No, it's apocryphal, meaning it carries less weight. You can look at authorial intent but thsts the extent of it.
Balance of Terror
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I do understand the concept. I guess I concede it.
It's just that it makes sense to me that a good deal of medical intervention was necessary outside of the womb as well as within it in order for Spock to exist. Of course, some people buy the idea that Saavik was pregnant with Spock's baby (or Zarabeth had a baby with Spock per A.C. Crispin's two books) with Spock's baby when they left her on Vulcan, where others would say that it wouldn't be possible, since Spock was a hybrid, for him to have a baby with anybody with or without medical intervention unless that intervention occurred earlier in his life.
So is Spock an Augment?
I don't even know. What is an augment? I'm just going by the audio interview between Roddenberry and "Sarek."
Genetically engineered, like Khan (made into a superman), or Julian Bashir (illegally genetically altered to fix developmental issues as a child)
It's nice to know the 1976 LP Inside Star Trek is "extremely rare."
But I guess to some fans, it's a new discovery.
Clickbait title is clickbait. I’ve had the vinyl LP since 1976 and the expanded CD since 1999. It’s not rare at all.
I wouldn't throw that term around casually. That's very specific, I think, to the genetically enhanced super-types. Spock is a simple hybrid. Like a mule or a tigon. Nothing augmented, just two things combined.
IMHO
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So something less than an Augment...not made superpowered, but both halves rendered compatible with each other.
Needs of the plot.
Yes.
If it's a war of conquest, then there would likely be ground battles and occupation where humans would see Romulans.
Even if it was exclusively space combat, we would expect possible boarding actions and attempt to capture a ship. In the case of self destruct/suicide bombs, perhaps at least one such attempt failed.
Not every ship lost would be the result of self destruction. Bodies would be recovered. Maybe self destruct warheads would not always vaporize all the bodies.
Section 31 or some other intelligence agency would make it a priority to learn as much as possible about Romulans.
Vulcan High Command knew about the Romulans and trained their personnel, such as T'pol with this knowledge.
Isn't the point of the title that the the interview is rare, not the record/disc? To new fans, yeah that is rare.
"Balance of Terror" said they hadn't seen each other. That is what I tend to go with. But, I tend to see Star Trek as a separate from its spinoff progeny.
Yup, otherwise we wouldn't have the dramatic reveal.
It's almost like this is a drama rather than historical documentation.
The needs of the plot outweigh the needs of the many. Or something.
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