Sarek and Amanda
the parents
Being
a Human/Vulcan hybrid, Spock has one human parent – his mother Amanda
– and one vulcan parent – his father Sarek.
Amanda was a teacher and Sarek a diplomat and ambassador, and, according to
Spock, Amanda considered herself very fortunate to be married to him while Sarek
states himself that he merried her because at the time it had seemed like the
only logical thing to do.
In his early childood Spock didn't seem to any relevant problem in his interaction
with them though he seemed to be unable to fully show his affection for his
mother in the same fashion as human children do.
The real first disagreement between Spock and his father Sarek happened several
years later when Spock refused to join the Vulcan Science Academy and instead
decided to enter Starfleet – according to Star Trek XI because he realized
that at the VSA he would always be seen as a disadvanged creature due to his
human eritage. This fracture between the two kept them from speaking to each
other as father and son for 18 years, during which, however, the interaction
between Spock and his mother seems to continue as usual.
In 2268, when Spock was serving under Captain Kirk as his First Officer and
Science Officer, they meet again when the Enterprise is ordered to take several
diplomats – one of them being Sarek - to Babel for a peace conference.
In this occasion, though Captain Kirk tries several time to help Spock and Sarek
reconciling, the two Vulcans seems to show almost a human stubordness –
as Kirk states himself – in refuting to come to compromises. Amanda also
tries the same thing by talking to Sarek but though her husband lost the conversation
in every front, he still refused to admit that he was proud of his son.
At the end of the ordeal that followed – in which an Orion emissary tried
to distrupt the tractatives by murdering one of the ambassadors aboard the Enterprise
– Spock and Sarek seemed to reconcile marginally, at least being now able
to have a civil conversation without tension between them. It takes however
several more years for Sarek to admit aloud to his son that he was proud of
him and the friends he had chosen for himself.
ALTERNATE REALITY
As the interaction between Spock and his parents seems to be the same in his
childood, the real difference in the relationship between Spock and Sarek is
brought on them when Amanda dies in the implosion of Vulcan. As up to that moment
Sarek had let Spock believe that the reason behind his marriage with his mother
to be caused by a purely logical reason, after her death and seeing how his
son was devasted by the emotions running wild inside of him, he admited to have
married with her due to her love for her. The relationship between Spock and
Sarek develops much faster in the alternate reality than in the original series,
and at the end of the movie, they are pratically at the point the original Spock
and Sarek were at the end of Star Trek IV.
Part of Bloody Network, Timid Network and Wishing Star
