Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!rocksvax!sunybcs!ugzannin From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Spock's Honesty (or lack thereof) Message-ID: <1912@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 10:03:30 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1912 Posted: Fri Jul 12 10:03:30 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 14:19:41 EDT References: <515@hoxna.UUCP> <24900103@uiucdcs> <739@ihlpg.UUCP> <222@nsc-pdc.UUCP> <287@mit-priam.UUCP> Distribution: net.startrek Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 23 > > > 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 ..{burdvax,rocksvax,bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath}!sunybcs!ugzannin