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Published Jan 25, 2023

Amanda Grayson is Star Trek's Greatest Mom

It's only logical we recognize Spock and Burnham's mom on Mia Kirshner's birthday.

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In celebration of Star Trek: Discovery 's Mia Kirshner 's birthday, it's only logical that we take a moment to recognize Star Trek 's greatest and most memorable mom.

Mr. Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson , is the human teacher who married the Vulcan ambassador Sarek and, not long after, gave birth to everyone’s favorite half-human/half-Vulcan.

The character was first played by Jane Wyatt in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “ Journey to Babel .” Wyatt was a perfect choice for the role, as she’d already been, in a way, America’s mother for years, having portrayed the beloved Margaret Anderson on the classic TV sitcom Father Knows Best .

Years later, Leonard Nimoy famously reunited the Vulcan family when he, Mark Lenard (Sarek) and Wyatt appeared in Star Trek IV: T he Voyage Home . Wyatt once again imbued Amanda with a sense of warmth and love as she guided Spock toward reclaiming his humanness following his demise and renaissance on the Genesis Planet.

During an interview she conducted years ago, Wyatt commented on Amanda Grayson’s enduring impact on her career and people in general. “The three big movies or shows for which I get fan mail are Star Trek , Father Knows Best and Lost Horizon ,” she said. “But Star Trek is the oddest of them all. Complete strangers come up and call me ‘Amanda.’ Once I got off the plane in Iceland, where I was going fishing, and somebody down below yelled ‘Amanda!’ Well, I didn’t know who Amanda was until I realized that was my name in Star Trek . It’s absolutely crazy!”

“Journey to Babel” and The Voyage Home marked Wyatt’s only appearances as Amanda, but the character turned up in and was referenced in other media, and was essayed by several other actresses.

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry voiced Amanda for the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode “Yesteryear,” while Cynthia Blaise portrayed a younger version of Amanda in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier .

Of course, Winona Ryder played a doomed version of the character in Star Trek (2009) . In the film's production notes, Zachary Quinto, who plays the Kelvin Timeline's Spock, shared, "Winona brought a real tenderness to the role and she really highlights the juxtaposition between her heartfelt way of being and Sarek's logic."

Most recently, Mia Kirshner appears as Amanda Grayson, Spock and his adopted sister Michael Burnham's mother, on Star Trek: Discovery . With her portrayal in Discovery , Kirshner demonstrates Amanda's determination, strength, and the lengths she will go in order to protect and care for her family.

OK, now it’s your turn. Do you agree with us that Amanda Grayson is Star Trek ’s greatest mom? We're sure we'll hear support for Lwaxana Troi, the Horta, Dr. Crusher, Moogie, B'Elanna Torres and Carol Marcus, among others. So, bring it on!

This article was originally published on May 7, 2011.

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Amanda Grayson was a teacher and the second wife of Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan . She was the mother of Spock . ( TOS : " The Corbomite Maneuver ", " This Side of Paradise ", " Journey to Babel ", TAS : " Yesteryear ", Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , DIS : " Lethe ", " The Wolf Inside ", " Will You Take My Hand? ", " Brother ", " Point of Light ", et al.)

Sarek would, years later, respond that the reason for his and Amanda's marrying was "At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do." ("Journey to Babel") Spock's conception, in some continuities, was accidental. (" It Seemed the Logical Thing ") However, given the different anatomies of humans and Vulcans (especially the circulatory systems), medical intervention was required to bring the pregnancy to full term. ( TOS novel: The Vulcan Academy Murders , TOS novel: The IDIC Epidemic )

In 2232 , Amanda and Sarek were in a spaceport lounge with the then-toddler Spock. Also waiting in the lounge were the young Montgomery Scott (age 10) and Leonard McCoy (5), who were each by themselves. Amanda offered Scott and McCoy energy bars; Scott, too prideful, politely refused, while McCoy thanked her profusely. No one introduced themselves, though, and it's probable that none of them would recall the incident years later. ( Arc of the Wolf : Distant Horizons : "Wait")

In the late 2230s , Amanda and Sarek were on Earth for a conference between representatives of the Federation and the Klingon Empire . She reacted protectively when she found Spock playing chess with Krenn, a Klingon captain . ( TOS novel: The Final Reflection )

During the 18 years that Sarek and Spock did not speak, Amanda would speak to her son on behalf of Sarek. ( TOS novel: Vulcan's Glory ) Decades after her marriage to Sarek, Amanda opined to James T. Kirk that the Vulcan way of behaving was "better than [that of humans]." ("Journey to Babel")

Beginning in the 2270s until her death in 2293 , Amanda corresponded with Lauren Chapel, the mother of Christine Chapel . (" Reliquary: The Letters ")

After Spock's katra was reunited with his new body in 2286 via the fal-tor-pan , Amanda monitored the process of his re-acclimation and re-education. ( Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home )

• 1.1 TAS : "Yesteryear"
• 1.2 TOS novel: Crucible trilogy: The Fire and the Rose
• 1.3 TOS novel: Ishmael
• 1.4 TOS novel: Planet of Judgment
• 1.5 Star Trek
• 2.1 Orion Press
• 2.2 "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
• 3 External links

Other continuities [ ]

Tas : " yesteryear " [ ].

In a continuum where Spock died during the kahs-wan as a child, age 7, Amanda Grayson and Sarek separated. She later died in an accident at Lunaport .

TOS novel: Crucible trilogy: The Fire and the Rose [ ]

Amanda Grayson expected to celebrate her 100th birthday in 2311 , which meant that she was born in 2211 . However, she died in a shuttle accident en route back to Vulcan from Earth.

TOS novel: Ishmael [ ]

Amanda Grayson's middle name was Stemple, and she was originally from Seattle , Washington . She was a descendant of Aaron Stemple .

TOS novel: Planet of Judgment [ ]

Amanda Grayson was originally from a megalopolis, Minneapolis-St.Paul-Hennepin , and had a sister named Doris. On a visit to her home city, Doris's sons, Jimmy and Lester, falsely blamed Spock for the disassembly of a television. Amanda and Spock left soon after the incident.

Star Trek [ ]

Amanda Grayson was killed during the destruction of Vulcan in 2258 .

Orion Press [ ]

Amanda Grayson was born in 2210 to Alfred and Nellie Grayson. A child prodigy, she studied linguistics in Oxford , England, at age 15. By the age of 19 in 2229 , Grayson had received a doctorate in linguistics and worked at the Vulcan embassy in San Francisco , where her job was to teach the staff idiomatic English.

Grayson often escorted the ambassador to many state functions and taught the embassy staff how to waltz. ( Orion Press : "The Logical Choice", "A Family Holiday Surprise")

Sarek and Amanda were married in September 2229. About ten years later, she learned of Sybok 's existence when the child moved in with them.

About 2239 , Grayson began teaching linguistics at the Vulcan Science Academy . Later that year, Sarek was assigned to Earth. ("A Family Holiday Surprise")

Amanda Grayson died in 2295 .

("The Logical Choice", "It Isn't Logical", "A Family Holiday Surprise", The Day They All Came Home , "Reminiscing", In the Line of Duty , Insanity's Child , Until the End of Time )

" The Garden of Earthly Delights " [ ]

In this short story, by Claire Gabriel, Amanda was the daughter of Commodore Robert Grayson and his wife, Madeline. ( "The Garden of Earthly Delights" )

External links [ ]

• Amanda Grayson article at Memory Alpha , the canon Star Trek wiki.
• Amanda Grayson article at Memory Beta , the non-canon Star Trek wiki.
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• 3 Wesley Crusher

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Amanda Grayson

• 1.1 Early life
• 1.2.1 Sarek
• 1.2.2 Crucible
• 1.3 Alternate timelines
• 2.1 Background
• 2.2 External link

Biography [ ]

Early life [ ].

She was a descendant of the 19th century Seattle landowner Aaron Stemple . Klingon agents were sent back in time to 1867 to assassinate Stemple in the hope of altering the future but they were prevented from doing so by Spock. ( TOS novel : Ishmael )

Her other ancestors included Jeremy and Dora Grayson . ( TOS novel : Strangers from the Sky )

Amanda had a sister named Doris , and two nephews, Jimmy and Lester . ( TOS novel : Planet of Judgment )

Dyslexia ran in the Grayson family, and Spock inherited the genetic predisposition to the condition through his mother. As a result he developed the Vulcan condition L'tak Terai as a child. Realizing this, Amanda worked with Spock to help him overcome his learning disability. ( DSC episode : " Light and Shadows ")

In 2229 , she met the Vulcan Ambassador , Sarek , and the two were soon married. Following the marriage, Amanda and Sarek set up home in the city of ShiKahr on Vulcan , and in 2230 their son, Spock , was born, with the genetic assistance of pioneering team Sorel and Daniel Corrigan . They were later instrumental in curing Amanda of a deadly disease. ( TOS novels : Ishmael , Demons , Spock's World , The Vulcan Academy Murders , The IDIC Epidemic )

During this time, she also became a foster parent to Michael Burnham after her parents were killed during a attack on Doctari Alpha . Amanda would often read Alice in Wonderland to Burnham and Spock. She later gave a copy to Burnham, who would keep it with her well into the 2250s aboard the USS Discovery . ( DSC episode : " Context Is for Kings ")

In 2268 , when Spock asked his father why he had married Amanda, Sarek responded that he seemed to be the logical thing to do. ( TOS episode : " Journey to Babel "). Some years later, Spock pressed the issue, telling Sarek that "we are not are not teasing Mother now. I want to know why you chose an Earthwoman." Sarek replied, "I did not. I chose Amanda, who happens to be an Earthwoman." The Vulcan Academy Murders

Amanda in 2237

In Vulcan society, she was referred to as "the Lady Amanda." ( TAS episode : " Yesteryear ") Her title was “ T’Sai Amanda, Aduna Sarek” (roughly translating to “the Lady Amanda, Life Partner of Sarek” in English ). ( TOS novel : Vulcan’s Glory ) Her married name was considered unpronounceable by Humans. However, she managed to do so "after a fashion, and with many years of practice."

Amanda was very fond of the works of Lewis Carroll and would often read Alice in Wonderland to Spock during his childhood. ( TAS episode : " Once Upon a Time ")

In 2266 , Spock told Captain James T. Kirk that his mother "considered herself a very fortunate Earth woman" because of her marriage to Sarek. ( TOS episode : " The Corbomite Maneuver ")

While suffering from polywater intoxication later that year, Spock regretted that he could never tell his mother that he loved her. ( TOS episode : " The Naked Time ")

In 2268, she accompanied Sarek to the USS Enterprise , of which her son was the first officer , during the Babel Conference . She sought to heal the long standing rift between Spock and Sarek, which had developed following the former's decision to attend Starfleet Academy rather than the Vulcan Science Academy in 2249 . While aboard the Enterprise , Sarek suffered a second heart attack and required an infusion of T-negative blood from Spock. However, given that Kirk had been stabbed by an Orion spy and was relegated to sickbay , Spock assumed command of the Enterprise and told his mother that he would not submit himself for surgery. She slapped him and told him that she would never forgive him if he allowed his father to die. After Kirk was able to fool Spock into thinking that he had recovered, the surgery went ahead and Sarek survived. Their relationship was considerably improved as a result. ( TOS episode : " Journey to Babel ")

Learning of her son's apparent death on the Enterprise , it was Amanda who convinced Sarek to travel to Earth to determine if Spock had been able to successfully transfer his katra to another individual. Even though Sarek thought it unlikely that Spock had been able to transfer his katra given the circumstances Kirk described, he agreed to Amanda's request that he to go to Earth and talk to Kirk. ( TOS novel : Sarek )

Following Spock's death and resurrection on the Genesis Planet and the successful refusion of his body and katra through the fal-tor-pan ceremony in 2286 , Amanda took it upon herself to re-educate him about his Human half. He did not initially understand the question "How do you feel?" but, after being reminded of the meaning of humanity and companionship by his crewmates, Spock asked Sarek to tell his mother that he felt fine. ( TOS movies : Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home )

Amanda died sometime prior to 2366 , at which time Sarek had been remarried, to Perrin .

Towards the end of his life, Sarek began to suffer Bendii syndrome , severely affecting his ability to suppress his emotions. He regretted that he had never told her how much he loved her. ( TNG episode : " Sarek ")

Amanda died in 2293 of Reyerson's disease whilst Sarek was unwillingly forced to continue his ambassadorial duties. ( TOS novel : Sarek )

Crucible [ ]

2297 saw the publishing of a book that Amanda had written titled Love and Logic . ( ST reference : Federation: The First 150 Years )

In 2311 , the Primrose Gallery in Paris hosted an exhibition of artworks by Amanda Grayson. She traveled to Earth for the show; however, on her return to Vulcan, the shuttle that she was traveling on suffered a total systems failure and exploded. ( TOS - Crucible novel : The Fire and the Rose )

Alternate timelines [ ]

In an alternate timeline in which John Frederick Paxton destroyed Starfleet Command and ended the talks for the Coalition of Planets in 2155 , Grayson held a Ph.D. in history, and served as history department chair at Berkeley in 2264 . That year, she invited Lady T'Pol of Vulcan , the last surviving crewmember of the Enterprise (NX-01) , to lecture at the university. ( TOS - Myriad Universes novel : A Less Perfect Union )

In another alternate timeline, Grayson was killed in a shuttlecraft accident at Lunaport on her way back to Earth in 2237 . She and her husband Sarek had separated shortly beforehand, following the death of their seven-year-old son Spock during the Kahs-wan ritual on the 20th day of Tasmeen in the Vulcan year of 8877 (the Earth year 2237). Sarek did not remarry after her death. ( TAS episode : " Yesteryear ", TOS - Myriad Universes novel : The Chimes at Midnight )

Appendices [ ]

Background [ ].

Amanda appears in the 2009 film Star Trek . This is the first onscreen, live-action appearance of her last name, Grayson (established in TAS episode : " Yesteryear "). Spock tells her that he is considering undergoing kolinahr ; however, he is conflicted about this, reassuring his mother that a decision to live free of emotion does not mean he thinks any less of her. Amanda says that whatever Spock decides to do, he will always have a proud mother. (Earlier scenes with a younger Amanda and Sarek, and infant Spock, were cut from the film but still seen in the previews.)

External link [ ]

• Amanda Grayson article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
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• 3 Wesley Crusher

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The many faces of Amanda Grayson

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For a character that has only appeared in one Star Trek episode and (briefly) in two movies prior to Star Trek: Discovery , Amanda Grayson has had an outsized impact on the Trek universe. She presents herself as a dutiful wife to her husband Sarek and a devoted mother to her son, Spock. But underneath that meek exterior, there is a will of fire and steel, and a determination to do right by her family. Her portrayal on screen has been rocky and flat at times, but thanks to Mia Kirshner and the Star Trek: Discovery writers, she’s finally becoming important in her own right, rather than because of who she’s connected to.

Amanda was first introduced to the screen in The Original Series episode “Journey to Babel,” where she was played by Jane Wyatt. “Journey to Babel” revealed quite a bit about Spock’s history, as it centered on his strained relationship with his father, Sarek. In the episode, Ambassador Sarek boards the Enterprise with his wife, Amanda, but refuses to speak to his son because of their estrangement over Spock’s decision to enter Starfleet instead of the Vulcan Science Academy.

Credit: CBS

This performance set the stage for Amanda, though her subsequent portrayals are much flatter. In “Journey to Babel,” she’s very good at being who she needs to be, depending on the occasion, and displays a sparkling wit and feisty personality that’s often missing later. As a result, Amanda’s role is often relegated to a supportive wife and nurturing mother; while there’s nothing wrong with being either of those things, it’s hardly a full portrayal of a three-dimensional character with her own motivations and ability to make decisions.

We don’t see Amanda again until J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot. While she’s played by the exquisite Winona Ryder, she doesn’t have much to do except to show the audience she loves her son and then dies, setting the course for Spock’s development over the movie. It’s a criminal underuse of such a great actress.

Credit: Paramount

Amanda arrives on the Discovery after stealing Spock’s medical file from Starbase 5. That, in and of itself, sets the stage for this fantastic performance that adds depth to the character that’s been missing across her franchise portrayal. If we know anything about Amanda, we know that she’s a caring mother. But Kirshner showed us just how far Amanda would be willing to go to protect her son. She has an iron will and an almost Vulcan stubbornness, and she’s willing to use it to figure out what happened to Spock.

At the end of the episode, Amanda discovers that Michael wounded her son in order to protect him. And what she does after she finds out is telling: She gives Michael a kiss and then leaves, saying she’ll find Spock herself. Amanda still loves her adopted daughter, but she doesn’t trust her to do what’s best for her brother, given past decisions. The coldness that Amanda displays is deep. It’s a rift that will need to be mended, for sure, but the kiss signals that Amanda still loves her daughter and will fight for her family.

Credit: Jan Thijs/CBS

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Who Plays Spock's Mother On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?

Amanda Grayson, the human mother of the half-Vulcan science officer Spock, has appeared in several different "Star Trek" properties since Emmy Award winner Jane Wyatt first played the character in the original series in 1967. From the "First Lady of Star Trek," Majel Barrett, voicing her in "Star Trek: The Animated Series" to two-time Academy Award nominee Winona Ryder's portrayal in the 2009 film "Star Trek,"  no matter where Spock ends up in the franchise, his mother is bound to show up sooner or later, and Ethan Peck's take on the mind-melding persona from "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is no exception.

In Season 2, Episode 5 ("Charades"), after being pulled into a mysterious anomaly, Spock finds himself waking up in sickbay with his logic-loving Vulcan half gone, leaving him riddled with illogical emotions as a full-fledged human. The timing couldn't be worse, as the ceremonial engagement meal, or V'Shal dinner, where Spock needs to impress his future in-laws, can no longer be postponed. Luckily, Spock has his mother, played by Mia Kirshner, who teaches him about his human side, mainly how to lie, and plays a crucial role in helping him pull off pretending nothing is wrong. Even though they make it through the ordeal, when Kirshner's motherly persona is disrespected, Spock comes clean and defends her, which brings the two closer together.

Before Amanda educated her son on his human heritage in "Strange New Worlds," Kirshner played the role of Spock's mother and the foster mother of Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in eight episodes of "Star Trek: Discovery." While she has had plenty of "Star Trek" experience, Amanda Grayson is far from the only credit on the actor's resume.

Where fans have seen Mia Kirshner before she played Amanda Grayson

Prior to playing Spock's mother in two popular "Star Trek" shows, Mia Kirshner took on a wide range of roles that people probably recognize. Some highlights include "24," "The Vampire Diaries," and "Defiance." She also had a rewarding experience playing the persona that fans loved to hate, Jenny Schecter, in 70 episodes of "The L Word." The actor said of the show to  Afterellen.com , "In retrospect, in spite of some of the weirdness with the storylines, particularly with my character, it was wonderful. Showtime gave us a lot of freedom, and I realize how rare that is, and how lucky we were to have those jobs." 

In addition to her small-screen efforts, the actor has done a number of movies, like "Not Another Teen Movie," "The Crow: City of Angels," and "30 Days of Night: Dark Days." She even received praise for her performance in the 2006 Brian De Palma film "The Black Dahlia." Mick LaSalle wrote in his review for SFGate , "Mia Kirshner, who plays the Dahlia, is seen only in audition and stage footage, but she makes a real impression of the Dahlia as a sad, lonely dreamer, a pathetic figure."

When choosing which parts to play, Kirshner employs a simple yet reasonable strategy. "Usually, I choose characters that are completely different from me, and of course, it really comes down to the director and the writing," the actor said in an interview with  Filmsactu.com . Her efforts and careful planning have resulted in a fascinating array of credits, which includes Amanda Grayson in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."

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Star Trek: Discovery — Who is Amanda Grayson?

Who is Amanda Grayson? Everything you definitely don’t know about Spock and Michael Burnham’s mom in Star Trek.

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Warning: This Star Trek: Discovery articles contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 7: “Light and Shadows.”

In Star Trek: Discovery , we’ve gotten to know the character of Amanda Grayson a whole lot better than we ever did in either  The Original Series or any of the films. Famously introduced in 1967 episode “Journey to Babel,” Amanda (as played by Jane Wyatt) was seemingly just as steady and smart as her husband Sarek and her son Spock.

In Discovery , we’re learning exactly why Amanda is so badass, and also, why she’s a great mom. Mia Kirshner’s version of Amanda is giving new dimension to the character, but to be, fair, the depth of Amanda has been there since the beginning, and, in some cases, lurking in tantalizing apocrypha of Star Trek  lore.

The origin of the character.

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For starters, its relevant to remember that Amanda was created by a woman. The writer of “Journey to Babel,” was D.C. (Dorothy) Fontana, a script editor on the original Star Trek , who is probably responsible for much more of the foundation of Trek canon than most fans might know.

In addition to “Journey to Babel,” Fontana wrote (or co-wrote) the following Original Series episodes: “Charlie X,” “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” “This Side of Paradise,” “Friday’s Child,” “By Any Other Name,” “The Ultimate Computer,” and “The Enterprise Incident” Fontana also used the pseudonym of “Michael Richards” for the scripts “That Which Survives”  and “The Way to Eden.” Further, it was Fontana who did one of the uncredited re-writes on Harlan Ellison’s “The City on the Edge of Forever,” which made it into the episode we know today.

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Past that, Fontana was the de facto showrunner of The Animated Series , wrote tons of Star Trek novels, as well as the Deep Space Nine episode “Dax.” Why bring this all up? Well, because, in many ways, Fontana was the the mother of Star Trek , in the same way Amanda is the mother of Spock and Michael. When I talked to Fontana in 2016, she told me that her goal as a writer on Trek was: “To do stories that had strength, emotional content, and stories that would live.” This sentiment certainly applies to everything we know about the character of Amanda Grayson.

Fontana’s contributions to the Amanda Grayson character are most evident in her very first appearances in Trek canon—in “Journey to Babel,” but also in The Animated Series episode “Yesteryear.” In those episodes, we can see that Amanda actively pushes back against Sarek’s stoicism relative to letting Spock act a little more human.

In those two episodes, Amanda does this with a kind of wink and a smile, but Discovery is showing us some of the out-in-the-open conflict behind all of that. In “Light and Shadows,” Amanda clashes with Sarek, and, to an extent, with Michael, out of protectiveness for Spock (Ethan Peck). Some of his is suggestive of Amanda’s guilt about giving Spock mixed message about his heritage, which is also subtly referenced in the 2009 reboot movie.

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In that film, Amanda was played by Winona Ryder, who tells Spock (Zachary Quinto) that she will be proud of him no matter which path he chooses. This is relevant because, in that movie, we see Spock choose his mother over his father when the Vulcan Science Academy openly disses Amanda, referring to her existence as Spock’s “disadvantage.” This scene, as well as literally every other Trek episode with Sarek, subtly suggests that Amanda is not only the victim of interspecies racism, but sexism, too.

Why the hell would Amanda choose to marry a Vulcan? 

The non-canon novel, The Vulcan Academy Murders , written by Jean Lorrah in 1984 might provide an answer to this question—one that is not raised as frequently as the question of why Sarek would marry a human.

In the book, the Enterprise goes back to Vulcan to find that Amanda is being treated for some crazy form of space sickness. Throughout the course of the book, we learn the origin story of how Sarek and Amanda met, which is mostly connected to Amanda being a translator for the Federation.

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In some ways, Amanda is exactly like Michael Burnham: deeply interested and sympathetic to other non-human species. While Michael is a xenoanthropologist, Amanda is a translator, infinitely curious as to what other cultures have to offer. This novel also offers another interesting tidbit, which, could effectively explain why Amanda can look so young in Discovery  and considerably older in “Journey to Babel,” which is only about a decade in Discovery ’s future.

In Lorrah’s book, the medical treatment that Amanda undergoes for her space sickness has an interesting side effect: it make her look 20 years younger. This prescient detail from Lorrah is seemingly in the book to help explain how a human like Amanda could keep up with a Vulcan lifespan. But, the cool thing now is that it also neatly explains how Amanda can look like Mia Kirshner, Winona Ryder, and Jane Wyatt and have it all be perfectly canonical.

She might be related to Sherlock Holmes & Irene Adler.

Here’s one other thing no one talks about when they talk about the character of Amanda Grayson: she could be related to the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle characters of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. And, when I say “related,” I mean, literally.

In writing about the connections between Sherlock Holmes and science fiction, Nicholas Meyer (the director of Star Trek II and Star Trek  VI ) told me that you could make a literal connection between Amanda’s family history and that of Sherlock Holmes.

In The Undiscovered Country , Spock quotes Holmes, but prefaces the quote as coming from “an ancestor of mine.” So, Amanda is either related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  or Sherlock Holmes. But, as Meyer told me, it’s more fun to think of Amanda being a descendant of Sherlock Holmes, and that’s because when I pressed him about this connection for my essay “Baker Streets on Infinite Earths,” Meyer said that, if the Spock/Holmes connection is literal, that means the other maternal human ancestor is “Of course, Irene Adler.”

For Holmes fans, Irene Adler is the pseudo-love interest of Sherlock Holmes from the short story “A Scandal in Bohemia.” In the story, Adler is the only person who stands up to Sherlock Holmes, much like Amanda Grayson seems to be the only person who seems to stand up to Sarek.

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In this season of Star Trek: Discovery , we also see Amanda actively solving the mystery of where Spock his hiding, and doing whatever it takes — including stealing important documents — to make it happen. This means that Nick Meyer’s assertion that Spock’s mom has the blood of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler running through her veins is suddenly all the more viable.

As a Star Trek character, Amanda combines the best of what fans love about this fictional universe. She’s rational, tenacious, but also full of love. In fact, D.C. Fontana once said that she choose the name of “Amanda,” because one of the meanings of the word is “worthy of being loved.” For Michael and Spock — and for Trek fans everywhere right now — Amanda Grayson is more worthy of being loved than ever before.

Ryan Britt  is the author of the book  Luke Skywalker Can’t Read and Other Geeky Truths  (Plume/Penguin Random House). You can find more of his work  here .

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Who played Amanda Grayson on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?’

Warning: The article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds .

In last week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , the character of Amanda Grayson returned, and made quite an impact on fans.

Amanda Grayson first appeared in the 1967 original Star Trek episode “ Journey to Babel ,” where she was played by the Emmy award-winning actor Jane Wyatt, who would go on to portray the character again in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home .

Amanda is a human living on Vulcan, and mother of the legendary Starfleet officer Spock. She faces countless challenges as a human member of Vulcan society, which shuns displays of outward emotion or affection.

As with many elements of the original series – including Spock himself – the character of Amanda Grayson returned in the prequel series Star Trek: Discovery . Since then, Amanda has been played by Canadian actor Mia Kirshner , best known for her roles as Jenny in The L Word , Mandy in 24 , and Isobel in The Vampire Diaries . Kirshner first appeared as the character in Discovery ‘s “Lethe,” and then went on to feature prominently in the show’s second season.

Her latest appearance in Strange New Worlds had her attempting to guide Spock through a complicated Vulcan pre-marriage ritual, exacerbated by Spock suddenly losing his Vulcan half due to the intervention of strange aliens. This left him without his usual self-control, and forced him to rely on his mother’s experience with navigating Vulcan social norms as a human. The deep bond between her and Spock was the highlight of the episode.

Outside of acting, Kirshner has published the book I Live Here , which compiles the life stories of four groups of refugees from Chechnya, Juárez, Burma, and Malawi. Kirshner was also invited by MIT to run a four-week course based around the book’s content.

With the character’s return in Strange New Worlds so warmly received, it’s likely she may appear again in future.

Sarek (TOS)

Sarek is Spock's father in the Star Trek franchise. He is introduced in the original series episode "Journey to Babel" and later appears in three of the films and two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation . He is played by the late Mark Lenard .

The character returned in Seasons One and Two of Star Trek: Discovery , now played by James Frain .

Canon Background

See Sarek's entry on Memory Alpha for more details.

Sarek is the Vulcan ambassador to Earth during the original series and has married Amanda Grayson , a human woman, ostensibly because "it seemed the logical thing to do." They have one child together, Spock. Fans have long speculated as to the true nature of their relationship, but the most recent film definitively states that it was a love match.

Sarek has a strained relationship with Spock; they were estranged following Spock's decision to join Starfleet, but even after their reconciliation in "Journey to Babel", their onscreen moments together look awkward (or just really Vulcan?).

Sarek dies in the TNG era of a Vulcan equivalent to Alzheimer's disease.

Sarek is almost always paired with his wife, Amanda Grayson . See Sarek/Amanda .

Examples of Sarek in Fan Fiction

• "It Seemed The Logical Thing", short story by Ruth Berman published in T-Negative #9 begins "You're what? " "You heard me."
• "Let Me Count the Ways", fan novella by Judith Brownlee published in Eridani Triad #2, about Sarek and Amanda's marriage
• The Night of the Twin Moons , early influential zine novel by Jean Lorrah about Sarek and Amanda
• Jean Lorrah's Sarek Collection

Examples of Sarek in Fan Art

from Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards (1976)

from Daring Attempt #4, Vel Jaeger

from The Other Side of Paradise #2, V.M. Wyman

by Mary Stacy

from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #20 by Kathi Lynn Higley

Art from Nova Trek by Beverly Chick (1990)

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All 6 Actors Who Played Spock’s Mother & Father In Star Trek

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• Mark Lenard played Ambassador Sarek in Star Trek: TOS and related films, but was also a prolific TV guest actor throughout the 1960s.
• Lenard was first choice to play President Lincoln in "The Savage Curtain," but scheduling conflicts prevented him from taking the role.
• The Abraham Lincoln character in "The Savage Curtain" created a strange legacy in the Star Trek franchise and the wider world.

Best known for playing Ambassador Sarek, father of Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in Star Trek: The Original Series , prolific guest actor Mark Lenard almost added a beloved US President to his list of credits, too. Mark Lenard played Sarek in four episodes of Star Trek between 1967 and 1991, as well as three out of the six TOS movies. However, before he took on his important role in Spock's family tree , Mark Lenard made his Star Trek debut as the Romulan Commander in the classic TOS episode "Balance of Terror" .

Star Trek: The Original Series was just one of several network shows in which Mark Lenard appeared during the mid to late 1960s. As well as appearing in cowboy series like Gunsmoke and Cimarron Strip , Lenard also played four different characters in Mission: Impossible . Due to Lenard's existing relationship with the Star Trek : The Original Series cast and the production staff at Desilu, he was the first choice for what would have been his third TOS role. However, a positive career development prevented Mark Lenard from playing the role of President Abraham Lincoln in TOS season 3, episode 22, "The Savage Curtain".

Spock's human mother Amanda and his Vulcan father Sarek have been played by several actors across the Star Trek franchise.

Sarek Actor Mark Lenard Almost Played Abraham Lincoln in Star Trek

Mark Lenard was the first choice to play the Excalibans' President Abraham Lincoln lookalike in "The Savage Curtain" . Had Lenard been available to play the former President, Lincoln would have been the only character that he played who wasn't a Romulan or Vulcan in Star Trek up to that point. It's likely the similarities between Sarek and the Romulan Commander meant Mark Lenard was never considered to play the Excalibans' replica of the legendary Vulcan, Surak (Barry Atwater). Mark Lenard explained his reasons for turning the Lincoln role down in a 1981 interview with Starlog #41 , saying:

" The Lincoln segment came up about Christmas time when we had a slight hiatus, and I thought I could work it in [...] But it turned out we just couldn't work it in. I think we went back to work on the other series too soon, and instead of having the six or seven days I would have needed to do the role, I only had three or four days. "

Based on his performance as Sarek, it's easy to see why Mark Lenard was the first choice to play Lincoln in "The Savage Curtain". The statesmanlike dignity he projected as Sarek in "Journey to Babel" would be interesting to see applied to an iconic American historical figure like Abraham Lincoln. Alas, it was not to be, and Lee Bergere was cast in the role instead , providing his own memorable take on the former US President.

Lee Bergere went on to play Joseph Arlington Anders in Dynasty alongside another Star Trek: The Original Series guest performer, Joan Collins.

Abe Lincoln’s Star Trek Appearance Has A Weird Legacy

Airing weeks before TOS was canceled , "The Savage Curtain" is about an alien species that pits various icons representing "good" and "evil" against each other. While this simplifies a historical character like Abraham Lincoln, somewhat, it still gave the character a chance to deliver a speech about the nature of violence, stating there is " no honorable way to kill" . Lincoln's speech, written by Arthur Heinemann and Gene Roddenberry , has been taken as fact in some corners of the internet. Model and TV host Bar Refaeli attributed the quote to "Honest" Abe on Instagram back in 2014:

Bar Refaeli's quoting of Space Lincoln isn't the only example of the weird legacy of "The Savage Curtain", however. The living Lincoln Memorial floating through space was briefly seen in in the Star Trek: Short Treks episode "Ephraim and Dot". However, the wildest reference to Star Trek: The Original Series ' Abraham Lincoln predictably comes in Star Trek: Lower Decks. "Kayshon, His Eyes Open" revealed that Excaliban Lincoln's skeleton is held by an alien antiques collector. While Mark Lenard may have missed out on this bizarre legacy, he can rest assured that Sarek lives on in the Star Trek universe.

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Star Trek: The Original Series follows the exploits of the crew of the USS Enterprise. On a five-year mission to explore uncharted space, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) must trust his crew - Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Forest DeKelley), Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Sulu (George Takei) - with his life. Facing previously undiscovered life forms and civilizations and representing humanity among the stars on behalf of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets, the Enterprise regularly comes up against impossible odds and diplomatic dilemmas.

Journey to Babel (episode)

As the Enterprise comes under attack on the way to a diplomatic conference on Babel , one of the alien dignitaries is murdered, and Spock's estranged father Sarek is the prime suspect – but he is also deathly ill, and only Spock can save him.

• 1.2 Act One
• 1.3 Act Two
• 1.4 Act Three
• 1.5 Act Four
• 2 Log entries
• 3 Memorable quotes
• 4.1 Story and script
• 4.2 Makeup and costumes
• 4.3 Effects
• 4.6 Continuity and trivia
• 4.7 Reception
• 4.8 Apocrypha
• 4.9 Remastered information
• 4.10 Production timeline
• 4.11 Video and DVD releases
• 5.1 Starring
• 5.2 Also starring
• 5.3 Guest stars
• 5.4 Featuring
• 5.5 Uncredited co-stars
• 5.6 Stunt doubles
• 5.7 References
• 5.8 External links

Summary [ ]

The USS Enterprise arrives in orbit around the planet Vulcan , picking up the last delegation of Vulcans to add to an assortment of 114 ambassadors and dignitaries aboard (including Andorians and Tellarites ). The delegates will be attending a conference on the neutral planetoid named Babel to decide the admission of the planet Coridan to the Federation , which is rich in dilithium but is poorly defended. In the captain's quarters, Dr. McCoy laments to Captain Kirk about how uncomfortable his dress uniform is. Kirk assures the doctor that they can relax once they bring the Vulcan delegation aboard. On their way, McCoy explains the tension of the assignment while Spock arrives to meet them. As the Vulcan delegation arrive on the shuttle Galileo, the three officers and an honor guard of security personnel greet the Vulcan ambassador to Earth , Sarek , and his Human wife Amanda . Welcoming the ambassador aboard, Kirk offers to have Spock take him and his wife on a tour of the ship, but Sarek coldly asks that someone else give it. Sensing unpleasantness between the two Vulcans, Kirk suggests to Spock that, with two hours before the ship leaves orbit, he should beam down to the planet and visit his parents. But Spock says that would be unnecessary, because Ambassador Sarek and his wife are his parents.

Act One [ ]

As Kirk conducts a tour of the ship for the ambassador and his wife, he seeks out the roots of estrangement between Spock and his parents once they pass by Spock in Engineering. The rift seemingly sprang from Spock's election to attend Starfleet Academy over his fathers' choice of the Vulcan Science Academy as Sarek followed his father's teachings. Kirk voices support of Spock's choices and notes that he has a personal friendship with Spock to his mother Amanda, who appreciates the sentiment but also warns that the estrangement between father and son may be permanent, since it has been 18 years.

The delegates meet at a reception on the Enterprise . McCoy asked Sarek if he considered retirement at his age of 102. Sarek replied he had other concerns. The Tellarite ambassador, Gav , confronts Sarek asking about his vote on Coridan's admission, to which he replies that it would be known at the conference. Gav demands he knows know where the he stands where the Andorian ambassador, Shras , asks why. The Tellarite ambassador replies his vote carries others and he would know where he stands and why. Sarek insults Gav by stating that Tellarites simply argue for no reason. Kirk interjects and reminds everyone that they won't solve their issues on the Enterprise , drawing apologies from Shras and Sarek, while Gav excuses himself from the reception.

Kirk and Sarek move on to other guests while McCoy discovers a hint of Spock's childhood from Amanda, that he had a pet sehlat , " a fat teddy bear , " as Amanda says, delighting the doctor. Spock corrects his mother's sentiment, saying that on Vulcan, the "teddy bears" are alive and have six-inch long fangs.

Kirk also learns the Enterprise is being tailed by a mysterious unidentified vessel. On the bridge, they determine that the vessel is an unknown configuration, unauthorized, and not responding to hails. Kirk orders an intercept to take a closer look.

Meanwhile, Amanda speaks with her husband against their son's estrangement in their quarters , but Sarek resists, saying that Spock is due respect for his own achievements, not for feelings of pride. Amanda believes Sarek feels pride in Spock despite his disapproval of Starfleet but won't show it.

The unidentified vessel makes a pass at the Enterprise at warp 10 without firing.

Later, Sarek is again confronted by Gav at the reception area, and Sarek reveals that he would vote in favor of admission, citing that Coridan needs the Federation's protection against illegal dilithium mining, which alludes to illegal Tellarite mining operations on Coridan. A brief struggle between the two ambassadors ensues, broken up by Kirk who just arrived. The captain sternly reminds both ambassadors that there will be order as long as he is in command of the ship. They both agree and Gav excuses himself once again.

Gav found murdered

A few hours later, Gav's lifeless body is found stuffed up a Jefferies tube on deck 11 by security officer Lt. Josephs .

Act Two [ ]

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy investigate Gav's murder . McCoy explains his neck was broken in a very precise manner, leading Spock to conclude it can only be a Vulcan execution technique called tal-shaya . Kirk then deduces that Sarek is logically the prime suspect, but when he is confronted by Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, it is revealed that Sarek is becoming increasingly ill with a cardiac defect, and claims he could not have committed the murder, as he was in solitude at the time of Gav's death on the Enterprise 's observation deck . McCoy takes him to sickbay.

Kirk and Spock go to the bridge and rule out the Romulans and Klingons. Uhura additionally finds that the communication signal is being received inside the ship, but not pinpointed.

It falls on McCoy to attempt to heal the ambassador with heart surgery, but the doctor has reservations, what with his own limited surgical experience on Vulcan physiology and the requirement of large amounts of a rare Vulcan blood type, T-negative . Spock elects to take the role of blood donor, risking his own life by taking a dangerous stimulant only tested on Rigelians to induce blood cell production despite Amanda's objections. They debate this for a while.

However, Kirk is suddenly stabbed by the Andorian delegate Thelev . He subdues Thelev in a corridor on deck five just outside his quarters and alerts Spock on the bridge through an intercom panel just before passing out in the corridor.

Thelev fighting Kirk

Act Three [ ]

Thelev is placed into custody in the Enterprise 's brig . Kirk has survived the assassination attempt, but now Spock refuses to participate in the procedure while his commanding officer is lying in sickbay , stating his first duty is to the ship, and cannot relinquish command due to "personal privilege."

He goes to the brig and questions Thelev. However, even under a verifier scan and truth drug, he does not answer. The lead Andorian doesn't know him that well, and can't help other than to say the Andorians have no quarrel with Kirk.

Amanda comes to Spock's quarters to convince him to help Sarek, appealing to his duty to his father, saying any competent officer can take command. Spock agrees that is true in normal circumstances, but says he cannot relinquish command as the situation is not normal and what would his father say if he risked the ship, over 100 valuable Federation passengers and interplanetary war for one life? She makes an emotional appeal to his Human half, saying if he allows his father to die she will hate him for the rest of her life. But Spock's decision is unchanged. She slaps him and leaves. He puts a hand out towards her after the door closes.

Kirk comes to consciousness and finds McCoy is not in surgery, to which he explains Spock's decision. Despite objections from McCoy, Kirk goes to the bridge and assumes command before he is fully healed, and sends Spock to surgery, with the intent of handing command over to Scotty while Spock is undergoing the blood transfusion and recover in his quarters. After Spock and McCoy leave the bridge he is about to call Scotty; however, the alien vessel comes closer and Uhura picks up a signal and determines that it's being received in the brig. Kirk orders red alert and security to search Thelev.

Thelev in the brig

As McCoy takes blood from Spock and begins to operate on Sarek, Thelev attempts to escape from his cell while being searched, and the security officers use their phasers to stun him. As Thelev falls to the floor unconscious, his antenna breaks — revealing a transmitter used to communicate with the intruder vessel.

The intruder ship begins to open fire on the Enterprise . The smaller vessel makes unbelievably quick passes and phaser strikes against the larger starship, too fast for Enterprise to return fire effectively, missing with a phaser attack. Despite being faster than the Enterprise , their weapons only consist of standard phasers according to Ensign Chekov , indicating to Kirk they don't have superior firepower. The Enterprise continues to fight a battle against the smaller and faster ship, shuddering with each successive hit and suffering power losses. McCoy fears he may lose both his patients if the ship continues to take a pounding.

Act Four [ ]

As Enterprise struggles against the unknown vessel, missing with a full spread of photon torpedoes , Thelev is brought to the bridge, where Kirk confronts him as to his true identity as a spy. Thelev is uncooperative, preferring to taunt Kirk and enjoy the view of his fellow ship succeeding over the larger Enterprise . As the power goes out in sickbay, Sarek goes into cardiac arrest. McCoy and Nurse Christine Chapel try to make do with portable resuscitation equipment in an attempt to restart his heart again.

" Got him! "

Meanwhile, Kirk, fed up with Thelev's taunts and the other ship's apparently superior tactical ability, does the unthinkable. He drops the shields, then systematically fakes losing all power to lure the other ship in. The Enterprise appears dead in space. The enemy ship appears to hesitate, then slowly closes in for the kill. As soon as it is in range, Kirk delivers phaser fire that cripples the vessel, to the observing Thelev's disappointment. The mystery ship then self-destructs to avoid capture, and Thelev dies of an apparent suicide via slow poison.

Dr. McCoy happy at finally getting the last word

In sickbay, Kirk discovers that Sarek's surgery was a success, and not only are he and Spock recovering well, but they are also talking again as father and son. They even tease Amanda together, Sarek explaining that despite her rampant emotions a marriage to Amanda seemed at the time the only logical thing to do. When Kirk orders McCoy to perform an autopsy on Thelev to determine his true identity, Spock surmises Thelev and the attackers in the enemy ship were Orions , who had much to gain from disrupting the Babel conference so they could continue to loot Coridan of its dilithium. Kirk then slumps, finally too exhausted and in too much pain to continue, but he continues to protest as he is led to another empty bed in the ward by McCoy and Nurse Chapel. McCoy, exercising his rightful medical authority over his patients, is eventually successful in telling Kirk and Spock to lie still and be quiet, finally and gleefully getting "the last word".

Log entries [ ]

• Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268

Memorable quotes [ ]

" I feel like my neck's in a sling. "

" That hurts worse than the uniform. "

" Vulcans believe that peace should not depend on force. "

" Isn't it unusual for a Vulcan to retire at your age? After all, You're only 102. " " 102.437 precisely, doctor. Measured in your years. I… had… other concerns. "

" Tellarites do not argue for reasons. They simply argue. "

" On Vulcan, the teddy bears are alive. And they have six-inch fangs. "

" You're showing almost Human pride in your son. "

" It does not require pride to ask that Spock be given the respect which is his due…not as my son, but as Spock. "

" Threats are illogical. And payment is usually expensive. "

" Vulcans do not approve of violence. "

" Perhaps you should forget logic and devote yourself to motivations of passion or gain. Those are reasons for murder. "

" You're Human, too. Let that part of you come through. "

" My patients don't walk out in the middle of an operation. "

" It's… important… " " So is your father's life. "

" Logic! Logic! I'm sick to death of logic! "

" Emotional, isn't she? " " She has always been that way. " " Indeed. Why did you marry her? " " At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do. "

" Well, what do you know? I finally got the last word. "

Background information [ ]

Story and script [ ].

• D.C. Fontana 's writing of this episode was inspired by several references to Spock's parents that had been littered throughout the previous installments of TOS. Fontana later admitted, " 'Journey to Babel' grew out of previous writing […] There were all these little things that were running around in my brain. " [1] One of the past references, dialogue said in " This Side of Paradise " (which Fontana had previously worked on as a writer), was especially influential to the story. Explained Fontana, " The idea really came out of the line toward the end of 'This Side of Paradise', where Spock says, 'My mother was a school teacher, my father was an ambassador.' " ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 2 , pp. 84-85)
• Fontana presented Gene Roddenberry with the idea of featuring Spock's parents in an episode. She reflected, " I was kicking around stories and I finally went in to Gene […] and said, 'I want to do something about Spock's mother and father […] Let's explore that relationship.' " [2] " I said to Gene, 'We've talked about them, let's show them,' " Fontana continued. " He told me to do it, and I came up with 'Journey to Babel'. " ( Starlog issue #118, p. 18)
• Another influence on the episode was an extreme interest in exploring Spock's parentage. " We needed to see the family background that Spock was raised in, what's going on with him truly personally, " Fontana related. ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 2 , pp. 84-85) Furthermore, she was interested in not only who Spock's parents were but also how they had shaped his identity. [3]
• After D.C. Fontana chose to feature Spock's family in the episode, she began to formulate some of their backstory. Said Fontana, " I made some notes about what was going on with them. " ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 2 , p. 85) She elaborated, " I sat down and created two characters, emphasizing the triangular relationship – the rift between Sarek and Spock, with Amanda positioned in the middle. " ( Starlog issue #118, p. 18) It was Fontana who named Spock's mother "Amanda"; she chose that name because it means "worthy of being loved." ( Star Trek: The Original Series 365 , p. 217)
• D.C. Fontana was interested in making the aforementioned rift multi-dimensional. She remembered, " One of the points I […] wanted to make believable in 'Babel' was that both Spock and Sarek were right – as their own convictions applied to themselves – and wrong – as their convictions applied to each other. " ( Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents , number 11, p. 27) This interpersonal friction, despite being between a full-blooded Vulcan and his half-Vulcan son, enabled Fontana to somewhat humanize the story. She observed, " It was really about the generation gap which […] can be either a wall or, you know, something warm and lovely. And in this case, it was a wall, as far as between the father and son. " [4] Fontana also reckoned that the family dynamic of having the hybrid Spock biologically between the extremities of the two others was "bound to create a lot of character problems." ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 57) Gene Roddenberry approved of taking the opportunity to center the episode on the conflict between Sarek and Spock. [5] The multi-faceted character dynamics within the family propelled Fontana to write the story and script. " This was the first mention [in 'Journey to Babel'] that [Spock] and his father had been estranged. Well, why? " she wondered. " What's with his mother, what feelings does she have in this particular triangle between husband and son? And what kind of a woman was she to marry a Vulcan, go to Vulcan, live like a Vulcan, raise a half-Vulcan son? What was that all about?' " ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 2 , pp. 84-85)
• The storyline concerning intrigue between the various ambassadors on board the Enterprise was subsequently added to the plot. With an indirect reference to the narrative about Spock's parents, D.C. Fontana stated, " I wrapped it up in a mystery, and in an adventure. " [6]
• The multiple minor differences between this episode's first draft and its ultimate embodiment include a brief discussion between Amanda and Spock in which she tried to persuade him to talk to his father. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 29 , p. 28)
• In the first draft script, Sarek and Amanda had been married for thirty-eight years, Sarek had been an astrophysicist before embarking on a career in politics, and his father (Spock's grandfather) was Shariel, a famous Vulcan ambassador. ( The Star Trek Compendium , p. 89)
• In an early draft, D.C. Fontana planned for a Vulcan city to be shown in the episode's teaser, when Spock meets up with his parents. She explained, " The cost of doing a 'matte,' or painting of the city, was prohibitive. " ( Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents , number 11, p. 26) Hence, the shot was removed. [7]
• Fontana was not concerned, while writing this episode, about how costly producing the story's variety of aliens would be, since she was aware that – because the installment is set entirely aboard the Enterprise with no extra planetary or ship sets needed – the finances could be spent wholly on the costumes and makeup. ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 27, No. 11/12, p. 46)
• In the original script, Sarek and his company were beamed aboard the Enterprise , but after going over budget with the expensive Vulcan, Andorian, and Tellarite make-up as well as the outer space footage of the Orion ship, there was no money left for the transporter effect. The Vulcans' transportation to the ship by shuttlecraft was decided upon because it could be done completely via the use of stock footage from " The Galileo Seven ". ( The Star Trek Compendium , p. 89)
• In D.C. Fontana's opinion, not much was altered between how she envisioned this episode and the way in which it turned out. " It was shot pretty much as I wrote it – only a couple of things were changed, " related Fontana. " One scene was added in which Amanda talks to Kirk about Sarek's relationship with his son. It seemed to me that that would have been inappropriate, and that she would not have blurted out all this information to Kirk. I did not have anything to do with that scene, and I think Gene Roddenberry rewrote it. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 26 , p. 25)

Makeup and costumes [ ]

• Actor John Wheeler , in character as Gav, had so much trouble seeing through the prosthetics over his eyes that he was forced to raise his head to see his castmates. This added to the early mythos that all Tellarites were arrogant as well as belligerent and aggressive. ( Star Trek: The Original Series 365 , p. 220)
• William Blackburn , in an unused make-up scheme for the Tellarites from a make-up test, can be seen in the end credits of " The Deadly Years " and " A Private Little War ".
• Andorian make-up was very expensive. Three different sets had to be created, for William O'Connell , for Reggie Nalder , and for Jim Shepherd, the stuntman doubling for O'Connell. ( citation needed • edit )
• Many of the costumes worn by extras in the hallway and reception room scenes were recycled from several first season episodes, including the outfits worn by Galactic High Commissioner Ferris in " The Galileo Seven " and by Lazarus in " The Alternative Factor ". A female extra ( Jeannie Malone ) can be seen wearing a faux fur dress worn by Lenore Karidian in " The Conscience of the King ", complete with other recycled costume pieces. Another female alien is wearing Areel Shaw 's civilian dress from " Court Martial ", and a third one is wearing a costume left over from " Wolf in the Fold ". Scotty 's dress uniform was also reused on an extra playing a Starfleet delegate.
• The vests worn by the Andorian delegates were recycled from the 1956 RKO film The Conqueror . Reggie Nalder ' vest was worn by John Wayne in the film and had been auditioned off by Heritage Auctions in 2018. [8]

Effects [ ]

• The completed episode was very well-liked by NBC . The network urged the production staff to finish post-production of "Journey to Babel" quickly, so that it could be scheduled for the earliest possible airdate. As a result, the visual effect shots of the Orion scoutship were not ready when the trailer for the episode was assembled, hence the trailer features a different (much more primitive) effect depicting the vessel. For the same reason, the Enterprise fires purple phasers in the trailer, while phasers are blue in color in the episode itself. ( These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two )
• The matte shot of Uhura appearing on the screen in engineering is one of the smallest mattes ever used in the series, until the view discs in " All Our Yesterdays ".
• For some unknown reason, during the fight between Thelev and Kirk, just after Kirk's failed wall kick, the comical sound effect of a coconut conk can be heard. This may have been meant to indicate Thelev's head hitting the floor. In the remastered edition of this episode, this effect has been removed from the fight.
• The noise of the coded message sent by Thelev is also used in " Miri ".
• The Orion ship was recycled as the missile in " Patterns of Force ".
• The Tantalus field controls used in " Mirror, Mirror " can be seen behind McCoy while Amanda is inquiring about Sarek's condition. The couch from Kirk's Starbase 11 quarters in " Court Martial " can also be seen in McCoy's office. ( The Star Trek Compendium , p. 89)
• The Tellarite ambassador is found dead in "Deck 11, section A3" which, according to Matt Jefferies ' original internal schematics, is at the bottom of the main interconnecting dorsal. ( citation needed • edit ) The "slanting wall tube" that the Tellarite is found sprawled in is also identified as " Engineering Circuit Bay " by the wall plaque in another episode. ( citation needed • edit )
• Leonard Nimoy regarded this episode's depiction of Spock's relationship with his parents as a very worthy allegory for the difficulty many teenagers encounter with their own parents. [9]
• When Mark Lenard was cast as Sarek for this episode, he was forty-three, only seven years older than Leonard Nimoy. ( Star Trek: The Original Series 365 , p. 218)
• Before he was cast as Sarek, Lenard played the first major Romulan character seen on Star Trek , the Romulan Commander in the episode " Balance of Terror ".
• When she was offered the part of Amanda, Jane Wyatt had never heard of Star Trek before, and thought of it as a comedy. She expected to have a week of laughing on the set, but upon arriving for her first day of working on the episode, she was very surprised by how seriously everyone was taking the show. [10] As a tribute to her long and distinguished career, Wyatt is called "Miss Jane Wyatt" in the episode's closing credits.
• D.C. Fontana was uninvolved in the casting of Mark Lenard as Sarek and Jane Wyatt as Amanda but ultimately approved of the selections of those two guest stars. " [They] were brilliant together […] The two of them together looked superb, " Fontana enthused. " They were just wonderful and they carried it off so well, even the Vulcanisms that we had to put in. " [11]
• Leonard Nimoy once recalled that Mark Lenard and Jane Wyatt came to him for advice on Vulcan culture. Nimoy replied that he had come to believe Vulcans placed great importance on their hands and hand gestures, and suggested Lenard and Wyatt find a way to demonstrate that, when on screen. The actors then created the finger-touching gesture seen in the episode. ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features)
• James Doohan ( Scott ) and George Takei ( Sulu ) do not appear in this episode, although Scott is mentioned.
• Frank da Vinci plays one of Sarek's aides. Russ Peek , who plays the other aide, also appeared as mirror Spock 's Vulcan bodyguard in " Mirror, Mirror ".

Continuity and trivia [ ]

• Sarek appears on screen for the first and only time on TOS. He was not seen again until Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , seventeen years later.
• This episode introduces the Andorians and the Tellarites. Later episodes established that, along with Humans and Vulcans, they are two of the four founding members of the United Federation of Planets .
• The gathering of aliens in this episode is of notable continuity. D.C. Fontana stated about the installment, " It was the first show we had done with a number of different aliens all together in one place with some goal in mind. " ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 2 , p. 85)
• This episode marks the first mention of Starfleet Intelligence in Star Trek production history.
• This episode is also the first mention of a pet sehlat that Spock owned in his youth. This animal appears in D.C. Fontana's Star Trek: The Animated Series first season episode " Yesteryear ", which also establishes the creature's name as I-Chaya .
• Shras' suggestion that Spock forget logic and consider motivations of passion when investigating Gav's murder and Kirk's stabbing foreshadow the Vulcan-Andorian conflicts seen a century earlier, throughout Star Trek: Enterprise .
• The door to Spock's quarters does not work as expected. It opens to allow his mother, Amanda, to leave and closes behind her as normal. Then Spock walks to the door and places his hand on it, but it does not open, despite his proximity.
• The conclusion of this episode involves a rare breaking of the fourth wall . ( Star Trek: The Original Series 365 , p. 219) McCoy was looking slightly to the right of the screen and appeared to be speaking to Amanda and Nurse Chapel when he expresses delight at finally having the last word. However, a more direct breaking of the fourth wall occurred in "The Changeling" as Uhura, attempting to read the word "blue" on her viewscreen, turns directly to the camera and the viewers as she mispronounces the word as "blu-ee."
• Spock's decision to join Starfleet rather than attend the Vulcan Science Academy is seen in the film Star Trek , wherein he makes the choice after being told by the head of the VSA admissions board that his academic accomplishments were all the more impressive given the "disadvantage" of having a Human parent. While this occurs after Nero 's incursion changes the timeline , screenwriter Roberto Orci stated that this took place in the prime timeline as well. ( citation needed • edit )
• Tellarites were seen in two Season 3 episodes, with greatly modified masks: " The Lights of Zetar " and " Whom Gods Destroy ".
• Manny Coto originally pushed to have the short, gold-skinned species from this episode attend the Coalition of Planets conference in " Terra Prime ", but it proved too expensive. He named the species Ithenite , a name that is mentioned in " Azati Prime " by time traveler Daniels . ( citation needed • edit )
• Spock reports that he gets readings of " trititanium " in the Orion ship's hull. It is not clear if the entire hull is made of it or parts of it. Trititanium is the material that the Enterprise 's hull is made of, as Gene Roddenberry says in the novel Star Trek: The Motion Picture . It is not clear whether it is the same material as " tritanium " which is reported to be "twenty times as hard as diamond" in TOS : " Obsession ".
• In DIS : " Light and Shadows ", which is set in 2257 , eleven years prior to this episode, Sarek and Spock share a scene together on Vulcan . Although this might seem to contradict Amanda's statement to Kirk in this episode that Spock and Sarek have not spoken "as father and son for eighteen years", her wording is still technically correct, since Spock was not in a proper state of mind in that episode, and Sarek does not directly address his son.

Reception [ ]

• D.C. Fontana has repeatedly named this episode her favorite out of all the Star Trek episodes she wrote. ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features; Star Trek Magazine  issue 128 , p. 46; et al ) She noted, " It went into the Vulcan relationships between families. I think that's a story that's universal and timeless – that communication between parents and children. And that to me was the big story. The rest of it was an adventure, it was a spy story, it was a mystery, it was an action story – but all in all it was really about the parents and the child… There had still been a vast lack of communication between them and they needed to find each other as parent and child. " ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) Generally, Fontana enjoyed the writing of this episode. " 'Journey to Babel' was a very happy experience, " she noted. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 26 , p. 25) She also remarked, " Bringing in the whole murder and the whole political background was a lot of fun. That was the main story, but personally I was more involved, in terms of interest as a writer, with the personal story of Spock and Sarek and Amanda. " Fontana also commented that, despite the fact that the family-centered storyline "takes up very little room," it turned out to be the memorable aspect of the episode. " That's the part of the story that everyone remembers, " Fontana concluded. ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 2 , p. 85)
• Leonard Nimoy enthused, " Mark had a real sense of the dignity and the authority that the character needed. Jane was very Human – which is exactly what that character needed. They were terrific together. " ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features)
• Director Joseph Pevney was selective with his opinion of how successful this episode was, though he was especially impressed by makeup supervisor Fred Phillips ' work on the outing. " That was a good show in certain ways, " remarked Pevney. " I thought the greatest contributor to it was the makeup artist. He did a fabulous job of bringing alien humanoids on board. " ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 57)
• While Spock (Leonard Nimoy) was often deluged with fan mail on a regular basis, this trend was outdone following the broadcast of "Journey to Babel". Indeed, the fan mail poured into the studio at an incredible rate, only this time addressed to Mark Lenard, who for two weeks, topped those coming in for Nimoy. ( The World of Star Trek )
• The reference book Star Trek 101 (p. 18), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block , counts this episode as one of the "Ten Essential Episodes" from Star Trek: The Original Series .
• In the unofficial reference book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (p. 123), both Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross (the book's co-writers) individually rate this episode 4 out of 5 stars (defined as "Classic!").
• The unauthorized reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 32) comments on this outing, stating, " [An] episode that is rich with color and texture. The relationship between Spock and Sarek is done extremely well, with Amanda's concern and disappointment adding an absent emotional context that makes the father-son relationship seem more tragic. "
• In the souvenir magazine Star Trek 30 Years , (pp. 89 & 90) the magazine's makers included this installment as one of their all-time favorite episodes from the original Star Trek series and described it as "an enjoyable romp with a heartfelt ending." They went on to say, " Mark Lenard is appropriately stiff as Spock's Vulcan father, Sarek, and Jane Wyatt is endearing as his Earth-born mother, Amanda. "
• TV Guide ranked this as the fifth best Star Trek episode for their celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary. ( TV Guide August 24, 1996 issue)
• In the magazine Cinefantastique , writer Sue Uram rated this episode 4 out of 4 stars and commented, " 'Journey to Babel' marks a high point in D.C. Fontana's remarkable association with Star Trek […] Clearly, 'Journey to Babel' is important from the Federation historical perspective of attempting to form a United Nations sort of body […] However, it is the inner conflict of Mr. Spock with his father and the remarkable insights we are given into his unhappy childhood which make this show unique […] Jane Wyatt and Mark Lenard put in sterling performances as Spock's parents. It almost breaks my heart when Amanda, loving her husband and her son, must use the ultimate emotion to force Spock to face his duty – that of guilt. " The same issue of Cinefantastique also included the installment among " Trek 's Top Ten." ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 27, No. 11/12, pp. 75, 76 & 103)

Apocrypha [ ]

• This episode was used wholesale in the Star Trek Online expansion Agents of Yesterday . In the mission "Return to Babel", the player character is sent back to the event to prevent the Na'kuhl from disrupting it. Gav's death and Kirk's stabbing were perpetrated by the Na'kuhl and the mystery ship was a collaboration between the Orions and the Na'kuhl, its destruction not a self-destruct, but the player character planting a bomb that was meant for the Enterprise in the ship itself.
• A cat version of "Journey to Babel" was featured in Jenny Parks ' 2017 book Star Trek Cats .

Remastered information [ ]

• The remastered version of this episode premiered in syndication the weekend of 3 February 2007 and featured several notably altered effects. The Enterprise shuttlebay and landing sequence was completely redone digitally, featuring a number of background actors visible within the viewing galleries. Also revamped were shots of Vulcan (now more closely resembling its appearance in Star Trek: Enterprise ) and the battle between the Enterprise and the Orion ship, now more featuring an identifiable design.

Production timeline [ ]

A sound stage blueprint featuring revamp and filming date locations for "Journey to Babel"

• Story outline by D.C. Fontana : 23 June 1967
• First draft teleplay: 8 August 1967
• Second draft teleplay: 22 August 1967
• Final draft teleplay by Gene L. Coon : late- August 1967
• Revised final draft: 31 August 1967
• Revised final draft script – 14 September 1967
• Second revised final draft by Gene Roddenberry : 19 September 1967
• Additional revisions: 20 September 1967 , 21 September 1967 , 26 September 1967 , 27 September 1967
• Day 1 – 21 September 1967 , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9 : Int. Kirk's quarters , Bridge
• Day 2 – 22 September 1967 , Friday – Desilu Stage 9 : Int. Bridge , Corridors , Brig
• Day 3 – 25 September 1967 , Monday – Desilu Stage 9 : Int. Corridors , Recreation room (redress of Briefing room)
• Day 4 – 26 September 1967 , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9 : Int. Hangar deck , Engineering , Sarek's quarters
• Day 5 – 27 September 1967 , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9 : Int. Sickbay (Lab, Doctor's Office, Exam Room)
• Day 6 – 28 September 1967 , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9 : Int. Sickbay , Spock's quarters
• Original airdate: 17 November 1967
• Rerun airdate: 5 July 1968
• First UK airdate: 22 June 1970
• Remastered episode airdate: 3 February 2007

Video and DVD releases [ ]

• US RCA CED Videodisc release (1982)
• Original US Betamax release: 1986
• UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video ): Volume 23 , catalog number VHR 2358, 2 April 1990
• US VHS release: 15 April 1994
• UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.5, 5 May 1997
• Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 22, 24 April 2001
• As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection
• As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD and TOS Season 2 Blu-ray collections

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

• William Shatner as Capt. Kirk

Also starring [ ]

• Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
• DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy

Guest stars [ ]

• Miss Jane Wyatt as Amanda
• Mark Lenard as Sarek

Featuring [ ]

• Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
• William O'Connell as Thelev
• Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
• Walter Koenig as Chekov
• John Wheeler as Gav
• James X. Mitchell as Josephs
• Reggie Nalder as Shras

Uncredited co-stars [ ]

• Tellarite aide
• John Blower as Babel conference officer
• Jerry Catron as Montgomery
• Billy Curtis as Copper-skinned alien 1
• Frank da Vinci as Sarek's aide 2
• Steve Hershon as security guard
• Jeannie Malone as Purple-skinned alien
• Jerry Maren as Copper-skinned alien 2
• Eddie Paskey as Leslie
• Russ Peek as Sarek's aide 1
• Kai J. Wong as medical technician
• Shuttle pilots
• Engineering technician
• Human delegate 2
• Sciences crew woman
• Security guard 2
• Security lieutenants 1 , 2 , and 3
• Human delegate 1
• Brown-skinned aliens 1 and 2
• Big-hair aliens 1 and 2
• Cross-dress alien 1 and 2
• Female delegates 1 , 2 , and 3

Stunt doubles [ ]

• Paul Baxley as stunt double for William Shatner
• Jim Sheppard as stunt double for William O'Connell

References [ ]

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External links [ ]

• " Journey to Babel " at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• " Journey to Babel " at Wikipedia
• " Journey to Babel " at MissionLogPodcast.com
• " Journey to Babel " at the Internet Movie Database
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• 2 Daniels (Crewman)
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All 10 TOS And TNG Star Trek Movies Returning To Paramount+ In July

| June 27, 2024 | By: Anthony Pascale 58 comments so far

While the classic Star Trek TV series have all settled in at Paramount+, the Star Trek movies have continued to bounce around. However, as of next week they are coming back to the streaming service that purports to be “the home of Star Trek” in the USA.

All the movies in one place

At the beginning of this year, the six TOS-era Star Trek movies ( The Motion Picture , The Wrath of Khan , The Search for Spock , The Voyage Home , The Final Frontier , and The Undiscovered Country ) and four TNG-era movies ( Generations , First Contact , Insurrection , and Nemesis ) all moved  to the Max streaming service and the HBO premium cable channel. That licensing deal wraps up at the end of June and Paramount+ has confirmed that all 10 of those movies will return to “the Home of Star Trek” on Monday, July 1. The returning movies includes the 4K Directors Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture . With the addition of the current Paramount+ library that includes the three J.J. Abrams-produced Kelvin Universe movies, Paramount+ will again feature the full Star Trek movie library, at least for the short term.

The Star Trek movies on Max (but not for long)

The future is licensing

We have seen some or all of the Star Trek movies leave and return to Paramount+ (and previously CBS All Access) over recent years, so it’s quite possible another licensing deal could see the movies exit again. In fact, Paramount Global has been talking more about licensing content as the company struggles to pay off the heavy debt load it has incurred over recent years building up its (still not profitable) streaming service. It would not be surprising to also see the five “legacy” Star Trek TV series again licensed out to other streamers, although those would likely not be exclusive. Before 2022, in the USA Paramount had licensed the classic TV shows to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video concurrently.

Of course, the future of Paramount+ itself is still up in the air. After talks broke down for the Paramount Global merger with Skydance earlier this month, the company is now focused on ways to streamline and cut costs. This includes looking to to form a joint venture for its streaming service, with potential partnerships suggested with Waner Discovery’s Max, Amazon Prime Video, and Comcast’s Peacock. Presumably, the legacy and Paramount+ original Star Trek shows (and movies, including the upcoming Section 31 streaming movie) would be part of this joint venture. However, recent history shows that nothing can be certain when it comes to Paramount Global and how it is handling its streaming service… Actually, there is one certainty: pricing on Paramount+ is set to go up in August .

Find more news on  streaming and home video at TrekMovie.com .

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Does nobody here not already own all of thee?

Are young people collecting discs like we oldsters do/did? I’m sure that there are many readers here who don’t have all the movies, but maybe the majority of us do…?

I don’t….

The extras on the discs alone are worth it as well as the films themselves.

Kevin, I don’t own ‘The Final Frontier’. Never have and never will.

tbh it doesnt really matter any more… paramount is in freefall… they are prepping to break it up and sell the pieces so the shareholders can make a bit more money vs keeping it all together and saving thousands of jobs. they’re even discussing selling the lot. trek is gonna end up somewhere else. let’s just hope it’s not bought by a private equity firm.

… or Disney.

yeah i’d rather be a big fish in a small pond than the opposite. kind of like when they bought the muppets and did nothing with them for 10 years. it took a lot of work from jason siegel to get them to finally make new things. but the whole trek universe might be cut into pieces. then legal issues could stop it all like what happened to friday the 13th. soon we will just be getting merchandise as the equity firm that buys it rents out trek to anyone with money.

I am really hoping it will be Netflix or Amazon buys it. Amazon might be the best choice for getting multiple series- they have run multiple series with the Boys, and with the end of the Boys coming and now with no more Ms. Maisel, they might really want a signature franchise.

Disney would be a mess. HBO/Warner is barely in less trouble than Paramount.

Apple might be ok, but their release schedule gets iffy- could be years between seasons, and might only see 8 episodes of something every year or two.

hbo/warners is in much much better shape than paramount. but like so many companies that merge and merge they acquire debt. it’s all fake anyway. i just read michael jackson’s estate when he died was in 500 million debt but now after settling everything theyre worth 2 billion. it’s all smoke and mirrors. paramount though is in the hands of sherri redstone and she wanted full control and got it and now she wants to flush it so she and the shareholders can be even richer.

netflix doesn’t care one bit about quality… they are all algorithm and what the computers tell them. if that was always the case then trek wouldnt have been around much. every stumble wouldve ended it.

im hoping after seeing what’s gonna happen to paramount redstone goes back to ellison. he wanted to keep the company intact. but i dont know if it’s possible for everyone from redstone to the shareholders to cash out and still leave a working company behind.

they’re prob gonna sell the library and without that there’s really no paramount anymore.

Disney wouldn’t be permitted to buy it. Also Disney is in serious debt.

Good for them. I own them all, so don’t really care if they are or not.

I might be late to this, but question the wisdom of walling off Star Trek. For one thing, I don’t think there’s any wisdom in the Paramount c suite, and so any decision from there is automatically questionable. And then you think about how popular culture has segmented so much that it’s tough to stand out amongst all the noise; but if you’re a property on a teeny tiny streamer, aren’t you obviously less loud than the rest? Wouldn’t it make more sense for Trek to be on a network (lol) or Netflix? The Star Trek Channel/Paramount+ experiment was never all that wise to begin with, but given what we’re seeing with the whole streaming experiment, seems like it’s time to move on.

P.S. It probably would’ve been cheapest and most profitable to remaster DS9 & VOY and simply continue to license the whole franchise, with maybe 1 or 2 new shows financed.

The problem is that all these network execs don’t know how to compete with large streamers, and think that just doing the same thing Netflix of Hulu does will help. But like you’ve pointed out there’s no sense is having just a single franchise carry your entire network. And as much as I hate to admit, Trek may have a loyal following but it’s not as big as Star Wars. Hell even Disney has SW, Marvel, it’s animated features, etc.

But when the streaming wars began everyone thought “People will pay to watch our stuff on demand” – whether you were P+/CBS All Access, NBC, etc. It’s not working out for most as we have seen, though some shifted to be more ‘clustered’ like Peacock for NBC and Bravo reality, Max/Discovery, Hulu/FX.

Compartmentalization was the way to go for awhile, hoping to build streamer growth around It. That’s effectively dead now. Now, they’re back to licensing It out to other streamers as a cash infusion on the corporation’s bottom line.

“ There are only two ways I know to make money in business: bundling and unbundling ” — Jim Barksdale, ex-CEO of Netscape

Very little, imo. I’m an old fart who spends some time in younger fan spaces, and most of the newer Trek fans I’ve met found their way to the franchise from the Kelvin timeline movies or when all of the series were on Netflix. The easier access, the better.

“the Home of Star Trek”

“…except Prodigy, LD, the movies when the license randomly goes back to HBO for 6 months…”

No LDS will stay on P+ after its last season.

A quick revised ‘Best to Worst’ (IMHO)

II – The best one by far, there’s just no debate on this is there. KHAAAN!! III – a worthy sequel, id hazard a guess this is second best for most OG hard TOS’ers like myself. VI – it doesn’t feel right not putting IV next but VI is just too good not to have 3rd best. IV – the most 80s movie (obviously) like Trek does BTTF meets Beverly Hills Cop (minus Eddie). FC – like II the best TNG just no debate. Made Trek ‘cool’ for a brief time which seemed impossible. GEN – despite the missed opportunity of both casts, its still a very important movie in the canon. TMP – yeh everyone loves it now (esp the TOS hard ballers like RMB) but I can’t give it any higher. V – loved it that summer89 (with Indy,Batman) and still do, but know its bad and can’t put it higher. NEM – its had abit of an reappraisal after ST:P and amazing end battle but g’damn its dull as hell. INS – THE worst Trek film of all (even worse than Beyond! of which it feels/looks quite similar)

(Kelvin films: ST09/ID down to just after GEN/before TMP for me these days. few years ago id have put both above GEN, maybe higher.. Beyond angers me more than ever bc of what happened to Orci’s superior sounding timeline under threat/Shatner swansong ST3 so id put that just above INS but below NEM, as NEM deserves abit more leeway now after ST Picard)

Lol i love when people share their lists! My list is similar (and with the JJ movies):

• First Contact
• Generations

I absolutely love First Contact as it is my favorite movies of all time, warts and all. In my list, I have major problems with all the films from rank 8 and below. So, for me, the only good Star Trek movies are my top 7. Yes, I do not like TUC with the exception of the final shot.

TUC has some real problems. I don’t rank it as low as you do, but I’m not a fan of some very key aspects. The racism from our own characters really flies in the face of how they’ve been written over the years, and I hate it. Spocks mind invasion is a problem. Not because he went there, but becuase he goes there, and then says ‘Call excelsior, Sulu will know. Spock would only resort to such an invasion If it were so easily resolved. blasphemy.

The biggest problem with TUC is that it was no “whodunit,” as Walter Koenig crowed when it was released. There was no sense of betrayal when Valeris was revealed to be collaborating with the Klingon hardliners, because she was the New Character. It really needed to be Saavik, as originally intended, to pack a punch.

It also would have been stronger had the “Martia” character been a Klingon dissident who helped Kirk and McCoy escape from Rura Penthe — again, as originally intended. That might really have explained what triggered Kirk’s re-evaluation of his hatred for Klingons. (The ENT prequel “Judgement,” where an honorable Klingon defense attorney gets sent to Rura Penthe alongside Archer and helps Archer escape, does a lot to make up for this flaw, though.)

The anti-Klngon racism? Well, it disturbed me when I first saw the movie, but in fairness, Klingons did kill David Marcus, Kirk’s only son, in cold blood ten years earlier. I can understand why Kirk would harbor some blind spots towards Klingons, after that. He wasn’t the same unscarred commander we saw in “Balance of Terror.” “I need my pain,” and all that.

And Nimoy had a beautifully acted moment when Scotty began lecturing him about how “Klingons don’t value life the way we do” — the eyes of the emotion-less Vulcan really conveyed a sense of profound disappointment and despair that his entire Starfleet career suddenly stood for nothing.

It wasn’t perfect, but I think TUC improved with time, unlike TVH.

You’re not wrong about a lot of things that would have made it better.. but to me, they’re improvements, not outright flaws. I really don’t have a problem with Kirk’s position on Klingons.. his stance on not trusting them isn’t an egregious act of racism as much as it’s rooted in personal pain, and that’s supported by the story. No, it’s not the right response, but you get why he’s in that place. It’s everyone else acting in a racist way that bothers me. I don’t hate the movie, but a lot of its key issues have gotten worse with time for me.

Can’t say the OS crew have been big fans of the Klingons, especially after they murdered their captain’s son.

For me my ratings are:

1. WoK 2. TUC 3. FC 4. TvH 5. TSFS 6. BEY 7. GEN. 8. ST09 9. INS 10. STID 11. TFF. 12. TMP 13. NEM

I’ll do mine as tiers

1- TMP | TWOK 2- TVH | TUC | FC 3- TSFS | ST09 | STB 4- TFF | GEN 5- INS | NEM |STID

Always a fun thread, ranking the movies. My favorites, also by tiers. (Within each tier, my favorite may fluctuate, but I’ve tried to list the best first.)

1. TMP | FIRST CONTACT | WRATH OF KHAN (TWOK wasn’t the movie with the most potential or highest concept, but unlike TUC or TFF, what TWOK sought to accomplish, it executed perfectly).

2. UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY | FINAL FRONTIER (my “spicy” take is that TFF is significantly underrated; see my post last week on the subject!). Also, to the extent we think of PIC season 3 as a final TNG movie, it would probably go here.

3. NEMESIS (another spicy take: NEM wasn’t perfect, but it too was underrated, as was Tom Hardy’s performance. The Picard-Shinzon scene in the ready room was pure Star Trek gold, for instance. It would have done better had it not been preceded by the insipid INS and by a general excess of Star Trek products at the time.)

The middling:

4. BEYOND | VOYAGE HOME | SEARCH FOR SPOCK (TVH is overrated; it gets worse with each viewing, but I do like the 24th century bits.)

5. GENERATIONS | ST09

6. INTO DARKNESS

7. INSURRECTION

OK my turn:

Wrath of Khan First Contact The Undiscovered Country The Voyage Home The Search for Spock Generations Beyond Insurrection Final Frontier STO9 TMP STID Nemesis

(Haonestly, all the others after Beyond doesn’t really matter that much in terms of order, they are all just pretty bad to me)

Why didn’t you just list the Kelvin films with the others?

Bc the news story is about the original 10 films so i added the kelvins at the end as a footnote

Love these too. I could probably have two lists, one for the movies that are my favorites, and which I think are best. This is favorites.

TWOK – This one is favorite on this one. It’s the best propulsion forward for the characters of them all. TMP – It’s grown on me tremendously. Easily the most cinematic, & has the Trek Mantra of storytelling at its very heart. TVH – this the 2nd best of the Trek Mantra of storytelling TUC – It has a lot of flaws in the story, gets some key things wrong, but is very well constructed and told. FC – Best of the TNG era TREK 09 – The fact that it’s in an alternate timeline makes it work for me. The cast is great. But the kicker is that Spock Prime’s arc to embracing his humanity comes full circle. TSFS – the parts are greater than the whole. Not a great script. GENS – I actually like it.. sue me. But yeah, it’s pretty flawed. TFF – Dialogue isn’t great, some really standout character moments amongst some ill conceived plot contrivances. BEYOND – Feels trope laden. Enterprise as an emotional loss was not earned. INS – I barely remember it. Felt like a TV episode in the worst way. (there is a way that can be a positive, but this ain’t it!) NEM – Yeah, it’s just doesn’t work. Trying to replicate Spock’s sacrifice may make sense in the story, but It feels like a lazy way of reaching an end for a character to add weight to the story. Didn’t work. STID – This is where I could really go off. The reason I think it’s the worst as well as my least favorite is it pisses me off, and I think it’s objectively bad in its conception and execution. Even though you can change a character because it’s set in a different timeline, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Shoehorning Khan, and then matching the Spock death scene, and reversing it, was utterly stupid. JJ’s mystery box really hurts what could be an engaging overall story of corruption in Starfleet.

TMP way better in its UE 4k version

Absolutely.

Am still wading through the bonus content on the blu ray

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Star Trek (2009)
• Star Trek: Generations
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Star Trek V: The Final Fronier
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Star Trek Beyond
• Star Trek: Nemesis
• Star Trek: Insurrection

By this time next year a new company will probably have the rights to Star Trek while Paramount withers and dies.

If you love the films, BUY THE DVDs/BLUE-RAY — physical media is the way to go rather than rely on when/where your show/movie is available. Buy physical media for the things you want to watch again and again.

Yep I have all 13 movies on discs these days.

I’ve got most of them, but if I’m honest with myself, I don’t think I’ll ever want to watch any of the post-TOS flicks again, save First Contact, so I let those three go the last time we moved. (STV would have gone with ’em, but my TOS films are part of a multi-disc set. 🤣 )

The only movies I ever rewatch are WOK, TUC, FC and TVH. The others if I catch them on TV or something or like with Nemesis I watched it again due to Picard airing…and was still awful.

Brilliant extras across all the discs, box sets

On the article picture it’s Paramount minus 😜

Speaking of movies, it looks like Paramount is in zero rush to get the prequel starfleet movie out they announced like 5 months ago…but is anyone surprised? 😂🙄

I don’t think we’re getting another movie for the 60th anniversary kids because if they started production on it today it probably wouldn’t be ready until summer 2026 the earliest. And that would be ten years since the last one lol.

But yeah Paramount has bigger problems on its plate these days like if its even around in the next two years.

In the current chaos that Paramount is in, I wouldn’t expect any Trek movies other than streaming movies maybe for many years, if ever.

I sadly agree. We probably will get a Legacy streaming movie sooner than another theatrical movie in the next five years; especially if they don’t feel motivated enough to make a movie for Star Treks 60th anniversary.

Frankly, I’d rather they just can the movies altogether. The best Star Trek has always been on the small screen.

The TOS movies worked because they came about ten years after the series ended, which wasn’t too long a gap, but was long enough to get a perspective on the series and say something about how the characters had changed. There’s no other series that really fits that criteria — even the TNG movies, except for NEM, came too soon after TNG.

*Maybe* ENT would fit the bill, but it wasn’t popular enough to sustain a movie on the silver screen. I’d very much like to see an ENT mini-series in the vein of PIC season 3, though.

I really don’t care that much about the movies and agree Star Trek belongs on TV first and foremost.

But it would still be nice to see just one more before I die. 😉

I’m for anything Enterprise related. If not a theatrical movie then a mini series or a streaming movie would be great too! 😀

It’s still possible a movie can come out by 2026 but production of some kind needs to at least start by the end of this year and yeah not holding my breath. I stopped holding it 5 years ago.

It’s funny I read just today they are going to start shooting the Fantastic Four movie next month that Matt Shakman left the Kelvin movie for. And in all this time not only did they NOT replace him with another director, that movie basically went DOA (again) for another movie. And that doesn’t feel anymore realistic it’s happening anytime soon either since there has not been a single word about the script, starting date or just casting rumors for a movie that’s supposed to be out in two years time.

It’s beyond comical but frustrating at this point.

But yeah when you are dealing with a studio that is in the dire straits it’s in right now, it’s not going to be a huge priority to get a movie off the ground that probably be lucky to make $400 million and will be seen mostly by 40+ year old fanboys.

That’s utterly hilarious the Fantastic Four movie starts shooting soon while Star Trek remains as dead as ever.

I bet Shakman is super happy he bailed on this dumpster fire lol. It will probably be out too before a Star Trek movie ever goes into production.

But I know I’m being harsh, at least the movie has a director and writer attached…just like the last four did including Shakman. 🤣

If Paramount was anymore incompetent it would be run by Trump.

And $400 million sounds overly ambitious at this point. I’m guessing around $300 million tops. When an Indiana Jones movie makes only $300 million no telling how badly another Trek movie can do.

Let me make clear $400 million is the high mark. 😉

I suspect it will do what Beyond did and just fall somewhere between $3-400 million. I will cut it in half and say around $350 million unless it generates the kind of hype the first two did and those days are probably long gone.

(OK how did I suck myself in discussing these movies again lol.)

Well that will be fine if the next movie is around $100 million which is feasible I guess.

JJ verse is likely all but dead probably because they can’t find a way to make something much much cheaper than before. Again the biggest troll job by a studio ever lol.

I don’t think the first contact prequel movie is happening either but they will probably just let that one just die out and move on yet again if we hear nothing about it the rest of the year.

Remember when we were told this was a ‘new regime’ and that a new movie was going to start filming any month now once they get those schedules lined up? Yeah that aged well…and its literally been ages now. 😂😂😂😂

Gullible fans will believe anything I guess.

I will never understand Paramount’s bizarre direction with this franchise. Why keep announcing things you clearly don’t have the money, motivation or vision to make it happen first? Why not clear all those hurdles first before you announce anything and just disappoint your fanbase over and over again? I can’t blame people for just having faith (of the heart) its really really really happening this time but at some point it’s time to wise up and stop believing the studio that keeps serving you the same BS for over five years now. Not until there is actual movement like actors on a set and speaking lines. Until then it’s just more fluff.

But I think every one is very skeptical these days lol.

And now it just looks desperate because everyone knows Paramount doesn’t have any real money anymore to finance something as shaky as another tent pole Star Trek movie; at least at a bigger budget. That’s the only way I see this post First Contact movie happening, it’s at a Bumblebee budget level and no longer an Age of Extinction level. But it’s probably not happening at all either way if, once again, nothing happens by the end of the year.

As said we’ll probably just get more streaming movies instead if A. Section 31 is a big enough hit and B. Paramount+ still exists a few years from now. A Legacy streaming movie would probably be much more popular and profitable anyway since that’s what most fans clearly wants over another tired prequel no one was asking for and they don’t have to worry about it being shown in China just to earn a profit.

Yeah a Legacy movie, now that will at least get fans excited!! 😃

And it could happen since Kurtzman himself hinted at it.

Most fans don’t seem to care about another prequel and the only people who cares about any movie are people on boards like this. Make a 25th century movie. It doesn’t need to be $200 million and explosions every 20 minutes like JJ verse.

But that would probably happen by 2028 the way things are going at Paramount so jist make it for streaming.

I still don’t care that much about the Adolf Section 31 movie but I do hope it’s successful so hopefully we can get stuff like a Legacy or even Lower Decks streaming movies!

I purchased the Trek films I like on DVD and digitally. Same with some of the television shows. If Star Trek is one of their main brands they need to keep the films on Paramount Plus. It makes sense. I cancelled Paramount Plus until SNW returns in 2025. There isn’t much on there I find interesting.

Scotty Nailed It In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Says Melissa Navia

• Martin Quinn shines as Scotty in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, capturing the essence of the iconic character beautifully.
• Melissa Navia praises Quinn's portrayal, highlighting his fantastic performance and confirming his presence in season 3.
• Martin Quinn is the first Scotland-born actor to play Scotty in Star Trek.

Melissa Navia says Martin Quinn "nailed it" as Scotty in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3. Scotty's debut in Strange New Worlds season 2's finale was a shock, and Quinn instantly embodied the easy charm of the younger Scotty, evoking the performance of the late James Doohan as Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott in Star Trek: The Original Series . After beaming aboard the Starship Enterprise, Strange New Worlds season 3 has confirmed Scotty's continued presence.

Strange New Pod hosted a panel at Trek Long Island with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actors Melissa Navia and Yetide Badaki, who played Neera Ketoul in Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 2, "Ad Astra Per Aspera". When asked by a fan about which classic Star Trek character she would like to see in Strange New Worlds in the future, Navia deftly avoided divulging spoilers by highlighting how "fantastic" Martin Quinn is as Scotty. Read her quote below, and watch Strange New Pod 's panel in the link above.

I think I would just answer that question by saying how fantastic Martin Quinn is as Scotty. I just think they just nailed it with him, and we got to work with him. That I can say, right? Everybody knows that hes with us now in season 3.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 - Everything We Know

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 ended with an epic cliffhanger and here's everything known about when it will be resolved in season 3.

Scotty Makes Star Trek History In Strange New Worlds

But will scotty become chief engineer.

Martin Quinn makes Star Trek history as the first Scotland-born actor to play Montgomery Scott because James Doohan was Canadian and Simon Pegg, who played Scotty in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies, was born in England. The young Lieutenant Scott joins Strange New Worlds as the sole survivor of a Gorn attack, and he meets Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the USS Enterprise on Parnassus Beta. But Scotty, showing his brilliance as an engineer, may have the technological key to help the Starship Enterprise defeat the Gorn.

Several members of Captain Pike's USS Enterprise crew were kidnapped by the Gorn in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' season 2 cliffhanger.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' debut of Scotty included the intriguing twist that he was an engineering student of Commander Pelia (Carol Kane) at Starfleet Academy. Pelia replaced the late Lt. Hemmer as the USS Enterprise's Chief Engineer, a position Scotty is destined for, although it remains to be seen if Scotty will nab that promotion during Strange New Worlds. While Martin Quinn's Scotty only got to interact with a handful of Strange New Worlds characters in season 2's finale, Melissa Navia encouragingly indicates that her character, Lt. Erica Ortegas, and others aboard the Starship Enterprise will get to play opposite Scotty in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.

Source: Strange New Pod

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Cast Bruce Horak, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, Melissa Navia, Ethan Peck, Babs Olusanmokun, Rebecca Romijn, Paul Wesley, Christina Chong, Anson Mount

Streaming Service(s) Paramount+

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Writers Bill Wolkoff, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers

Directors Amanda Row, Valerie Weiss, Jonathan Frakes, Chris Fisher

Showrunner Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers

Where To Watch Paramount+