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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: Beaker of Death
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Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:15:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 07:15:43 1985
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Not too long ago, someone posed the trivia question of which TREK episode con-
tained the line "Or it could be a beaker of death." When one or more people
answered "Miri", the questioner replied that it was not "Miri". If I can
remember correctly, the supposedly correct answer was "The Deadly Years".

Well, I've confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that "Miri" is the correct
episode, unless "Or it could be a beaker of death" is an exact quote from a
different episode. I just bought the tape of "Miri" (the things one does for
accuracy in trivia :-)) and watched it the other day. The following exchange
is transcribed verbatim:

Kirk:	"This is the vaccine?"

McCoy:	"That's what the computers will tell us."

Spock:	"Without them, it could be a beaker full of death."

(Actually, it would be an Erlenmeyer flask full of death, but that doesn't
scan quite so well. :-))


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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