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Subject: Startrek Question
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 17:10:28 EST
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From: JWHITE%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA  (Jim White)

>From: Gern 
>Subject: Star Trek Question

>I have been trying to remember where in Star Trek, shows or movies,
>Kirk said something to the effect: "We all have to take a chance,
>especially if one is all we have".  It has been driving me nuts
>trying to remember that line for some reason, and I don't have a VCR
>or anything to search.  My first guess is "Tommorow Is Yesterday"???
>Anyone have a confirmation?  Thanx.

From: Dave Godwin 

>        I believe I remeber the phrase about 'taking chances' that
>you are refering to .  In the episode 'Tomorrow is Yesterday' ( I
>think ), the plot runs into three beachball shaped containers
>containing alien beings.  They've been in those things for hundreds
>of thousands of years, ever since their race blew themselves out in
>a big nasty war.
>        Their names are Sargon, Thelesa and a guy whose name I can't
>recall, so we'll call him Fred.  The aliens need to temporarily take
>over the bodies of, in order of above, Kirk, a scientist played by
>Diana Muldaur, and Spock.  The do this in order to build themselves
>android bodies they can move themselves into and live in.

Fred's name is Hanar, but I don't think that is the episode that Kirk makes
the 'We all have to take a chance, espiecially if one is all we ve got.'
quote. In fact that's not even Tomorrow is Yesterday. Tomorrow is
Yesterday is the one, written by Harlan Ellison, where McCoy accidentally
injects himself with a potent amphetamine, (stokaline?), and while
mad, jumps thru the Guardian of Eternity's time portal. I still don't
think that the right episode however. Kirk does tell the remaining crew,
that 'one by one you've all got to try it', (or something like that), but
I don't picture that 'chances' quote in that episode.

It will come to me eventually.


Jim White