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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: pon farr query
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 05:00:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 05:00:25 1984
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> From:	rayssd!m1b	(Joe Barone)

> 	During the series, when Spock goes through pon farr
> ("Amok Time"?), he goes to great lengths to return to Vulcan,
> otherwise he will *die*.  Now, in STIII, there is no desire
> to return to Vulcan.  My question to the panel of experts is:
> why doesn't Spock die since he cannot possibly get to Vulcan?

You totally misunderstand the concept of *pon farr*. In "Amok Time", Spock
has to get back to Vulcan, not because there's something about the planet
that will keep him alive, but because there lies the "cure" for his "afflic-
tion".
	Because of the *pon farr*, Spock is driven to mate with what's-her-ears
who is betrothed to him. If he doesn't he will die. If she had been aboard the
*Enterprise* at the time, there would have been no need to go to Vulcan ---
the two of them would have gone to his cabin or hers and gotten laid.
	So, the young Spock in THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK, doesn't need to go back
to Vulcan, because there is a handy female right there where he is. And since
*this* Spock was betrothed to anyone in specific (I infer that there is some
sort of mind-meld business during the betrothal that links the two people),
any Vulcan woman would do.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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