Spock

Commander S'Chn T'Gai Spock is the deuteragonist of Star Trek: The Original Series, its animated sequel series and the first six Star Trek motion pictures. He returns as a minor character in Star Trek: The Next Generation and a major protagonist in the prequel TV Series, Star Trek: Discovery and its spin-off, Strange New Worlds.
Spock was portrayed by the late Leonard Nimoy in the TV series Star Trek, the first six films, the 2009 film Star Trek, and in its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness. Zachary Quinto portrayed Spock's alternate reality counterpart in the 2009 film and its sequels. Ethan Peck portrayed Spock in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery and reprised the role in the series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In the episode Spock Amok when he and T'Pring had accidently switched bodies, Spock was portrayed by until Dr. M'Benga returned them both to their proper bodies. 
==History==
===Early Life===
Spock was a Human/Vulcan hybrid who became one of the most distinguished and respected figures in the United Federation of Planets in his lifetime. He was born on Vulcan in the Earth year 2222, the son of Sarek and Amanda Grayson. In keeping with Vulcan tradition he was born on a cave, with the priestess T'Lar attending Amanda and delivering Spock. 
Grayson's family had a genetic disposition towards dyslexia. As a result Spock developed L'tak Terai as a young child, which was the Vulcan equivalent of dyslexia. While Sarek felt that Vulcan schools would help, Amanda disagreed and took it upon herself to ensure that Spock had the support he needed. 
Due to his mixed Vulcan and human heritage, Spock suffered from bullying at the hands of other Vulcan children, who taunted him over his mother and human heritage. While Spock tried to not show any emotion, Amanda knew that he was deeply affected by the harassment he suffered.
At the age of seven Spock took it upon himself to perform the kahs-wan - or Vulcan test of maturity early. He was nearly killed when attacked by a le-matya, but Spock's pet sehlat I-Chaya fought the creature and both I-Chaya and Spock were saved by a man who called himself Selek - who was a future version of Spock who traveled back in time to prevent his death during the kahs-wan ritual. I-Chaya was mortally wounded and further treatment would only prolong his suffering. Rather than let I-Chaya suffer Spock made the logical decision to allow a Vulcan healer to euthanize I-Chaya. Spock brought I'Chaya back home and had him buried on the family grounds. These events marked a significant turn in Spock's development into the man he would become. 
When Spock was about eight years old, Sarek and Amanda took in a human girl named Michael Burnham after her father was killed in a Klingon raid and her mother disappeared. Spock eventually warmed up to his foster sister before she intentionally broke off the relationship, feeling that in the long term it would harm him. Spock and Burnham would not resolve their differences for many years.
During Spock's childhood, Sarek and Amanda also took in Spock's half brother Sybok when Sybok's mother died. The two were raised as brothers until Sybok broke into the Hall of Ancient Thought to steal the katra of his mother and travel to Sha-ka-ree, a crime for which Sybok was forever exiled. By the mid 2250s Spock had not spoken to his brother in over a decade and did not know for sure if Sybok was even still alive or not. 
===Early Career===
In 2249, Sarek was given a choice between having either Spock or Michael Burnham admitted to the Vulcan Expeditionary Fleet. Sarek chose Spock and told Burnham that the Vulcan fleet had rejected her. Spock turned down admission to the Vulcan fleet to pursue a career in Starfleet, leading to an 18 year rift between father and son.
Shortly after the end of the Federation-Klingon War of 2256-57, Spock took leave from the Enterprise when the mysterious Red Angel began making its presence known to the galaxy. Soon after taking leave Spock checked himself into a psychiatric hospital on Starbase 5. Spock did not remain at the hospital long, apparently killing several people at the hospital before escaping.
Suffering from a mental breakdown due to contact with the Red Angel, Spock was hidden on Vulcan by his mother. Tracking him down, Michael took Spock to Talos IV where the Talosians were able to heal Spock. He revealed to Starfleet that something or someone was on a mission to annihilate all sentient life in the galaxy.
It was soon discovered that Section 31's Control artificial intelligence had gone rouge and was trying to evolve to become fully sentient and kill all sentient life in the galaxy. Having forgiven his foster sister, Spock worked with Burnham and Discovery to keep Control from succeeding in its goals.
Spock initially intended to travel with Burnham 930 years in to the future, to keep the data Control needed to evolve out of Control's hands. When his shuttle was damaged Spock was forced to remain in the 23rd century, and watched as his foster sister and the Discovery entered into a wormhole, disappearing from the current timeline. Before disappearing, Burnham told Spock there was a galaxy of people wanting to reach out to him, and advised him to seek out those who seemed farthest from him and let them guide him.
Following this, Spock was debriefed by Starfleet command. Telling them that Discovery was destroyed, Spock recommended that those involved in the recent events be barred from ever speaking publicly about what happened to his foster sister and Discovery under penalty of treason. Starfleet agreed to take it under advisement. Sarek and Amanda both agreed to never speak publicly of Burnham ever again to honor the sacrifice she and Discovery's crew made.
Once Enterprise was repaired, Spock resumed his duties as science officer on board the Enterprise As a Starfleet officer in the latter half of the 23rd century, Spock served aboard the starship USS Enterprise as science officer under Captain Christopher Pike for over a decade. He then served as first officer and science officer under Captain James T. Kirk.
Briefly transported into the planet Sarpedion's past, Spock fell in love with a woman named Zarabeth - who had been exiled to the past. Their brief relationship resulted in the conception of a son, which Zarabeth had named Zar. 
===2270s-2280s===
When the Enterprise returned to Earth in 2270 Spock resigned from Starfleet to take up a teaching position at the Vulcan Science Academy. After the death of his childhood friend Sekar at the hands of the ancient Vulcan Mind Lord Zakal Spock decided to undertake the Kolinahr discipline to purge himself of all remaining emotions. For almost three years he labored under the guidance of Master T'Sai and other Kolinahru to achieve a state of total logic. However just as he was about to achieve Kolinahr Spock felt the presence entity V'Ger. T'Sai and the other Masters felt that this was preventing Spock from achieving Kolinahr and said his answers laid elsewhere.
Spock then rendezvoused with the USS Enterprise on her mission to intercept and make contact with V'Ger before it reached Earth. Rejoining Starfleet as the science officer Spock helped Mr. Scott repair the warp drive giving the ship full warp capacity, and gave the Enterprise additional time to intercept V'Ger. As the ship approached V'Ger Spock realized that V'Ger was incomplete and was searching to know if there was more to existence than what it knew. At V'Ger's core Willard Decker merged with Lt. Iila and V'Ger to create a new entity which departed for a higher plane of existence. 
After the V'Ger incident Kirk decided it was time to give the refit Enterprise a good shakedown. Mr. Scott informed Spock that they could have him back on Vulcan in four days, but Spock said it was unnecessary as his business on Vulcan was finished. Spock remained on the Enterprise as first officer and science officer for another five year mission under Admiral Kirk. By the mid 2280s the Enterprise 's was retired from active service and was assigned as a training vessel attached to Starfleet Academy. Spock served as commanding officer of the Enterprise during this time following his promotion to Captain.
===First Death and Rebirth===
Spock met his first death in the feature film The Wrath of Khan. Spock died due to radiation poisoning he suffered in the ship's dilithium crystal chamber, bringing the warp engines back on line so the Enterprise could get out of range of the Genesis Device before it could explode. Before his first death Spock expressed that he did what he did in recognition that the lives of the many Enterprise crew members were more valuable than his own single life. Before Spock had entered the dilithium crystal chamber, he initiated a mind meld with Dr. McCoy, which he used to transfer his katra into McCoy's mind as he knew from the experience of Jonathan Archer that a human mind could temporarily house a Vulcan katra. 
A funeral was held following the Battle of the Mutara Nebula a short time later. The night before the funeral Saavik went in to the ship's morgue where she kept vigil over the bodies of Spock and Peter Preston. Spock's body was placed in a torpedo casing, which was fired over the newly formed Genesis Planet. Spock had dictated in his will that his body not be returned to Vulcan if he were to die away from home, and Kirk had decided on firing his casket over the Genesis Planet with the intention that Spock's body be cremated by the heat generated by entry into the planet's atmosphere.
However the gravitational fields were in flux, and instead of crashing into the planet or burning up in the atmosphere the torpedo soft landed on the surface of the Genesis Planet. The remnants of the Genesis wave regenerated his body into that of a small child, that rapidly aged along with the planet as protomatter had been used in the matrix. David Marcus and Saavik found Spock's body on the surface and stayed with him as he rapidly aged. As Spock's body went through the ravages of pon-farr Saavik helped him get through the biochemical imbalances. 
Meanwhile, on Vulcan Amanda asked Sarek to go to Kirk and see if Spock had managed to transfer his katra to Kirk before his death. Sarek doubted that his son had managed to transfer his katra given the circumstances that Kirk had described but agreed to at least go to Earth and investigate the possibility. Going to Earth and seeing the Genesis information for himself, Sarek then went to Kirk's San Francisco apartment. Mind melding with Kirk Sarek learned of his son's apparently final moments, but could not find any trace of the katra. Sarek got up to leave, prepared to accept that Spock was truly gone, but Kirk asked him to stay, thinking that it was possible Spock melded with someone else. Reviewing engine room recordings, the pair found that Spock had transferred his katra to Doctor McCoy. Sarek asked Kirk to bring Spock's body and McCoy to Vulcan so the two could "find peace." 
Risking their lives and careers Spock's shipmates rescued his body from the Genesis Planet - at that point Spock's body had aged to the same point as he was before his first death.
Going to Vulcan Spock's father Sarek learned that Spock had been regenerated by the Genesis wave. With that knowledge Sarek requested Fal-Tor-Pan, the refusion. The Vulcan priestess T'Lar told Sarek that it had not been performed in many years, and that it was possibly only a legend, but Sarek was insistent. T'Lar transferred Spock's katra back into his living body, resurrecting him. Spock would later write that his own memories of the event were hazy but he remembered seeing Mount Selaya through Dr. McCoy's eyes as the party made the long and exhausting trip up the mountain, the long and hard ritual that took the entire night to transfer his katra back to his own body, and waking up in the morning back in his own body. 
In his first moments after the Fal-Tor-Pan was completed, Spock approached Kirk to inform him that Sarek had told him that Kirk had been his friend who came back for him. He asked Kirk why he had done that, to which Kirk replied that in this case the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many. Spock asked if the Enterprise was out of danger, to which Kirk confirmed that Spock had saved them all. He then remembered that his friend's name was Jim, and told Kirk that as the Enterprise crew gathered around their resurrected friend.
Over the next three months Spock underwent an intensive retraining program designed in part by his mother to ensure that his knowledge was intact. Because his retraining had been done in a largely Vulcan manner, he was unsure how to respond when asked how he felt by the Vulcan computers, but Amanda assured him that in time he would be able to answer the question. During this time Spock also underwent a series of mind melds with Doctor McCoy to ensure that any residual portions of his personality in McCoy's mind were transferred back to his mind, and that any parts of McCoy's mind existing in Spock's mind were transferred back to McCoy.
At the end of his retraining program Spock decided to return to Earth with his Enterprise shipmates to offer testimony on behalf of them. Enroute to Earth the Whale Probe had arrived looking for the extinct humpback whales, and when it could find none it began devastating Earth in retaliation. Deciding that they would have to travel back in time to retrieve whales, Spock calculated the equations necessary to enter a sling-shot time warp, all from memory. Back in 20th century San Francisco Spock communicated the Enterprise crew's intentions to George and Gracie, and also helped come up with a solution to the decrystalizing Klingon dilithium. The Enterprise crew was able to take George and Gracie aboard before they could be killed by whalers, and brought them back to the 23rd century.
After helping to save Earth from the effects of the probe, Spock testified at the trial held for his shipmates due to their actions in rescuing him. He later assured Doctor McCoy that the transfer of Spock's mind back to his own body was complete, but they would always be connected due to their experiences. When the time came for the Federation Council to render its judgment, Spock elected to stand with his shipmmates and face the same consequences they did. Because of their actions all but one of the charges against them were dismissed by the Federation Council. The remaining charge of disobeying a superior office was directed solely at Admiral Kirk, who was demoted to Captain as punishment. Immediately after the trial Sarek admitted to his son that he was wrong in opposing Spock's joining Starfleet, and that his associates were people of good character. When Sarek asked if he had a message for his mother, Spock said to tell her he felt fine.
Spock then returned to active duty in Starfleet, as first officer of the new USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk. Even then he was not quite sure he was ready for duty, but after single-handedly saving the Enterprise from sabotage, he realized that he was himself again and indeed ready for duty.
===Mid 2280s through 2300===
The shakedown cruise did not go as well as hoped, with the new Enterprise suffering a series of system failures and other issues such as a non-operational transporter and a good percentage of the doors on the ship not working. The ship returned to spacedock for repairs and refitting, including the installation of a new bridge module. Spock was asked to help test the new brig systems to ensure people confined could not escape, and he was unable to find a way to escape from the brig. (The designers, however, failed to account for prisoners having outside assistance in escaping from their new design). He then went on leave with Kirk and McCoy, saving the life of Kirk when he fell off a mountain.
Traveling to Nimbus III as part of a mission to resolve a hostage crisis, Spock was reunited with his half-brother Sybok for the first time in many years. This caused a brief rift in the relationship between Kirk and Spock when the latter found himself unable to kill his brother and for not telling Kirk sooner about his relationship with Sybok. Put in the brig with Kirk and McCoy the three tried to escape but as Spock predicted they couldn't escape from the inside. What the designers hadn't counted on was someone using explosives from outside the brig to blast a hole in the wall, as Mr. Scott did, enabling Spock and the others to escape.
Cornered in an observation lounge after sending an emergency transmission, Sybok explored the secret pain that McCoy held of helping his father die. He then helped Spock by exploring the memories of Spock's birth. Spock noted the presence of T'Lar and thought it was appropriate that she had been present both at his birth and rebirth. Sybok revealed that Spock's secret pain had been how Sarek had said he was "so human" when presented with his new son. Despite being freed of their pain Spock and McCoy's friendship with Kirk was still stronger, with the two declining to accompany Sybok and remaining with Kirk as the ship crossed into the Great Barrier at the center of the galaxy.
Arriving at the planet Sha-ka-ree, they found the being on the world was not the God Sybok believed they would find, but a malevolent entity called The One. Spock tried to console his brother, but Sybok realized that his arrogance and vanity had led them to that moment. Sybok sacrificed himself to buy Spock and the others time to escape. Beamed back aboard the Enterprise just as the Klingon bird-of-prey that followed attacked, Spock convinced General Korrd to order the Klingon ship's Captain Klaa to stand down. Boarding the Klingon ship, Spock took the role of gunner and stunned The One before it could kill Kirk. Brought on board the Klingon ship, Kirk told Spock he thought he was going to die, but Spock told him that since he was not alone that was impossible. 
For the next several years Spock continued as first officer of the Enterprise. During this time a rift developed between Spock and Saavik over Valeris. Saavik felt Valeris was bigoted and did not want to provide a recommendation to the academy on behalf of Valeris, but did so anyways out of her loyalty to Spock. She then transferred off the Enterprise to put some distance between herself and Spock. Years later, Saavik would unfortunately be proven right about Valeris. 
In 2293 Spock participated in the first overtures of peace to the Klingons following the explosion of the Klingon moon Praxis. At his father's request he reached out to Chancellor Gorkon, and developed a working dialog with the Klingon leader. Gorkon was assassinated on his way to Earth by a conspiracy of individuals in the Federation, Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Empire who wanted to derail the peace process. Spock and the Enterprise-A crew defeated the conspirators and ensured the signing of the Khitomer accords.
Following his retirement from Starfleet Spock began following in his father's footsteps by focusing on diplomacy. Soon Spock became an ambassador in his own right.
===24th Century===
During debates over the Cardassians in 2327 Spock publicly disagreed with his father over how the Federation should proceed. Although Sarek himself did not appear offended, Sarek's new wife Perrin was offended over Spock's actions, and demanded that he either apologize or else consider himself unwelcome in Sarek's home. Spock did not back down, stating he would not trouble them by visiting again. This caused a rift that would last until Sarek's death in 2367.
In his 140s by the 2360s Spock traveled with his father to a conference held in the Neutral Zone with various Klingon, Romulan, and Cardassian diplomats and military officials to discuss the destruction of outposts along the Neutral Zone. (Later the destruction was revealed to be the work of the Borg). He was recalled home to Vulcan to discuss a newly discovered findings on Vulcan/Romulan history contained within an telepathic recording device, and his father continued the discussions with the other officials.
A few years later Spock went to the heart of the Romulan Empire. On Romulus he helped Romulans who desired peaceful reunification with their Vulcan brethren. Still feeling responsible for what happened to Kirk, McCoy, and the others on the Enterprise-A during the initial overtures of peace to the Klingons, he was unwilling to risk anyone else's life except his own, and undertook the mission on his own. 
Despite the betrayal of Pardek, who Spock had thought of as a friend, he remained committed to helping the Romulan people. He refused to return to the Federation, getting Captain Jean-Luc Picard to accept his reasons for remaining on Romulus. Spock continued to work with the Romulan dissidents in the hopes that some day the Vulcan and Romulan peoples would come together in peace. The time-displaced Montgomery Scott was happy to learn that Spock was still alive, and thought that if no one else could make peace with the Romulans, Spock would be the one person who could.
In the 2380s Spock tried to help prevent the destruction of Romulus, but the Hobrus star destroyed the planet before he could do anything. He was able to use red matter to keep the supernova from doing any more damage, but along with Nero was sucked in to the resulting black hole, which deposited him in the 23rd century.
==Alternate Realities and Timelines==
===Kelvin Timeline===
Nero's actions upon arrival in the 23rd century created an alternate reality. Destroying the USS Kelvin Nero caused the death of George Samuel Kirk, Sr as his son James T. Kirk was born.
25 years after Nero arrived in the 23rd century Spock arrived and was quickly captured by Nero. Nero forced Spock to watch as he used red matter to destroy Vulcan. Afterwards Spock saved the life of a young James T. Kirk after Kirk was marooned on Delta Vega by the alternate reality Spock. Going to the local Starfleet outpost the pair met up with Montgomery Scott, and assisted them in returning to the Enterprise.
After Nero was defeated Spock returned to Earth, where he watched the young Kirk being promoted to Captain and being given command of the Enterprise. Meeting with his younger self Spock advised him to remain in Starfleet, and to become friends with Kirk. He wished the younger Spock good luck before leaving to help establish the Vulcan species on a new home world which would come to be known as New Vulcan.
Initially the Vulcans planned to settle on Ceti Alpha V. Some Vulcans blamed him for the destruction of Vulcan, but listened when he warned them to stay away from Ceti Alpha V and instead settled on the second planet of the Simon-316 star system.
Spock then took a vow to not divulge what he knew, feeling that it would interfere with the natural progression of the new reality. However the younger Spock contacted the elder Spock a year later for advice in defeating Khan Noonien Singh of that reality. Spock warned the young Vulcan that Khan was a very dangerous individual and that defeating him in the prime reality came with a great cost.
Spock died on New Vulcan in March of 2263, being over 160 years old at the time. After his final death two Vulcans traveled to meet the younger Spock on Yorktown Station, to give him the news and to present him with some of Spock's personal property. Included was a picture of Spock and his shipmates taken sometime before 2293 in the prime reality.
Over the next 3,000 years, Vulcan civilization would flourish on New Vulcan, Spock would come to be revered by the Vulcan people. By the year 5259, a statute of Spock was placed on New Vulcan, unlike many of the surrounding monuments, which were larger than life, this statute was life sized. According to legend, this had been at Spock's request, as he felt a larger than life depiction of him would not be logical.
===First Splinter Timeline===
Owing to the Borg firing a temporal beam at the Enterprise-E during its return to the 24th century after stopping the Borg from interfering in first contact between humans and Vulcans, an alternate timeline was created in 2373. This had the side effect of making the Devidians aware of other timelines and how to collapse them to absorb neural energy. 
In this timeline Spock fought to help stop the destruction of the prime reality at the hands of the Devidians, along with assisting in determining the means to stop the First Splinter Timeline from ever coming into existence. The Spock of this timeline died in 2387, shortly before Jean-Luc Picard initiated the temporal reversion that stopped the Borg carrying out their sabotage.
===A Quality of Mercy===
In one alternate future Pike warned others about the accident that was to happen in 2266 that would have left him totally disabled. In that timeline, when the accident took place no one was killed or even injured. Meanwhile Pike had retained command of the USS Enterprise and did not hand her over to Captain James T. Kirk the previous year. In 2266 Kirk was the commanding officer of the USS Farragut in that timeline. At some unidentified point in the future, the Pike of that reality traveled to Boreth and obtained a time crystal from the monks living there, which he used to travel back in time to warn the prime reality Pike that warning others would lead to disaster.
The future Pike used the time crystal to allow prime reality Pike to experience the disastrous contact between the Federation and the Romulans. Instead of hunting down the Romulan ship as Spock and Ortegas counseled, Pike attempted to talk his way out of the situation. This allowed an ambitious junior officer on the Romulan ship to summon the Romulan armada. Enterprise was able to escape, but it sparked a war between the Empire and the Federation that cost millions of lives. Spock - who had been working on fixing overloaded phaser control circuits - had been seriously wounded in the attack and Nurse Chapel thought even if Spock survived he would never be the same again. As a result Spock was not there in the late 23rd century to help make the initial overtures of peace to the Klingons, nor was he there in the 24th century to help the Vulcan-Romulan reunification process along, and the best chance for peace between the Federation and Romulans was lost. The future Pike warned Pike that no matter what he tried to escape his fate it would result in Spock's untimely death.
Taken back to his native time, the prime reality Pike decided not to warn the families of the cadets about what he had seen in order to preserve the time line, causing that particular alternate timeline to never come to pass.
==Legacy==
In the prime reality, Spock was assumed to have died in 2387. Some time after his departure, the Romulan people reunified with their Vulcan cousins on Vulcan, which was eventually renamed Ni'var. By the 32nd century Vulcans and Romulans held Spock in high esteem for helping begin the process to reunify the two peoples, even though Ni'Var had left the Federation by then.
In 3189 Michael Burnham learned that Romulans had been an offshoot of Vulcans. She further learned that her adopted brother had been instrumental in the reunification of the two socities. For the first time she allowed herself to learn what happened to Spock in the years after she had left the 23rd century, and watched video records of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard where Spock was talking about his mission on Romulus, and why he had to help the Romulan people. Burnham was able to use her status as Spock's brother to convince the Vulcans to allow Burnham to present her case as to why Starfleet should be allowed to have their SB-19 alternate FTL system data. While Ni'var's science academy refused to give her the data, Vulcan's prime minister was impressed enough by Burnham to give her the data, which proved vital in helping uncover the cause of the Burn. Realizing that the Burn was not their fault, the people of Ni'var put out diplomatic feelers to the Federation, and in 3190 rejoined the Federation. 
==Gallery==
===Images===
animated spock.jpg|Spock in "Star Trek: The Animated Series"
225px-Spock.png|Spock in "Futurama"
384px-Spock.png|Spock in "The Simpsons"
Mrspock-animation_startrek.png|Spock in "Family Guy"
11888762.jpg|Spock is holding a lottery ticket
SS.jpg|Spock in "The Big Bang Theory"
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