Brain and brain. What is brain?

[prillalar]

My Stargate S4 DVDs have still not arrived in the store. Apparently, this often happens with things from MGM.

Another cool pic from my Star Trek page-a-day, from one of my fave TOS episodes: Spock's Brain.

You remember -- Alien Barbie dolls beam onto the Enterprise and do something to Spock. McCoy hurries over and utters his immortal line: He's worse than dead! His brain's gone! So, they've got to get the brain back. McCoy gives Spock this huge pair of earmuffs which allows McCoy to operate Spock like a remote-control car. Before they leave on the brain-rescuing mission, Kirk borrows Spock and the remote for some private entertainment.

On the planet of the Alien Barbies, they find out that Spock's brain is now running a computer that supports their society. The Barbies have these wrist things that can cause pain. Somehow, they convince the Barbies to give the brain back. Sex might be involved.

So now, all they have to do is get the brain back in Spock's head. There's this huge hairdryer thing that gives McCoy the necessary knowledge. But then half-way through the operation, he starts to forget and Spock has to talk him through the re-attachment.

I watched Jake 2.0.

So, there's this geek Peter Jake who does tech support at the NSA. One day, during a little incident where other people die, he's bitten by a radioactive spider radioactive mouse infected by some nanobots and gains special powers. In essence, all his bodily functions are enhanced (that's right, even the icky ones), and he can interface with technology just by thinking about it.

He wants to ask out his friend Gwen Sarah but she's got a man. Some Irish guy is chasing after Peter Jake to gain the secrets of his body, but not in a slashy way, just in a put a bullet through your brain and freeze you in carbonite liquid nitrogen kind of way. Blah, blah, blah.

Jake becomes the greatest computer tech in the world a cool secret agent and our journey begins!

So, meh. This was so entirely inoffensive and nearly boring that I think I'll tune in again next week.

Jake did have a little USB pen drive that was kind of cool. I've been wanting to get one of those.

Comments

[ex-mommybir.livejournal.com]

The brain quote is something my daughter and I say to each other quite frequently. I also like to quote "PAAAAAAAAIIINNN!!!!" from Devil in the Dark and "Ah doon't remembah!" from Wolf in the Fold (now known as "Evil!Piglet" in our household).

My other favorite line in "Spock's Brain" is McCoy's, "I knew it. I never should have reconnected his mouth."

[barkley.livejournal.com]

Why does MGM hate you so? It's just not fair.

You make me want to rush out and see the badness of "Spock's Brain" right now. I don't know that I've ever seen it, and if I did, it was long ago and far away. OTOH, I've heard the "klingons on the starboard bow" song more recently and so I do have the "It's worse than that" soundbyte running through my head quite strongly.

PAAAAAIIIIINNNNNNNN.......

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

Spock's Brain...The stupidest,most hackyned, most sexist show that Star Trek TOS ever put out. Oh, my god, so, so , so bad- and that picture is sublime.

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

Now I have "Star Trekkin'" running through my head --
"It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead, Jim. It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim. Dead, Jim, dead."

Thanks a LOT.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've got a question. For all the layouts I've ever done for my LJ.. I've never coded the actual entry box, because I find it impossible to do it where it works all the time.

I love the look of your entry box, and was wondering whether you wouldn't mind sharing the code? Especially the one for the friends page. The user icon never sits where it's supposed to, on my page.

I'd be ever so grateful.

[netninny.livejournal.com]

Ah, Spock's Brain. So quotable in its glorious badness.

Don't forget the oh-so-sensitive ending in which Kirk leaves those childlike, defenceless Barbies to the mercies of the disgruntled brutes they've been controlling for so many centuries...all the while waxing rhapsodic about how they'll all learn to live together in peace and harmony as men and women were intended to.

Yeah, that'll happen.

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