How can you tell a Vulcan from a Romulan?

Who played Surak in Star Trek Enterprise?

We ask the man who played many of them for our show!

The Enterprise was home to many great Starfleet characters - Vulcan first officer T'Pol, Romulan first officer Remus, and now in this two-part series from The Trek Movie, TOS' second Vulcan ship captain Surak. Join us as we take an inside look into the role of Surak with his cast mate Michael Dorn (Kirk) as we journey around the US filming this fantastic story and talk to Michael about the cast and crew, what it was like working on Star Trek: Enterprise and what the future holds! Michael Dorn (Kirk): Thank you so much for letting me answer these questions. My pleasure! Michael Dorn (Kirk) - In Star Trek: The Next Generation and on the original series (Star Trek: TOS) the character Lieutenant Ilia was played by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry's daughter. Did you know anything about that? Michael Dorn: I didn't know anything about that! Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (Ilia): The producers didn't tell me about it. So, I never really considered that it was her in any capacity whatsoever.

Michael Dorn: You don't have to. If there was a scene where we had to be kissing, I could see you doing the thing. It's not a bad idea!

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry: Well, you are cute! But no, the way she was portrayed in the TV show, the people who created it did a wonderful job at inventing people, but they didn't feel I was right. They couldn't bring a woman in uniform on the set. So, it was completely invented. You are doing the best you can with what you are given! They put a girl there that looked like me and walked like me! But she couldn't be there because they didn't even give her a name and I wasn't playing a lieutenant. It was just the opposite of what I had known. I couldn't accept what I saw happening. To see the effect that had on people was devastating. People who were born in the 1930s when I was a kid, I loved.

Is Spock related to Surak?

Kirk states "we have to talk about this" right away.

The problem with Kirk is he always talks first and thinks later. Which is exactly why his father was a Captain who had no real time to plan or think about things, so he did it the first thing that came up. If Kirk hadn't been so distracted by Bones yelling at him about how he was going to put him through the Tribble-Strip, he would have seen Spock say "he's one of them." By not thinking a couple steps ahead, the conversation went down to where Kirk's mind could only go. So you can blame him for getting us in this mess. It is what happened next which will cause the disaster that is on the way.

The most important step they take is when James tries to explain the Vulcan logic to both their children. He tells them he has been trying to put together enough data so he can begin to make progress towards finding a way to save everyone on the ship. His data is his brain, as we know (well we just thought it would be something else) and he has been trying to use his logic to put everything together to figure out how to stop the Genesis device from killing the ship.

The question is, why does Spock say what he did? Why did he feel like he had to try to explain why Spock was wrong when he said what he said? It doesn't make sense from a logical point of view, because Spock should be willing to accept that someone who wasn't born on Vulcan would have to try and see if there is any way that they could both live if they got stuck on a spaceship together. He shouldn't have any trouble taking that into consideration. The whole reason Kirk tried to explain why he felt that they needed to stay together is because he was scared. He didn't want to lose Spock in case they ended up in some kind of bad situation, and he was thinking logically he couldn't allow that to happen. But Spock has just said all Spock needed to know for that very reason. If they couldn't possibly get off the ship alive, then there was no reason for them to stay together. There is absolutely no way that Spock could explain to Kirk that they couldn't stay together and therefore be stuck on a dying spaceship is a non-sequitor at best. There is no reason for him to do it.

How can you tell a Vulcan from a Romulan?

This is the question that has been debated for years, but until recently, the answer to it had been fairly easy to figure out.

It's all in the ears: the Romulans had bigger, lower-set ears, while the Vulcans had smaller, higher-set ears. But now, new research has shown that ears are less important than we once thought.

A new study by researchers at the University of Western Ontario has revealed that our ears may not be as important as we think they are. The study's authors, Dr. Michael Chinery and Dr. David Sousa, found that ear shape and placement are not closely related to species identity. While the ears of a Romulan and a Vulcan differ, their placement is similar and so does not determine species identification. Instead, the scientists believe that the ears are a response to the environment in which a species lives.

The researchers tested their hypothesis with several different species of animals and humans. The researchers first looked at various species of bats, including the North American Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus), the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus tatei), and the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus brasiliensis). The scientists then tested a variety of human and non-human primates, including humans, baboons, macaques, chimpanzees, and gorillas. The scientists found that the ears of each of these species are significantly different, but that each ear type is placed similarly on their head. This means that the placement of ears is more of an adaptation to the environment than a reflection of species identity.

In humans, the outer ear is a flap of skin that hangs from the face and covers the external auditory meatus. It contains three tiny bones, or ossicles, that allow the ear to move and bend. These ossicles are attached to a piece of cartilage that is located in the middle of the ear. The cartilage is connected to the eardrum, a thin membrane that vibrates when sound waves enter the ear. Sound waves cause the eardrum to vibrate and make the bones in the ear move.

The researchers tested several different types of ears in a variety of species. The researchers looked at the position of the ear on the head and the placement of the pinna. A pinna is a protrusion of skin that helps the ear to process sound waves.

What is the logic of Surak?

The Logic of Surak is a short, single-chapter story set in the distant future.

This chapter explores what Surak's apparent fallibility means for humans.

The full story. In which we encounter the true villain of the series. The Logic of Surak starts with the introduction of a villain for the first time. There are no spoilers here; you should read it after you've seen the season 1 finale, or at least when it comes out on dvd/blu-ray. What happens next? We get a little more info about the new villain, and about the people he/she has worked with. And we have a few more flashbacks. There is a certain huh? from me as I read this because of how it is written: it just shows you that there is a lot of back story already known to the reader. A bit later in the book, though, Surak himself makes a comment that seems to suggest that Surak knows more than we do about the new villain and their work. If this was written by someone who knew what the new villain would look like and their plans, then this is a nice bit of foreshadowing.

One interesting part of this chapter is that they don't really use any of the information they have from having done that much foreshadowing, for some reason. Also, they don't seem to realise just how much we know about them now. It's not really hard to guess the villain's name, for example, since we have a very good idea of what they are up to already. But they never mention anything other than that one character that we all thought was going to be a main villain, even though it's not a surprise at all. And yet, that only makes sense if we know all the facts about their plot already.

Anyway, back to the plot. We see our protagonist, Cresco, being captured by Surak and the others. Surak has the most important job in this chapter, making a threat to Cresco. Surak says he wants to see Cresco's future.

Cresco, however, thinks Surak is the villain. It's a lie, he insists.