I’m not sure that it was a joke. Nixon was a Commie hating SOB who could have no ulterior motives about China, unlike, say Clinton.
Kirk was a Klingon hating SOB who could have no…
Did you see the Broken Bow script?
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The “joke” was Spock ascribing it to be “an old saying on Vulcan.”
I got “Broken Bow.” Thanks. I don’t hold out much hope, but then again it was a pilot and pilot usually = suck.
Sir Rhosis
What, Vulcans can’t steal sayings?
“My people have a saying: ‘Logic is…well, logical.’”
Another thing about ST:VI that bothered me was the “phaser discharge alarm” that went off when Valeris vaporized a pot in the galley.
79 hours of the original series, nearly two hundred hours of each of the three succeeding series, 16-20 hours of movies over the past 35 years, and at no other time has the firing of a phaser onboard a ship ever set off an alarm. It happened in the galley that one time only because the plot needed it to. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
Not to unfairly single out ST:VI. One could nitpick all the Star Trek movies similarly.
And that’s where the OP (and the general opinion that the odd-numbered movies aren’t as good) is flawed: the nitpicks and faulty plots are in ALL the movies, but they’re played up for the odd-numbered movies and downplayed for the even-numbered ones.
What got me about ST:VI was that in the end, they find the cloaked ship using the tech they were using to analyze solar phenomena, correct?
The Enterprise wasn’t using that tech. That was a different ship.
Not true. It happened all the time, it was Kirk showing his “weapon collection” to some young lady with slippery fingers. They finally just turned the damn thing off.
**It’s also in her autobiography, Beyond Uhura.
I think it was an inside joke referring to Nimoy having played Holmes on the stage.