Over 20 years after the end of its theatrical run? Very very few.
And, in fact, they were written by comedy/variety show writers, including Bruce Vilanch (who was, at that time, a writer for Donny and Marie and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour), Pat Proft (who had been a writer for, yes, The Carol Burnett Show, as well as Dick Van Dyke’s short-lived variety show, and later wrote many comedy/spoof screenplays, including Real Genius and The Naked Gun), and Rod Warren (who’d written for Donny and Marie as well).
Brain, brain! What is brain?
The givers of pain and delight!
McCoy: It’s so easy, a child could do it!
This episode is so bad it’s great! I love me some Spocks Brain.
I admit I am in the minority here. But, yes, I hate it. From the opening credits to the very end and everything in between. (Except for Chekov “it is the…ENTERPRISE!” with the awe in his voice.)
Thought not anywhere near as much as I hate 5. Sheesh, I think everyone on the planet hates it, except the Shat. 
One good thing that came out of that episode: Craig Huxley, the lead kid, grew up to become a talented musician who invented the Blaster Beam. It was used in ST:TMP to scary effect whenever the giant VGER ship appeared onscreen.
I can think of half a dozen off the top of my head. But what does when the edit was made have to do with whether the end product is good or not?
Anyone remember the Star Trek Halloween episode. Pretty close to as bad as Spock’s Brain.
Season 2 Episode 7, “Catspaw,” originally aired on October 27, 1967.
Seemed like a Network interference episode to me.
It’s two different end products.
Okay, but why is that a problem?
To bring this particular discussion full circle, because the original movie was so shitty it required an extensive re-edit so that it could be just kind of shitty.
Cervaise’s original point I was responding to was that the heavily re-edited Director’s Cut wasn’t that bad. I argued simply that having to heavily re-edit a film to make it watchable isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of the original.
I enjoy Catspaw…if anything for the “Completely alien” aliens at the end and for the stunt the guy pulls falling off the transporter pad.
…but it’s not an endorsement of the original. It’s an endorsement of the re-edited director’s cut.
I saw this episode during the original run, and it scared the crap out of me (the three witches part before the landing party gets to the castle: “Caaa-aaa-ppp-taaain Kiiiii-rrrr-kkkk!”) and I love the fact that Robert Bloch wrote it, but yeah, the finished product…how do I put it? It sucked.
(Aside: I wrote a fan letter to Robert Bloch a couple of years before he died. He wrote me back a nice card – not just his autograph, but a couple of paragraphs [I’d asked about the Lovecraft circle]. That was very nice of him; he didn’t have to do that.)
How so?
I build a shitty chair. You take my shitty chair and fix it into a nice chair. Did you fix it in praise of my shitty chair?
Speaking of, I see that there is a new documentary.
Roddenberry played it during his lecture tour during the mod-70s, along with the black and white version of The Cage.
Point of Pedantry: Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue). Hey, it’s the Dope.
The completely alien aliens were actually assembled from whatever junk was laying around the studio. The special effects department ran out of budget and had to make do.
The cartoon that represented the first appearance of Boba Fett. I saw TESB and ROTJ, and I couldn’t understand how they knew Boobs Fett’s name.
Which worked to their great benefit in “Spectre of the Gun”.