Why Are Spocks Siblings So...Dysfunctional?

[Orphalesion]

Because no one knows they exist until a plot demands them.

Uhura: So, Spock, do you have any brothers or sisters?
Spock:....I DON'T KNOW!

 

[The Wormhole]

Vulcans generally have dozens of children,

Logically, they should if they have two hundred year lifespans and are having sex at least once every seven years.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Where is the logic in depleting resources through over population?

 

[Timo]

The more sons you have, the more likely they are to get control of those resources...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[fireproof78]

Where is the logic in depleting resources through over population?

I mean, a part of their population left for another planet, and they have colony worlds, plus whatever their population due to wars before adopting Surak's doctrine.

 

[Orphalesion]

Yeah part of over-population in the Star Trek era is mitigated by the possibility of colonization, but I still think a logical species like the Vulcans would have only as many children as they can raise well and as there are resources available.

 

[fireproof78]

Yeah part of over-population in the Star Trek era is mitigated by the possibility of colonization, but I still think a logical species like the Vulcans would have only as many children as they can raise well and as there are resources available.

Except, Vulcans are still susceptible to bouts of emotion, especially in regards to mating. Not saying there would not be any measures to support population planning, and allocation of resources.

 

[Orphalesion]

Except, Vulcans are still susceptible to bouts of emotion, especially in regards to mating. Not saying there would not be any measures to support population planning, and allocation of resources.

True I didn't consider how Pon-Farr effects them. So there's likely a number of unplanned babies in Vulcan families.

 

[Ronald Held]

With Spock's vast memory, or course he picked a name of a distance cousin unknown to Sarek and Amanda.

 

[XCV330]

I'm still hoping for At Home With the Sareks, featuring Sarek, Amanda, young Spock and Michael (played by their Discovery flashback actors) and teenage rebel Sybok. The first Star Trek sitcom, it writes itself.

I like it when I get to reuse a thing

 

[tesral]

Of course Vulcan pedigrees are likely to have a lot fewer generations per centuryo or millennium that human pedigrees, making tht feat a little less impressive.
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This. As Vulcans have a life span longer than most Humans can trace their linage, it is not incredibly impressive for Vulcans. On the order of the Human English family whose estate dates to the reign of Henry VIII or some such.

 

[Orphalesion]

The moment when Discovery even made freaking Vulcan cold and rainy

 

[XCV330]

The moment when Discovery even made freaking Vulcan cold and rainy

Sarek has a custom climate dome over the family compound.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The moment when Discovery even made freaking Vulcan cold and rainy

Spoilers: If there was never any rain, the planet would be uninhabitable.

 

[Orphalesion]

Spoilers: If there was never any rain, the planet would be uninhabitable.

And if you took two seconds to take a sentence in context you might understand that I'm not against showing rain at all, I'm just tired of Discovery's tendency to make pretty much every planet they show cold, wet and/or snowy.

 

[fireproof78]

It's bound to rain eventually. It even snows in the desert.

 

[Orphalesion]

It's bound to rain eventually. It even snows in the desert.

See the post right above yours

 

[fireproof78]

See the post right above yours

I saw it. I still am failing to grasp the problem. Mileage I suppose.

 

[tesral]

Given that weather is often used in film to stand as a metaphor for mood...

 

[The Wormhole]

I'm just tired of Discovery's tendency to make pretty much every planet they show cold, wet and/or snowy.

A by-product of the show filming in Canada. Stargate had the same problem. SNW might avoid it, since IIRC they plan on using those Volume things to digitally create their planets, like on The Mandalorian.