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#70: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 3, episode 1 "Spock's Brain"
Written by Lee Cronin, directed by Marc Daniels.
Stardates 5431.4 through 5432.3 (January 2269)
"No one may kill a man. Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned." - Captain Kirk
The Enterprise is following an alien ship powered by what appears to be ion propulsion. Commander Scott marvels at the design and wonders what a species who created such a craft could teach humanity. Suddenly, the occupant of the craft beams herself onto the bridge of the Enterprise and immediately incapacitates everyone there, then everyone else aboard the entire ship, merely by pressing a few buttons on her wrist controller. She walks over to Commander Spock and examines him, specifically his head. When the crew comes to, Spock is missing and Doctor McCoy sends an almost frantic message to the bridge that Captain Kirk comes to Sickbay immediately. Spock is there, barely kept alive by machinery. Somehow, Spock's brain has been surgically removed. Unless it is somehow found and reattached, even all of the technology onboard the Enterprise wont be enough to maintain his body. With less than 24 to save Spock, Kirk gambles on a hunch as to where that ion ship fled to in the seemingly vain hopes that whoever removed Spock's brain knows how to put it back... if they're even willing to do so.
Originally released: 20 September 1968
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