Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-bergil!wix From: wix@dec-bergil.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Raised Eybrows Message-ID: <1553@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 16:23:54 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.1553 Posted: Fri Jun 15 16:23:54 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 06:14:07 EDT Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 31 I am forwarding this to NET.STARTREK for someone else. All replies will be sent on. * * *** S P O I L E R *** * * * * *** S P O I L E R *** * * (Subject: Spock's Eyebrow -- SPOILER) Peter Merchant remarks: "The eyebrow at the end ws great, though I haven't quite figured out what might have caused it. Fascinating." I'll tell you what I think caused it. Consider poor Spock's situation. He is surrounded by a group composed of one unaccountably embarrassed half-Vulcan and six awed, hopeful-looking, teary-eyed humans, hanging on his every word. Kirk looks as if he's going to start crying any minute. (Not that I blame him; I hadn't even quit snivelling over the *Enterprise*, myself.) I think he used the eyebrow to defuse the situation, to bring the emotion down to a bearable level. Even though the scene in question is shot over Kirk's shoulder, it's clear that when the eyebrow goes up, Kirk bursts out laughing. Still somewhat distressing to a Vulcan, but surely preferable to tears. My favorite line was, "Where's the logic in offering me a ride home, you idiot?" (McCoy-cum-Spock, to the Federation Security Officer in the bar.) The perfect, and probably the only, fusion of Spock's attitude with McCoy's expression of it. -------- PDDB