BRAIN AND BRAIN! For a very long time, the third season premiere of The Original Series was considered one of the dumbest episodes of TELEVISION to have ever aired. Part of the reason Bryan wanted to do a Star Trek podcast was to see if time + examining episodes from a somewhat different perspective -- like the series of questions we ask about every episode before arriving at our judgment -- would help us see any differently episodes lodged in cultural memory a certain way. 

There's certainly a lot that happened behind the scenes to explain how one of the greatest science fiction TV shows in human history produced an episode called "Spock's Brain," and Bryan and Kristen cover all those bases. CONTENT WARNING: The conversation leads to our hosts discussing Gene Roddenberry's sex lives, which necessarily means a slightly more graphic conversation than usual, so be forewarned.