Fair point. Kind of similar to his attitude towards Spock as well.
Spock/Burnham
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Actually no, to me that really isn’t a burning question. But you know what is? Why has Captain James T. Kirk never read his First Officer’s Personnel file? And on a somewhat related note, why does the Chief Medical Officer of the USS Enterprise know, like, next to nothing about basic Vulcan Physiology?
Seriously, Vulcans and Humans have been interacting with each other for over a century at this point and no one has ever heard of the Pon Farr or that Vulcan’s have extra eye lids? Really, the lack of knowledge regarding Vulcans and Vulcan culture on the part of Kirk and McCoy is staggering...
McCoy has a specialist in Sickbay for that kind of nonsense.
Who? Nurse Chapel?!!
Don't ask those questions. Just turn in to an argument about copyright and "true canon."
Except on this point:
"The "Sister of Spock" stuff is complete and utter eye rolling nonsense and again, completely contradicts Sareks storyline in TNG."
Anyone care to explain which son of Sarek Picard attended the wedding of? Since, obviously, only Discovery contradicts Sarek's backstory. The man has never, ever, been shown to be very private.
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Well the daughter had no choice but to go to Starfleet after he screwed her over by choosing his son, who then screwed both of them over by choosing Starfleet over the Vulcan Space Sailors.
Bad Spock.
I actually found that story line oddly moving. It gave a... I don't know. I didn't need a REASON as such. But it gave him a struggle. He's done what he feels is his very best and the universe just won't cooperate. He tried having both and he lost all. It didn't fall into soap opera territory for me.
I found so much of Disco's first season to be forgettable. That stuck with me.
I like Sarek and Burnham. The problem is that they really NEED to include Spock somehow. And no they're saying they won't. Then why set up this story?!?
Whaaaaa?
To flesh out Sarek even more. Why not?
This is why the E put out a distress call. Spock and Burnham need sibling bonding ASAP.
You're thinking of "Amok Time." Different show.
If they're following Mack's book they'll need a whole lotta bonding.
At least that's how I interpreted the conversation between Spock and Sarek at the end of the movie.
TOS gives me the impression First Contact was about one generation removed maybe that is why not much is known about Vulcans? TNG and ENT retcon a First contact that is over 100, 200 years old so makes the Starfleet of the TOS and TOS movies either incompetent or Vulcans were given a lot of privacy clauses when they joined the Federation.
Exactly. TOS gives the impression that Vulcans are fairly exotic and that little is actually known about them, which doesn't exactly gibe with later developments.
^Perhaps Vulcans were given a lot of privacy clauses and it took a lot of inter species relationships before their secrets became open ones. All those offworlders signing Vulcan Secrets Act before they could be bonded to a Vulcan or something in the mind meld compels them to keep Vulcan secrets?
They can introduce Spocko next.
