<Li> In "The Naked Now", the second episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, an "intoxicated" Lt. Cmdr . Data paraphrases Shylock when explaining to Captain Picard how an advanced android can become affected similarly to a biological entity, saying, "I have pores, humans have pores . I have fingerprints, humans have fingerprints . My chemical nutrients are like your blood . If you prick me, do I not...leak?" </Li> <Li> Diane Duane's novel, Dark Mirror, contains quotes from a Mirror Universe version of the play . In it, Portia successfully argues that Antonio does indeed owe Shylock a pound of flesh, a sentence which is actually carried out (Antonio's heart is cut out and given to Shylock). Portia's speech is also much more authoritarian--"The quality of mercy must be earned, and not strewn gratis on the common ground ..." </Li> <P> In the film OSS 117: Lost in Rio, the final speech of Von Zimmel parodies Shylock's tirade . </P> <P> In the Brazilian film A Dog's Will, the marriage bargain involving a lump - sum payment or the skin off Chicó's back is foiled by reference to the legal contrivance familiar from the play--that is, the skin may be owing but not a drop of blood must be taken with it . </P>

Story line of the play merchant of venice