I doubt that it was a script mistake. That doesn't stop it being something the character thinks is true, but isn't.
Where did the Vulcans come from?
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My point is more so that there is no such thing as a "canon"; there is a set of episodes that claim they take place in the same universe, yet contradict each other far too much for that to be the case. After what is now more than half a century, there simply is no such thing as "Star Trek canon", and to be fair, Gene already had it shattered in the first couple of episodes of The Original Series.
The canon is "the set of episodes that claim they take place in the same universe, yet contradict each other far too much for that to be the case". Canon is just the collected works.
What @Nerys Myk said. Plus, I already view each series, and different episodes therein, as their own parallel universes, but, yeah, it’s also fun to imagine as much unity as possible, wherever possible.
And what would it be then if one episode contract another, as it so often is the case, and how can this canon be used to determine whether the Vulcans "arrived" at Vulcan at one point or not, when multiple episodes seem to imply contradicting things on that matter?
It can't. What will determine it is what ever the writers come up with. Usually what ever's "newest" is the current continuity.
That Vulcans might be genetically utterly distinct from other life on planet Vulcan is not a major issue.
1) If this is indeed so, Vulcan science would have evolved to accommodate and embrace the fact. Either they accept that they are aliens on their own world, or then their biology assumes that it is perfectly natural and part of the great order of things, there being zero reason to think otherwise (at least until Vulcan ventures to outer space and finds planets where things are different - but, given how alien meddling is so common in Trek, Vulcans might be hard pressed to find such planets, as even Earth might fail to qualify).
2) If this is indeed so, Vulcan as we see it today isn't a place where hairless apes could ever hope to evolve, so Vulcan science could always have accepted that Vulcans as we see them today are not native to Vulcan, but at the very least the result of some manipulation; all they are missing from this humdrum mystery of their prehistory is "whodunnit exactly", and thanks to Sargon they now have at least one concrete suspect.
3) This need not be so, though. Vulcan might have been totally barren before the Vulcans came. Perhaps not counting all the microbia, but #1 then applies, as there would be no a priori reason to think that teeny weeny things deep in the veins of the bedrock would be related to bigger things on the surface.
4) This need not be so at a more fundamental level, even. Vulcan and Earth and Tellar and Andor lifeforms might have no genetic difference whatsoever, beyond the trivial between mollusks, mastodons and mockingbirds. We never hear of such a difference existing in the Trek universe, after all.
Just pick one of the four. And different Vulcans might pick differently, even to the very day we last hear the issue addressed.
Timo Saloniemi
1) If this is indeed so, Vulcan science would have evolved to accommodate and embrace the fact. Either they accept that they are aliens on their own world, or then their biology assumes that it is perfectly natural and part of the great order of things, there being zero reason to think otherwise (at least until Vulcan ventures to outer space and finds planets where things are different - but, given how alien meddling is so common in Trek, Vulcans might be hard pressed to find such planets, as even Earth might fail to qualify).
2) If this is indeed so, Vulcan as we see it today isn't a place where hairless apes could ever hope to evolve, so Vulcan science could always have accepted that Vulcans as we see them today are not native to Vulcan, but at the very least the result of some manipulation; all they are missing from this humdrum mystery of their prehistory is "whodunnit exactly", and thanks to Sargon they now have at least one concrete suspect.
3) This need not be so, though. Vulcan might have been totally barren before the Vulcans came. Perhaps not counting all the microbia, but #1 then applies, as there would be no a priori reason to think that teeny weeny things deep in the veins of the bedrock would be related to bigger things on the surface.
4) This need not be so at a more fundamental level, even. Vulcan and Earth and Tellar and Andor lifeforms might have no genetic difference whatsoever, beyond the trivial between mollusks, mastodons and mockingbirds. We never hear of such a difference existing in the Trek universe, after all.
Just pick one of the four. And different Vulcans might pick differently, even to the very day we last hear the issue addressed.
Timo Saloniemi
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