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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Where Were They?
Message-ID: <4574@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:31:09 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 29 01:31:09 1985
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In article <515@hoxna.UUCP> kek@hoxna.UUCP ( K. E. Kepple) writes:
>In the episode ALL OUR YESTERDAYS which aired recently in this area, I
>noted that Spock (who cannot tell a lie)

Spock has lied on several occasions.  One in particular was when the
female Romulan commander asked him if it is true that Vulcans cannot
lie, and he answered "yes."  And, even if 23rd-century Vulcans could not
lie, remember that Spock was acting like a primitive Vulcan when he was
with Zarabeth.

> told Zarabeth (this is the gal
>who was exiled in the Arctic wilderness, and with whom Spock later falls
>in love) that he was from a place "...millions of light years away."
>
>My question is: Does this imply that the Enterprise was in some other
>galaxy (other than the Milky Way)?

I have two theories:
 1) He is exxagerating, in order to express the fact that he is far from
    home in more ways than one.  Given his emotional state at the time,
    some poetic license is not acceptable.
 2) He is speaking of distance in space-time, and somehow translating
    the thousands of years into a distance.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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