Episode: Never Go Full GLoP

It's a new month and that means a new GLoP. They eschew all of the obvious cultural issues in the news (despite some prodding from outside parties, ahem) and concentrate on --not kidding-- Mickey Rooney, robot babies, the problem with private schools, Gone With The Wind, Tropic Thunder, and some gossip from down south.

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(Miranda meets Spock coming out of Kollos' quarters.)
SPOCK: The Enterprise is at stake. It is not possible for you to be involved.
MIRANDA: Why? I've already committed myself to mind-link when Kollos and I reach the Medusan vessel. Why put yourself in jeopardy?
SPOCK: This is not a duty that you can assume. I am aware of the fact that your telepathic competence might be superior to mine, but there's a more important factor. The object is to pilot this ship. That is something you cannot do.
MIRANDA: Then teach me to operate the ship. I can memorise instantly.
MCCOY: Now wait a minute. I realise that you can do almost anything a sighted person can do, but you can't pilot a starship.
KIRK: What?
SPOCK: Fascinating.
MCCOY: I'm sorry, Miranda, but you must be realistic. You are blind, and there are some things you simply cannot do.
(Spock touches the decorated over-dress she always wears.)
SPOCK: Evidently a highly sophisticated sensor web. My compliments to you, and to your dressmaker.
KIRK: Yes, of course. It's the only reasonable explanation. You can't see and Kollos can't hurt you.
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If anyone's interested, that's the Norman Rockwell painting "Gossips," an idea he later reworked into the 1976 Bell System Bicentennial phone book cover.
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James Lileks (View Comment):
If anyone’s interested, that’s the Norman Rockwell painting “Gossips,” an idea he later reworked into the 1976 Bell System Bicentennial phone book cover.

Wow, I guess Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was still alive in 1976, but he seems like a figure from an earlier and different time.

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