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From: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Honorable Mention
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Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 12:48:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 15 12:48:16 1985
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In article <> raiche@dartvax.UUCP (George A. Raiche) writes:

>        The scene where Kirk recites the line from Kipling(?) ["all I
>ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by..."] is, in my humble opinion,
>one of the best-acted in the series; it also shows us much about the
>character of James T. Kirk.

Actually, it is John Masefield, in "Sea-Fever". In full the line is this:

       "I must go down to the seas again,
        to the lonely sea and the sky,
        And all I ask is a tall ship
        and a star to steer her by."


I think that Kirk is overdoing the philosophy some here.


            roger m levasseur
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