10 Star Trek Episodes You Love To Hate

Spock's Brain constantly turns up on lists of the worst episodes of Star Trek, and for good reason. Frankly, it's awful. It was a victim of the slashed budget that Star Trek's third season received, with a weak script to match. Leonard Nimoy went on the record to say that he was embarrassed while filming the episode, and no one involved was particularly enthused about where the season would go from there.

Now, having said all of that, there has now been fifty years to reclass the episode. While it's still not about to arrive on 'Most Loved' lists, it has passed into 'So Bad It's Good'. Vulcans can exist for a short time without a brain. Sure, why not? McCoy is able to reattach Spock's brain while speaking to the man. Sure, why not?

By this stage in Star Trek, while there hadn't been any other occurrences that were exactly the same as this, it was an extreme version of how far along the realms of fantasy that Star Trek existed. In a show that featured transporters, phasers, and replicators, then why can't these alien creatures live on for a time after a craniotomy? There is an argument to be made that Spock's Katra, in Star Trek III, was a refined version of this episode.