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From: ginger@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ginger Grover)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Favorite Lines
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 17:46:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 17:46:34 1985
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I know that hplabs!follmer probably expects a favourite Star Trek
line to be humorous or silly, but mine is from the final scene of
"Requiem for Methusala"; a gesture of Spock's that is very beautiful.

The scene is (I believe) in Kirk's quarters.  Spock is there, giving
the captain a status report; Kirk is sitting at a table, regreting
the death of Rayna; he folds his arms on the table and rests his
head on them, apparently falling asleep.  McCoy enters, sees the
captain is asleep and decides to wait to make his report.  Then he
lectures Spock about what the Vulcan misses by being "unemotional",
- the glorious misery of love, etc. -  "all these things you will
never know, all because the word 'love' isn't written in your book".
Spock does not respond.  As McCoy leaves, he looks again at Kirk
and says, "I just wish he could forget her".  Alone again with the
captain, Spock looks at him thoughtfully, then goes over to him,
gently touches his head in the mind-meld posture and simply says, "Forget".


Another line I especially enjoy is also one I rarely see because it
was a casualty of the hatchet-men at the local station which shows
the Star Trek re-runs.  It is in the episode where the voice-tapes
for the computer had been replaced, and the star-base personnel who
made the tapes had amused themselves by doing them is "sultry" 
feminine voices.  Kirk complains to Spock about it, who rolls his eyes
and grimly replies, "It also has an unfortunate tendency to giggle".

Soon now I will buy a copy of this episode and then *I* can say "nyaaah"
to Channel 11!

					    Ginger
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