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Author: WiseguyWiseguy Date: May 7, 2008 02:46
> Kweeg wrote:
>>> Hey, I'm looking for a quote I swear I remember from TOS and I think
>>> I saw it recently on one of the remastered shows though searching
>>> Google and scripts available online I can't locate it.
>>>
>>> There's a scene in Sickbay or a lab or such and Spock has to admit
>>> he doesn't have an answer to whatever it is they are working on and
>>> McCoy snorts finally there's something that Spock doesn't know and
>>> Spock replies cuttingly something to the effect of "There's no shame
>>> in not knowing everything, only in not knowing anything." Spock then
>>> exits and the camera goes in on McCoy doing the slow burn.
>>>
>>> Does anyone remember a line like this?
>>
>>
>> Don't recall that one... any of these close?
>>
>> McCoy: Mr Spock, you said a while ago that there were always
>> alternatives. Spock: Did I? I may have been mistaken.
>> McCoy: Well, at least I lived long enough to hear that.
>> Galileo Seven
>>
>> Spock: I made an error in my computations.
>> McCoy: Oh? This could be an historic occasion.
>> Tomorrow is Yesterday
>>
>> This is probably not the one you're looking for but I still get a
>> chuckle out of it:
>>
>> Spock: I need your advice.
>> McCoy: Then I need a drink.
>> Obsession
>
> No, those aren't it. I swear I saw that line and I think I remember
> Chapel or someone else is in the room and they are all behind a table
> or counter and are working on something. "The Deadly Years" or
> something where Spock is helping McCoy was my first thought, and I
> went through the transcripts I found online with no luck. There aren't
> as many episodes as I'd thought with such a situation.
>
> I wish I had scribbled it down someplace when I saw it. The only thing
> I didn't do was go back and look at any movies, but my recollection of
> it was from the TOS era. I think it was the lab set that had the
> little shelves in the wall behind them with bottles of colored water
> which I don't know what that was a redress of.
>
> The problem is maybe it's the end of a scene maybe that is trimmed for
> syndication. I found some site that had transcripts of the whole 79
> episodes, but I don't know if they were complete or from syndication
> trimmed shows, but I didn't find it there either searching all of them
> for different keywords like 'everything' or 'know' and so on.
>
> I don't think I dreamed up such a clever line. If only I could find
> scripts of the uncut full length original broadcasts or CC transcript
> dumps though I could be sure. I even plumbed around in the animated
> series with no luck because I watched a good many of those in the last
> year via Netflix.
> --
> "After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect."
> -- Freeman Dyson
I saw the uncut episodes repeatedly in the 1970's and I don't recall
those lines.
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