Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!seefromline From: dahlback@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Spock's Honesty (or lack thereo Message-ID: <24900105@uiucdcs> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 17:37:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.24900105 Posted: Mon Jul 15 17:37:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 08:08:21 EDT References: <1912@sunybcs.UUCP> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:sunybcs.UUCP:-191200:uiucdcs:24900105:000:475 Nf-From: uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA!dahlback Jul 15 16:37:00 1985 In any case, the significance of their "lies" in this context (if I remember correctly) was that in Captain Kirk's final tape he expressed his true feelings for them, feelings he wouldn't have expressed otherwise (being captain). So the "lie" was far more meaningful than the prosaic truth would have been. Sort of the converse of Twain's epigram, "It takes two people to hurt you to the core: your enemy to talk behind your back, and your friend to carry the news to you."