An Erlenmeyer flask of Death

[Jeri]

I think it's a twist on this, from "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats, and Spock only figuratively meant to describe the flask:

2.

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:

 

[M'Sharak]

It's also worth noting that, despite his Vulcan training, Spock was not above being a smartass on occasion.

True, he is quick with a retort.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I think it's a twist on this, from "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats, and Spock only figuratively meant to describe the flask:

2.

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:

Hmmm...and McCoy refers to whiskey as "a drop of the true" in "Conscience of the King." And let's not forget "Nightingale Woman" from WNMHGB. You may be onto something there.