What is the plot of the amok time?

What is the star date for amok time?

This is a question I asked some months ago, and I finally decided to answer it here. If you'd like to skip to the end of the answer, you can scroll down or click here.

A star's mass is its size in diameter times its mass, the latter being a measurement of its density. Stars have a unique unit of time that is called an "amok," a measure of the rate at which its matter is collapsing inwards, and its "age" - or birth time - is a measure of how long it has been in existence.

When it was first noticed that the universe had a beginning in the Big Bang, the question was asked: What is the star date of the birth of the universe? I can't give you an exact value of this, but I will tell you how to work out the age of the universe. The concept of stellar ages is actually older than the Big Bang. It is first mentioned in antiquity, in writings by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy, and is mentioned by the English theologian St Augustine of Hippo in his book The City of God (AD 400).

In modern science, the concept of stellar ages has become most famous in Einstein's theory of General Relativity, and in particular in his equation, which we call "Einstein's equation": Here, g is the universal constant of gravitation, equal to the speed of light divided by its time delay, and r is the distance from a mass such as Earth to the source of gravitation. (If you'd like a clearer explanation of what "r" is, you can read Wikipedia's page on general relativity.)

Because of the term "gravitational redshift", astronomers call the speed of light g/r, instead of 1. In the last few years, many people have thought that perhaps Einstein's equation could also be applied to the time-domain as well as the spatial-domain - to time and length - and thereby give a similar equation in this domain as well. Unfortunately, that is not the case. This question came up again in 2024, when the French physicist Dr Thomas Bucher performed a series of experiments using the Large Hadron Collider and its proton beams.

Did Spock and Nurse Chapel have a relationship?

I've been thinking about this for a while, so I'm a bit surprised that no one has brought it up yet.

I can understand why people don't think it's canon, but my own personal experience is that it's canon, and that's how I feel about it.

Spock has mentioned at least one prior lover in his autobiography, but not who it was. It was clear that he had feelings for Nurse Chapel, but he never mentioned her by name, even in the autobiographies. There are hints that he had some sort of relationship with her, but he didn't name her as his lover or even hint that it was her. So if she wasn't in his autobiography, she must not have been a prior lover, which is what I'm talking about.

I'm not saying that I don't like the idea that Spock and Nurse Chapel had a relationship, I'm just saying that Spock never referred to it by name, and he did refer to at least one prior lover. If there were such a thing, why did he never mention it by name? The whole point of the autobiography is that he talked about everything he could remember about the Enterprise, and he could remember everything about the ship and her crew, but he never named her as a prior lover. To be fair, it's also very possible that he doesn't know.

What is the Vulcan mating ritual called?

The Vulcan mating ritual is referred to as "Kahless-ta'Nyai," or "The Taming of the Bride.

" In the traditional version, the male and female are allowed contact with each other only after the females has been tamed by the males. In the Star Trek mythos, this was never a part of the ritual, with the mating of young Spock and his human girl-mother, Amanda MacNeil, being an interspecies act that occurred when both parties were of the same age. However, in two instances during the Star Trek film series, they did follow the traditional Vulcan mating ritual in several parts.

In "The Changeling" (1947), Lt. Leslie Parrish (Joan Lee) was to be returned to her parents after Kirk brought her back to Vulcan where he suspected she would have been killed had she stayed. In accordance with tradition, a Vulcan was to accompany her back to Earth. However, Parrish didn't want anyone who knew she had a human mother to return her. For that reason, when Spock and Scottie put their heads together for this "Kahless-ta'Nyai," Kirk gave Parrish a chance to change her mind. A Vulcan, Dr. Varos (J. Carrol Naish) was brought into the room at the point of Parrish's hesitation. Naish tells Parrish that her mother (Jean Muir) is dead, something she already knew. To prevent being sent back home with this lie upon her, and knowing it is a lie, Parrish makes a run for Varos' shuttle, Varos after her, with the two pilots in hot pursuit. When Varos gets to the shuttle, but doesn't board because Parrish has locked her door from the outside, we learn this is also an element of the Vulcan mating ritual, which states that only the one she intends to mate is allowed access to the door. In the end, Kirk brings Parrish back to the ship, Spock and Scottie (Tony Curtis) put on their pointy ears to prove to her that they are Vulcan and explain that Vulcan does not believe in lies, only the truth. Thus she will be allowed back on Earth, to say goodbye to her mother, Varos returning with her. But they must do this without looking into one another's eyes, because that would be like committing adultery.