Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Where Were They? Message-ID: <4574@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:31:09 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4574 Posted: Sat Jun 29 01:31:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 02:29:47 EDT References: <515@hoxna.UUCP> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 27 In article <515@hoxna.UUCP> kek@hoxna.UUCP ( K. E. Kepple) writes: >In the episode ALL OUR YESTERDAYS which aired recently in this area, I >noted that Spock (who cannot tell a lie) Spock has lied on several occasions. One in particular was when the female Romulan commander asked him if it is true that Vulcans cannot lie, and he answered "yes." And, even if 23rd-century Vulcans could not lie, remember that Spock was acting like a primitive Vulcan when he was with Zarabeth. > told Zarabeth (this is the gal >who was exiled in the Arctic wilderness, and with whom Spock later falls >in love) that he was from a place "...millions of light years away." > >My question is: Does this imply that the Enterprise was in some other >galaxy (other than the Milky Way)? I have two theories: 1) He is exxagerating, in order to express the fact that he is far from home in more ways than one. Given his emotional state at the time, some poetic license is not acceptable. 2) He is speaking of distance in space-time, and somehow translating the thousands of years into a distance. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar