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Kirk

You’re half human, Spock, don’t you have any god damn feelings about that?

— Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home · 1986

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker appeals to Spock's human side as a reason to show feeling. The question is blunt and frustrated: being half human ought, in this view, to bring an emotional response. It presses for recognition of feelings rather than accepting apparent detachment.

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