phrenology theme
The study of cranial shapes and the discredited notion that features on the skull are indications of mental ability and personal character.
Examples
Melakon considered the shape of Spock's head to indicate stupidity in tos2x23 "Patterns of Force".
4 total · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp7x01 | minor | In his opening sketch, Alfred Hitchcock gave a tongue-in-cheek classroom lecture on this pseudoscience. |
| movie: Digby the Biggest Dog in the World (1973) | minor | A psychiatrist was using a model head inscribed with phrenological markings while expounding his theory about a man thinking he was a dog. |
| movie: The Black Sleep (1956) | minor | Dr. Gordon Ramsay dismissed phrenological theories as disproved. |
| tos2x23 | minor | space Nazis had some theory or another of that kind |