What happens in the episode of Amok Time?

Did Spock have a child?

It's a question that has been asked at least once a year for at least the past decade on various message boards and even some fan forums.

But the question isn't as simple as it seems. It seems like something that should be easy to answer, but Spock was created by Gene Roddenberry to be one of the only characters that was never meant to have children.

He was born without the ability to reproduce. He was going to remain childless until we figured out how to get him in a position to give us a child, writer/producer Ira Steven Behr told Entertainment Weekly back in 2024 when the question first came up.

Behr continued: That idea went out of my head and we moved on to the next story. As you might have guessed, it moved on to the next story led to the series' most beloved character's having a child. But here's what I'm wondering: How does one explain the whole Spock/B'elanna thing? This is the thing: For most of his existence, Spock was shown to be asexual. This was something that Roddenberry had originally planned for Spock all along. In fact, the question is asked in a way that suggests it was a deliberate decision.

In The Changeling (the second episode of the second season), Spock says: I am not a man or a woman. I am neither male nor female. Nor am I both.

In Journey to Babel (the fifth episode of the second season), he tells McCoy: I am neither male nor female. My physical and emotional make-up is so unique that I have no identity on Vulcan or anywhere else.

To me, it seems that these things are being said deliberately by the writers in an attempt to explain to the audience how Spock fits into their relationship. So if Spock really is asexual, how does he come to be involved with B'elanna? The real question is how he becomes involved with her and not just with her, but it's been a recurring theme throughout the show.

What happens in the episode of Amok Time?

Who decides how it ends?

This week's Amok Time episode opens on a familiar sight for fans of British TV comedies: the end credits begin before the end of the show. It sounds a little like a cheap effect, so when it shows its hand, it's clear it hasn't been paying attention. (Yes, I am using that awful phrase. No, I don't apologise.) The thing is, you could very well be forgiven for noticing what it does in this case. Because the opening sequence here is rather different than we are used to in British comedy. As far as we are aware, there has never been an Amok Time ending credits sequence which starts in the middle of the programme and then fades to black just before the end of the episode - which means no one here is watching as they fade. There may be spoilers for those of you wanting to watch Amok Time before all the episodes on BBC iPlayer, but let me explain.

Amok Time is about the end of the year for a group of British expats on the African island of Bula, where people don't have a lot of money. These expats are spending their winter vacation doing everything together. They meet at a club and they talk to each other about nothing very much except the usual 'how do you deal with the things your life throws at you'. This is done over the course of an evening, so that they each know each other better. When they depart, they don't actually leave the island - their island-mates go about their holiday while they stay around as their guests. (The idea seems to be based on something like How I Met Your Mother.) This is a world where the main problem isn't that they have too little money, it's that when they try to run up their credit cards, you can never get a signal on the beach. The result is that the show seems to run for quite a long time - but it actually doesn't.

Here's a clip from the episode in question. When you click on it, this is what it plays back at you: The sequence is clearly going somewhere. It's a kind of slow-motion shot of the bar and there are some characters standing around.

Why did Spock not marry T pring?

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, when they go to the future, after leaving on a time ship for 4 years, and the USS Enterprise is a wreck, and they are in this alternate reality, their future selves are still married.

When they were on the planet, they were on the run, but because they are in the future, they are in the same situation, and still married. So why didn't Spock, as he went to his death at the hands of the Romulans, get back to his wife, who was now a widowed widower, instead of just waiting for Kirk to come back? If I am correct, he did something that, since the start of TNG, has not happened. He got back to the Enterprise, and told them he was leaving, then they said that they were not ready, then he left. Why did he wait until then to return?

Because Spock was trying to keep the crew alive and keep them from getting back to Earth. This whole thing starts out as a rescue mission - the Enterprise comes to save the away team. They don't even know that the planet is inhabited. Spock was attempting to keep the crew safe. He knew that they had to go back home, but the crew wasn't ready to go. At the time, it was the best thing to do - go back home, figure out what to do about the problems with the timeline, then come back to try to save the crew. If Spock had gone home without them, they would have been killed in the ambush, or left to die during the explosion.

Even when they go back to the planet, Spock doesn't even tell them about his plan to go home. In fact, Spock seems surprised that the Enterprise is on its way to Earth, and then when they finally get back to the Enterprise, they're pretty much all asleep. The most we see of the ship, really, is the view from the transporter. This goes on for nearly an hour. If Spock had gone home, Kirk could have easily come back and saved the day.

At the time of the story, Spock had not yet decided what to do. He'd just discovered that they're going to destroy a planet. He could have done any number of things - he could have told them everything and taken the ship home.

What is Pon Farr in Vulcan?

I just got my Vulcan and read the first couple of chapters, and then I'm really confused about one thing: In the book, Spock tells Kirk that Pon Farr is a time when they meet their future selves.

Why do the future Spock and future Kirk go through Pon Farr? As much as I can remember, it's some sort of test where the first Vulcan to find the planet is granted powers and ability to bring about peace on Vulcan. Which was what Spock was doing when he met his future self.

Or at least that's what I recall from the book. I think I'm just going to have to wait for the next installment of the series to find out, as well. Re: ? If I recall correctly, the Pon Farr is a race of beings with an ability to travel through time. It is like the "Grand Canyon" of time travel, so to speak. But, while we humans are pretty good at traveling through time, the Pon Farr are able to travel thousands of years in the future and thousands of years in the past. So, the Pon Farr could be considered "Time travelers." They can go anywhere, anytime, and see anything, but they don't really know why they do this or how they do this.

It makes sense to me that Spock would be one of the first of his kind to discover the Pon Farr. However, it seems that the Pon Farr are not only good at traveling through time, but good at creating time. If we consider Kirk's life to be a "time", then that makes sense to me, too. He may be the first human to find the Pon Farr. In that case, he would have been traveling through time for the first time and discovered this new way of traveling.

This idea makes sense to me. The fact that the entire story is set on board the Enterprise is interesting to me. The crew of the Enterprise has been through many different adventures. Perhaps the Pon Farr discovered the Enterprise and decided to come on board the Enterprise because of all of the drama the Enterprise had brought to its passengers. The Pon Farr decide to help out and act as a judge and jury of their own culture. I like this idea.

A third member of the crew has the ability to travel through time.

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