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From: ran@bentley.UUCP (RA Novo)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Spock's Honesty
Message-ID: <540@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 10:33:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 10:33:25 1985
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I seem to remember somewhere Spock denying that Vulcans were unable to lie,
and that in fact it was possible to lie when it seemed like the logical 
thing to do. He the used the example of a "white" lie, a lie in order to
avoid hurting the feelings of another. I believe that it was the captain
that he lied to in this instance. I can't quite remember where this occured,
though, but I think that is was in either the novel _Spock Must Die_, or 
in one of the stories in the collection _Star Trek: The New Voyages_ (either
volumes one or two). Can someone comment if they remember this, and also
are these books part of the "accepted canon" of the world of Startrek?

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Robert A. Novo				"Captain! They put creatures
AT&T Bell Labs				 in our ears! They made us say
Piscataway, NJ                           things that weren't true!"
...bentley!ran