Seeing as how Spock says in TSFS, "why did you leave me on Genesis," how can you argue that his last will and testament would have said that he wanted to be shot out of the ship in a torpedo?
I'd argue that Spock
before his death wanted to be buried in space; Spock
after his death realized that he had been wrong all along, his father had been right, and all that Vulcan religious mumbo-jumbo he had hated his whole halfbreed life had in fact been a pretty good approximation of how the universe was put together...
Or at least Spock's haunting katra had the latter sort of interests. Perhaps anybody's katra would. But katra ain't necessarily what Spock's mind consisted of. Katra could have been the silently nagging irrational devil that Spock's rational mind kept suppressed, and with Spock gone, the katra would naturally start to express silly survivalist opinions. Most katras don't get that chance; most resign to the fact that they aren't gonna survive, that they have in fact ceased to survive some time ago already.
Had Spock been alive, he'd probably have argued down his silly katra. Then again, Spock's body being alive and in possible telepathic contact with his katra may have been the very reason the katra expressed these wishes that were contrary to Spock's rational wishes.
Mind you, "remember" only refers to Spock's wish to leave behind a memory of himself to be carried to Vulcan. There is no rational reason Spock's rotting corpse should have been carried to Vulcan, too. Sarek didn't want or expect that, either; he would have been perfectly happy with fishing out Spock's katra from Kirk's head.
It was only the unique situation of the dead Spock in fact being bodily alive that created the unique need to get Spock's body to Vulcan, probably
against all custom.
Timo Saloniemi
