Mintakans. As Troi put it, proto-Vulcan humanoids.
10,000 Survivors? !
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I don't know. I can't say I like how it was handled. It was far too heavy an event for a movie of this type (an otherwise light slightly comic action-adventure film).
And sorry, I did not think the reactions were proper under the circumstances. Consider that in "The Doomsday Machine", Commodore Decker goes crazy after helplessly watching his crew be killed. When the Intrepid was destroyed, Spock felt it from light years away. It was like he had a seizure. Maybe in this movie, Spock should've run through the corridors of the ship crying and sobbing.
Uhura gets kissy-face with Spock after it happened. Frankly it made me uncomfortable on several levels. I was waiting for tongue.
Scotty would have to be some kind of insensitive dunce to be asking for a towel under the circumstances in which he did (why do we need a laugh-line, there?).
Same thing after the fight, where he utters the line about liking the ship because it's exciting. Does he understand what just happened on the bridge? And again, does the audience really need a laugh then? The tension should've been higher, not broken.
By the end of the movie, Spock Prime already believes he's found a planet suitable for recolonizing the 10,000 or so remaining Vulcans. ALREADY? It leads me to believe that Orci and Kurtzman may have wanted to close this issue by the end of the movie so that they can move on. From now on, we'll know Spock Prime is "out there" handling it.
McCoy' jabs at Spock under those circumstances were completely wrong in so many ways. It's hard to understand how McCoy could ever poke fun at Spock and make jabs about his "Vulcanness" like in TOS under these new circumstances, unless he is an insensitive bigot.
Only 10,000 left? Maybe that was 10,000 saved from the planet. That's just a ridiculously low number if it's the total number of Vulcans left, period. Just twenty embassies on twenty planets with 500 Vulcans assigned to each is 10,000 Vulcans right there.
There's probably more, but I've ranted enough. And --
-- other than all that, I really did like the movie.
And sorry, I did not think the reactions were proper under the circumstances. Consider that in "The Doomsday Machine", Commodore Decker goes crazy after helplessly watching his crew be killed. When the Intrepid was destroyed, Spock felt it from light years away. It was like he had a seizure. Maybe in this movie, Spock should've run through the corridors of the ship crying and sobbing.
Uhura gets kissy-face with Spock after it happened. Frankly it made me uncomfortable on several levels. I was waiting for tongue.
Scotty would have to be some kind of insensitive dunce to be asking for a towel under the circumstances in which he did (why do we need a laugh-line, there?).
Same thing after the fight, where he utters the line about liking the ship because it's exciting. Does he understand what just happened on the bridge? And again, does the audience really need a laugh then? The tension should've been higher, not broken.
By the end of the movie, Spock Prime already believes he's found a planet suitable for recolonizing the 10,000 or so remaining Vulcans. ALREADY? It leads me to believe that Orci and Kurtzman may have wanted to close this issue by the end of the movie so that they can move on. From now on, we'll know Spock Prime is "out there" handling it.
McCoy' jabs at Spock under those circumstances were completely wrong in so many ways. It's hard to understand how McCoy could ever poke fun at Spock and make jabs about his "Vulcanness" like in TOS under these new circumstances, unless he is an insensitive bigot.
Only 10,000 left? Maybe that was 10,000 saved from the planet. That's just a ridiculously low number if it's the total number of Vulcans left, period. Just twenty embassies on twenty planets with 500 Vulcans assigned to each is 10,000 Vulcans right there.
There's probably more, but I've ranted enough. And --
-- other than all that, I really did like the movie.
Sarek's wife doesn't appear in STVI. His second wife (that we know of) was Perrin, in TNG.
Don't you ever back up your data?
More serious answer: Yes, there would be - but both would have lead very different lives after the moment their timelines split.
There is hardly a short supply of habitable planets in the Trekverse, I daresay it wouldn't be too hard to resettle the Vulcan refugees.
This idea is not canon therefore it can't happen.
I got the impression that Scotty didn't know what was going on, particuarly at the point where he asked for a towel. Scotty never gave any impression of knowing or being told that there were any major disasters or planets exploding or anything of that sort.
Eh, it was believable. Tensions were running high for everyone...McCoy just picked up the duties of chief medical officer and a sickbay full of injured people, they all just witnesses a major disaster, their captain has been taken prisoner, and McCoy just watched Spock throw his friend completely off the ship without batting an eye. Bones is naturally kinda curmudgeony as it is, and it's imaginable that he would get even more snappy under those circumstances.
