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From: ajf@pyuxa.UUCP (A Figura)
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Subject: Re: Tomorrow is Yesterday, etc. (Spock's Brain)
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Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 17:19:31 EDT
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Several people have recently mentioned something to the effect that
"why couldn't Capt. Pike's brain be put in a box like Spock's was..."

Well... if you remember, Spock's brain was stolen for use in the
environmental control system that had been set up by a now-dead race
of super-advanced people (I believe they were called the Teachers).
It was they who had developed the technology to take a brain out of someone's
head and attach it to a computer, not the federation.  If you remember,
McCoy had to be "taught" how to put Spock's brain back in his body,
and one of his arguments for using the "teacher" device was to gain this
incredible knowledge so he could bring it back to the federation. As it
turned out, his new-found genius was only short-term, and he just barely
got Spock's brain back in place (with a little help from Spock himself).

Thus, the reason that Pike's brain couldn't be so used was because the
technology was lost forever when McCoy forgot what the teachers had taught
him.  (I won't even start to get into the moral questions involved.)