Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site tilt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!allegra!princeton!tilt!smw From: smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Spock, Sarek, and Amanda Message-ID: <20@tilt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 08:30:27 EST Article-I.D.: tilt.20 Posted: Thu Mar 22 08:30:27 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 08:32:13 EST References: <6307@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. EECS Lines: 20 >>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 {allegra,ihnp4!mhuxi}!princeton!tilt!smw :-) the glories of Egypt."