Spocks Human family?

[Crewman47]

Spock had a human mother so why is it we never heard anything about any family relations on Earth or are we to believe that Amanda was an only child who had no living relatives at all?

Are there any mentions of Spocks human side of the family in any novels?

Just curious.

 

[Timo]

The literature forum might be a better place for this question... I know of only one novel that goes into detail about Amanda's side of the family; it's generally acknowledged in fandom and novels that her maiden name was Grayson, and the novel Ishmael by Barbara Hambly spins a crossover tale about a Grayson ancestor in late 1800s Seattle, an ancestor that a time-traveling Spock happens to meet.

(The crossover is with the 1960s western TV show "Here Come the Brides" that ran in parallel with TOS and featured Mark "Sarek" Lenard as the supposed bad guy. The novel makes great fun of this, having Spock take the alias of the bad guy's nephew for the duration of his 1800s stay. Spock also influences his mother's past in certain ways that tie in with the western show's storylines.)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Margret Wander Bonanno's "Strangers from the Sky" also features one of Spock's human forefathers on 21st century Earth.

 

[Gorn Captain]

Is Spock supposedly descended from Sherlock Holmes? That doesn't make any sense to me....but that quote in STVI sure implies so, doesn't it?

Although in the same movie he quoted a Vulcan proverb about Richard Nixon, so maybe the Sherlock Holmes quote was facetious as well.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

What a weird concept, for a fictional character to be descended from another fictional character. I guess it makes a certain amount of sense but what does Richard Nixon have to do with it? He was unfortunately real.

 

[lonesomechild]

Is Spock supposedly descended from Sherlock Holmes? That doesn't make any sense to me....but that quote in STVI sure implies so, doesn't it?

Although in the same movie he quoted a Vulcan proverb about Richard Nixon, so maybe the Sherlock Holmes quote was facetious as well.

Not Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holme's creator. I think Memory Alpha has something to say about this, but not 100% sure.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I always interpreted that to mean that Amanda was a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It can be interpreted both ways

 

[RandyS]

Spock had a human mother so why is it we never heard anything about any family relations on Earth or are we to believe that Amanda was an only child who had no living relatives at all?

Are there any mentions of Spocks human side of the family in any novels?

Just curious.

This might be wrong, but I vaguely remember reading one of the novels in either 1988 or 1989 that had a bit in it about both Spock and Amanda being directly descentant from Benjamin Spock. I think it was SPOCK'S WORLD, but I could be wrong. Twenty years does that to your memory.

 

[Shatmandu]

Charles "Tex" Grayson
Patriarch of the Grayson Line

Joe, noted Grayson historian

 

[Therin of Andor]

I always interpreted that to mean that Amanda was a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Or, that someone was a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle's work. ST VI didn't specify that the ancestor actually coined the phrase. Just used to say it.

But I do like that Amanda and Doyle (or Holmes) were related.

But was Amanda Grayson also a descendant of Dick Grayson, another great detective?

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I always interpreted that to mean that Amanda was a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Or, that someone was a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle's work. ST VI didn't specify that the ancestor actually coined the phrase. Just used to say it.

But I do like that Amanda and Doyle (or Holmes) were related.

But was Amanda Grayson also a descendant of Dick Grayson, another great detective?

There's a web page I came across one time that made those ancestral links to Spock, from Holmes (or Doyle) to Dick Grayson to Amanda Grayson.

 

[HIj'Qa]

Family Matters in Strange New Worlds III deals with Spock and the Human side of the family.

 

[stoneagepunk]

In another novel, I think It's V. M. McIntyre's The First Mission, Kirk makes a joke about I think a "great-aunt Matilda" and Spock wonders how Kirk knew he had a great-aunt named Matilda. (Kirk didn't know - like I said, it was a joke). But one can conclude from Spock's reaction, that she actually existed.

 

[kythe]

This is an interesting question. It seems more of the supplemental stories are based on Spock's ancestry than his current family. I'm interested in what his relationship was like with his human relatives, if he had any. For instance, did he ever travel to Earth as a child to visit extended family? What about his grandparents?

For that matter, we don't see him interacting with Vulcan relatives either, outside his father.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

But was Amanda Grayson also a descendant of Dick Grayson, another great detective?

Dick Grayson? What does Robin have to do with this?

 

[Jbarney]

This is an interesting question. It seems more of the supplemental stories are based on Spock's ancestry than his current family. I'm interested in what his relationship was like with his human relatives, if he had any. For instance, did he ever travel to Earth as a child to visit extended family? What about his grandparents?

For that matter, we don't see him interacting with Vulcan relatives either, outside his father.

My thoughts on this are very familiar to yours. After reading through these posts I have to wonder why I never really thought about Spock's human family. I think much of hit probably has to do with the fact that Amanda spent so much time on Vulcan.

He very likely spent some time visiting those family members (perhaps) during the time he spent at the Academy.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Family Matters in Strange New Worlds III deals with Spock and the Human side of the family.

He's related to Steve Urkle?