"You were saying you'll have no trouble explaining it..."

        "My friend is obviously...Chinese. I see you've noticed the ears. They're actually easy to explain...."

"Perhaps the unfortunate accident I had as a child...."

       "The unfortunate accident he had as a child....He caught his head in a mechanical...rice-picker. But fortunately there was an American...missionary living close by who was actually a ...skilled plastic surgeon in civilian life...."

         -Spock and Kirk, trying to explain Spock's apperance to a human policeman in the year 1930

                                  -"The City on the Edge of Forever"-