I hate it when they just throw things in there

[DevilEyes]

...hold on, that was pretty good. Perrin!
Yes, say Perrin had a son before marrying Sarek (she's widowed, whatever).

Now when she wed the ambassador, perhaps Perrin's child became a "son of Sarek", adoption, Vulcan customs, or something like that.

When Picard mentions meeting Sarek at his "son's wedding", he might be referring to Sarek's step-son (son of Perrin).

The step-son concept might not translate in Vulcan tradition or custom.
Spock didn't refer to Sybok as a step-brother, just a brother.
So Picard "Sarek's son" comment might be referring to his step-son by Perrin?

Am I missing something? Plausible?

It is plausible.

But Sybok was not Spock's step-brother. That would mean that they had no blood relation. He was his half-brother - they had the same father - and most people, humans included , normally don't make a distinction between a half-brother and a brother with both same parents. It's just "brother".

 

[Myasishchev]

I once started referring to my aunt as my half-aunt. It's technically correct, but boy was she offended.

 

[Timo]

I really don't see the issue here. I mean, the fact that Spock had an estranged father was never developed in TOS. It was just the plot twist of a single episode, after which we never heard of Sarek again - until he did a stint or two in the movies.

The fact that Kirk had a brother was throwaway stuff as well. Or the fact that McCoy had a divorced wife and a daughter (they literally did throw that away before "Way to Eden" was shot, though). These small revelations fleshed out the characters just fine without having to become multi-episode arcs or anything.

So Spock married? Big deal. He all but did that in TOS once already, and never referred back to it.

(So Spock didn't appear too married in "Unification"? Again, big deal. If the Sarek/Amanda marriage is any indication, women whimper and walk three steps behind their husbands, and stay out of the way on important business trips.)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Lindley]

I think it was Vulcan's Heart that covered the Spock/Saavik wedding. (And I think the Ent-C was involved in that one somehow.)

 

[Timo]

Her involvement in the actual wedding was rather peripheral, as was that of the Stargazer. Although I guess it's relatively spoiler-free to say that the novel did describe the fate of the E-C and her crew in Romulan hands during and after the events alluded to in "Yesterday's Enterprise".

The novels paint a long, broad and bright arc of the Saavik/Spock relationship, one where "equality" emphatically is absent: Saavik is anything from hunter to prey to chattel to protegé to student to colleague to lover to mother to daughter to wife, depending on when and where we look. That's life for you - of a rather interesting sort, and apparently very satisfactory for both participants in the game.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[SchwEnt]

It is plausible.

But Sybok was not Spock's step-brother. That would mean that they had no blood relation. He was his half-brother - they had the same father - and most people, humans included , normally don't make a distinction between a half-brother and a brother with both same parents. It's just "brother".

Right right right! Yeah, my brain malfunctioned. Of course I meant to use "half-brother".

And I was just making the point, as you suggest, that perhaps Vulcans don't use step-sons or half-brothers.

Perrin's offspring with another fellow may well be considered "a son of Sarek" when they got married.

 

[PTRACER]

I thought this the other day when watching Dogs Of War, the penultimate DS9 episode. Suddenly out of nowhere, Rom is made Grand Negus. I thought it was pretty poor throwing that in randomly and I think there were probably hundreds of thousands of Ferengi who would be better at it that Rom. And besides, what about his career in Starfleet as an Engineer?!

 

[Myasishchev]

Probably, but I still have no clear idea what a Grand Nagus actually does, anyway, other than be rich.

 

[Agenda]

I thought this the other day when watching Dogs Of War, the penultimate DS9 episode. Suddenly out of nowhere, Rom is made Grand Negus. I thought it was pretty poor throwing that in randomly and I think there were probably hundreds of thousands of Ferengi who would be better at it that Rom. And besides, what about his career in Starfleet as an Engineer?!

I'm not saying the idea is that great, but to me the Ferengi in Ds9 were usually meant to be comedic and not taken seriously, as were their plotlines. So it just didn't bother me that much.

 

[blockaderunner]

I don't see a big deal about it. It just makes the universe bigger than what is seen on the bridge.

 

[Anji]

Wow. I've seen "Sarek" I can't tell you how many times and I never caught that line.

In storywriting, a mention like that is called a seed. They dropped that in hoping another writer would pick up on it and develop a script, but no one ever did.

But I like the theories you guys have as to who the "son" is. Keep talking...

 

[ALF]

I wouldn't worry about future Trip/T'pol fic. It's alive and quite well.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Good_That_Men_Do
Not to mention more or less officially sanctioned.

 

[DevilEyes]

Wow. I've seen "Sarek" I can't tell you how many times and I never caught that line.

I think it's actually in "Unification part 1".