Spock episode help

[starscream1989]

Hi everyone,

This is my first post here. Could anyone me what episode/season Spock said to Kirk "Tricorder readings indicate it is life, Captain. But not as we know it"

Thanks

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Hi and welcome Starscream!

The episode might be "Devil in the Dark", as the horta was a lifeform, however i believe it was silicon based and not carbon based. IIRC..."Devil" was a first season episode.

If i am wrong, i am sure someone will come in soon to let you know.

Once again, WELCOME!

 

[WendellM]

You may be right, Yeoman Randi/Rancid. Spock's not using a tricorder, but he does mention sensors:

SPOCK: Within range of our sensors, there is no life, other than the accountable human residents of this colony beneath the surface. At least, no life as we know it.

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Two other possibilities are first season's "Errand of Mercy" (no tricorder):

SPOCK: Fascinating. Pure energy, pure thought, totally incorporeal... not life as we know it at all.

​

And first season's "Operation: Annihilate!" (with a tricorder, though it doesn't detect the life):

SPOCK: Incredible. Not only should it have been destroyed by our phasers, it does not even register on my tricorder.

YEOMAN ZAHRA: Captain, it doesn't even look real.

SPOCK: It is not life as we know or understand it. Yet it is obviously alive, it exists...

​

None are an exact match, starscream1989, but maybe one is what you had in mind?

 

[Vulcan_Girl]

well from what I know, in Star Trek: The motion picture, Spock does say something similar to that:
"It's life, Captain, but not life as we know it."

That's the closest I can match to it :S

 

[Christopher]

I think the closest thing to the phrasing in the original post is the tag line "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it" from the parody song "Star Trekkin'."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trekkin'
http://quantumnow.com/trek/lyrics.html

That may be where the initial poster is getting it from.

 

[starscream1989]

Hi,

Thanks for all your help guys, I've gone with the Operation Anihilate one, I think that's as close as I'm going to get!!!

It also gave me a chance to see that episode as well, I'd never seen it before.

Thanks again

 

[Green Shirt]

Just because a poster is new here, one shouldn't assume they don't know the difference between a parody song and an episode.

 

[Christopher]

^What? No criticism was intended. Human memory is a complex thing. We can all get confused about where we heard something. If you remember a Trekkish phrase but not where you heard it, it's perfectly natural to assume it came from an episode. I've made plenty such mistakes myself; it's just the nature of memory and memes. (There was a time back in high school when I had Jerry Goldsmith's V'Ger cloud sequence music running through my head and couldn't remember where I'd heard it, and I convinced myself that it was my own original composition. And this was even though I owned the soundtrack album and had listened to it many times. So I'm certainly in no position to look down on anyone else where memory is concerned.)

 

[Therin of Andor]

Just because a poster is new here, one shouldn't assume they don't know the difference between a parody song and an episode.

Actually, I was about to post the exact same thing as Christopher. Many people think all the lines made famous by "Star Trekkin'" were direct quotes from the series, but aren't sure why they even know them.

So you'd have been rolling your eyes at me, too.

(I really HATE that emoticon.)

 

[saliatwo]

It might be from the first season episode called "The Squire of Gothos." Trelane was not an ordinary life form..

 

[Christopher]

^Variations on that phrase are used in "Gothos," but not by Spock. Jaeger says the native Gothos environment is "deadly to any life forms such as we know it," and McCoy says "Trelane is not a life form as we know it."

 

[Orcus]

Just because a poster is new here, one shouldn't assume they don't know the difference between a parody song and an episode.

Actually, I was about to post the exact same thing as Christopher. Many people think all the lines made famous by "Star Trekkin'" were direct quotes from the series, but aren't sure why they even know them.

So you'd have been rolling your eyes at me, too.

(I really HATE that emoticon.)

And I'd have been a third; it's the first example I thought of...

I read all this last night but couldn't be arsed replying until now. Some people take things (and "their" Trek) too seriously

 

[KirkSpockTOSFan]

Hi,

Thanks for all your help guys, I've gone with the Operation Anihilate one, I think that's as close as I'm going to get!!!

It also gave me a chance to see that episode as well, I'd never seen it before.

Thanks again

That is a good episode, I love it its one of my favorites. Anyways I have heard the same thing thing you metioned and deferent episodes. I think I pay close attetion maybe I can catch what episode its in