Major Plot hole (spoilers)

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

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[F. King Daniel]

He has a forked penis. That's not possible either but he's a Vulcan, dammit!

 

[BillJ]

Damage to one tear duct?

 

[CorporalClegg]

He has a forked penis. That's not possible either but he's a Vulcan, dammit!

Try not to shed a tear!

 

[YellowSubmarine]

He tried to route power from one eye tear support to the logical circuits, but it ended up in his vocal cords.

 

[ITL]

One Human eye for the crying, one Vulcan eye for the not-crying. THAT'S HOW INTERSPECIES GENETICS WORKS, DAMMIT!

 

[SonicRanger]

Do people walk around in daily life screaming "plot hole" at random things they think are wrong?

 

[Dark Gilligan]

No, they just think they're being clever.

 

[Anduril]

This is goddamned stupid.

 

[M'Sharak]

One Human eye for the crying, one Vulcan eye for the not-crying. THAT'S HOW INTERSPECIES GENETICS WORKS, DAMMIT!

And cross-circuit to B.

 

[StolenThunder]

Maybe the plot hole in his other eye is blocked.

 

[Psion]

When a beloved pet or lab experiment of mine dies, I cry. But I don't always cry from both eyes at the same time. Sure, they both get a bit watery, but gravity, variances in capillary action, and the vagaries of air currents often get one leaking well in advance of the other.

Besides, you forget Spock is half human. Clearly, that was his human half crying, as ITL notes.

 

[Kpnuts]

A lot of Trek fans tend to moan at the smallest of things but how many eyes a characters cries from must surely rank as the weirdest

 

[Phily B]

I know you're not serious.

But when you're crying, both eyes tear up and sometimes only the tear drops from one eye. Especially if you're trying to hold back the tears, happened to me at a funeral once without me realising it.

 

[Nightowl1701]

(Image courtesy of Trekcore)

Why are we acting like this is a new thing?

 

[shapeshifter]

^ Winner! Not only is it possible, its CANON!

 

[BillJ]

^ Winner! Not only is it possible, its CANON!

It's probably where they got the idea for the single tear!

 

[Nightowl1701]

That's probably because Spock's crying was cut out completely in the original 1979 version of TMP, reinstated in the extended 1983 TV version (and later the Director's Cut).

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It's not a new thing, of course. It's been all over the place since Denzel Washington in GLORY, and maybe it did start with Nimoy.

Jeez, it didn't start with Nimoy and there's nothing remarkable about it happening in Glory along with hundreds of other films. Are you actually at all familiar with movies?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Not to your satisfaction, but indeed yes. Who did it start with? Or is that the best you can offer?

Well, I don't go for the baseball bat when a flyswatter is sufficient.

Your notion that this bit of behavior somehow has its origin in Washington's performance - or Nimoy's - is bizarrely naive, and certainly your endless film lists posted here on TrekBBS are not suggestive of either deep familiarity with cinema or any remarkable sense of discrimination.

So, presented with a topic this silly it's a fair question.