"Um... The Klingons? we all heard it. Really, .Chekhov, if you're gonna keep testing us like this, you gotta make it harder."
"After years of fighting with reality, I am pleased to say that I have finally won out over it."
Its a reference he makes to a movie, who has the same title, starring Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061735/
Not Chekov's fault you did not catch that one.
Yeah Porpoise...how dare you not get that reference?
"Oh no...they sent the wrong Spock!"
You mean Spencer Tracey's last movie?
The one that begins with "That's the story of Love" playing while we see the at the airport together?
Sidney Pouteier's a doctor who works with poor people in third world countries, met a white girl on vacation in Hawaii, her mother runs an art gallery and her father's a newspaper editor?
never heard of it.
"After years of fighting with reality, I am pleased to say that I have finally won out over it."
I think it was a bad reference coming from Chekov, but it's insane that it was meant to come from Uhura.
Did anyone else find the 20th century lines a bit jarring?
Spock - Nixon to China
Uhura - They must have a tail pipe
Scotty - I just bought a boat (I thought they didn't use money? and not long after followed by a reference to the Klingon economy, really?)
I've just come to this board and I love the discussions, looking forward to any interpretations on offer.
Dum Spiro Spero
Not to mention the physical English-Klingon dictionaries. But hey, it was made for a 20th century audience.
"Live long and suck it, Zachary Quinto!"
Not to mention the fact that the entire movie was an allegory to an infamous 20th century event in The Cold War.
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Ithoughtit was a pretty poor allegory-- besides the fact that some people have trouble accepting change, it has few parallel sand does not illuminate.
"After years of fighting with reality, I am pleased to say that I have finally won out over it."
Consider that the Berlin Wall was about to come down. It was during the Glasnost period.