Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site stolaf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!stolaf!smithku From: smithku@stolaf.UUCP (Karla U. Smith) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: A Rough Life For Mr. Spock Message-ID: <2051@stolaf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 13:45:07 EDT Article-I.D.: stolaf.2051 Posted: Thu Oct 25 13:45:07 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 09:04:02 EDT References: <5724@yale.ARPA> Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield MN Lines: 22 Yes, the poor guy!! Have you ever noticed how the common antidote to any of his problems seems to be a sound slap across the face from a slaphappy Kirk? I offer proof: .pp In "The Naked Time" the crew is infected by some disease that brings out their innermost hangups/desires/fears. Spock starts crying because he could never express his emotions, and ducks into a briefing room. Kirk finds him, and after a little conversation, starts slapping him up.(presumably to get him to come to his senses, shake off the effects of the disease, and save the ship.) I suppose the slapping was necessary to transmit the disease to Kirk, because if slapping was a valid antidote, they could have done the same thing they did in " This Side of Paradise" -- >Insidious Diversity in Incongruous Combinations< K*A*R*L*A {decvax|ihnp4}!stolaf!agnes!smithku