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After a commercial break, our heroes awaken to find Spock is no longer on the bridge. McCoy calls Kirk down to Sickbay, where we learn Spock's brain has somehow been surgically removed and he is now on life support. [[DeForest Kelley]] struggles valiantly to [[Took the Bad Film Seriously|make the silly things he's saying sound believable]], but it doesn't help that McCoy contradicts himself twice in the scene. First he says that Spock's [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] helped him survive without a brain, but then he says Spock is more dependant on his "tremendous brain" for life support. [[Sarcasm Mode|As opposed to humans, who can, of course, survive perfectly fine without brains.]] He also claims to have absolutely no idea how long he can keep the brainless Spock alive, but later he declares out of the blue that they have twenty-four hours. Curiously, this appears to be twenty-four hours from the moment McCoy said it rather than from when Kara actually removed the brain. In a [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] moment, Kirk says they'll have to bring Spock along "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK4PGCQQ4Oc in search of]" his brain.
Anyway, the ''Enterprise'' follows the ion trail left by Kara's ship to the Sigma Draconis system<ref>Yes, in the 23rd century, ion propulsion apparently allows [[Faster
The cave turns into a elevator via a [[Screen Shake]] effect and transports our heroes down to an [[Elaborate Underground Base]], which consists of those geometric hallway sets they always use to represent interiors on advanced planets. Waiting for them is another half-naked woman with a wrist band, but Kirk stuns her before she can "boing" them. The soundtrack swells with more romantic music as they interrogate her and she provides inane answers to Kirk's questions. Kirk at first thinks she's [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], but tricorders are apparently [[Lie Detector|Lie Detectors]] now and Bones says the woman has the mind of a child. [[Insult to Rocks|This is a bit of an understatement.]] If you asked most children what this place is, they would come up with something better than "[[Captain Obvious|this place is here]]". Meanwhile, Scotty has managed to pick up Spock's disembodied brain on his communicator and somehow it can talk in Spock's voice without having his vocal cords. Spock's brain tells Kirk that "[[Ho Yay|there is a definite pleasurable experience connected to the hearing of your voice]]." Les Yay and Ho Yay in the same episode! Who doesn't love ''Star Trek''? Kirk tells Spock's brain that they'll get to it and the disembodied organ quips "A practical idea, Captain. It seems unlikely that I shall be able to get to you."
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McCoy suggests he could use the Teacher, but Spock's brain warns him that it wasn't made for humans and tells him that he can't take that risk. So apparently Spock is okay with them [[A Million Is a Statistic|killing off a whole civilization to save him]], but he draws the line at [[Rule of Empathy|risking Bones' life]]. McCoy insists it's worth the risk since he could bring the knowledge he will learn to "the world". [[Earth Is the Center of The Universe|Yes, he said "world", not "galaxy".]] Moving on, Kirk lets McCoy do it. It causes him to faint, but it still works and he gasps that "a child could do it!" Naturally, the big mystery of how to remove and restore a brain is going to be resolved with [[The Un-Reveal]]. They even have Bones operate behind a partition so that they don't have to explain what he's doing. Oh, and they're doing this operation while in the underground Eymorg complex. How it still has light, oxygen, etc. without the Controller is not explained. Kara is also still there, acting the [[Neutral Female]]. She seems mildly annoyed that all her people will die. No, this is not an understatement. Kirks tells her that they won't die and launches in with his [[Kirk Summation]], telling that they'll be better off living on the surface with the Morg. He appears to have just made this up on the spot since what will happen to the Eymorg without their Controller is obviously such a low priority. At least he's not committing genocide anymore, but he's still destroying an entire culture without anyone even mentioning the [[Alien Non-Interference Clause|Prime Directive]].
Meanwhile, McCoy is forgetting the knowledge he learned from the Teacher, but Kirk has a brainstorm to save the day. He has McCoy connect Spock's speech center and then Spock ''freakin' directs his own brain surgery''. Yeah, that makes sense. And when did Spock get the Teacher's knowledge anyway? In any case, the operation is successful, however improbably so. By the way, Spock's brain has now been surgically removed and restored without affecting his trademark hairstyle at all. Spock starts to talk about how fascinating the [[Scavenger World]] they've just destroyed is and McCoy snarks that he shouldn't have reconnected Spock's mouth. Cue [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]].
The [[Fan Nickname]] for this episode is "[[The One With...]] [[Shaped Like Itself|Spock's Brain]]". It is the only episode of the series to feature a main character's name in the title. It is also, far and away, the episode with the most [[Title Drop|title drops]], to the point that many people have made a [[Drinking Game]] out of it. It's not recommended for lightweights.
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