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Everything I to know about Life I learned from Star Trek Valentine Edition
2/14/18 | Kartographer

Posted on 02/14/2018 11:50:44 AM PST by Kartographer

"We are not accorded the luxury of choosing the women we fall in love with. Do you think Sirella is anything like the woman I thought that I'd marry? She is a prideful, arrogant, mercurial woman, who shares my bed far too infrequently for my taste. And yet... I love her, deeply. We Klingons often tout our prowess in battle, our desire for glory and honor above all else. But how hollow is the sound of victory without someone to share it with. Honor gives little comfort to a man alone in his home... and in his heart." General Martok Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)You Are Cordially Invited) (1997)

Spock:
Emotional, isn't she?

Sarek: She has always been that way.

Spock: Indeed. Why did you marry her?

Sarek: At the time it seemed the logical thing to do.

Star Trek (TV Series) Journey to Babel (1967)

Doctor McCoy: [referring to Kirk] ... because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to - the ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know, simply because the word "love" isn't written into your book. Good night, Spock.

Star Trek (TV Series) Requiem for Methuselah (1969)


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1 posted on 02/14/2018 11:50:44 AM PST by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer
But how hollow is the sound of victory without someone to share it with.

Yep.

Someone to Love

2 posted on 02/14/2018 11:56:45 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Whatever happened to Plutarch’s Lives, as used to be read and UNDERSTOOD by 1870’s cowboys around early evening campfires?

Star Tredk’s limited civilizational attibutes seem an inadequate fictional substitute for the facts, logic, rationality and reason of classical writers and historians in regard to the vast universe of issues enclosed within the study of civilization and life itself.”Trekkies” are limited to the fictional scope of “Trekkie dialogue”.


3 posted on 02/14/2018 12:04:08 PM PST by givemELL
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To: Kartographer

1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

13 But now faith, hope, and love remain-these three. The greatest of these is love.


4 posted on 02/14/2018 12:11:18 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: givemELL
You apparently never heard of penny dreadfuls or dime novels.

Far more likely to be read around the campfire.

5 posted on 02/14/2018 12:24:03 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: givemELL
”Trekkies” are limited to the fictional scope of “Trekkie dialogue”.


6 posted on 02/14/2018 12:29:28 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: givemELL

Citations
please.


7 posted on 02/14/2018 12:31:06 PM PST by pacific_waters
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To: Kartographer

I’d rather be alone for the right reasons, that with someone for the wrong.

Just something I’ve learned the hard way.


8 posted on 02/14/2018 12:34:09 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: Kartographer

LONDO: ...My shoes are too tight.

VIR: ...Excuse me?

LONDO: Something my father said. He was... Old, very old at the time. I went into his room, and he was sitting, alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, “My shoes are too tight. But it doesn’t matter, because I have forgotten how to dance.” I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance.

Pause

VIR: ...I don’t understand.

LONDO: Smiling wistfully Nor should you.


9 posted on 02/14/2018 12:40:41 PM PST by No.6
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To: Kartographer

Don’t forget this, from the episode where Spock loses his mind over the girl.

“Someday you may find that having is not as much fun as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” - Spock


10 posted on 02/14/2018 12:56:49 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Kartographer

Of all the souls I have encountered Spock was the most .....HHHuman


11 posted on 02/14/2018 2:36:14 PM PST by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: DannyTN

Spock got a couple of women. He fooled around with a women who lived in a cave and the other after he got shot by some flowers. There was a 3rd who used him to get the man she really wanted.


12 posted on 02/14/2018 2:43:21 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Kartographer

Rip your shirt first....?


13 posted on 02/14/2018 2:49:29 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Kartographer
Pon farr: Every seven years, Vulcan males and females become aroused. They undergo a blood fever, become violent, and finally die unless they mate with someone with whom they are empathically bonded or engage in a ritual battle known as kal-if-fee.

...

In The Simpsons episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain", Comic Book Guy, representing an intellectual junta that briefly ran the town, proposes pon farr to limit breeding to once every seven years, commenting that this would mean much less breeding for most, but for him, "much, much more".

Source: Wikipedia

14 posted on 02/14/2018 2:52:27 PM PST by x
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To: Zathras
"Rip your shirt first....?

Not really. Do you ever post anything witty or slightly amusing?
15 posted on 02/14/2018 5:00:32 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other opleoour lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: minnesota_bound

I think there were episodes where Uhura and nurse Christine were showing him quite a bit of attention too.


16 posted on 02/15/2018 8:58:11 AM PST by DannyTN
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