News Kurtzman: Why We Gave Spock A New Adopted Sibling
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I'm not angry or losing my mind, I just don't like it.
Actually that is quite an interesting and clever way around it. Although having genius parents doesn't guarantee a child will be exceptional it certainly has all of the nature and nurture factors in its favour. Stephen Hawking has three kids. Lucy went to Oxford and is a journalist, Robert is a products engineer for Microsoft and timothy Hawkins went to Birmingham university and is an executive with Lego. You look at that and most people go "yeah that makes sense" even the "least" successful (I hesitate to say that) is a university educated exectuve.
Effort and dedication trumps brilliance.
I feel like it's doing more harm than good. I was really excited for Discovery before this news popped up.
We haven't heard of her. That doesn't mean that nobody in Spock's life never heard of her.
Kirk, McCoy, et al. hypothetically could have known about her.
Plus she may not be considered a sibling as much as it is a girl that her parents took in. Something like a foster sibling.
If kid-Spock's schooling session in ST09 is any indication, I think the vast majority of humans would not be able to keep up with Vulcans when it comes to sheer intellect. A PhD from an Earth university is probably like passing one course in a Vulcan middle school.
What news? It's been known for months that Burnham is Sarek's adoptive or foster kid or something along those lines.
Kor
Unless Michael's transitioning, I'm guessing the wedding of Sarek's son - that Picard once mentioned attending - was Spock's.
Well, at the time I'm sure it was their intention for it to be Spock.
Why? Who knows how many kids he fathered and adopted over a couple centuries? We could do a Brady Bunch-esque prequel, with all kinds of Sarek's kids.
Sarek was a player.
- taps numbers into a calculator app -
Two hundred and two years old
divide by 7
the dirty devil
you'd think butter wouldn't melt...
Vulcans have never been shown to be more intelligent than humans, but I would concede that Vulcans have a much more focused intellect. However, that focus does not need to be genetic, but rather something that is honed through their way of life.
So if Burnham is a relatively intelligent person, and she was raised/mentored by Sarek to have a very focused intellect, then she would be very much like any relatively intelligent Vulcan.
Yeah, TNG shows that in the future, ten-year old humans will learn calculus. Too bad today's education systems aren't of that caliber.
Kor
I think if someone sent Pocket an outline for a book about Spock's never before heard of adopted sister, they would've tossed it in the garbage. Likely the same thing would've happened during the years when Paramount accepted unsolicited script submissions.
If Spock can have a long lost brother that no one knows about for decades then him having a foster or adopted sister is no stretch at all.
At the next reboot they should make Spock an identical twin.
At the next reboot they should make Spock an identical twin.
Why reboot? Just toss it in. No where does it say Spock wasn't an identical twin! Heck, while Sarek was saying "so human", Amanda could have been pushing another kid out.
Just because something doesn't go specifically against canon, doesn't mean it's a good idea or makes sense.
TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT didn't need their characters to have a family connection to TOS characters.
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