Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!ut-sally!barnett From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Spock's Honesty (or lack thereof) Message-ID: <2333@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 14:55:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2333 Posted: Fri Jul 12 14:55:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 07:07:43 EDT References: <515@hoxna.UUCP> <24900103@uiucdcs> <739@ihlpg.UUCP> <222@nsc-pdc.UUCP> <287@mit-priam.UUCP> <1912@sunybcs.UUCP> Distribution: net.startrek Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 30 > > > > 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 -- barnett@ut-sally.ARPA, barnett@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!barnett