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Spectre. (Carel Struycken). Tall, menacing character with a styl- 1968. A mysterious woman steals Spock's brain. Lee Cronin was zed skull mask that inhabited the virtual reality created for the five the pen name of Gene L. Coon. GUEST CAST: Marj Dusay as hibernating survivors of the Kohl settlement. (“The Thaw" [VGR]). Kara; Majel Barrett as Chapel, Christine; James Daris as SEE: Clown. Carel Struycken also portrayed Mr. Homn, Lwaxana Creature; Sheila Leighton as Luma. SEE: Controller; Eymorg; Troi's manservant, in “Haven” (TNG) and “Ménage a Troi" (TNG) ion propulsion; Kara; Luma; Morg; Sigma Draconis lll; Sigma Draconis IV; Sigma Draconis VI; Sigma Draconis; sonic sepaSpican flame gem. Pretty but common stone. Can be polished rator; Teacher; trilaser connector. with Antarean glow water. A trader on Deep Space Station K-7 was not interested in buying Spican flame gems from Cyrano Spock, Dr. Benjamin McLane. Author, pediatrician, and social Jones in 2267. (“The Trouble with Tribbles” [TOS)) activist on 20th-century Earth. Benjamin Spock's best selling books on baby and child care shaped a generation's views on Spillane, Mickey. Pseudonym of Earth writer Frank Morrison (b. child rearing. Spock was also an outspoken opponent of the 1918), whose works included J, the Jury, and Survival:...Zero! American military presence in a country known as Vietnam "Profit and Loss” [DS9)). Robert Justman was the assistant direc- Spock was among the names that Voyager's Emergency tor on Kiss Me Deadly, a motion picture based upon Spillane's Medical Hologram considered in 2371 when searching for a novel, directed by the famed Robert Aldrich. name to adopt as his own. (“Ex Post Facto” [VGR]). Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry insisted that the Enterprise's Mr. Spock spinach juice. Beverage made from the succulent leaves of an was not named after Benjamin Spock Earth vegetable plant. Tom Paris and Kes both enjoyed spinach uice with a touch of pear. (“Eye of the Needle" [VGRI) =<: Spock. (Leonard Nimoy). Science spinach, creamed. Earth dish made from a leafy vegetable officer aboard mixed with butter and milk, creating a cream sauce. Tom Paris the original Stardecided to buy creamed spinach with replicator rations from his ship Enterprise radiogenic sweepstakes gambling scheme. (“Meld” [VGR]) under the com - 4 mand of Captain Spinelli, Lieutenant. (Blaisdell Makee). Crew member aboard \ James T. Kirk the original Starship Enterprise in 2267. Kirk recorded a commen Born 2230 on dation for Spinelli when the bridge of the Enterprise was slowly \ \ planet Vulcan. His deprived of life support during Khan's takeover attempt. (“Space mother, Amanda Seed” [TOS)). Blaisdell Makee also played Mr. Singh in “The & Grayson, was a Changeling” (TOS) human school - teacher from Earth, spiny lobe-fish. Type of meal served to Riker at the imaginary f pr . and his father, SaTilonus Institute for Mental Disorders. The image of the spiny pr rek, was a diplo: d a obe-fish was generated while Riker was being brainwashed on a I mat from Vulcan planet Tilonus IV in 2369 and, like many of the elements of this “ ® (“This Side of Par delusional world, was unreal. (“Frame of Mind" [TNG]). SEE adise” [TOS], “Journey to Babel" [TOS])). As a result, he was torn Frame of Mind between two worlds, the stern discipline of Vulcan logic and the emotionalism of his human side. The struggle to reconcile his two Spitfire. Nickname for a small sublight combat aircraft employed halves would torment him for much of his life. (“The Naked Time by the British nation during Earth's second world war in the [TOS]). Spock's Starfleet service number was S179-276 SP. As of 1940s. Miles O'Brien piloted a Spitfire in his Battle of Britain 2267, he had earned the Vulcanian Ps holosuite simulation program. (“Accession” [DS9)) Scientific Legion of Honor, had been | or twice decorated by Starfleet Command 2) i Spith basil. Culinary spice native to the Delta Quadrant (“Court Martial” [TOS]), and held an A7 nog . “Prototype” [VGR]) computer expert classification. (“The EEE ? a Ultimate Computer” [TOS]). His blood v2 Spock (mirror). (Leonard type was T-negative. (“Journey to Babel” IS Nimoy). Science officer and [TOS]) second-in-command of the Childhood and family: When he was five years old, Spock I.S.S. Enterprise in the mirror came home upset because Vulcan boys had tormented him, say universe. The bearded first offi ing he wasn't really Vulcan. As a child cer deduced the transposition Spock had a pet sehlat, sort of a live ~ of landing parties between uni- Vulcan teddy bear. (“Journey to Babel” verses and allowed the U.S.S [TOS])). Spock was raised with an older 4 Enterprise landing party to half-brother, Sybok, until Sybok was [= return to their own universe ostracized from Vulcan society because Knowing that one day Spock he rejected the Vulcan dogma of pure ) might be the captain of the logic. (Gene Roddenberry considered the af RR /.5.S. Enterprise, Kirk planted Sybok story to be apocryphal.) Spock oN Nn A seeds of doubt in Spock's mind himself endured considerable antihuman about the fate of the evil empire prejudice on the part of many Vulcans, an experience that may he served, noting that Spock was a man of honor in both univers- have later made it easier for Spock to find a home in the intersteles. (“Mirror, Mirror” [TOS]). Spock became the driving force to lar community of Starfleet. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier). At age reform the Terran Empire, pressing for disarmament and peace seven, Spock was telepathically bonded with a young Vulcan girl He found remarkable success, becoming the empire's comman- named T'Pring (pictured). Less than a marriage, but more than a der-in-chief, and using that position to convince the brutal empire betrothal, the telepathic touch would draw the two together when to change its ways. Unfortunately, Spock's reforms left the the time was right after both came of age. (“Amok Time" [TOS]) empire unable to resist outside attackers, and the empire soon Spock experienced Pon farr, the powerful mating drive, in 2267 fell to forces of the Alliance. “Crossover” [DS9)) and he was compelled to return to Vulcan to claim T'Pring as his wife. T'Pring spurned Spock in favor of Stonn, freeing Spock “Spock's Brain.” Original Series episode #61. Written by Lee (“Amok Time" [TOS]). Spock's father, Sarek, had hoped his son Cronin. Directed by Marc Daniels. Stardate 5431.4. First aired in ~~ would attend the Vulcan Science Academy, and was bitterly