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From: josie@ihuxw.UUCP (clementz)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The Canon
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 14:08:38 EDT
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> This is being forwarded through me to NET.STARTREK. I only do some basic 
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> 
> People keep quoting, "As Vulcan goes, so goes the Federation" to back
> up their arguments that Spock is so important Kirk will be forgiven
> a multitude of sins for having rescued him.   To the best of my 
> knowledge, that line is from a "Star Trek" novel by Sondra Marshak
> and Myrna Culbreath, *The Price of the Phoenix*.  I don't think the
> makers of "Star Trek IV" are obliged to pay any attention to any of
> the novels.  Did this line actually originate elsewhere?  Marshak
> and Culbreath do make a habit of interweaving lines from the episodes
> into their dialogue, often changing or deepening the meaning in
> the process, but I thought this line was original with them.  Does
> anybody know anything for certain?
>  
> ---------
> PDDB

The only quote similar to this I can recall is "As Sarek goes, so goes
Vulcan" from "Journey to Babel". I don't think saving Spock in itself
will help the 'renegades' when they are brought up on charges for 
stealing the Enterprise. However, I would suspect that the current
Vulcan matriarch might intercede on their behalf, and maybe the
punishment will not be so severe - Kirk will probably be court-
marshalled - he hates his desk job anyway. Knowing Kirk, he'll
take full responsibility, so the others may not be punished as
severely.

				Josie Clementz
				AT&T Bell Laboratories
				Naperville, IL
				(...ihuxw!josie)