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  • Re: ST VI question

    From Michael Prenez-Isbell@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jul 11 13:29:30 2023
    On Friday, October 11, 2013 at 5:10:25 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    On Wednesday, June 15, 1994 11:49:11 AM UTC-4, William Ian Gasarch wrote:
    (Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this.
    Just tell me politely if this is the case and I'll post
    to the correct one.)


    In Star Trek VI there is ONE LINE that I can't make out
    on my video tape.

    When some female character suggests that they get
    some Romulan Ale to help the dinner with the klingons
    go more smoothly, just as Kirk is about to step
    off the bridge he says

    ``... thinking ...''

    Probably something LIKE ``good thinking officer'' but
    its NOT that. I can't quite make it out.

    Please email to [email protected] and/or include
    the word `gasarch' in your response to the net
    so I can search for it easily.

    bill gasarch
    Reading replies below, I think the suggestion that Kirk's reply is "Officer thinking, Lieutenant" makes the most sense. I amended the IMDB synopsis to reflect that today, 10-11-13. Thanks for opening the original topic -- this thing has dogged me for a
    long time!



    ARGGGGGHHHH

    OH FOR THE LOVE OF....

    APPOSITE thinking. APPOSITE, as in APT, as in "appropriate or suitable in the circumstances."

    If you speak the English langauge, it's really not that difficult. Star Trek has often been written by very literate people with good, adult vocabularies. And so this.

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  • From Tavis Ormandy@21:1/5 to Michael Prenez-Isbell on Sat Jul 15 15:08:57 2023
    On 2023-07-11, Michael Prenez-Isbell wrote:
    Reading replies below, I think the suggestion that Kirk's reply is "Officer thinking, Lieutenant" makes the most sense. I amended the IMDB synopsis to reflect that today, 10-11-13. Thanks for opening the original topic -- this thing has dogged me for
    a long time!



    ARGGGGGHHHH

    OH FOR THE LOVE OF....

    APPOSITE thinking. APPOSITE, as in APT, as in "appropriate or suitable in the circumstances."

    If you speak the English langauge, it's really not that difficult. Star Trek has often been written by very literate people with good, adult vocabularies. And so this.


    I'm not convinced, it *really* sounds like "officer thinking" to me.

    I found the clip:

    https://youtu.be/AkqZja1IBfk?t=246

    Very hard to believe he is saying "apposite" there! Maybe it would
    have been a better word choice, but I don't think it's what they went with :)

    Tavis.

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  • From Tavis Ormandy@21:1/5 to Tavis Ormandy on Sat Jul 15 15:52:08 2023
    On 2023-07-15, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
    On 2023-07-11, Michael Prenez-Isbell wrote:
    ARGGGGGHHHH

    OH FOR THE LOVE OF....

    APPOSITE thinking. APPOSITE, as in APT, as in "appropriate or suitable in the circumstances."

    If you speak the English langauge, it's really not that difficult. Star Trek has often been written by very literate people with good, adult vocabularies. And so this.


    I'm not convinced, it *really* sounds like "officer thinking" to me.

    I found the clip:

    https://youtu.be/AkqZja1IBfk?t=246


    Ah, I found a copy of the original script online - it even has Denny
    Flinn's handwritten notes:

    https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/star-trek-vi-the-undiscovered-country-1991.pdf

    Page 22:

    Kirk smiles, relieved.

    KIRK

    Officer thinking, Lieutenant.

    Case closed, I think :)

    Tavis.

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