Spock: ‘I’ve never stopped to look at clouds before. Or rainbows. You know, I can tell you exactly why one appears in the sky, but considering its beauty has always been out of the question.’
Leila: ‘Not here.’
First Officer Spock, reflecting on his first cloudspotting experience in ‘This Side of Paradise’ (1967), an episode of the TV series _Star Trek. Normally unable to feel emotions, Spock had inadvertently inhaled mind-altering spores from flowers on an alien planet and fallen in love with inhabitant Leila Kalomi_.
A rainbow peeking through the precipitation beneath a Cumulonimbus storm cloud spotted over the mesas of northern New Mexico, US by Joseph Drahnak (Member 62,425).
