Today while listening to Marty Kaplan's show on Air America Radio, I heard that some theater troop is putting on a stage version of my absolute, 100%, all-fscking-time favorite episode of Star Trek, "Spock's Brain". God damn, this was one excellent episode. For readers out there not familiar with episode 61 of The Original Series, some women alien comes on the ship and replaces Spock's brain with a Twinkie or some shit. What a great plot idea.
The scam is this—these alien women called Eymorgs ganked Spock's best organ to run their underground city, dubbing it "The Controller". On their quest to retrieve the controller, the crew of the 'Prize rig up a remote control for their science officer's lifeless body. They end up with a pimped out RC vulcan and they get to hear Spock's disembodied voice spout trippy little quotables while searching for his brain in the Eymorgs' underground city. "I seem to have a body which stretches into infinity..." Does it get any better than being captured by the givers of pain and delight who use Spock's brain as their master computer? I think not.
Hailed as the best and worse of Star Trek, this episode is now being done in the theater. I couldn't have asked for anything more.