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Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:43:46 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
>>> In article <830021142.764990057.800875.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>>> anim8rfsk  <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>>> Ai/LLM reviews of Star Trek - The Empath
>>>>> 
>>>>> ChatGPT
>>>>> 
>>>>> ### **Review of *Star Trek: The Empath***  
>>>> 
>>>> Worst episode of the series
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What about Spock's Brain?
>> 
>> Nah. At least you can laugh at Spock’s brain. You can only cringe at the
>> empath.
>> 
> I recall a question on one of these groups asking for the earliest
> example of a Mary Sue fanfic in Trek.
> 
> Someone, possibly the late Dorothy Heydt, replied that there was one
> in the actual show, namely The Empath!
> 
> Spock's Brain, feels to me like their attempt to do a Lost in Space
> tribute episode, and it succeeds on those terms. The Empath was just
> boring, and had (at least for me) the worst musical score of any
> episode (on a Hammond organ?).

Sparks brain was written as a comedy. Little Freddie Fryberger, who had
watched three episodes and refused to watch any more saying that he knew
what they wanted, tits in space, stupidly proclaimed that Star Trek didn’t
do comedies and produced a comedy script as a drama.

The empath with its black limbo stage and literally using the freezing tube
props from the Jupiter, two is more of a lost in space tribute than any
other episode and fittingly the worst of the series.



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