The following are lines Spock might have said followed by what was really said:

This celebratory gathering occurs at my behest and I shall be lachrymose if it so befits me.
Answer: It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.

She chooses to purchase a terraced incline directed toward a post-life paradisiacal region.
Answer: And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.

The leather coverings now encasing my pedal extremities have been manufactured for the specific purpose of ambulatory forward motion.
Answer: These Boots Were Made For Walkin.

Adieu, jaundiced vehicular pathway consisting of bricks of baked clay.
Answer: Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road

And we will engage in much jubilant activity until such time as the male parent chooses to repossess her vehicle of motorized transport.
Answer: And we’ll have fun, fun, fun till her daddy takes the T-bird away.

The deity had little or nothing to do with the manufacture of minuscule viridescent seed-bearing fruits.
Answer: God didn’t make little green apples.

Allow me the honor of portraying for you a miniaturized representation of a member of the family Ursidae of the order Carnivora.
Answer: Let me be your Teddy Bear.

You provide illumination for the period of time delimited by my nativity and the complete cessation of my metabolic functions.
Answer: Again, nitpicky. It’s “You Light Up My Life.”

Express deep affection towards yours truly in the manner of a hardened igneous object.
Answer: Love me like a rock.

Spock: I possess the capability of performing ocular scans of manual inscriptions on a vertical partition.
Answer: I can read the writing on the wall.

On December 12th 1964, the shooting started for the Star Trek Pilot episode “The Cage”. I know that there aren’t too many people out there reading this site that are old enough to have watched and loved the Original Series of Star Trek, but I couldn’t pass this one up.

I am currently working through the Star Trek Chronology Project (watching all Star Trek episodes from every spin-off in the order in their chronological order). Should you choose to follow my path, Netflix has all of them available now. And should you choose, try out the Oh Captain, My Captain drinking game. It will take a long time to get through all of them, but it will give you an excuse to drink whenever you want.

So raise your glass and boldly go where no man has gone before with one of the following cocktails.

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