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STARFLEET DATABASE FILE:
Spock Full Biography Mode Played By: Leonard Nimoy
Rank: Captain, retired Serial number: S179-276SP
Full Name: Spock (lineal Vulcan name unpronounceable)
Year of birth: 2230
Place of birth: Shi'Kahr, Vulcan
Parents: Ambassador Sarek and his wife Amanda Grayson
Education: Starfleet Academy, 2249-53
Marital status: Once married
Last where abouts: Romulus
Starfleet Career Summary 2252 --
As cadet, assigned under Capt. Christopher Pike, U.S.S. Enterprise
2253 -- Commissioned as ensign, still aboard Enterprise
under Pike
2265 -- As lieutenant commander, named first officer and
science officer under Capt. James T. Kirk aboard Enterprise; promoted
to commander soon after
2269 -- Retired from Starfleet
2271 -- Reactivated commission during V'Ger crisis under
Kirk on refit Enterprise
2277 -- Promoted to captain, assigned to Starfleet Academy
faculty and cadet training with Enterprise
2285 -- Relinquish cadet-filled U.S.S. Enterprise to Kirk
for rescue of Project Genesis team
2286 -- Though uncharged, stands with Kirk and shipmates
for theft of Enterprise charges
2287 -- Accompanies Kirk aboard NCC-1701-A Enterprise
for Nimbus III mission
2293 -- Envoy to UFP-Klingon peace accords, spurred by
explosion of Klingon moon Praxis Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson,
was a human schoolteacher from Earth and his father, Sarek, was
a respected diplomat. For most of his life, Spock was torn between
his emotional human side and the stern discipline of his Vulcan
half until his experience with the V'Ger machine-entity in 2271
and his later death and rebirth in 2286 broadened his perspective.
As of 2267 he had earned the Vulcanian Scientific Legion of Honor,
had been twice decorated by Starfleet Command and held an A7 computer
expert classification.
As a child, Spock had a pet sehlat, which is a cuddly Vulcan bear-like
animal with claws and fangs. His older half-brother, Sybok, who
was ostracized from Vulcan because he rejected the way of pure
logic, was killed in 2292 after battling an alien entity at the
galaxy's center that claimed to be 'God.' At age seven, Spock
was telepathically bonded with a young Vulcan girl named T'Pring.
The telepathic touch would draw the two together when the time
was right after both came of age: once every 7 years all Vulcan
males experiences pon farr, a powerful Vulcan mating drive which
demands that they mate or die.
In 2267, however, T'Pring chose Stonn, a Vulcan, over Spock, and
the Vulcan returned to the U.S.S. Enterprise unwed. He did eventually
marry in a ceremony attended by Lt. Jean-Luc Picard. Because the
young Vulcan chose to join Starfleet, he and Sarek opened an 18-year
rift over Sarek's hope his son would attend the Vulcan Science
Academy. Spock was the first Vulcan to enlist in the Federation
Starfleet, serving aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise under Captain
Christopher Pike as a lieutenant, and later for James T. Kirk.
After the conclusion of the U.S.S. Enterprise's first five-year
mission, Spock retired from Starfleet and returned to Vulcan to
pursue the emotion-purging of the kohlinar discipline from the
Vulcan Masters.
Although he completed the training, Spock failed to achieve kohlinar
because his emotions were stirred by the V'Ger entity in 2271.
He then reentered Starfleet and was eventually promoted to U.S.S.
Enterprise captain when that ship was assigned as a training vessel
at Starfleet Academy. Spock sacrificed himself in 2285 to repair
plasma conduits that allowed the U.S.S. Enterprise and its crew
to escape from the detonation of the Genesis Device by Khan Noonien
Singh; his radiation-wracked body was consigned to space but landed
on the newly formed Genesis Planet and began regeneration. Prior
to his death, Spock had mind-melded with McCoy to transfer his
katra, apparently intending for his longtime friend and sparring
partner to return it to Vulcan and perhaps be fully regenerated
in the fal-tor-pan or refusion process, conducted for the first
time in generations. In later years, Spock's work became more
diplomatic than scientific, initially remaining a part of Starfleet.
In 2293, he served as Federation special envoy to the Klingon
government, paving the way for the Khitomer peace accords with
Chancellor Azetbur, and disappointed in that his protTgT, Lt.
Valeris. In the coming decades as a civilian, in 2368, Spock secretly
traveled to Romulus on a personal mission to further the cause
of Romulan/Vulcan reunification - a mission which shook up the
Federation so that Captain Jean-Luc Picard was sent undercover
to determine his motives. On the same trip he was saddened to
hear of the death of his father, Sarek, but Picard's presence
allowed Spock a final last solace thanks to an earlier Picard-Sarek
mind meld. Spock remained to work with the Romulan underground
and in 2369, helped arrange the defection of Romulan vice-proconsul
M'Ret to the Federation to pioneer an escape route for dissidents.
Spock carried a life-long interest in art, music, literature and
poetry from many worlds, especially Terran, and played both tri-dimensional
chess as well as the Vulcan lute or harp and a keyboard harpsichord.
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