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From: smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Spock, Sarek, and Amanda
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 08:30:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 08:30:27 1984
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>>Any explanation of Sarek and Amanda's marriage has a lot to explain:  What
>>happened to the Vulcan woman to whom Sarek was presumably betrothed as a
>>child (on the model suggested by Spock's explanations of his pon far)?

I go with the story that Sarek's first wife died young.  Whether before or
after their pon farr and marriage, I dare not guess.  But if she did die
before Sarek hit his pon farr, Sarek would have had to keep a tight grip on 
himself and take frequent cold showers before he found Amanda.  Maybe he
channeled his frustrated sexual energies into his diplomatic career...

D. C. Fontana (story editor of ST, and author of several of the better
episodes including "Journey to Babel") made the arbitrary decision that
Spock is an only child.  Most people will take her word for it.  One group
that didn't is the authors of KRAITH, a huge series of short stories and 
novelettes in a variant ST universe.  Here, Spock has a Vulcan half-sister, 
T'Uriamne, who is also his greatest philosophical/political rival.
-- 
	     Stewart Wiener			:-) "Read and weep as did
	  Princeton Univ. EECS			:-)  Alexander when he beheld
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