Spock

S**pock** (full name **S'chn T'gai Spock**) is a famed half-Vulcan/half-Human Starfleet officer who served the Federation in the 23rd and 24th centuries.

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In the mid-23rd century, Spock became known as the best first officer in Starfleet while diligently serving under Captain James T. Kirk's command on the USS *Enterprise* and the USS *Enterprise*-A, for over 30 years. By the end of the century, he was a starship commander in his own right, and quickly turned to following in his father, Sarek's, footsteps—first, as a diplomat and special envoy, and later, as an ambassador.

Throughout most of the 24th century, he worked in the Federation and in the Romulan Star Empire to bring about the Reunification of Vulcan and Romulus.

## Biography

### Early life

Spock (meaning "*uniter*" in Vulcan), the son of Sarek of Vulcan and Amanda Grayson, was born deep within a cave in Vulcan's Forge on January 6, 2230. As is the case with most Vulcans, only his last name was used due to the difficulty non-Vulcans would have in pronouncing his full name, although on at least one occasion Spock revealed his full name.

Spock came from a distinguished Vulcan family with a long history of involvement with Earth. His grandfather Skon had been the first to translate *The Teachings of Surak* into English, giving humanity access to Surak's teachings.

His great-grandfather Solkar had made the first official contact with Earth as captain of the *T'Plana-Hath*, and later served as the first ambassador of Vulcan to Earth.

His Human ancestors included Aaron Stemple, a 19th century Seattle landowner, and Jeremy Grayson, a respected 20th and 21st century peace advocate, and his wife Dora.

Spock had a half-brother named Sybok, from Sarek's first marriage. After his half-brother Sybok's mother died, Spock and Sybok were raised as brothers. ( rejected Vulcan logic and embraced his emotions. Sybok left Vulcan when Spock was very young in search of the mythical Vulcan "heaven" known as Sha Ka Ree.

Spock's parents, in accordance with Vulcan tradition, arranged for Spock to be betrothed to a Vulcan girl named T'Pring while Spock was very young.

At some point during his childhood, he used to meet with his father's friend Tarok who was like an uncle and was called *"Takta"* in a loving manner. He used to tell stories to young Spock of the time before the Vulcan Reformation; some of these tales were considered inappropriate by other Vulcans.

At the age of seven, Spock defied his father's wishes and journeyed into the Vulcan desert known as the Forge in an attempt to complete the *kahs-wan*, the traditional Vulcan coming of age ritual. With the assistance of his cousin Selek (actually Spock himself from the future) and the sacrifice of Spock's pet Sehlat, I-Chaya, young Spock completed the *kahs-wan* ritual. It was at this time that Spock chose the Vulcan way of life over that of his human mother.

Even after the ritual was complete, Spock would continue to defy Sarek and head into the Vulcan wilderness; Sarek would eventually track Spock on one of these journeys and Spock would explain his reasoning for his adventures.

When Spock was a boy, he would often disappear into the mountains for days at a time. His father asked him what he had done and where he had gone but Spock refused to tell him. Sarek forbade him to go but he went regardless and endured the punishment for disobeying his father. Shortly before his death in 2368, Sarek told Captain Jean-Luc Picard that he secretly admired "the proud core of him that would not yield."

Spock's parents took in orphan Michael Burnham as part of their family. Spock at first did not welcome her and retreated to his room. There, he spooked Burnham with a drawing of a dragon-like monster. Spock ignored her. Following the Logic extremists bombing of the Vulcan Learning Center, Spock was told by a Red Angel that Burnham had ran away to the outskirts of ShiKahr.

As a child, Spock traveled with his parents as part of their duties in the Federation diplomacy services, and had occasion to be present at some key events in Federation history. When Klingon Captain Krenn visited Earth in the 2230s decade, Spock purportedly discussed games with him in an embassy meeting room, and the two had a chess match. Without mentioning Spock by name, referring to him only as the son of the Vulcan ambassador, the incident was part of a dramatized re-telling in the novel *The Final Reflection* decades later, of which Spock only remarked that the account was part of a fictional work.

### Education

Spock faced a great decision in his need to decide which path to follow for his higher education.

Spock's decision to attend Starfleet Academy was influenced by his interactions with B6 Blue, a Nasat scientist on Vulcan during Spock's youth. Through her, Spock learned of Starfleet's more open and adventurous approach to science.

In the year 2249, Spock befriended a human youth named David Rabin, the son of a Starfleet captain. After a harrowing encounter with a Vulcan madman named Sered in the area of the Forge called the Womb of Fire, Spock decided to again defy his father's wishes. This time, instead of joining the Vulcan Science Academy as his father wished, Spock decided to follow Rabin's lead and instead joined Starfleet Academy.

In 2249, Sarek was given the choice of sponsoring either Spock or Spock's foster sister Michael Burnham for the Vulcan expeditionary fleet - they would not allow both to join the fleet. Given that choice, Sarek decided to sponsor Spock, and informed Burnham that the Vulcan fleet had rejected her candidacy. Spock decided to attend Starfleet Academy anyways the following year, rendering the sacrifice of Burnham's opportunity unnecessary. Spock's decision led to an eighteen-year rift between Spock and Sarek.

## Starfleet career

### Starfleet Academy

During his time at Starfleet Academy, Spock had Onafuwa for Fundamentals of Quantum Stochastics and several other advanced courses.

Spock was commissioned as a Starfleet officer in 2254 with the serial number S 179-276 SP, and he held an A7 computer expert classification. that year Spock was assigned to the USS *Enterprise* under the command of Captain Christopher Pike.

### Serving under Christopher Pike

#### Arrival on the *Enterprise*

When Ensign Spock was transported aboard the *Enterprise* in 2254, he bonded with the ship's first officer, Lieutenant Commander Una (who preferred to be known simply as "Number One").

Later that year, Spock was promoted to lieutenant Junior Grade

#### Ten years of service

Spock quickly became a valued member of the *Enterprise crew*, spending Ten years under Pike's command.

Early in his service aboard the *Enterprise*, Lieutenant Spock joined Captain Pike and Lieutenant Tyler on a shuttle mission to planet Filos 4. While evaluating Commander Knoxville's work in developing alternative transporter technologies, a malfunction caused Spock to fall through a portal to another location, and Captain Pike jumped through after him. Following their return to the *Enterprise*, Spock submitted a report to Starfleet, which led them to suspend the experiments indefinitely.

In 2254 he diagnosed, and helped to cure the vessel from a Ngultor virus.

Not long after he was among the injured during the coup on Rigel VII, he saved the *Enterprise* 's Nurse Gabrielle Carlotti from a Kaylar mace blow but was then thrown against a wall, damaging his leg

Soon after the incident on Talos IV, the *Enterprise* discovered an Interspacial Rift that opened once every 33.4 years that led to the edge of the area of the galaxy known as the Gamma Quadrant.

Spock was part of a delegation that met with the Calligar, a race that lived in a series of satellites orbiting a world in flame on the other side of the rift.

On the planetoid Darien 224, Spock and a landing party from the *Enterprise* discovered the Last-of-all-Cities, a lost colony of Vulcans which crashed on the planet two millennia before, and had left Vulcan before the Time of Awakening and the logic-reformation. A splinter group from the colony (who wished to remain in isolation) had captured the USS *Cortez* in the hopes of using it to oppose the rest of the colony, which wished to return to Vulcan as conquerors. While Spock and the landing party did their best to keep relations with the emotional Vulcans good, Spock learned a lot about the nature of the Vulcan people. The *Cortez* and the colony were ultimately destroyed when they used an ancient psionic weapon. Following the incident, Spock re-assessed his way of life and underwent a purification ritual, removing what few Human emotions he did have and devoting himself fully to a life of logic and intellect, surmising to Captain Pike *"Passion kills, Captain. Logic does not"*.

In May of 2255, Spock, with his foster sister, the USS *Shenzhou*'s acting XO Lieutenant Michael Burnham entered the Juggernaut to disable it before it wipes out the colony on Sirsa III. Together, Spock and Burnham passed a number of challenges and Spock Mind melded with her to keep in contact with her. They then discovered that this ship belonged to the Turanian Empire who deemed both him and Burnham worthy of joining the Empire. However, when the Juggernaut attacks both the *Enterprise* and the *Shenzhou*, Spock and Burnham set their phasers to overload. This disabled the Juggernaut.

### The *Enterprise* under Kirk

In 2264, Pike's time as Captain of the *Enterprise* was coming to an end as Pike was due to be promoted to Fleet Captain. By then Pike was quite comfortable with having Spock as part of his crew. Spock was one of the few officers to remain on the *Enterprise* after Pike left, and Pike felt better about turning the *Enterprise* over to Captain James Kirk as Spock would be remaining on board, serving as both Kirk's first officer and science officer. Pike by then had come to respect Spock's dedication to logic, and felt that Spock would keep young Captain Kirk from acting rashly

#### The Five-Year Mission

Together, Spock, James T. Kirk and the crew of the *Enterprise* made history.

One of the first successful missions in 2265 was making first contact with the Archernarians of Archernar IV. There, Spock defused the situation was by making a screeching noise to prevent Lt. Lee Kelso from firing his phaser at the Archernarians.

In 2266, the *Enterprise* was the first Federation ship to officially view the true appearance of the Romulans, who looked remarkably like Vulcans. Spock confirmed that it was indeed likely that they were a war-like offshoot of the Vulcans.

In 2267, Spock came to the aid of his former Captain, Christopher Pike, after Pike had become an invalid barely capable of communication after exposure to delta radiation. Spock risked the death penalty by breaking General Order 7 and returning Pike to Talos IV, where the Talosians could give Pike the illusion of a normal existence.

Later that year, Spock felt the fires of *pon farr* and returned to Vulcan to wed his betrothed, T'Pring. At the ceremony, T'Pring chose instead to pit Spock against Kirk in combat while Spock was enveloped by the *plak tow*, or "blood fever", in order to break her engagement to Spock and wed a Vulcan named Stonn instead.

Soon after, Spock was reunited with his parents when the *Enterprise* escorted a complement of ambassadors, including Sarek and his wife, to a diplomatic conference on the codenamed planet Babel. During the journey, Sarek suffered a cardiac episode requiring immediate surgery. Sarek almost died when Spock's presence was required for a massive "T" negative blood transfusion, but Spock refused to relinquish his duties to the *Enterprise*. After Spock was relieved of duty, he reported to Dr. Leonard McCoy in sickbay and gave the transfusion, saving Sarek's life. The incident ended an eighteen-year rift between Spock and Sarek.

In 2268, the *Enterprise* was ordered to covertly enter the Romulan Star Empire and retrieve a Romulan cloaking device. It was during this incident that Spock first met the Romulan woman known as Charvanek.

In 2269, Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy were sent 5,000 years into the past of the world Sarpeidon, where Spock met and became romantically involved with a woman named Zarabeth. Unbeknownst to Spock when he returned to the 23rd century, he left Zarabeth pregnant with his son, Zar.

Later that year while studying Vulcan history using the Guardian of Forever, the timeline was changed, forcing Spock to travel back through the Guardian in order to preserve his own existence. Arriving in Vulcan's past, Spock posed as a cousin of Sarek named **Selek**. Spock saved his younger self from a *le-matya* attack during his younger self's *kahs-wan* trials. The timeline restored, Spock was returned to the Guardian's world.

When the religious Crusaders attacked the Federation from another dimension, Spock proved vital in defeating their attempt to forcibly convert the Federation to follow their Truth and their belief that different cultures could not cooperate. By making contact with the Crown of the God-King Jaenab, which allowed him to make telepathic broadcasts to his people, while Kirk kept Jaenab occupied, Spock used a mind meld to share his own experience of different cultures interacting by using his own parents as an example, the discovery prompting Jaenab to call off his crusade and enter isolation to examine his own motives.

In 2269, towards the end of the five-year mission, Spock encountered Berlis Aknista after the *Enterprise* rescued him. Berlis had a very powerful form of telepathy that attracted Spock and eventually led to Spock interlocking his mind with Berlis, but the connection would be broken soon after. As Spock sat in his cabin afterward he felt Berlis probing his mind and killed him in order to avoid further interference by Berlis

### *Kolinahr(2269-2271)*

When the five-year mission of the *Enterprise* came to an end in 2269, Captain Kirk recommended Spock for the command of the science vessel, the USS *Grissom* and the USS *Enterprise*. Spock turned down the offer as he believed that being in command, even of a science ship, would keep him from the scientific research that was his specialty.

Spock returned to Vulcan for six months leave with the intention of returning to Starfleet and serving again with Kirk. He soon met and became romantically involved with a Vulcan woman named T'Sura. The couple soon bonded, becoming betrothed to each other. Spock resigned from Starfleet and took a teaching job at the Vulcan Science Academy. When the ancient *katra* of an unstable and very powerful Vulcan named Zakal found a host and began to terrorize the region in 2271, Spock was drawn into the events, as were Kirk, McCoy and McCoy's friend Keridwen Llewellyn. Zakal was stopped, but at the cost of Llewellyn's life.

Spock blamed himself for Llewelyn's death, believing that it was his lack of emotional control that brought about the circumstances of her death. As a result, Spock terminated his link with T'Sura, and instead opted to become a postulate of *Kolinahr* in order to shed all of his remaining emotions. In late 2270 Spock was preparing to achieve the final stage of *kolinahr* by severing all ties to friends and family. Despite his efforts, feelings of friendship and affection persisted for his human friends, Kirk and McCoy, as well as the sense that his friends were in some sort of peril.

In an attempt to break his bonds to Kirk and McCoy once and for all, Spock performed the ritual of *Sekhet* in order to purge his remaining emotions. After the third day of motionless meditation without food or water, the sense of his friends in danger ceased.

Upon the completion of the ritual meditation Spock believed that had finally purged himself of his residual feelings for his friends, when he felt an alien presence from the depths of space. He dismissed the feeling as no more than the after-effect of his meditation ritual and thought nothing more of it

### V'Ger(2271)

Several weeks later, in early 2271, Spock was set to perform the ritual with the Vulcan masters that would indicate that he had finally achieved *kolinahr*, when he again felt the alien mind from across the vastness of space. It was a mind of pure logic, yet was empty, and it stirred his human emotions and blood. After being told by the masters that he had not achieved *kolinahr* and that his answer lay elsewhere, Spock set off in search of the source of the call from space.

Fortunately for Spock, Kirk and the *Enterprise* were in search of the same entity, and Spock joined the *Enterprise* in their search for the lifeform that became known as "V'Ger". Spock's Starfleet commission was then reactivated and he offered his services as Chief Science Officer for the mission.

After melding with V'Ger, Spock realized that V'Ger, for all of its vast intelligence and logic, was empty, lost and devoid of further purpose. The experience made Spock realize that logic alone was not enough for the balance that he sought. Spock chose not to return to Vulcan and the study of *kolinahr*, choosing instead to return to Starfleet, serving on the *Enterprise* under Kirk in his former position.

###

#### Yesterday's Son(2271)

In 2269, Spock was sent back 5,000 years into the past of the world Sarpeidon, and had a brief but passionate relationship with Zarabeth, a woman that had been banished to live out her life alone in the barren, frozen wasteland of Sarpeidon's northern hemisphere.

A year and a half later, in late 2271, while studying Sarpeidon's historical records, Spock found evidence in the form of a 5,000-year-old cave painting that indicated that Zarabeth had bore his child in the icy wastes.

After an appeal from T'Pau to the Federation Council, Spock obtained permission to use the Guardian of Forever to visit Sarpeidon's past and bring Zarabeth and son home with him.

Things did not go exactly as planned, and Spock, Kirk, and Dr. Leonard McCoy found themselves arriving 10 years later in Sarpeidon's past than planned. Zarabeth was dead, killed in an avalanche, and Spock's son, Zar, was nearly an adult.

Spock brought the boy back to the *Enterprise* with him, but their relationship was strained. Zar believed that Spock had only retrieved him out of a sense of duty, and not out of any kind of fatherly feeling. Spock, not knowing how to deal with the emotions Zar had stirred in him, had been unable to convince Zar otherwise.

Zar had unusually strong telepathic talent, even surpassing the skills of his father.

While studying Sarpeidon's history records, Zar found more evidence of his existence in his homeworld's past. In fact, he was an important historical figure whose absence would profoundly affect the timeline.

After helping Spock foil a plan by the Romulans to seize the Guardian of Forever, Zar prepared to return to Sarpeidon's past. But before he left, Spock shared a mind meld with Zar, allowing him to experience the true depths of his father's feelings for him. Zar used his telepathic power to direct the Guardian to deposit him on Sarpeidon's southern continent, where he would begin his life's work.

### Command of the Enterprise(2276-2285)

Kirk was promoted to Admiral in 2276 and Recommanded Command of the Enterprise to Spock, which was granted and Spock accepted. From 2276-2282 Spock Commanded the Enterprise on a 5 year mission to explore a unknown part of the Galaxy.

Spock first met his future wife, Saavik, in 2276, when he rescued the young Vulcan/Romulan hybrid from a barbaric existence on the Romulan border world of Hellguard.

Spock spent some time teaching Saavik Vulcan logic and discipline before bringing her to Vulcan and arranging for his parents to continue Saavik's education. When Saavik was ready, Spock sponsored her application to Starfleet Academy.

### Academy Instructor(2282-2285)

Spock was assigned to Starfleet Academy, commanding the *Enterprise* as a teacher on a training vessel.

#### The *Genesis* Incident

Spock was commanding a training cruise (with an inspecting Admiral Kirk on board) when Khan Noonien Singh escaped from Ceti Alpha V with a number of his followers, who had earlier accompanied him into exile. Spock relinquished command to the senior officer, stating as a Vulcan it was clearly logical-having, "no ego to bruise." Hijacking the USS *Reliant*, Khan tried to avenge the death of his wife, whose death Khan blamed on Kirk. After a deadly game of "cat-and-mouse" in the Mutara Nebula, the *Reliant* was disabled by the *Enterprise*, and Khan was fatally injured. Before he died, however, Khan activated the Genesis Device that he had earlier stolen from *Regula I*.

The warp engine of the heavily damaged *Enterprise* was off-line when Khan activated the Genesis Device countdown sequence. As a result, the *Enterprise* would have been caught in the detonation of the device and destroyed. Realizing this, Spock went to engineering, and was about to enter the dilithium crystal chamber when stopped by McCoy. Rendering McCoy unconscious with a Vulcan nerve pinch, Spock stopped long enough to enter into a mind meld with McCoy. McCoy regained consciousness a few moments later. Both he and Montgomery Scott watched in horror as Spock entered the radiation soaked chamber and began realigning the dilithium crystals. Spock succeeded in bringing the warp engines back online, and the *Enterprise* was able to escape the detonation of the Genesis Device. But by then, Spock had already received a fatal dose of radiation.

Summoned to engineering, Kirk was prepared to enter the chamber himself and pull Spock out. Kirk was held back by McCoy and Scott before he could flood the whole engineering section with radiation. When Kirk protested that Spock would die, Scott replied that Spock was dead already, with McCoy confirming that it was too late for Spock. The two friends spoke to each other for what was apparently the final time. Spock saw his sacrifice as his solution to the Kobayashi Maru scenario, and asked Kirk what he thought of his solution. Before dying from radiation poisoning, Spock gave Kirk the Vulcan salute, and told Kirk to, "Live long and prosper."

A short time later, a funeral was held for Spock in the torpedo bay of the *Enterprise*. As Captain Spock's will stated that Spock was not to be returned to Vulcan, Admiral Kirk decided to have his friend's body placed in a photon torpedo casing and fired into the space above the newly formed Genesis Planet. It was Kirk's intention that Spock's body would be cremated when the torpedo casing burned up upon entering into the atmosphere of the Genesis Planet. For the eulogy, Kirk said, "Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most...human."

However. the planet was still forming when the torpedo was fired from *Enterprise*, and the gravitational fields of the Genesis Planet were in flux at the time. As a result; instead of burning up in the atmosphere, or crashing into the planet Spock's torpedo soft-landed on the surface. Over the next few weeks, the remnants of the Genesis wave re-generated the body of Spock. His cells were regenerated as that of a child's, which began to rapidly age as the Genesis Planet aged. A survey mission from the USS *Grissom* soon arrived, mistaking quickly evolved microbes near Spock's landing site as the animal lifeforms detected from the *Grissom*. He was later discovered by Dr. David Marcus and Lieutenant Saavik. By then, Spock's body had aged to be the equivalent of eight to ten Earth years of age.

In orbit, the *Grissom* was destroyed by a Klingon *Bird-of-Prey*, commanded by Kruge. While Kruge's men searched for the *Grissom* survivors, Spock's body and the Genesis Planet were rapidly aging. As Spock's body became that of a young man and began experiencing *pon farr*, Saavik helped the Spock through this.

Meanwhile on Earth, Spock's father Sarek revealed to Kirk that Spock may have transferred his *katra* into a different mind. After failing to find the *katra* in Kirk's mind, the two searched through engine room recordings of Spock's final moments, finding that Spock had transferred his *katra* into McCoy's mind. Sarek requested that both McCoy and Spock's body be brought to Vulcan so that the two could find peace. When Starfleet refused to allow Kirk to return to the Genesis Planet, Kirk and the senior staff of the USS *Enterprise* stole the *Enterprise* and traveled to the Genesis Planet.

By the time the *Enterprise* arrived in orbit, Marcus, Saavik and Spock's body were captured by Kruge. Overwhelmed by the battle, the *Enterprise* was disabled. When Kruge's men killed Doctor Marcus, Kirk agreed to surrender the ship. Kirk and the *Enterprise* crew beamed down to the Genesis Planet after setting the auto-destruct device of the *Enterprise*. Several of Kruge's warriors beamed aboard the *Enterprise*, and were killed when the auto-destruct device destroyed the *Enterprise*.

Kruge then beamed down and confronted Kirk on the surface of Genesis. He ordered Maltz to beam everyone else except himself, Kirk, and Spock on board his ship. Kirk and Kruge fought on to the edge of a cliff overlooking a sea of lava. When Kruge tried to pull Kirk into this sea of lava, Kirk had enough and kicked Kruge away, who fell to his death. Spock's body had by now reached the same age as it was just prior to Spock's entering the dilithium crystal chamber of the *Enterprise*. Beaming on board the Klingon ship, the crew managed to capture the ship from Maltz - the only warrior left on the ship - and set course for Vulcan.

Arriving at Vulcan, the crew of the late *Enterprise* climbed the steps of Mount Seleya - where the crew of the *Enterprise* believed that Spock's katra would be transferred to the Hall of Ancient Thought. Upon arriving at the summit of Mt. Seleya, Sarek requested instead that *fal-tor-pan*, or "the refusion" of Spock's body and mind be performed. For the first time in many years, *fal-tor-pan* was performed by the High Priestess T'Lar, removing Spock's *katra* from McCoy's mind and placing it back in Spock's body.

### The Voyage Home(2286)

For the next three months, the senior staff of the late *Enterprise* remained in exile on Vulcan. During this time Spock and McCoy each participated in mind meld sessions with T'Lar to ensure that any remaining part of Spock's mind still in McCoy's mind was transferred back to Spock. Also during this time Spock underwent a Vulcan retraining program to ensure that his knowledge was intact. Because the training was based on Vulcan logic, Spock was initially unsure of how to handle questions about how he was feeling, but his mother was confident that the feelings from his human half would resurface in time

When the *Enterprise* senior staff decided to return to Earth to face the consequences of their actions in early 2286, Spock decided to travel with them to offer his own testimony. What the crew expected to be a quick voyage back to Earth and the end of their Starfleet careers was sidetracked when an alien probe arrived in Earth orbit and began damaging the planet. Spock was able to determine that the probe's transmissions were the songs sung by the extinct humpback whale species of Earth. When Admiral Kirk decided to go back in time and retrieve such whales, Spock was able to prepare the *Bounty* to go back in time completely from memory. He was later able to correctly guess the best course to return to the 23rd century.

After the probe had left the Sol System, the senior staff of the *Enterprise* stood before the Federation Council to face the consequences of rescuing Spock. Even though Spock had not been charged, he decided to stand with his shipmates. The mitigating circumstances caused by the probe's visit to Earth prompted the Federation council to dismiss all but one of the charges - which was directed solely at Admiral Kirk. The council ordered Kirk reduced to the rank of Captain, but gave him the command of the USS *Enterprise*-A. Spock returned to active duty in Starfleet, assuming the role of first officer on the *Enterprise*.

### The *Enterprise*-A(2286-2293)

At first, Spock harbored doubts as to whether he was fully restored and capable of performing his duties as science officer, but after he was able to quickly repair the *Enterprise*-A's warp core on the fly after it had been sabotaged by a religious zealot, Spock realized that he was indeed fit for duty.

Several weeks later, the *Enterprise* returned to planet Gamma Trianguli VI, twenty years after Kirk destroyed the planet-controlling computer called Vaal, despite Spock's strong objections. Without Vaal's influence, Gamma Trianguli VI's indigenous people had regressed into near-savagery. Kirk was forced to admit his earlier error, and Spock managed to reactivate Vaal, even briefly "joining" with it, while still granting the local population more freedom of thought and action than was previously available under Vaal.

Soon after, when Kirk had been viciously attacked, stabbed through the heart by a mysterious assailant, Spock sensed it immediately. Spock met Dr. McCoy at the entrance of Kirk's quarters where Spock forced the door, and found the dying Kirk.

McCoy managed to save Kirk's life, and Kirk identified Ensign William Bearclaw as his attacker. Bearclaw was a discipline case that Kirk had recently put up for transfer. After being drawn into the investigation, Spock began to harbor doubts as to Bearclaw's guilt. Spock articulated his doubts to Kirk and asked him to keep an open mind just before Kirk was again attacked by the shape-shifting Garth of Izar, who had previously impersonated Bearclaw. Spock returned in time to save Kirk from Garth, dropping him with a Vulcan nerve-pinch.

### Sybok(2287)

The *Enterprise* returned to Earth in 2287 so that chief engineer Montgomery Scott could track down the numerous bugs that popped up. Spock was taking his shore leave in Yosemite National Park with Kirk and McCoy when the call about an emergency on Nimbus III (aka "The Planet of Galactic Peace") came in. The ruling council, consisting of a human, a Klingon, and a Romulan, had been taken hostage. Upon viewing the recording made by the kidnapper, Spock recognized him as his half-brother, Sybok, whom Spock had not seen since he was a child. Sybok had left Vulcan after he had rejected his culture's reliance on logic, and embraced his emotions.

The *Enterprise* raced to Nimbus III, only to have the ship taken by Sybok, who employed a mysterious mental power on the *Enterprise* crew. Sybok took the *Enterprise* through the barrier at the center of the galaxy, hoping to release The One, whom Sybok believed to be a God-like being from Sha Ka Ree, the Vulcan "heaven". The One, rather than being a benevolent force, was murderous and cruel. The One killed Sybok, and was about to do the same to Kirk when Spock rescued him with the assistance of General Korrd of the Klingon Defense Force.

### Gorkon(2293)

This incident was an early impetus for Spock to consider a more diplomatic role in Starfleet than a scientific one. The following year, when the *Enterprise* ferried a number of Federation diplomats to Starbase 49 for a peace summit with the Klingons, Spock engaged in several conversations with Klingon diplomatic aide Toladal, which further fueled these thoughts.

Then in 2293, at the behest of his father, Spock opened up talks with the Klingon Chancellor, Gorkon, following the destruction of the Klingon moon, *Praxis*. The destruction of *Praxis* had damaged the ozone layer of *Qo'noS*, the Klingon homeworld, and left the Empire incapable of self-sufficiency so long as hostilities with the Federation proceeded. The pair agreed to a summit between the Federation and the Empire on Earth.

Spock volunteered the services of the *Enterprise* on Kirk's behalf to escort the Chancellor and his party to Earth. This last mission under Kirk's command (Kirk had previously announced his retirement) went disastrously wrong when a cloaked *Bird-of-Prey* commanded by the renegade General Chang attacked Gorkon's ship, killing the Chancellor and leaving the blame with Kirk.

Kirk and McCoy were arrested and tried by the Klingons for the Chancellor's assassination and sentenced to life imprisonment at the penal colony of Rura Penthe. Spock disobeyed orders from Starfleet Command to return to Earth and devised a rescue plan.

After the rescue of Kirk and McCoy, Spock discovered that Kirk had been betrayed to the Klingons by Valeris, his own *protegé*. When Valeris refused to divulge the new location of the peace talks, Spock forcibly retrieved the information by establishing a mind-meld with the unwilling Valeris. An action that Valeris never fully recovered from.

Soon afterward at the Khitomer conference, Kirk saved the lives of Klingon Chancellor Azetbur, Federation President Ra-ghoratreii, and uncovered a conspiracy between Chang, Starfleet Admiral Lance Cartwright, and Romulan Ambassador Nanclus to maintain the current state of hostility by assassinating the leaders suing for peace. Kirk was exonerated in the eyes of the Klingons, and a new era began between the two powers. It was here that Spock first met future Romulan Senator Pardek.

### After the *Enterprise-A*

Spock joined the Melpomene Players after the decommissioning of the USS *Enterprise*-A. He was a part of their production of *Romeo and Juliet*. He left the group shortly after a production of *Hamlet* in which he played Polonious in 2293.

After James Kirk's apparent death aboard the USS *Enterprise*-B, Spock gave the eulogy for his friend. In it, he mentioned "returning the favor" due to Kirk having given Spock's eulogy.

In 2294, Spock, while still holding the rank of captain, was transported by the *Victory* to the USS *Enterprise*-B. Captain John Harriman introduced himself to Spock and showed him the James T. Kirk dedication plaque in engineering.

### Command of the Intrepid(2293-2301)

Spock was in command of the the USS *Intrepid-A*, a science vessel. of the Excelsior Class

### Ambassador Spock

After a reunion with David Rabin and a final confrontation with Sered on the planet Obsidian, Spock began to wonder if Starfleet was still the place for him.

Sered had believed that Vulcan and her sundered cousins needed each other, and Spock had come to the realization that he agreed. Except where Sered wanted to unite with the Romulans as conquerors, Spock felt that they must come together as allies, as brethren. Spock resigned his commission in Starfleet, and joined the Federation Diplomatic Corps, with the ultimate goal of bringing together Vulcan and Romulus.It was during this time that Spock first met his long-standing Romulan ally in his quest for reunification, Ruanek.

Spock soon established himself as an Ambassador of great skill, with accomplishments that rivaled even his father's.

In 2320, Spock returned to Talos IV after being summoned to the planet by the Talosians. Having a private shuttle, Spock was able to slip away with a minimum of difficulty this time and reached Talos IV. He arrived in the Talos Star Group to find a drastically altered Talos IV. Instead of a planet with high levels of radiation and a sickly yellow appearance, now Talos IV had a healthy blue color, with radiation levels lower than that of Earth. Spock landed on the surface of the planet to find a rebuilt city. The Magistrate, or Keeper as he was originally known, had shown Spock around, and explained that Pike had recently died. He showed Spock a message Pike had recorded for Spock. Pike asked Spock to convey some of his ashes back to Earth, and to present the Talosians petition to not only repeal General Order 7, but to join the Federation as well. (*TOS* novel: *Burning Dreams*)

In the year 2327, Spock and Sarek had a very public disagreement over how the Federation should shape their policy toward a new race that the Federation had contacted, the Cardassians.

Matters were made worse by Sarek's new wife, Perrin. Spock's mother, Amanda, died in the year 2295 of natural causes. Sarek had left his place at Amanda's deathbed when the Federation contacted him about a diplomatic emergency, knowing that he would never see his wife alive again. Spock had long harbored resentment against his father for this.

In the years that followed Amanda's death, Sarek had found himself to be lonely, and had recently married the much younger Perrin.

Perrin angered Spock, when she drunkenly gave him an ultimatum to apologize to Sarek on the Cardassian issue, or he would no longer be welcome in Sarek's home. Spock responded by saying, "In that case, I shall not trouble you by visiting (Sarek and Perrin's home in) Shi'Kahr again". This began a new rift between Spock and Sarek that would last until Sarek's death in 2368.

Spock's repeated attempts over the years to convince Vulcan to look into the possibility of reunification with the Romulans met with little or no success. In this period he was given numerous, if more mundane, assignments (e.g., to Earth in 2342, to Andor in 2343).

In 2344, Spock successfully negotiated a trade agreement between Vulcan and the reclusive Federation member Oriki.

Shortly after success with the trade agreement and still on Oriki, Spock received a covert communique from Charvanek, a Romulan officer that he had met years ago during the Romulan cloaking device affair of 2269. He left immediately for Romulus, believing that Charvanek would only summon him if the security of both The Federation and the Romulan Star Empire were at stake. When Starfleet found out what Spock had done, Captain Uhura directed Saavik to covertly extract Spock, no matter what his reason for going.

### Romulus and Reunification

In 2368, Spock decided to take his re-unification effort directly to the Romulan people by re-locating himself to Romulus in order to work with Romulus' growing underground movement. This did not mean that he was through with the affairs of the Federation, as he would periodically leave Romulus for brief periods on matters of importance to the Federation.

He later admitted to Picard (working undercover with him) that his "cowboy diplomacy" he used now and in the past was viewed as "arrogant presumption" by his friend, James T. Kirk. Picard for the most part, reminded Spock of that former captain.

In 2371, Spock was part of a group of Romulan dissidents rounded up by Romulan authorities on the world of Constanthus and scheduled for execution. Starfleet dispatched the USS *Enterprise*-D along with Admiral Leonard McCoy in an effort to retrieve the ambassador. Taking it upon himself to mount a rescue was a recent arrival to the 24th century, Montgomery Scott. Scotty commandeered the *Constitution*-class USS *Yorktown* and set off for Romulan space.

The joint rescue efforts ultimately proved successful, and Spock was recovered (exhibiting a brief display of emotion as he materialized on the *Yorktown*'s transporter pads and saw Scotty at the controls) and returned to Federation space. He chose, however, to return to his work on Romulus.

In 2372, Spock received a message on Romulus from Captain Picard, informing him of Captain Kirk's return from the Nexus and subsequent death on Veridian III. Spock soon left Romulus to see the site of his friend's death himself. He crossed the Neutral Zone aboard an Orion transport, and disembarked at Deep Space Station E-5, where he chartered another ship, owned by the Bolian captain Moxx, to take him from there to Veridian III.

While on Veridian III to pay his respects at James Kirk's grave, Spock was intercepted by T'Pring (his former betrothed), who questioned him about his hopes for Romulan/Vulcan reunification. She also returned a brooch that Spock's mother had given her before the wedding that never happened.

In 2373, Spock was called in to consult on the situation in the recently fallen Thallonian Empire. Spock had been in Thallonian space a decade earlier on a fact-finding mission about the reclusive Thallonians. Despite having to cut that mission short (so he could rescue a captured Vulcan woman named Soleta, and see her safely back to Federation space by way of a freighter named *Qualor's Pride*), Spock was still the Federation's greatest, living authority on Thallon, and thus his expertise was needed in the crisis.

During the Dominion War, Spock used what influence he had on Romulus to convince the Romulans that it would be in their own best interests to join in the Federations war effort against the Dominion.

After the end of the war in 2376, Spock and Ambassador Worf were on a shuttlecraft bound for Khitomer and a conference between the Federation, the Klingons, and the Romulans set to try and determine the future direction the Alpha Quadrant powers would take in the coming years, when Spock's consciousness was usurped by an ancient madman named Malkus. Spock had been exposed to one of the four Malkus Artifacts while serving with Kirk, and this made him susceptible to Malkus' influence. After Spock temporarily regained control of his mind, he initiated a mind meld with Worf in order to successfully fight Malkus' influence.

As Starfleet's resources became lean after Dominion War, many former command officers were reactivated to active or reserve service, including Spock. Spock was re-commissioned as an admiral and met briefly with other reactivated officers aboard the USS *Sovereign*, including Admiral Leonard McCoy, Captain Montgomery Scott, and Captain James T. Kirk. The group was instrumental in saving the USS Sovereign that day.

The Borg also attempted to assimilate Admiral Spock in order to stop peace treaty negotiations between the Klingons and Romulans, however the timely intervention of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the USS *Enterprise*-E prevented their success. Even though such an act would have been needless-given the fact that Spock's psyche still resonated fragments from a branch of the Collective-in the form of his old mind-meld with V'Ger's Ilia/probe

## Personal interests

Spock carried a lifelong interest in art, literature, poetry, music (especially the Vulcan lute and the piano), and three-dimensional chess.

## Relationships

### Friendships

#### James T. Kirk

pock presumably first met Kirk when the latter succeeded Christopher Pike as captain of the *Enterprise* in 2265. After the death of Gary Mitchell, Spock's detached and logical analysis was relied on by Kirk as a supplement to his own intuitive and impulsive nature. Their official relationship deepened into a friendship of mutual respect and love that was, without a doubt, the most important relationship of both Spock and Kirk's life. As Edith Keeler observed of Spock's place in the world, "*You? At his side. As if you've always been there and always will.*"

Kirk once described his Vulcan friend as "the noblest half of myself" and declared that Spock's immortal soul "is my responsibility, as surely as if it were my very own." Kirk even told Spock's father that he would never realize how important Spock was to him, and declared that, despite losing the *Enterprise* and his son, had he not tried to rescue his friend, "*the cost would have been my soul.*"

The polywater intoxication that affected the *Enterprise* crew in 2266 led to a difficult encounter between Spock and Kirk. When Spock was urgently required by his commanding officer, an anguished and reflective Spock was found by Kirk, Spock regretting his inability to express love even for his mother. Trying to bring the first officer around to the moment, Kirk slapped him. Spock's reaction was flat and revelatory, "*Jim, when I feel friendship for you, I'm ashamed.*" Struck again, Spock responded in kind, sending Kirk backwards over a table.

Spock was sympathetic to Kirk's plight after the transporter divided the captain's personality into opposite aspects. He referred to his own halves, "submerged... constantly at war with each other." Spock believed that Kirk could survive such a contest intact, and urged him to embrace the part of himself that, seemingly ugly, was crucial to his personality and captaincy.

After Kirk discovered emotional rage was the key to nullifying the effect of the pod plants' spores, his first step in retrieving his crew was to taunt Spock into anger. Anticipating the result of a Vulcan's strength pitted against him, Kirk wielded a pipe for protection. After calling him an "elf with a hyperactive thyroid" and saying he belonged "in the circus, right next to the dog-faced boy," Spock indeed lost control, nearly killing Kirk before regaining control of himself.

In 2267, Spock began his *pon farr* mating cycle, and behaved bizarrely aboard the *Enterprise*. Kirk called Spock "the best first officer in the Fleet" and "an enormous asset to me" as he pled with Spock to explain his actions. When told that taking Spock to Vulcan was against Starfleet orders, Kirk fired back, "*I owe him my life a dozen times over! Isn't that worth a career?*" Joining him on Vulcan for his marriage ceremony, Kirk was drawn into T'Pring's scheme to marry another, and forced to fight Spock to the death. McCoy, knowing Kirk was endangered, faked Kirk's death, and the marriage was not consummated. Spock, despondent that he had murdered his captain, was thrilled at the sight of Kirk alive, exclaiming, "*JIM!*" which McCoy delighted in needling Spock about, once he gained his composure.

Kirk's understanding of Spock had an enormous impact on the parallel mirror universe, visited after a transporter accident in 2267. As Kirk's party prepared to return to their proper universe, Kirk implored the mirror Spock to re-examine his role in the fascistic Terran Empire, insisting, "*One man can make a difference.*" Mirror Spock's consideration of those words led to his rise to dominance and reform of the Empire, with drastic consequences.

When Kirk was trapped in spatial interphase during a rescue operation in Tholian space, Spock ordered the *Enterprise* to maintain its position in an effort to retrieve him, in spite of the danger the Tholians presented and the disruptive nature of the local space. After Kirk's assumed death, Spock and McCoy viewed the "last orders" Kirk had prepared. He urged Spock to use all the Vulcan disciplines at his disposal, tempered with intuitive insight. Kirk believed Spock had the latter qualities, but should they elude him, he was urged to seek out McCoy.

Kirk once commented to Captain Garth that he and Spock were "brothers". Spock merely responded, "*Captain Kirk speaks somewhat figuratively, and with undue emotion, but what he says is logical and I do, in fact, agree with it.*"

When Dr. Janice Lester, a former lover of Kirk's, took over Kirk's body, Spock performed a mind meld on Kirk while he was trapped in Lester's body. Spock believed Kirk was Lester before anyone else, and when Lester as Kirk ordered his execution, he continued to stand by his friend.

At the end of the *Enterprise*'s five-year mission, a period marked by his frequent loss of emotional control, Spock chose to leave Starfleet and his friends, to pursue the *kolinahr* discipline of logic on Vulcan. His return to the *Enterprise* during the *V'ger* threat was a cold event, without acknowledgment of his past friendships. In *V'ger*'s aftermath, Spock finally achieved equilibrium, able to express his friendship for Kirk without the influence of aliens or illness, and notably lacking any threat of physical violence. In 2285, Spock was calmly able to tell Kirk, "*You're my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.*"

Spock's sacrifice of his own life, to save the *Enterprise* from Khan's detonation of the Genesis Device, deeply affected Kirk. At his funeral, Kirk could only bring himself to say of Spock, "*Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... Human.*"

The revelation that Spock's *katra*, his living spirit, survived in the tormented mind of McCoy, led Kirk to risk his career, and in turn, his crew's. He first asked Fleet Admiral Morrow for permission to retrieve Spock's body from the Genesis Planet, to bring it, and McCoy, to Vulcan. Kirk insisted that any chance to save Spock's soul was his responsibility, "*as surely as if it were my very own.*" His request declined, he told his crew, "*the word is No. I am therefore going anyway.*"

With the help of Uhura, Scott, Sulu, and Chekov, Kirk rescued McCoy from confinement and commandeered the *Enterprise* from Earth Spacedock. The renegade mission saw the death of Kirk's ship as well as his son. Finding Spock's body re-animated by Genesis, Kirk brought him and McCoy, to Vulcan for the *fal-tor-pan* (re-fusion) ritual. The first person Spock recognized was Kirk: "*Jim. Your name, is Jim.*"

During their homecoming from Vulcan, and eventually their trip to 1986, Kirk tried to remind the resurrected Spock, suffering from memory loss, of their friendship and past adventures together. After Kirk and the crew's trial, Spock told his father, his "associates" were his friends.

In 2287, Spock accompanied Kirk and McCoy on a camping trip together at Yosemite National Park, which abruptly ended when Spock's half-brother, Sybok, diverted the *Enterprise* to Nimbus III. After their adventure on Sha Ka Ree and Sybok's death, Kirk referred to Spock once again as his "brother", and told him and McCoy that they were his real family.

#### Leonard McCoy

he relationship between Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy seemed a little strained at times on McCoy's part because of his taunts about Spock's green blood and lack of emotion. However, there was an obvious respect and friendship among James T. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. McCoy, in fact, was one of the two friends Spock requested to join him in his marriage ceremony.

#### Christopher Pike

Spock grew very fond of Pike even so far of risking court martial in 2267 to kidnap his disabled former captain and bring him to Talos IV to live a life of illusion and happiness.

### Family

#### Sybok

Sybok, Spock's elder half-brother, encountered Spock on Nimbus III in 2287, shortly before Sybok hijacked the *Enterprise*-A for his quest to find Sha Ka Ree in the Great Barrier. Spock had remained silent on the subject of his brother for decades, not even telling Kirk until Sybok had already taken control of the *Enterprise*. At first, Spock was extremely distant from him, but following Sybok's death, he realized what he had lost.

### Romances

#### T'Pring

At age seven, Spock was bonded to T'Pring in a family-arranged Vulcan ceremony described in Human terms as "*less than a marriage, but more than a betrothal.*"

When Spock experienced his *pon farr* of 2267, he succumbed to the madness of the *plak tow* mating instinct. The *Enterprise* diverted to Vulcan in time to consummate the marriage. Accompanied by Kirk and McCoy, Spock arrived at his family's ancient *koon-ut-kal-if-fee* site for the wedding ceremony officiated by the matriarch T'Pau. Unexpectedly – but within the bounds of Vulcan tradition – T'Pring demanded the challenge of *kal-if-fee*, forcing Spock to earn the right to marry his bride through victory in personal combat. Rather than her prospective consort Stonn, T'Pring chose Kirk as her champion.

Unwilling to appear weak or disrespectful in front of the legendary T'Pau, Kirk agreed to fight his first officer. Between rounds using the *lirpa* and *ahn-woon* weapons, T'Pau belatedly revealed the combat was "to the death," and it became clear that Kirk had little chance against Spock in the throes of his blood fever. McCoy intervened, deceptively dosing Kirk with a drug that simulated his death.

Spock's *plak tow* subsided after his apparent victory. Appalled at the turn of events, Spock calmly questioned T'Pring's decisions. T'Pring admitted her distaste for Spock's growing fame among Vulcans, and her mutual attraction to Stonn. By her logic, choosing Kirk meant neither victor would claim her in the end, and she would have her life with Stonn. Spock acknowledged her way of thinking, referring to it as "flawless". T'Pring, for her part, was honored, but Spock advised Stonn that he would find that "*having... is not so pleasing a thing after all... as wanting*."

After returning to the *Enterprise*, McCoy revealed Kirk's clandestine survival. A rare show of extreme emotion came from Spock when he exclaimed "*JIM!*" with a beaming smile.

#### Zarabeth

When visiting the planet Sarpeidon Spock got trapped in in the planet’ ice age in the past with Dr. McCoy. When there Spock began to act like the Vulcans of that time period and started to act emotional. There he fell madly in love with her. Eventually McCoy realized what was happening and they were eventually able to escape back to their time period without Zarabeth.

### Saavik

Spock and Saavik remained close over the years that followed, with their relationship evolving over the years from mentor/apprentice, to shipmates, colleagues, confidants, friends, and finally something more.

The couple formally announced their betrothal, or engagement, in a formal ceremony on the planet Vulcan in the year 2328. Among the attendees were Ambassador Sarek, Admiral Leonard McCoy and Lieutenant Jean-Luc Picard. The Lady Perrin was not in attendance.

Over the years that followed, Spock's career in diplomacy and Saavik's career in Starfleet kept them from being together for long periods or planning their wedding, but they kept in close contact.

## Personal timeline

 2269-2271
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 2286
 2311
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