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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x05 - "Spock Amok"

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Sarek is famous enough that if he'd had any other sons, we would have seen them.

They would have at least been mentioned when he died, anyway.

And if Sarek had had multiple sons (not counting Sybok), Picard would have adjusted the line accordingly.

Would we? I'd say all of that is an assumption. In fact, as we know from "Sarek" when Picard was suffering under Sarek's pain, he mentioned Amanda, Perrin, and Spock. He failed to bring up his son Sybok or his adoptive daughter Michael. So if his innermost thoughts didn't necessarily cause Sarek to think of them, why the assumption he would do so publicly for another son.

The obvious implication is Spock, of course. But it is by no means formally established.

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For what it's worth the official Star Trek website says that it's Spock that got married and that this is what Picard was referring to: https://www.startrek.com/database_article/spock . Whether you accept this or not depends on whether you accept the words of the official Star Trek website run by CBS/Paramount as canon. (Yes the site has errors but rule of thumb I personally do take it as canon unless a filmed work overrides it)
 
TPTB probably just chose not to mention Spock by name because they were setting up his eventual appearance on the show and didn't want to show their hand too early.
 
nd why the hell didn't he just say "Spock" and keep it all wishy-washy secret?
Probably because the 1990 TNG writers wanted to keep options open on Spock’s whereabouts, in case they decided to kill him in movie 6 or 7. Something they forgot to do with Kirk when Scotty showed up, apparently.
Well, it's obviously not Sybok
yeah, dead Vulcans never return, imagine ones that are just missing.

Sarek had no other sons.
and never adopted a human daughter either!
 
Everyone's wondering if Spock got married and who with and not who was helping him out with pon farr up until the 24th century (if he did get married).

2267--covered in Amok Time. 2274--? 2281--? We can then presume his pon farr cycle reset in Search for Spock in 2285 and Saavik helped out. 2292 to at least 2327 (when Spock would have married at the earliest as Picard claimed to be a lieutenant at the time)

Okuda placed Chapel's birth year as 2237 in the non-canon Starship Creator game, but this can still hold with SNW. If she did marry Spock, she must have done so at age 90 or older. :eek:

Other candidates are Saavik as mentioned or even the Romulan Commander from the Enterprise Incident. Maybe even Uhura if they take a page from the Kelvin timeline :eek: (although she'd also have to be 88 or older when this happened)
 
we don’t ever know if he ever married at all. We know A son of Sarek did, but it could have been a resurrected Sybok or yet another unknown sibling.

That would be kind of funny. The "God" thing finally gets its hands (head?) on a starship and then tries to show up Captain Kirk by bringing a resurrected Sybok with him, traveling to the Federation and gets Sybok engaged so as to have Spock go to a wedding and hopefully bring Kirk along so "God" can get its vengeance (not knowing that Kirk is dead/in the Nexus). For whatever reason Picard attends. Then, after the dust settles, Starfleet classifies the whole incident, so when Picard is talking to Riker, he obfuscates a little by referring to an unspecified son of Sarek.
 
That Sarek sure gets around a lot, even if he is a career ambassador. I wonder how many other kids he can claim as dependents on his tax return?
Conveniently the Federation doesn't use money. It's unclear if the Vulcans gave up any pre-existing currency when they helped found the Federation.
 
No, because it is clearly not written by people who have researched what they're writing. It repeats a lot of fan speculation/rumours with no facts to back them up.
I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, but quality of research is a very interesting new rule for what counts as canonical.
 
And who's to say a statement from someone nearly 20 years ago still counts?
Because no one has said other wise.

It has also been repeated at conventions when people ask if the new tie in books/comics to DSC/PIC/SNW are considered canon.
 
Because no one has said other wise.

It has also been repeated at conventions when people ask if the new tie in books to DSC/PIC/SNW are considered canon.
By whom? On whose authority? Why do they supersede anyone else, or the official website, as arbiters?
 
Janeway mentioned a Vulcan merchant raising the price on something when he noticed she was wearing a Starfleet uniform.

But she didn't say where this took place.

Probably within Federation territory. I think Janeway even mentioned Federation credits by name during that scene...
 
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