What made Spock better in s02e01?

[TheSubCommander]

What made Spock better in season 2?

Amok time is good, but if you ask me, it was Journey to Babel.

 

[LadyT'Anna]

What made Spock better in season 2?

Amok time is good, but if you ask me, it was Journey to Babel.

Because . . . ?

 

[Nerys Myk]

What made Spock better in season 2?

Amok time is good, but if you ask me, it was Journey to Babel.

Because . . . ?

Sarek and Amanda.

 

[BillJ]

Once Spock killed someone he didn't need to get laid so badly.

Pretty sure that he's American on his mother's side.

Once Spock killed someone he didn't need to get laid so badly.

Pretty sure that he's American on his mother's side.

I'd need to see his long form birth certificate.

 

[Noname Given]

I'm watching the original Star Trek series and the last episode was a bit confusing to me. In the episode, Mr. Spock comes down with "Pon Farr", some kind of Vulcan version of being in heat. In the episode, it says that if he doesn't mate, he'll die.

My confusion is: Why didn't he die? He never mated, only fought against Kirk, then gave up his right to his bride. After the fight he was suddenly better without ever having mated.

Am I missing something here?

He needed to go through the marriage ritual. He explained it himself in the episode:

Spock:"Ah, yes, the girl. Most interesting. It must have been the combat. When I thought I had killed the captain, I found I had lost all interest in T'Pring. The madness was gone."

 

[KTJ]

I'm watching the original Star Trek series and the last episode was a bit confusing to me. In the episode, Mr. Spock comes down with "Pon Farr", some kind of Vulcan version of being in heat. In the episode, it says that if he doesn't mate, he'll die.

My confusion is: Why didn't he die? He never mated, only fought against Kirk, then gave up his right to his bride. After the fight he was suddenly better without ever having mated.

Am I missing something here?

He needed to go through the marriage ritual. He explained it himself in the episode:

Spock:"Ah, yes, the girl. Most interesting. It must have been the combat. When I thought I had killed the captain, I found I had lost all interest in T'Pring. The madness was gone."

Right, the clue is in the place name, Koon-ut Kal-if-fee, "he described it to me as meaning 'marriage or challenge' In the distant past, Vulcans killed to win their mates".

 

[Robert D. Robot]

^ OK, this pretty much confirms my assumption. I would still prefer to refer to Trek episodes by their names, rather than numbers, because -to the fans that I know- those names actually do mean something. To switch over to using numbers to identify episodes at this point would be like starting to refer to Ben Cartwright's first child from his third marriage as m03p01, rather than 'Little Joe'.

 

[drt]

^ OK, this pretty much confirms my assumption. I would still prefer to refer to Trek episodes by their names, rather than numbers, because -to the fans that I know- those names actually do mean something.

To be fair to the OP, it sounds like this is his first time through the series (welcome aboard!) and he may not have recalled the episode's name.

And to Greg's point about the numbering, I remember in the eighties it wasn't as uncommon to refer to an episode number (probably due to Asherman's Compendium providing them), but the practice stopped after TNG, since as surmised it started to get too complicated. (I recall this, because I was one of the ones who would do it *hangs head in shame*)

To switch over to using numbers to identify episodes at this point would be like starting to refer to Ben Cartwright's first child from his third marriage as m03p01, rather than 'Little Joe'.

Wait, did they actually explain that the brothers looked different because they were all from different wives?

 

[FormerLurker]

Yeah, Ben Cartwright was a serial killer, a black widower-type.

 

[T'Girl]

I'm watching the original Star Trek series and the last episode was a bit confusing to me. In the episode, Mr. Spock comes down with "Pon Farr", some kind of Vulcan version of being in heat. In the episode, it says that if he doesn't mate, he'll die.

My confusion is: Why didn't he die? He never mated, only fought against Kirk, then gave up his right to his bride. After the fight he was suddenly better without ever having mated.

Am I missing something here?

To go off of what McCoy said, strictly speaking it was simply taking Spock to Vulcan that prevented his death. Once Spock arrived at the stone temple that alone (maybe) saved his life

He still felt the compulsion to engage in marriage or challenge, but his life was no longer in danger.

 

[LadyT'Anna]

To go off of what McCoy said, strictly speaking it was simply taking Spock to Vulcan that prevented his death. Once Spock arrived at the stone temple that alone (maybe) saved his life

He still felt the compulsion to engage in marriage or challenge, but his life was no longer in danger.

I'm not so sure about that. He sounded awfully tense when he told T'Pau he would do what he must, but not with Kirk; I had the impression he was in the throes of the fever still, even though he didn't say so.

 

[telerites]

I'm curious how much Vulcan blood one would have to have to succumb to the Pon Farr? Spock is 50% and he obviously had the madness. What if the male was only, say 25%?

It is biological and not an emotional/psychological state, correct? So even a male with some unknown level of Vulcan biology even not living as a Vulcan would be vulnerable to it?

 

[T'Girl]

I'm not so sure about that. He sounded awfully tense when he told T'Pau he would do what he must, but not with Kirk; I had the impression he was in the throes of the fever still, even though he didn't say so.

Spock didn't enter the blood fever until after T'Pring issued the challenge, if T'Pring had willingly entered the marriage (debatably) the blood fever would never have been seen.

 

[Robert D. Robot]

^ OK, this pretty much confirms my assumption. I would still prefer to refer to Trek episodes by their names, rather than numbers, because -to the fans that I know- those names actually do mean something.

To be fair to the OP, it sounds like this is his first time through the series (welcome aboard!) and he may not have recalled the episode's name.

And to Greg's point about the numbering, I remember in the eighties it wasn't as uncommon to refer to an episode number (probably due to Asherman's Compendium providing them), but the practice stopped after TNG, since as surmised it started to get too complicated. (I recall this, because I was one of the ones who would do it *hangs head in shame*)

To switch over to using numbers to identify episodes at this point would be like starting to refer to Ben Cartwright's first child from his third marriage as m03p01, rather than 'Little Joe'.

Wait, did they actually explain that the brothers looked different because they were all from different wives?

I sure hope that I did not sound like I was giving the OP (or you!) a rough time about using a numbering system to identify episodes (rather than episode names)- that was not my intent. I was/am simply not used to the season/episode numbering system, and -in my own experience- had only seen it on things like Shatner's "Get a Life!" bit on SNL. Interesting to hear that some folks did talk numbers in real life.

Regarding Ben Cartwright's sons: Adam's mom Elizabeth was the daughter of a New England sea captain and born when Ben lived on the East Coast (Boston?); she died in childbirth. Ben met Hoss's mom Inger in St. Louis where he had set up a trading business. She was the daughter of a Swedish immigrant and was killed in an Indian attack outside Denver, a year after they were married. Little Joe was born in New Orleans to Ben's third wife, Marie, a Creole beauty who was later killed in a horse-riding accident on the Ponderosa. I remember seeing episodes each devoted to retelling those individual stories decades ago when I was a kid, so my memory was a bit hazy regarding names & nature of the women's passings, so I beefed up my memory at this website:

http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/evolution.html