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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Spock's Brain and Christopher Pike
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 03:47:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 03:47:33 1984
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> However, there is the small matter of real world timing that leads to
> the "disappointing" example where Spock's brain was wired into an
> environmental control system and Christopher Pike (former captain of
> the Enterprise) was stuck, paralyzed, in a wheelchair.
> 
> I believe the "episode" in which Pike appears is actually a two-parter
> made from the initial series pilot, "Menagerie", and a relatively small
> amount of additional footage shot (a year? two years?) later.  I also
> wouldn't be surprised (but don't know one way or the other) if the
> Menagerie two-parter was produced before the "Spock's Brain" episode.

Correct on both counts ("The Menagerie" was shown in the first season,
while "Spock's Brain" was shown in the third season.  However, the relevant
point is that the technology used in "Spock's Brain" to use the brain to
control the planet's environment wasn't part of UFP technology; it was
only known to the race that built the planet.  Nobody in the UFP knew
how to do that sort of thing, so they couldn't help Pike.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy