Spock's Brain

 

I changed my mind about "Spock's Brain."  "Spock's Brain" is the Star Trek episode that features a planet in which all the men, known as Morgs, live in the surface in paleolithic conditions and all the women, known as Eymorgs, live in underground caverns with a super high tech computer that runs everything for them.  (Not explained -- where little Morgs and Eymorgs come from).  When their computer wears out, they steal Spock's brain to take its place.

Clearly the episode is bad. It is agreed on all hands to be one of the worst, if not the worst Star Trek episode ever.  But I went too far when I said, "If there is anything of value that can be salvaged from that episode then I, for one, cannot detect it." 

Bad as the episode is, there is one thing about it that seems disturbingly prescient.  All the women (Eymorgs) have gotten so accustomed to having a computer think for them that they have forgotten how to think for themselves and are complete airheads.  While it is disturbing how often the series equates attractiveness in women with stupidity, it does raise some troubling questions about what happens when computers start doing our thinking for us.

We are starting to find out.