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From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Spock's Honesty (or lack thereof)
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 10:03:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 10:03:30 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
> course of the episode, Kirk is assumed dead.  Spock and McCoy follow
> Kirk's standing last order, which is to view a tape prepared by Kirk for
> 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.  Sigh, if one cannot
> depend upon Spock's honesty, what can one depend upon?
> 

   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.  Like Spock said in "The Enterprise Incident", "Is it
a lie to keep the truth to one's self?"  So Spock's image of honesty is
still preserved.

-- 
     Adrian Zannin
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