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From: chenr@tilt.FUN (Ray Chen)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Honorable Mention
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 14:00:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 14:00:52 1985
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> >        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.

The episode this came from is "The Balance of Terror" where Kirk decides
that in order to avert a Federation-Romulan Empire war, he has to engage
and destroy a cloaking-device equiped Romulan starship -- a ship that
is quite capable of destroying his own.

This in my opinion was one of the best epsisodes.  Showed a glimpse of
the decisions and responsibility of a commander of a warship (both
Federation and Romulan).

	Ray Chen
	princeton!tilt!chenr