry}'s original concept behind {#Star Trek} (i.e., "{#Wagon Train} to the stars"), the Enterprise is assigned to escort {%Kollos}, the Medusan ambassador, back to his home planet in the company of his human companion, {%Dr. Miranda Jones} ({$Diana Muldaur}), a specially trained psychologist. In an irony-laced situation, {%Miranda} is one of the most hauntingly beautiful women ever seen, while {%Kollos} and the Medusans are a race of brilliant, sublime thinkers whose physical form is so hideous that a glimpse of them results in irreversible insanity for any human -- even Vulcans, with all of their intense mental discipline, can only look upon them with a protective visor -- and she is to spend the rest of her life with them, mind-linked to {%Kollos}. Only {%Spock} ({$Leonard Nimoy}), a native of Vulcan, and {%Miranda}, a born human telepath trained on Vulcan, can have any direct contact with {%Kollos}. {%Spock} discovers that {%Miranda} is jealous (to the point of irrationality) of his Vulcan telepathic ability, his having any contact with {%Kollos}, and knowing that he was the first choice for her assignment (only his devotion to Star Fleet prevented him from taking it). Her jealousy -- motivated in part by a secret she is hiding -- is so intense that even {%Kollos} is repelled by it, jeopardizing the success of the mission. Adding to the tension of the situation is the presence of {%Lawrence Marvick} ({$David Frankham}), one of the Star Fleet engineers who designed the Enterprise and now assigned to build navigational equipment that will allow ships to make use of the Medusans' skills in this area. Once {%Miranda}'s mind-meld with {%Kollos} is completed, {%Marvick} falls in love with her and can't abide the notion that she plans to spend the rest of her life among the Medusans. At a social gathering onboard the Enterprise, she warns that someone aboard the ship is thinking of murder. Is her warning genuine or a reflection of her own unsettled feelings? {%Marvick} finally snaps and tries to kill {%Kollos}, with dire consequences for himself, the Enterprise, and {%Spock}. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
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