Vulcan and Vulcans

Spock

He is the most famous and beloved Vulcan character of Star Trek. During the five years mission he served on the starship Enterprise as First Officer and Science Officer. When the mission ended, he letf Starfleet and went back on Vulcan, where he embraced the kolinhar way. On the occasion of the V'ger affair, he went back to service. Then he took the rank of captain, becoming teacher at the Starfleet Academy and Enterprise's commanding officer. He sacrificed his life on Genesis to save the Enterprise and her crew. The same Genesis effect, which, without his action, would have destroyed the ship, regenerated his body, that could be rescued and remelted with his katra, the vital essence, through an ancient Vulcan mind tecnique, the fal-tor-pan. Presently, Spock, who in his late maturity took the rank of Ambassador, is living on Romulus, as an underground leader. There he is attempting to organize some Romulan rebels, who are willing to start a process of pacification similar to the Surakian one.
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Sarek

He appeared first in the episode named "Journey to Babel". He is Spock's father and holds the rank of Ambassador for the United Federated Planets. In trek literature he is often showed as Ambassador for Vulcan on the Earth; this is quite an illogical assertion, if we think that Earth and Vulcan are both members of UFP, an unique national entity. It is at least odd that states, members of a federative nation, would exchange ambassadors. It is also interesting to notice that Spock seems to have been brought up on Vulcan (he himself states so, at least on one occasion), the planet of his birthing, which is the last place, where an Ambassador and his family should live. A logical explanation for that, might be that Sarek took the assignement when his son had already grown up, but it is unknown what his early profession was.

T'Pau

In "Amok time", she appears as the ceremony master at the koon-ut-kal-if-fee. She is shown as the highest Vulcan authority, to assert Spock's family prestige. Some unofficial sources suppose a relationship, even a direct descending, between Spock and T'Pau, but in the quoted episode there is nothing, which can proof such an assertion.

T'Pring

She is Spock's bond-mate. They had been bonded when they were seven, by a ritual, which linked their minds for ever. Such a bond is for making that, on the right occasion, that is when the male goes under pon-farr, both feel the need of going to the established place, where the mating would be accomplished. The bond makes the accomplishement easy, but it does not overcome personal wills; actually, though she answered the call, T'Pring does not want to mate with Spock, because she has promised herself to another man. Then she chooses the challenge (kal-if-fee), which is the only way, according to the tradition, to break the bond. On this occasion, T'Pring proves herself cunning and cruel, thinking up a subtle trick to disengage herself, saving both her honour and her chosen man's safety: enforcing Spock to fight with Captain Kirk, she risks nothing, but she catches her purpose, for Spock himself, logically distasted, will let her free.

Stonn

He is T'Pring's chosen mate. Little or nothing is known about this character. In the episode in which he appears ("Amok time") he plays a merely passive role. He seems disappointed at T'Pring's expedient, but he must suffer it, because the stifness of the ceremonial prevents him from intervene. Likely, he got Spock's gratefulness (and his fan's too) and ... all our sympathy.

Surak

He is the founder of the modern Vulcan philosophy. He did the great Reform, which put an end to a barbaric and violent age, making the principles of logic and IDIC to prevail. A Surak's image, evocated from Spock's mind under a powerful telepathic race's influence, appears in the TOS episode "The savage curtain".

Sonak

In TMP, he is the unlucky Enterprise's Science Officer. He appears only in one scene, where Admiral Kirk tells him that he is going to take command of the starship. He dies on a transporter accident.

Saavik

She is a Starlfleet Academy cadet and Spock's pupil. She appears in "Star Trek - The wrath of Khaan" and in the two following pictures. The pictures do not give any personal information about her. The novels, expecially "The Pandora's principle", tells us that she is a Vulcan prisoner's and her Romulan warder's daughter. Spock found her neglected on a planet occupied by Romulans and adopted her. In the third motion picture, when the regenerated Spock goes under his first pon-farr, she mates with him, saving his life. This event and her staying back on Vulcan along with Amanda, at the beginning of "Star Trek - The voyage home", led somebody to think that she might have had a Spock's child, but, in official sources, there are no proofs of this.

Sybok

He is Spock's half-brother. He refuses the Vulcan rule of suppression of feelings. He has the ability of relieve pain, although, for this, sometimes he resort to forced mindmeld. This ability allows him to get the support from whoever he meets. He uses his ability to collect a lot of people, who will help him to that, which he belives to be his mission: to get a starship and to go in search of Sha Ka Ree, the lost paradise in the Vulcan mithology. He succeeds, but the so called paradise proves itself to be the house-prison of a powerful and evil entity, whose only wish is to get the Enterprise in order to leave its planet and to subdue the universe. Sybok uses his powers to stop it and, so doing, he sacrifices his life to save the others.

Valeris

She is an Officer on the Enterprise A. She was Spock's pupil at the Academy and seems to have a liaison with him. She is involved with the plot to boycott the peace negotiations between Klingons and Federation. She will be exposed from Spock himself, who, we hope, will learn to do not allow too intimacy with young vulcanoid femal cadets.

Dr. Selar

She appears in TNG episode "The schizoid man" as a member of Enterprise medical staff. In some other episode there are reference to her.

Satelk

In the TNG episode "The first duty", he is the Starfleet officer, who presides the inquiry into a cadet's death, during a flight practice. Cadet Wesley Crusher is involved.

Sakkath

In the TNG episode "Sarek", he is Sarek's young personal aid, who assists the Ambassador at Legaran conference. He is aware of Sarek's infirmity, but he tries to hide it and to use his telepathic skills to give the Ambassador the emotional control, which he lacks.

Dr. T'Pan

In "Suspicions", she is the director of the Vulcan Science Academy. She comes on board of the Enterprise to witness the test of a new metaphasic shield. After the test, the inventor of the shield, Dr. Reyga, is killed and Dr. T'Pan is suspected of his murder.

T'Paal

She is a member of an underground movement of separatist Vulcans, who wish to free Vulcan from all the alien influences that they think are dangerous for their culture. In the TNG episode "Gambit", she attempts to take possession of the Stone of Gol, an ancient weapon which uses the ennemy's aggressiveness, retorting it against him. Captain Picard, who knows the secret of the stone and does not allow it to subjugate him, thwarts the attempt.

Satok

Chief of Vulcan Security Service. In "Gambit", when T'Paal pretended to be a covert agent among the rebels, he exposed her. Then he taked the whole band under his custody.

Sokona

In the DS9 episode "The Maquis", she is a weapon dealer, who furnishes the Maquis rebels. Sokona acts on the persuasion that it is logical to support the people in colonies left in the Cardassian territory. Her logic is refuted by Quark, to whom she has turned to buy weapons. Quark shows her that, in the present situation, with the Cardassian government clearly compromised before the Federation, peace can be achieved without fight.

Solok

A Starfleet captain, commanding officer of the starship T'Kumbra; he was Captain Sisko's Academy mate. During a maintenance stop on DS9, he persuades Sisko to accept a challenge to a baseball game between his full Vulcan crew and a team collected from DS9 personnels, to the explicit purpose to demostrate that Vulcans are stronger.
He might have been a brilliant Academy student, but in Vulcan Primary School he surely failed in logic!

Tuvok

He is the Chief Security Officer on the Voyager. Otherwise than Spock, Tuvok was pushed by his parents, both Starfleet officers, to follow their path. His first assignement was Captain's Hikaru Sulu starship Excelsior. But Tuvok found it hard to live among Federation emotional races and he chose Vulcan discipline. Thus he resigned and embraced kohlinar. He had to interrupt his studies when Pon-farr seized him. Because of that he married young T'Pel, who brought him four children, three sons and a daughter. Later Tuvok riconsidered his decision to leave Starfleet. Coming back in service after 51 years, he was assigned to U.S.S. Wyoming. After being on board of the Maquis starship commanded by Cmdr. Chakotay, on a covered mission, he was thought missing in Badlands. Instead, Tuvok was brought to Delta Quadrant along with the whole ship. The same destiny occured to U. S. S. Voyager, which was sent to look after him. Presently, he and survivors of both crews are engaged in the long and difficult journey back home.
In comparison with the previous characters, Tuvok seems to belong to a different Vulcan ethnic group, and, perhaps to a different culture. This would give an explanation for his quite uncommon choice to serve the Fleet as a Security Officer, and for his name, which does not follow the till now known traditional rules of the Vulcan onomastycs. However, at present, there are no elements. It is also possible that, during two centuries, even on Vulcan something did change.

T'Pel

Tuvok's wife, who gave birth to his four children. She is usually portrayed as a dancer and appears during the flashback in the episode "The Percistence of Vision".

Vorik

A Voyager crewmember. In "Blood Fever" he suffers Pon-farr and tries to mate with Lt. B'Elanna Torres. Her Klingon half reacts with violence; that jeopardizes the ongoing mission, but saves the young Vulcan's life.

 

T'Pol

T'Pol is the sub-commander and science officer of S. S. Enterprise NX – 01. She is 65 years old, very algid and sexy. The character is still to be developed. In the Star Trek Bible she is described as an unorthodox Vulcan.

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