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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: STIII question with spoiler
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Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 22:31:00 EDT
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Simon Kao asks:
Ok, here's another question:
When Scotty gets into the elevator on the
Excelsior and says "Up your shaft!" 
is he talking back to the elevator (which
just thanked him for his destination) or
is he talking to the Excelsior's captain?
I lean towards the former, what do y'all think?
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I agree, he was talking to the turbo-lift.  He obviously found its
new-fangled excessive politeness ("What floor, please?") patronizing.

Which brings up a question that someone else asked, but no one has yet
responded to: why was the Enterprise's elevator manually operated, with
jukebox-like buttons, when it was voice-operated in the TV series?
Within this context, I would revise my above explanation of Scotty's
annoyance: he found the new-fangled voice-activated elevator silly.
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