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From: goun@cadlac.DEC (Roger H. Goun)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: More on pon farr
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Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 12:56:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  6 12:56:42 1984
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>	Hey!  Who says that the pon farr Spock went through in "Amok Time" 
>	was the first one any way?  It's just the first one we knew about.

We DO know that "Amok Time" shows Spock's first Pon Farr experience.  In his
"birds and bees" conversation with Kirk, Spock states that he had hoped his
human half would prevent him from ever entering Pon Farr.  The inference is
that it hadn't happened before, and took him by surprise.

					-- Roger Goun

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