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C'mon Spock, it's me, McCoy. You really have gone where no man's gone before. Can't you tell me what it felt like?
— Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ‧ 1986
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker appeals to personal familiarity while asking Spock to describe an extraordinary experience. Turning an expression about unexplored territory into a question about how it felt makes the request personal. The insistence suggests curiosity that a general description alone would not satisfy.
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