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Spock Gives Luke a Tour of the Matter Replicator​

Spock leads Luke through the corridors of the Enterprise.

Luke: So this is your ship?

Spock: The USS Enterprise, yes.

Luke: It's impressive.

Spock: Thank you.

Luke: Where are we going?

Spock: I am going to demonstrate one of our more useful technologies.

They enter a small room.

Luke: What is this?

Spock: A matter replicator.

Luke: A what?

Spock: A device capable of converting energy into matter according to a predetermined molecular pattern.

Luke: You can make matter?

Spock: Correct.

Luke: Any matter?

Spock: Within certain limitations.

Luke: So you can make food?

Spock: Yes.

Luke: Water?

Spock: Yes.

Luke: Clothes?

Spock: Yes.

Luke: Weapons?

Spock: Technically, yes. However, security protocols restrict the replication of certain dangerous materials.

Luke: Can it make a lightsaber?

Spock: No.

Luke: Why?

Spock: Because I have not provided it with a molecular pattern for one.

Luke: So if you had the pattern, it could make one?

Spock: In principle.

Luke: That's incredible.

Spock: It is primarily a matter of engineering.

Luke: The Force can do something similar.

Spock: The Force can create matter?

Luke: No.

Spock: Then it cannot do something similar.

Luke: I mean, the Force can influence objects.

Spock: That is considerably different from reconstructing their molecular composition.

Luke: You really like making distinctions.

Spock: They are important distinctions.

Luke: What would you replicate if you could make absolutely anything?

Spock: A cup of tea.

Luke: That's it?

Spock: It is sufficient.

Luke: I'd make something more exciting.

Spock: Such as?

Luke: Blue milk.

Spock: What is blue milk?

Luke: Milk. It is blue.

Spock: That description raises additional questions rather than answering the original one.

Luke: It's good.

Spock: I will reserve judgment.

Luke: Can you replicate it?

Spock: If you provide a sufficiently accurate molecular pattern.

Luke: I don't know the molecular pattern.

Spock: Then you cannot have it replicated.

Luke: Can't you just scan it?

Spock: We could.

Luke: Then scan some.

Spock: From where?

Luke: I don't have any.

Spock: Then we have encountered a logistical difficulty.

Luke: You're telling me your machine can turn energy into matter, but you can't make blue milk?

Spock: I am telling you that your inability to provide the necessary data is not a technological deficiency on my part.

Luke: Fair enough.

Spock: Observe.

Spock enters a command.

Replicator: Please specify item.

Spock: Earl Grey tea. Hot.

The replicator hums. A cup appears.

Luke: Whoa.

Spock: It is tea.

Luke: It just appeared.

Spock: Yes.

Luke: So you don't have kitchens?

Spock: We have kitchens.

Luke: Why?

Spock: Some foods are unsuitable for replication.

Luke: Like?

Spock: Certain complex biological substances. Some fresh ingredients. And, occasionally, food prepared by individuals who insist that replicated cuisine lacks authenticity.

Luke: Does it taste the same?

Spock: Functionally.

Luke: Functionally?

Spock: Nutritionally and chemically, it is sufficiently similar.

Luke: That's not what I asked.

Spock: I am aware.

Luke: Does it taste the same?

Spock: ...No.

Luke: Aha!

Spock: The difference is extremely subtle.

Luke: So even the future can't defeat a picky chef.

Spock: Apparently not.

Luke: Can I try it?

Spock: You may.

Luke takes the cup.

Luke: This is actually pretty good.

Spock: I am pleased.

Luke: Can it make hot chocolate?

Spock: Yes.

Luke: Pizza?

Spock: Yes.

Luke: Cake?

Spock: Yes.

Luke: A lightsaber?

Spock: No.

Luke: You really don't want me to have one.

Spock: Correct.

Luke: Why?

Spock: Because I have observed you using one.

Luke: And?

Spock: You swing it dangerously close to your own limbs.

Luke: That's part of the technique.

Spock: It appears indistinguishable from poor judgment.

Luke: You know, for someone who's supposed to be logical, you're surprisingly insulting.

Spock: I was merely making an observation.

Luke: That's what makes it worse.

Spock: Fascinating.

Luke: Don't say "fascinating."

Spock: Why?

Luke: Because every time you say it, I feel like I'm being studied.

Spock: You are.

Luke: ...

Spock: Would you like another cup of tea?

Luke: Yes.

Spock: Earl Grey?

Luke: Blue milk.

Spock: That is not currently available.

Luke: Yet.

Spock: Yet.

Spock pauses.

Spock: I suspect this tour may become unnecessarily complicated.

Luke: I'm beginning to enjoy it.

Spock: That is unfortunate.

 

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Spock Asks Luke About the Dark Side​

Spock and Luke continue their tour of the Enterprise. They stop outside the observation lounge.

Spock: There is another aspect of your philosophy I have been unable to reconcile.

Luke: The Force?

Spock: More specifically, the Dark Side.

Luke: Ah.

Spock: What is it?

Luke: The Dark Side is the corrupting aspect of the Force. It comes from fear, anger, hatred, and other negative emotions.

Spock: So it is an emotional phenomenon.

Luke: In a sense.

Spock: Interesting.

Luke: Why?

Spock: Vulcan philosophy considers emotional control essential to rational thought.

Luke: Then Vulcans would probably hate the Dark Side.

Spock: Hate is precisely the sort of emotion we attempt to avoid.

Luke: Right.

Spock: Therefore, the Dark Side appears to be fundamentally incompatible with Vulcan philosophy.

Luke: Pretty much.

Spock: Convenient.

Luke: Convenient?

Spock: Yes. You have created an entire category of metaphysical evil and then populated it primarily with emotions your society considers undesirable.

Luke: That's not how it works.

Spock: Explain.

Luke: The Dark Side isn't simply "having emotions."

Spock: Then what distinguishes it?

Luke: Giving yourself over to them.

Spock: So anger itself is not the problem.

Luke: Correct.

Spock: Hatred is not the problem.

Luke: Correct.

Spock: Fear is not the problem.

Luke: Correct.

Spock: The problem is allowing these emotions to control one's actions.

Luke: Exactly.

Spock: That is remarkably similar to Vulcan teachings.

Luke: So you already have something like the Jedi.

Spock: We have something considerably better.

Luke: Oh?

Spock: Logic.

Luke: Does logic let you move objects with your mind?

Spock: No.

Luke: See?

Spock: That does not invalidate it.

Luke: Can logic choke someone from across the room?

Spock: Not conventionally.

Luke: Can logic make a starfighter fly through a trench at impossible speed?

Spock: Properly applied logic can improve the probability of survival.

Luke: That's not a yes.

Spock: It is a more responsible answer.

Luke: You'd make a terrible Jedi.

Spock: We have established this.

Luke: What would happen if a Vulcan fell to the Dark Side?

Spock: Hypothetically?

Luke: Yes.

Spock: That individual would experience an unusually severe internal conflict.

Luke: Why?

Spock: Because they would simultaneously be experiencing powerful emotions while recognizing that those emotions were irrational.

Luke: That sounds painful.

Spock: It would be.

Luke: Could a Vulcan become a Sith?

Spock: Theoretically.

Luke: Darth Spock.

Spock: An unnecessarily theatrical designation.

Luke: Darth Spock.

Spock: No.

Luke: Darth Spock.

Spock: I would not permit such a title.

Luke: Darth Spock.

Spock: Your persistence is becoming irritating.

Luke: Is that anger?

Spock: No.

Luke: Are you sure?

Spock: Yes.

Luke: You sound angry.

Spock: I am experiencing no significant emotional disturbance.

Luke: Your eyebrow is doing the thing.

Spock: My eyebrow does not have a "thing."

Luke: It definitely does.

Spock: Your continued observation of my facial movements is unnecessary.

Luke: I'm just saying... maybe the Dark Side is already getting to you.

Spock: I assure you, Luke, if I were to embrace the Dark Side, you would be the first individual I would inform.

Luke: Really?

Spock: Yes.

Luke: Why me?

Spock: Because you would undoubtedly find it entertaining.

Luke: ...

Spock: Was that humor?

Luke: Yes.

Spock: Fascinating.

Luke: You finally made a joke.

Spock: I did not.

Luke: You absolutely did.

Spock: Then perhaps the Dark Side is more dangerous than I initially calculated.