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Subject: Re: ST VI question
From: prenezis...@gmail.com (Michael Prenez-Isbell)
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by: Michael Prenez-Isbel - Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:29 UTC

On Friday, October 11, 2013 at 5:10:25 PM UTC-4, likw...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 15, 1994 11:49:11 AM UTC-4, William Ian Gasarch wrote:
> > (Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this.
> > Just tell me politely if this is the case and I'll post
> > to the correct one.)
> >
> >
> > In Star Trek VI there is ONE LINE that I can't make out
> > on my video tape.
> >
> > When some female character suggests that they get
> > some Romulan Ale to help the dinner with the klingons
> > go more smoothly, just as Kirk is about to step
> > off the bridge he says
> >
> > ``... thinking ...''
> >
> > Probably something LIKE ``good thinking officer'' but
> > its NOT that. I can't quite make it out.
> >
> > Please email to gas...@cs.umd.edu and/or include
> > the word `gasarch' in your response to the net
> > so I can search for it easily.
> >
> > bill gasarch
> Reading replies below, I think the suggestion that Kirk's reply is "Officer thinking, Lieutenant" makes the most sense. I amended the IMDB synopsis to reflect that today, 10-11-13. Thanks for opening the original topic -- this thing has dogged me for a long time!

ARGGGGGHHHH

OH FOR THE LOVE OF....

APPOSITE thinking. APPOSITE, as in APT, as in "appropriate or suitable in the circumstances."

If you speak the English langauge, it's really not that difficult. Star Trek has often been written by very literate people with good, adult vocabularies. And so this.

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Re: ST VI question By: Michael Prenez-Isbel on Tue, 11 Jul 2023	2	Michael Prenez-Isbell

Do, or do not; there is no try.

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