Post by magicmuggle01 on Dec 17, 2018 10:09:34 GMT
An alien raids the Enterprise and steals Spock's brain, leading Kirk and McCoy into a desperate race to retrieve it. (Season Premiere)
Summary
A Sigma Draconis VI native on
the bridge.
The crew of the USS Enterprise encounters an ion drive vessel, something Scotty finds particularly interesting. Soon though, a strange woman from that ship transports herself onto the bridge and renders everyone on the Enterprise unconscious. She slips deliberately among the crew until she finds Spock. Mysteriously, she presses her hand against the first officer's head.
Act One
When the crew awakens, they find that Spock is missing from the bridge. Dr. McCoy urgently calls Captain Kirk down to sickbay, where he finds Spock on a biobed. McCoy struggles to explain that, somehow, Spock's brain has been surgically removed, leaving the body alive but on full life support. Kirk proposes to find Spock's brain, but McCoy warns that the unique properties of Vulcan physiology give them only 24 hours to reintegrate it into the science officer's body.
"His brain is gone!"
The crew explores their options
while searching for Spock's brain.
The Enterprise uses the bulk of those hours following an ion trail to the Sigma Draconis system. Ensign Chekov places a schematic of the system on the viewscreen, pointing out that there are three class M planets. With only eight hours remaining to save Spock, Kirk has time to visit only one of the planets before Spock's body expires, so he holds an informal staff meeting on the bridge with Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura to arrive at a decision. None of them seems capable of supporting interstellar flight, but Uhura finds large, regular energy pulsations on the otherwise glaciated and pre-industrial Sigma Draconis VI. The unlikely world thus becomes Kirk's best hunch. If he is wrong, Spock will die.
Act Two
On surface of Sigma Draconis
VII, Scott and Kirk meet a Morg.
Kirk, Scotty, Chekov, and two security officers beam down to the frigid surface. There, they detect five large, primitive male humanoids. Following an ambush, Kirk subdues one of the humanoids with his phaser. The humanoid, a Morg, is confused because Kirk and Scott do not seem like "the Others", whom he describes as being the givers "pain and delight." Kirk is puzzled because the Morg does not understand what it means to have a mate nor does he seem to understand exactly what a female is.
"It might be a long wait. We may
as well be comfortable."
Chekov finds evidence of an underground city with his tricorder. Scott finds food and weapons stored in a cave, but Kirk discovers a sensor and surmises that the cave is a trap the Eymorg use to capture the male natives. McCoy beams down with Spock, whom he has fitted with a remote-controlled device to substitute for his brain. They allow themselves to be captured. Chekov and the Enterprise security officers remain above ground; Chekov uses his phaser to heat a rock to help them stay warm, since Kirk and company may be a while.
In the underground city, they encounter Luma, one of "the Others" – a race of beautiful females, the Eymorg, who live in comfort below the surface of the planet, but have the minds of children. Captain Kirk finds that he is able to establish contact with Spock's brain by using his communicator. Spock reports that he is well but that he does not know where he is. They find the woman they saw on board the Enterprise immediately before Spock's brain was removed, who renders them unconscious by pressing a button on a device located on her wrist. They are taken prisoner.
Act Three
Kirk, McCoy, and Scott wearing
Eymorg pain bands around their
waists.
When the landing party comes to, they find that they have been outfitted with silver belts that have large, round green devices at the abdomen. Kirk demands to know what has happened to Spock's brain, but the Eymorg do not understand what a brain is or what is the Enterprise. Finally they understand that the "Controller" the Eymorg speak of is Spock. It seems that these women have somehow connected Spock's brain into their computer and that his brain is responsible for running their expansive underground dwelling because they, as a race, have long forgotten how to take care of themselves.
Having been left alone, McCoy, Scott, and Kirk incapacitate the guards. Kirk speaks to Spock using the communicator. They inform him that his brain has been removed and it is being used as some sort of controller. Spock reports that he has a body that stretches into infinity and his medulla oblongata seems to be breathing, pumping blood, and maintaining temperature. Spock suggests that the project to restore his brain might be impractical; he would trust McCoy to remove a splinter or lance a boil, but the knowledge to replace his brain does not exist in the universe. Kirk, however, insists that if the knowledge exists to remove his brain, there must be knowledge to put it back. He instructs Spock to send out a signal so that they may find where he is being kept. Spock complies.
The Eymorg Controller,
home to Spock's brain.
As they make their way to the chamber, Kirk asks about the belts. Spock accesses the information: one must press a red button on a bracelet in order to release the belt. They enter the chamber where Spock's brain is kept, but an Eymorg is in the chamber and activates the pain belt. Kirk uses the remote control device to use Spock's body to grab Kara's bracelet and press the red button, releasing the belts. With the crew freed, Kara pleads that Spock's brain must remain connected or their civilization will die.
Kirk tells Spock that he is in a black box connected by light rays to a control panel. He wonders if the sensations he is feeling means that Spock is recirculating air, running heating plants, and purifying water. Kirk asks Kara how she was able to remove Spock's brain by placing on her head a device known as the "teacher". They place it over her head, and she suddenly speaks with erudition. She admits that she does have the knowledge, but she also now knows to use a phaser, which she points at Kirk. It is set to kill.
Act Four
McCoy endures the pain of the
Teacher's "lessons".
Kara and Kirk debate over the proper disposition of Spock's brain. Scott pretends to faint and distracts Kara; they obtain the phaser from her. She says that the teacher will provide knowledge for three hours, which McCoy says would be just long enough to effect the transplant, but she refuses to perform the operation. McCoy points out that he has medical knowledge and should be able to use what he already knows and retain the knowledge. McCoy places the teacher on his head and receives the knowledge; when he recovers, he says "Of course; of course. A child could do it. A child could do it."
McCoy begins quickly restoring Spock's brain, using the same knowledge originally used to remove it. However, after a time, McCoy begins losing the knowledge he has gained. He exclaims in despair, "I am trying to thread a needle with a sledgehammer!" Drawing on his own skills with only a few minutes left, he connects Spock's speech center, allowing Spock to speak. Spock then assists McCoy in completing the reconnection of his brain. "I'll never live this down," McCoy says, "this Vulcan is telling me how to operate."
Upon his restoration, Spock makes a speech that explains the history of this retrograde civilization and the split of the sexes. McCoy then laments, "I should have never reconnected his mouth." "Well, we took the risk, doctor," Kirk jokes.
Log entries
"Captain's log, Stardate 5431.4. For fifteen hours and twenty minutes we have been following the ion trail of the spaceship that has Spock's brain. Time left to us, eight hours and forty minutes."
"Captain's log, Stardate 5431.5. We are beaming down to a primitive glaciated planet in the Sigma Draconis star system. Time left to us to find Spock's brain, eight hours and twenty nine minutes."
"Captain's log, Stardate 5431.6. Immediately after making contact with Spock's brain, Doctor McCoy, Engineer Scott, and myself were taken prisoner inside a highly complex civilization hundreds of meters below the surface of planet Sigma Draconis Seven. The primitive creature we encountered above warned us about the givers of pain and delight and the frightening consequences of being captured by them."
"Captain's log, Stardate 5432.3. Doctor McCoy is proceeding to restore Spock's brain. Our problem, we do not know how long his increased surgical knowledge will stay with him. Any additional attempt to use the teaching device is impossible. It would kill my medical officer."
"Captain's log, supplemental. Our race against time to save Spock's life may prove futile. Doctor McCoy has lost the surgical knowledge he obtained from the teacher. He has been drawing on his own skills and surgical techniques in an attempt to continue the operation, but he is faltering and uncertain. In a desperate hope that he can draw on Spock's brain for assistance, I instructed Doctor McCoy to give priority to connecting Spock's vocal chords."
"Ship's Log, Lieutenant Sulu recording. I am holding the Enterprise in orbit about planet Sigma Draconis VII. Captain Kirk's hunch that Spock's brain is on this planet appears to be correct. Ensign Chekov remains on the surface to act as liaison between the Captain and the Enterprise."
Memorable quotes
SpockBrainless
"His brain is gone!"
"His brain is gone!"
- McCoy to Kirk, as Spock lies unconscious in sickbay
"What if you guess wrong, captain?"
"If I guess wrong, Mr. Spock is dead. Spock will die."
- Chekov, when Kirk selects Sigma Draconis VI as the possible location of Spock's brain
"Call Chekov and tell him to send my stomach down."
- McCoy, after rapidly descending in the Sigma Draconis VI elevator
"Brain and brain! What is brain?!"
- Kara, frustrated by the constant inquiries about Spock's brain
"Pain and delight, he said up above."
"I'm sure you noticed the delight aspect."
"Yes, I certainly did notice those delightful aspects."
- Kirk and McCoy, on the females of Sigma Draconis VI
"This fellow is keeping us from our property."
"Well, isn't there a way to correct that situation?"
- Kirk and Scott, before overpowering the guards
"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."
- Spock, on McCoy's difficulty in restoring his brain
"The Controller is young and powerful. Perfect!"
"How very flattering."
- Kara and Spock, after the pain bands fly off from Kirk, McCoy, and Scott
"No one may kill a man. Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned."
- Kirk to Kara, as she points a phaser at him
"A child could do it."
- McCoy, after receiving the medical knowledge from the Great Teacher
"I should have never reconnected his mouth."
"Well, we took the risk, doctor."
- McCoy and Kirk, after Spock starts describing the culture of Sigma Draconis VI
Summary
A Sigma Draconis VI native on
the bridge.
The crew of the USS Enterprise encounters an ion drive vessel, something Scotty finds particularly interesting. Soon though, a strange woman from that ship transports herself onto the bridge and renders everyone on the Enterprise unconscious. She slips deliberately among the crew until she finds Spock. Mysteriously, she presses her hand against the first officer's head.
Act One
When the crew awakens, they find that Spock is missing from the bridge. Dr. McCoy urgently calls Captain Kirk down to sickbay, where he finds Spock on a biobed. McCoy struggles to explain that, somehow, Spock's brain has been surgically removed, leaving the body alive but on full life support. Kirk proposes to find Spock's brain, but McCoy warns that the unique properties of Vulcan physiology give them only 24 hours to reintegrate it into the science officer's body.
"His brain is gone!"
The crew explores their options
while searching for Spock's brain.
The Enterprise uses the bulk of those hours following an ion trail to the Sigma Draconis system. Ensign Chekov places a schematic of the system on the viewscreen, pointing out that there are three class M planets. With only eight hours remaining to save Spock, Kirk has time to visit only one of the planets before Spock's body expires, so he holds an informal staff meeting on the bridge with Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura to arrive at a decision. None of them seems capable of supporting interstellar flight, but Uhura finds large, regular energy pulsations on the otherwise glaciated and pre-industrial Sigma Draconis VI. The unlikely world thus becomes Kirk's best hunch. If he is wrong, Spock will die.
Act Two
On surface of Sigma Draconis
VII, Scott and Kirk meet a Morg.
Kirk, Scotty, Chekov, and two security officers beam down to the frigid surface. There, they detect five large, primitive male humanoids. Following an ambush, Kirk subdues one of the humanoids with his phaser. The humanoid, a Morg, is confused because Kirk and Scott do not seem like "the Others", whom he describes as being the givers "pain and delight." Kirk is puzzled because the Morg does not understand what it means to have a mate nor does he seem to understand exactly what a female is.
"It might be a long wait. We may
as well be comfortable."
Chekov finds evidence of an underground city with his tricorder. Scott finds food and weapons stored in a cave, but Kirk discovers a sensor and surmises that the cave is a trap the Eymorg use to capture the male natives. McCoy beams down with Spock, whom he has fitted with a remote-controlled device to substitute for his brain. They allow themselves to be captured. Chekov and the Enterprise security officers remain above ground; Chekov uses his phaser to heat a rock to help them stay warm, since Kirk and company may be a while.
In the underground city, they encounter Luma, one of "the Others" – a race of beautiful females, the Eymorg, who live in comfort below the surface of the planet, but have the minds of children. Captain Kirk finds that he is able to establish contact with Spock's brain by using his communicator. Spock reports that he is well but that he does not know where he is. They find the woman they saw on board the Enterprise immediately before Spock's brain was removed, who renders them unconscious by pressing a button on a device located on her wrist. They are taken prisoner.
Act Three
Kirk, McCoy, and Scott wearing
Eymorg pain bands around their
waists.
When the landing party comes to, they find that they have been outfitted with silver belts that have large, round green devices at the abdomen. Kirk demands to know what has happened to Spock's brain, but the Eymorg do not understand what a brain is or what is the Enterprise. Finally they understand that the "Controller" the Eymorg speak of is Spock. It seems that these women have somehow connected Spock's brain into their computer and that his brain is responsible for running their expansive underground dwelling because they, as a race, have long forgotten how to take care of themselves.
Having been left alone, McCoy, Scott, and Kirk incapacitate the guards. Kirk speaks to Spock using the communicator. They inform him that his brain has been removed and it is being used as some sort of controller. Spock reports that he has a body that stretches into infinity and his medulla oblongata seems to be breathing, pumping blood, and maintaining temperature. Spock suggests that the project to restore his brain might be impractical; he would trust McCoy to remove a splinter or lance a boil, but the knowledge to replace his brain does not exist in the universe. Kirk, however, insists that if the knowledge exists to remove his brain, there must be knowledge to put it back. He instructs Spock to send out a signal so that they may find where he is being kept. Spock complies.
The Eymorg Controller,
home to Spock's brain.
As they make their way to the chamber, Kirk asks about the belts. Spock accesses the information: one must press a red button on a bracelet in order to release the belt. They enter the chamber where Spock's brain is kept, but an Eymorg is in the chamber and activates the pain belt. Kirk uses the remote control device to use Spock's body to grab Kara's bracelet and press the red button, releasing the belts. With the crew freed, Kara pleads that Spock's brain must remain connected or their civilization will die.
Kirk tells Spock that he is in a black box connected by light rays to a control panel. He wonders if the sensations he is feeling means that Spock is recirculating air, running heating plants, and purifying water. Kirk asks Kara how she was able to remove Spock's brain by placing on her head a device known as the "teacher". They place it over her head, and she suddenly speaks with erudition. She admits that she does have the knowledge, but she also now knows to use a phaser, which she points at Kirk. It is set to kill.
Act Four
McCoy endures the pain of the
Teacher's "lessons".
Kara and Kirk debate over the proper disposition of Spock's brain. Scott pretends to faint and distracts Kara; they obtain the phaser from her. She says that the teacher will provide knowledge for three hours, which McCoy says would be just long enough to effect the transplant, but she refuses to perform the operation. McCoy points out that he has medical knowledge and should be able to use what he already knows and retain the knowledge. McCoy places the teacher on his head and receives the knowledge; when he recovers, he says "Of course; of course. A child could do it. A child could do it."
McCoy begins quickly restoring Spock's brain, using the same knowledge originally used to remove it. However, after a time, McCoy begins losing the knowledge he has gained. He exclaims in despair, "I am trying to thread a needle with a sledgehammer!" Drawing on his own skills with only a few minutes left, he connects Spock's speech center, allowing Spock to speak. Spock then assists McCoy in completing the reconnection of his brain. "I'll never live this down," McCoy says, "this Vulcan is telling me how to operate."
Upon his restoration, Spock makes a speech that explains the history of this retrograde civilization and the split of the sexes. McCoy then laments, "I should have never reconnected his mouth." "Well, we took the risk, doctor," Kirk jokes.
Log entries
"Captain's log, Stardate 5431.4. For fifteen hours and twenty minutes we have been following the ion trail of the spaceship that has Spock's brain. Time left to us, eight hours and forty minutes."
"Captain's log, Stardate 5431.5. We are beaming down to a primitive glaciated planet in the Sigma Draconis star system. Time left to us to find Spock's brain, eight hours and twenty nine minutes."
"Captain's log, Stardate 5431.6. Immediately after making contact with Spock's brain, Doctor McCoy, Engineer Scott, and myself were taken prisoner inside a highly complex civilization hundreds of meters below the surface of planet Sigma Draconis Seven. The primitive creature we encountered above warned us about the givers of pain and delight and the frightening consequences of being captured by them."
"Captain's log, Stardate 5432.3. Doctor McCoy is proceeding to restore Spock's brain. Our problem, we do not know how long his increased surgical knowledge will stay with him. Any additional attempt to use the teaching device is impossible. It would kill my medical officer."
"Captain's log, supplemental. Our race against time to save Spock's life may prove futile. Doctor McCoy has lost the surgical knowledge he obtained from the teacher. He has been drawing on his own skills and surgical techniques in an attempt to continue the operation, but he is faltering and uncertain. In a desperate hope that he can draw on Spock's brain for assistance, I instructed Doctor McCoy to give priority to connecting Spock's vocal chords."
"Ship's Log, Lieutenant Sulu recording. I am holding the Enterprise in orbit about planet Sigma Draconis VII. Captain Kirk's hunch that Spock's brain is on this planet appears to be correct. Ensign Chekov remains on the surface to act as liaison between the Captain and the Enterprise."
Memorable quotes
SpockBrainless
"His brain is gone!"
"His brain is gone!"
- McCoy to Kirk, as Spock lies unconscious in sickbay
"What if you guess wrong, captain?"
"If I guess wrong, Mr. Spock is dead. Spock will die."
- Chekov, when Kirk selects Sigma Draconis VI as the possible location of Spock's brain
"Call Chekov and tell him to send my stomach down."
- McCoy, after rapidly descending in the Sigma Draconis VI elevator
"Brain and brain! What is brain?!"
- Kara, frustrated by the constant inquiries about Spock's brain
"Pain and delight, he said up above."
"I'm sure you noticed the delight aspect."
"Yes, I certainly did notice those delightful aspects."
- Kirk and McCoy, on the females of Sigma Draconis VI
"This fellow is keeping us from our property."
"Well, isn't there a way to correct that situation?"
- Kirk and Scott, before overpowering the guards
"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."
- Spock, on McCoy's difficulty in restoring his brain
"The Controller is young and powerful. Perfect!"
"How very flattering."
- Kara and Spock, after the pain bands fly off from Kirk, McCoy, and Scott
"No one may kill a man. Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned."
- Kirk to Kara, as she points a phaser at him
"A child could do it."
- McCoy, after receiving the medical knowledge from the Great Teacher
"I should have never reconnected his mouth."
"Well, we took the risk, doctor."
- McCoy and Kirk, after Spock starts describing the culture of Sigma Draconis VI