#tng sarek

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry [sarek, s3ep23]

'It is a generous offer. But I must warn you that while I would gain your stability, you would experience the fierce onslaught of emotions unleashed by my condition. Vulcan emotions are extremely intense. We have learned to suppress them. No human would be able to control them. They would overwhelm you. The mind-meld can be a terrible intimacy.' - sarek

[vulcanlovetriangles]

I feel deprived that we never saw these two meet, though they likely crossed paths at some point in their careers.

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

Sarek's whole deal never stops being so damn funny. Man's so down bad for a human woman that he defies all of Vulcan culture and marries her. And not in a T'Pol way where they spent most of it in the company of humans. He brought Amanda to Vulcan and, in personal matters, chose to go against everything he was taught to embrace something as irrational as love (though by god that man will do his damnedest to convince you it was logical).

Then to top it all off, that man did not extend that same ideology to his work (No patience nor open-mindedness for very different cultures, rigid adherence to Vulcan practices of diplomacy). And he applies it very haphazardly to his own children. Sometimes, they are a testament to the love he feels for his wife. The humanity he admires. Other times, they are a failure of his own culture. A disgrace and disappointment to Vulcan.

They are the mirrors of his greatest love and his own shame. He loves Amanda and he feels no shame in adoring her, but he feels quiet shame in loving her as un-Vulcan as it is. He is the shame, but the love of her? Never could be.

The helpless romantic he is, he could never resist. He'd never admit it, but he couldn't. So he'd keep any and all shame for himself. None for her.

What a messy beautiful little dork who fucking loves his wife and is so emotionally constipated otherwise.

Amanda Grayson is the one thing in the universe he loves too hard to act that way.

What a goofy lil guy

[firstofficerkittycat]

picard and sarek gave me rabies the way they instabonded "we're a part of each other" you melded ONCE. ON THE DAY YOU MET

[pavel-chekov-appreciator]

When Sarek is dying of Bendii Syndrome, his wife Perrin complains that Spock never came to visit or say goodbye. I don’t think they ever had the best relationship, but at this point Spock and Sarek are absolutely much closer and on better terms than they used to be. Which makes me wonder why exactly Spock never saw his father again before going off to do undercover diplomacy on Romulus. And I think I know the answer.

Because the most prominent symptom of Bendii Syndrome is a breakdown of emotional control.

Sarek, at this point in the disease’s progression, has basically no control over his emotional reactions. He is dying and he is afraid and he is sad and regretful, and he is, most likely, on top of all that, deeply ashamed. This has to be a humiliating experience for a man like Sarek. And I’m sure Spock knows this. Knows his father has precious little dignity left.

And how do you think he would feel, seeing his son?

The son he’s had an incredibly complicated relationship with for his entire life. The son he has so many regrets regarding. The son with his mother’s expressive human eyes, a mother who died old and fulfilled but so tragically young from a Vulcan perspective. The only child he has left when he once had three.

This man would have a breakdown. He would cry. In front his son. And then he would feel ashamed. And their last interaction would be bathed in regret and shame and deep, unresolved sadness.

Spock wants to see his father. He wants to say goodbye to him. He probably wants to meld with him, which seems to be something traditional for Vulcans in the end stages of their lives. But his father’s dignity could not bear it, and he knows this, and he avoids him and allows him to die with that little bit still intact, knowing at least that he never cried in front of his son.

[crystal-mouse]

The lost sequel and prequel- Babe: Pig at Warp Speed (1996)

[bumblingbabooshka]

Spock, Michael, and Sarek: Funereal Letting Go "Let Your Father Die Energy Drink" by Cecilia Corrigan

[unknownfaceless-ds9]

WHY

ARE

VULCANOID

CHARACTERS

SO

BLOODY

HANDSOME

AND

FUNNY

AND

INTERESTING

AND

AMAZING

?!?!?!?!?!

I ALREADY THINK WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THOSE ANTENNAE IDIOTS (both blue and white) AND I REALLY DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!

[dykespirk]

watching sarek and spock both pretend not to have emotions is literally the most fun a girl can have with her clothes on

[ensign-spider]

being autistic like

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry Perrin [sarek, s3ep23]

'Captain, I know a good deal about the Vulcan mind and I know a good deal about the heart of one particular Vulcan. I am his wife, and he is fine. He does not have Bendii Syndrome, and that shall be the end of it.' - perrin [to picard]

[kcsplace]

Making my dad watch the TNG Star Trek movies (that's what he gets for introducing me to Star Trek as a child, there are consequences to your actions, Sir) and now I'm wondering how many ballads and songs there are on Vulcan about the slutty slutty S'chn T'gai family and if parents whisper of them as the shameful family down the street and use them as a cautionary tale to their children.

[mephistopheles]

idk idk iddddk something about sarek loving amanda so much that he married another human after she died. and kirk loving spock so much that he specifically requested a vulcan first officer after spock left him. something about being changed so profoundly by someone so different from you that you come to value the perspective they gave you to the extent that you can only imagine yourself with someone like them at your side. normal things

[trek-tracks]

Do you think that Vulcans talk about humans the way we talk about misbehaving cats?

“He demanded my attention all morning and when I finally got to lunch my plomeek soup was cold. He was then distracted by a shiny thing and knocked over three test tubes. This is the face of a criminal. Lucky he’s so cute.”

[vulcanlovetriangles]

It's more horrifying than I at first realized.

Pon Farr meets The Phase.

I may have to write it.

I mean, if Sarek wasn't married to Perrin, I could see Sarek having a rare one night stand or fling. He rebels to a small degree, at least with these non Vulcan women he likes to marry. Must be where Spock gets it.