Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!wlcrjs!marc From: marc@wlcrjs.UUCP (Marc Lavine) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.startrek Subject: Re: Re: Tomorrow is Yesterday, etc. Message-ID: <355@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 06:32:38 EDT Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.355 Posted: Fri Oct 5 06:32:38 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 22:08:23 EDT References: <1702@pegasus.UUCP> <2384@dartvax.UUCP> <175@oliveb.UUCP> Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 21 > I thought this show was interesting in that it is one of the few that > uses the discoveries made in previous shows. I mean how about the one > where Spock's brain is stolen and used as a environmental control > computer. In another show we see the previous captain of the Enterprise > paralized. His brain in working order, but unable to speak or move. > If the technology existed to interface to Spock's disembodied brain, why > not the other man's. I am sure all of us can think of discoveries on > one show that could have solved the problems in the next. If I recall properly, in the episode in which Spock's brain was transplanted, the knowledge of how to do so, was not common knowledge, but was available to the race of females on the planet by use of a "teaching" helmet. McCoy used the helmet, but began to forget all the complex information in the middle of his operation. I suppose they could have borrowed that knowledge for the Federation, but no where did it state that they did. So, my point is that they did not have the knowledge to transplant Captain Pike's brain. Another thing I'm not sure of is which episode came first. Can anyone fill us in on that. -- Marc Lavine uucp: ...ihnp4!wlcrjs!marc