This is not the hand gesture I would use to greet Obama. The one I would use would only involve one finger.I watch this show like a hawk as I served on those WWII fleet boats back in the early '50s, and it sure does bring back memories. As a sonarman working the old W-2 gear (same as Nimoy), I was particularly interested in the ways the different actors portrayed using the gear and reporting what the contact was doing. Nimoy did a very believable job.
In fact, most all of the actors do a good job with an unfamiliar role. DeForrest Kelley (Doc) was in a couple of 'em as well, along with a raft of up and coming actors. A good show to watch, allowing as they had to use a lot of stock footage since everything was pretty hush-hush about their operations (why they call it "The Silent Service") and not much film was shot.
"They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. The line must be drawn here, this far, no farther." – Ted Cruz
Nice catch.
They got that from Sherlock Holmes (or Arthur Conan Doyle).
Not sure it actually makes sense. Plenty of things are possible without being true.
Luke 16:23-31 (KJV)
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.