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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: ST:TSFS (Sarek)
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 11:25:34 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 11:25:34 1986
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Quoted from <356@unm-la.UUCP> ["Re: On Humans, Vulcans and Sarek"], by prewitt@unm-la.UUCP (AIDE Mike Prewitt)...
+---------------
| In article <637@riccb.UUCP> rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) writes:
| >> In "Search for Spock", Sarek says (and I misquote)
| >> 
| >> 	My logic is weak were my son is concerned.
| >> 
| >> Now, to me, that is totally out of character for Sarek - especially
| >> since he doesn't have a human half to blame it on.  Besides, what's
| >> so illogical about trying the one chance Spock has for survival?
| >
| >Yes, Sarek in ST3:TSFS was a real disappointment.  I don't know if it's
| >just that Mark Lenard forgot how to act or if Leonard Nimoy never learned
| >how to direct a Vulcan character.
|
| 	I disagree with Roger.
| 
| 	I conclude that if Sarek wasn't corupted(sp?) by emotions, he knows
| much about them and that logic isn't an effective key against (sp?)
| emotion.   In Spocks case it is also true.   Sarek desided that Spock
| should go to the Vulcan Accadamy of Science, but Spock felt that it was
| better for him, Logically of course, that it was better for him to enter
| StarFleet because of his dual herratage. (sp?) Logically, this means that
| Sarek's logic is weak where his son is conserned by his past record.
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I have always maintained that the driving force for ST:TSFS (``because the
needs of the one were greater than the needs of the many'') was, not Kirk, but
Sarek.  (Read the novelization.  I find it significant that after Uhura's part
in the hijacking of the Enterprise, she asks for political asylum at the
Vulcan Embassy and is admitted immediately by Sarek.)  Nice to see that
someone else has finally noticed some of the clues.

--Brandon
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