Suggested, sort of, by the current Star Trek novel thread. A poll because I feel like it.
The thread title, of course, refers to two lines from Star Trek VI. In one, the Klingon chancellor claims that one cannot appreciate Shakespeare until you read him in the original Klingon. In the other, Spock says that “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however impossible, must be true.” In the real world this is a Conan Doyle quote but some persons aver that Sherlock Holmes actually exists in Federation history, and a few of those go on to claim he was a Vulcan trapped on Earth.
Obviously the question refers to the state of affairs in the Star Trek universe, not the real world. In the real world Shakespeare was a Methuselah.
Feel free to add any other historical personages who might have been aliens in your view. You can restrict yourself to Trek aliens if you want but I don’t know why you would.
This is the correct quotation from the Sherlock Holmes stories: “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” It’s from “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet.”
It has more utility in the Holmes-verse, where detectives commonly rule out all the obvious answers to a case and find an extraordinary one that, rather than coming up with mundane ones like us.
I don’t know if it’s more amusing or deeply horrifying that a Vulcan would do cocaine out of boredom. It would sure explain a few things about Holmes’ romantic relationships (or lack thereof), though.
And I always interpreted Gorkon’s comment as being the 24th century version of “I liked the dub better.”
Spock also cites the well known Vulcan proverb: “Only Nixon could go to China.” Thereby proving that Nixon was Romulan. He was far too illogical to be a Vulcan.
