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| - When parties took their leave of each other, one party could use the phrase "Peace and long life" and still receive "Live long and prosper" as a reply. (TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" , "The Savage Curtain" ; TNG: "Sarek" , "Unification I" ) Alternately, each party could simply state to the other "Live long and prosper, (name)." (TOS: "Amok Time" ; Star Trek: Voyager various episodes) In the Vulcan language, "Live long and prosper" was pronounced "Dif tor heh smusma." (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) In diplomatic situations, the greeting used was "I/We (depending on situation) come to serve," possibly prefaced by the statement of the initiators' name. The response was "Your service honors us." (TOS: "Journey to Babel" ; TNG: "Data's Day" , "Sarek" , "Unification I" ) In 2151, an ornament of Surak performing the Vulcan salute with both hands was displayed aboard the Vahklas, a Vulcan civilian transport ship. Unlike other Vulcan salutes, Surak's hands were not held upright. (ENT: "Fusion") In February 2152, Vulcan Ambassador V'Lar wished Sub-Commander T'Pol goodbye with the phrase "Live long and prosper." T'Pol, however, bowed in response. (ENT: "Fallen Hero") In the final draft script of "Fallen Hero", both Vulcans were described as demonstrating the Vulcan hand salute and saying the farewell that, in the final version of the episode, only V'Lar states. Several Humans greeted Vulcans with the hand gesture, including Captain Jonathan Archer in 2154 (ENT: "Kir'Shara") and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 2368. (TNG: "Unification I" ) T'Pol taught Trip the salute when she took him to Vulcan to meet her mother, T'Les. (ENT: "Home") Zefram Cochrane tried and failed to perform it in 2063, during First Contact; he settled on a handshake instead. (Star Trek: First Contact) When Leonard McCoy attempted to perform the salute, he said it hurt worse than having to wear his dress uniform. (TOS: "Journey to Babel" ) The saying was quite well-known among those in Starfleet – in 2375, trapped in the Delta Flyer under layers of rock, two minutes before the air would run out, Tuvok told Tom Paris, "In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace," to which Paris responded that, if this was another Vulcan axiom, he would stick to "Live long and prosper." Fortunately, Paris had barely finished the sentence when he was interrupted by the sound of USS Voyager's phaser drills breaking through the rock, and those on board the Delta Flyer were safely beamed back to the ship. (VOY: "Once Upon a Time") In ultimately omitted dialogue from the final draft script of "Kir'Shara", a puzzled Archer revealed he had "never been able to get [his] fingers" to display a Vulcan salute prior to the one he performs in that installment. As a practical joke, Tom Paris and Harry Kim once reprogrammed Tuvok's security console so that it said, "Live long and prosper," whenever he accessed the internal sensors. They also reprogrammed his replicator the same way. (VOY: "Revulsion") In 2258, in the alternate reality brought about by Nero's incursion, Ambassador Spock, after speaking with a younger version of himself, made the hand gesture but said, "Good luck," as he felt it would be "oddly self-serving" to say the usual phrase to his younger counterpart. (Star Trek) In 2263 of the alternate reality, the Vulcan salute was exchanged between the Spock who was indigenous to that universe and a pair of Vulcan messengers who had brought him news that Ambassador Spock was dead. Spock used the salute to bid farewell to the Vulcan pair on Starbase Yorktown, both Spock and his Vulcan visitors saying "Live long and prosper" to each other before the couple of messengers walked away from Spock. (Star Trek Beyond) In the mirror universe, the first Vulcan to step on Terran soil used the traditional greeting before being shot by Zefram Cochrane, after he failed to duplicate the gesture. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly") Thereafter, in the mirror universe, it was not safe, even behind closed doors, for Vulcans to perform the Vulcan salute, for fear that they might be seen by a Terran. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II")
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