It wasrecently revealedthat the main character of Star Trek : Discovery , Lieutenant Commander Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) , was raised by Spock ’s parent and is , therefore , Spock ’s adopted babe . And my chemical reaction was , “ How many secret sib does Spock have ? ” Because we ’ve gone down this road before . It ’s been a long road getting from there to here .
In Star Trek V : The Final Frontier , we were introduced to Sybok , Spock ’s half - brother . I , like many a Star Trek fan , prefer to forget that movie ever materialize . you’re able to lift The Final Frontier out of canon with no serious effect , save regaining a bit of your sanity . But I buckled down and re - watched this thing the other day to remind myself about Spock ’s other unmentioned sibling . I … do not recommend it .
Okay , so Sybok , in contrast to Spock , is a full - full-blooded Vulcan who is the son of Sarek . In the plastic film , Spock describes Sybok as “ a young student , exceptionally gifted , possessing neat intelligence . It was assumed that one daylight he would take his place amongst the great bookman of Vulcan . But he was a revolutionist . ”
By “ radical , ” Spock means that his brother settle that the reliable path to knowledge was n’t logic but emotion , and he was relegate for it . Benjamin Spock also make Sybok sound bright , which is … not how he comes across in this pic .
Sybok ends up on Nimbus III — the so - called “ Planet of Galactic Peace , ” and I wish I had a whole other article just to discuss how completely , utterly badly set up that whole place is . But , for now , understand that its major city is Paradise City , where , presumably , the weed is green and the girl are pretty . Sybok ’s meditations led him to get visions from what he conceive is God and he launches a architectural plan to go visit Him .
So Sybok takes hostages in , sigh , Paradise City , so that someone will send a starship to the Planet of Galactic Peace that he can hijack to go visit God at the end of the universe . By pure coincidence , the Enterprise gets sent to deal with this billet , and Sybok is delighted to see Spock again .
I get that Sybok is all into emotion , but the dude maybe should have adjudge onto some logical system , because when ferocity occurs after his army has taken surety , he say , “ It was n’t bloodshed that I want ! ” Logic might have told him that if he did n’t want bloodshed , mayhap intrusion and snatch is not the way to go .
Sybok ’s telepathic power is fundamentally weaponized , unvoluntary therapy . He can excavate your greatest pain and share it and the resulting feeling gains him trueness , I think . Sadly , my gravid pain is this movie and he can not take that away .
Part of that pain is this conversation that fall out after Spock does n’t kill Sybok and prevent the hijacking of the Enterprise :
KIRK : The man may be a fellow Vulcan , but that does n’t …
SPOCK : You do not sympathise me , Captain . Sybok , also , is a Logos of Sarek .
KIRK : He ’s your brother brother ? You made that up .
SPOCK : I did not .
KIRK : You did too . Sybok could n’t possibly be your brother because I happen to know for a fact that you do n’t have a brother .
SPOCK : Technically , you are right . I do not have a buddy .
KIRK : You see ?
SPOCK : I have a half - crony .
KIRK : I ’ve got to pose down .
McCOY : Let me get this heterosexual person . You and Sybok have the same male parent but different mother .
SPOCK : Exactly . That is right . Sybok ’s mother was a Vulcan princess . After her death , Sybok and I were raise as crony .
KIRK : Why did n’t you tell us this before ?
SPOCK : I was not fain to discuss matters of a personal nature . For that I am sorry .
“ I was not prepared to discuss matters of a personal nature ” had better not be the explanation that Star Trek : Discovery uses to explain why Spock has another secret sib . It may be canon , but it ’s dumb canon and no one likes it .
Sybok manages to get the Enterprise crew to take him to see God , who wanted Sybok to bring him a ship so that he could escape because obviously it is n’t really God , but a malevolent force out seeking to manipulate Sybok into helping him escape his immurement . Kirk asks the famous “ What does God need with a starship ? ” question that literally everyone ever should have asked , but everyone in this picture show is at least half - unintelligent except for Kirk , because Shatner was in charge .
Sybok only manages to realize how badly he ’d screwed up at the last present moment , and sacrifices himself . And then no one ever mentions him again . Because The Final Frontier is a movie that no one ever want to admit happen . And given that Star Trek pic canyon includes Insurrection and Nemesis , that ’s quite an acquirement .
And now Star Trek : Discovery is add another mysterious sibling to Spock ’s life . Instead of a Vulcan with too much emotion , it ’s a human with too much logic . It ’s like Amanda and Sarek are play Goldilocks with their children and only Spock negociate to be just correct . So long as Discovery get a line lessons from The Final Frontier rather than taking any cues from it whatsoever , it might be an interesting move . It certainly could n’t go worse .
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