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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
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Subject: Re: Spock's Honesty (or lack thereof)
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 14:55:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 14:55:17 1985
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> >
> > 	I just saw "The Tholian Web" the other night, and it shattered
> > forever my conception of Spock as an honest man, er, Vulcan.  During the
> >  ....
> > just such a situation.  At the end of the show, however, Kirk (who has
> > of course been saved) asks the pair if the tape helped them through the
> > crisis.  Both repeatedly deny having viewed it.  
> 
>    As I recall, Spock never out and out denied it.  When Kirk asked about
> the tape that they were supposed to have viewed, McCoy *did* deny it but
> Spock just said something to the effect of "Tape?  What tape?" and then
> kind of shrugged and shuffled and mumbled a bit without ever actually denying
> that he saw the tape.  
> -- 
>      Adrian Zannin
>  ..{burdvax,rocksvax,bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath}!sunybcs!ugzannin

Maybe this is flogging a dead horse (see my earlier posting on the subject),
but coincidentally, I just saw this episode two or three days ago, and 
as a result of this discussion, paid close attention to the exchange
cited above.  I can't quote the lines exactly, but Spock *did* clearly
deny having listened to the tape, just as McCoy did.  And, as I said before,
I think that "Vulcan's cannot lie," is a false premise -- and Spock has
proved it time and time again.


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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