Il mort di Spock

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1. Why not? Star Trek was always good with the classics. The death of logic. But they skipped Khan’s best line: “From Hell’s heart I stab at thee; For hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.” Apparently Melville is still going strong in the 23rd century (and maybe Shakespeare as well, but I can’t remember those lines). I would hope the tradition is being upheld with the new movie, but somehow I doubt it.

2. If only Bill Shatner was able to sing that well.

   Oh dear. My ears are bleeding just from the thought of Shatner and Nimoy singing that final duet together.

3. Is it
   La morte di Spock?
   The death of Spock

4. PHILISTINES!

   They seemed to have a thing for Melville, though. Who can forget Captain Picard in First Contact misquoting lines from Moby Dick: “And he piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.”
   The funniest was in The Final Frontier” where Dr McCoy attributes: “All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by” to Melville only to be told by Spock it was John Masefield.

5. There’s no better way of showing your appreciation for a classic than misquoting it.

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