# Suspension of Disbelief re:  TV shows

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**Created:** [November 19, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suspension-of-disbelief-re-tv-shows/518178 "2009-11-19T18:59:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suspension-of-disbelief-re-tv-shows/518178/81 "2010-01-14T18:48:56Z")

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> That didn’t strike me as a stretch at all. Back in the TOS episode “Friday’s Child,” Kirk is debating a Klingon captain in front of an alien counsel; the two sides are trying to persuade the natives to allow them to mine dilithium. Kirk touts all the virtues of Federation affiliation, including education and access to better medical care. His counterpart responds that the natives already know how to fight, and that the Klingons can give them better weapons–and that the sick should die.

I remeber the line:

“What do Earthmen offer you? What have you obtained from them in the past? Powders & Liiiiiiiquids for the sick, (he snickers) we Kilingons believe as you do, the sick should die”.

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