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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   > Melissa Hollingsworth  wrote:   
   >> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   >>> Melissa Hollingsworth  wrote:   
      
   >>>> "Spock's Brain" may be the worst episode of any Star Trek series. I   
   >>>> haven't seen every episode of every series, but I still suspect it   
   >>>> is.   
   >>>   
   >>> The writer intended it as a comedy and little Freddie Fryberger, the new   
   >>> producer who was trying to destroy the show declared arbitrarily that   
   >>> Star Trek didn?t do comedies (because he wouldn?t verse himself in the   
   >>> episode they already done) and had them shoot a comedy script as a drama.   
   >>   
   >> I'm trying to imagine as a comedy. Hunh.   
   >>   
   >>> But at least it?s laughable. The Empath is simply stupid and cringe   
   >>> worthy.And I can think of a dozen worse episodes of TNG. Maybe not any   
   >>> of DS nine.Almost all of Voyager. Much of Enterprise. And all of new   
   >>> trek.   
   >>   
   >> Really? What episodes of TNG would you say are worse than "Spock's   
   >> Brain"?   
   >>   
   >> I guess there was that one where the bridge crew turned into children.   
   >> That was an eyeroller. I'd still call "Spock's Brain" worse, though.   
   >   
   >The aforementioned sub rosa.   
   >   
   >That one towards the end where data turns into a Mayan.   
      
   AKA, The Brent Spiner One-Man Acting Extraviganza!   
      
   >That one Gates McMuffin directed where everybody on the Enterprise devolves   
   >into a different species.   
      
   I hate magic DNA but I hate when they get the real stuff wrong. Geordi   
   didn't "devolved" into a primate, Troi "devolved" into an arachnid, etc   
      
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