Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ginger From: ginger@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ginger Grover) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Favorite Lines Message-ID: <232@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 17:46:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.232 Posted: Mon Sep 23 17:46:34 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 06:48:36 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 44 I know that hplabs!follmer probably expects a favourite Star Trek line to be humorous or silly, but mine is from the final scene of "Requiem for Methusala"; a gesture of Spock's that is very beautiful. The scene is (I believe) in Kirk's quarters. Spock is there, giving the captain a status report; Kirk is sitting at a table, regreting the death of Rayna; he folds his arms on the table and rests his head on them, apparently falling asleep. McCoy enters, sees the captain is asleep and decides to wait to make his report. Then he lectures Spock about what the Vulcan misses by being "unemotional", - the glorious misery of love, etc. - "all these things you will never know, all because the word 'love' isn't written in your book". Spock does not respond. As McCoy leaves, he looks again at Kirk and says, "I just wish he could forget her". Alone again with the captain, Spock looks at him thoughtfully, then goes over to him, gently touches his head in the mind-meld posture and simply says, "Forget". Another line I especially enjoy is also one I rarely see because it was a casualty of the hatchet-men at the local station which shows the Star Trek re-runs. It is in the episode where the voice-tapes for the computer had been replaced, and the star-base personnel who made the tapes had amused themselves by doing them is "sultry" feminine voices. Kirk complains to Spock about it, who rolls his eyes and grimly replies, "It also has an unfortunate tendency to giggle". Soon now I will buy a copy of this episode and then *I* can say "nyaaah" to Channel 11! Ginger ihnp4!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ginger -- Ginger ihnp4!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ginger ="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="= I am the spinner, the weaver of mysteries. I stitch together the patterns of time; I weave the seasons one into another; I spin out the web of the world's design. ="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="= Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com