timpson@comet.DEC (THE REST THE UNIVERSE) (10/23/85)
This question was answered earlier. It was in "Miri" and spock said it. steve
boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (11/08/85)
Not too long ago, someone posed the trivia question of which TREK episode con-
tained the line "Or it could be a beaker of death." When one or more people
answered "Miri", the questioner replied that it was not "Miri". If I can
remember correctly, the supposedly correct answer was "The Deadly Years".
Well, I've confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that "Miri" is the correct
episode, unless "Or it could be a beaker of death" is an exact quote from a
different episode. I just bought the tape of "Miri" (the things one does for
accuracy in trivia :-)) and watched it the other day. The following exchange
is transcribed verbatim:
Kirk: "This is the vaccine?"
McCoy: "That's what the computers will tell us."
Spock: "Without them, it could be a beaker full of death."
(Actually, it would be an Erlenmeyer flask full of death, but that doesn't
scan quite so well. :-))
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)
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