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Spock's World is a 1988 Star Trek novel by Diane Duane.The Enterprise crew's shore leave is interrupted when Kirk, Spock, and McCoy receive an invitation to speak at a referendum. The topic? Whether or not Vulcan should secede from the Federation. As the trio make their way through the discussions, they encounter prejudice and secrets and an old enemy makes a surprising return. Can even the crew of the Enterprise keep Vulcan from withdrawing?In addition to this, there is a side plot about the history of Vulcan, climaxing with the marriage of Sarek and Amanda and the birth of Spock.
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Dropping the Bombshell
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Dropping the Bombshell: Sarek announces his resignation from his position within the heavy implication that he will be leaving Vulcan should they vote to secede. Given that Sarek is a descendant of Surak and next in line to be Head of House, this shocks the audience into absolute silence. McCoy's question at the end of Sarek's discourse: "What do[es the government] think of the scheme to sell off formerly Federation-owned property on Vulcan, after the secession, to secret buyers with strong anti-Federation leanings, who have already made substantial payoffs to Vulcan officials to ensure that the property will be sold to them at 'lowest bid' before anyone else hears of it?" Followed seconds later by another such line. Sarek says that the government can't respond to that allegation without seeing solid evidence of it, and McCoy says, "Sir, I await your convenience." The author describes the reaction thusly: "And the room went mad." Kirk playfully grouches afterwards that McCoy needs to warn him when he's planning to do something like that.
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Bizarre Alien Biology
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Bizarre Alien Biology: Thinking he was having a heart attack, Amanda once started doing chest compressions on Sarek. He amusedly informed her that she was pressing on his liver.
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Plot-Triggering Death
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Plot-Triggering Death: Stonn's death triggered T'Pring to set out to destroy Spock.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: Vulcan was definitely this before Surak's reforms, as the historical chapters show.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: At the beginning of his speech, Kirk references his near-death in "Amok Time" by saying that "those of you who know the circumstances under which [he] left [Vulcan would] guess [he] was rather glad to get away again." Despite the privacy and embarrassment surrounding ponn farr, the crowd finds the oblique comment mildly amusing.
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Outside/Inside Slur
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Outside/Inside Slur: When a Vulcan points out that Spock is halfblood, Kirk spends a good few words drawing out his real meaning — namely, that because Spock is a halfblood, he's "a fake Earth person", not a Vulcan.
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Go-to-Sleep Ending
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Go-to-Sleep Ending: In the last chapter, after they have successfully kept Vulcan from seceding, Kirk wraps things up with Moira (who was instrumental in the process) and goes to take a well-deserved night's sleep.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
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Jerk In Sheeps Clothing: In Star Trek: The Original Series, T'Pring may have seemed semi-sympathetic. However, the book's depiction of her is as a wholly self-centered jerk with no redeeming qualities. After the events of the kal-i-fee, T'Pring brooded over matters not having worked out exactly as she wanted. Convinced T'Pring was in love with Spock or someone else, Stonn took a suicidal risk to make their bond "real". Afterwards, T'Pring didn't even seem that upset about the loss itself, as opposed to not getting what she wanted again. This spurred the idea of hate-mongering Vulcan towards secession specifically to hurt Spock, ignoring how many millions of other people the movement would hurt.
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Crusading Widow
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Crusading Widow : T'Theliah murders her captors with her Psychic Powers after one of them kills her husband. T'Pring reveals this as her primary motivation.
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Genetic Memory
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Genetic Memory: McCoy takes an RNA 'language course', which makes him better even than the universal translator at understanding and speaking Vulcan.
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Fantastic Slur: The Vulcan insult tviokh... which actually means "neighbor" note In this context, a 'neighbor' is the enemy, as you compete with them for the sparse resources that Vulcan has to offer and predates Vulcan contact with aliens by a great deal.
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Misplaced Retribution
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Misplaced Retribution:T'Pring is doing this to punish Spock for a death in the family...except it's hard to see how he is responsible. After the plot is revealed and T'Pring is arrested for her crimes, Spock considers pointing out how T'Pring was more to blame for Stonn's fall, but he can't bring himself to say it.
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Revenge Myopia
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Revenge Myopia: The Big Bad completely ignores several elements that might show Spock innocent.
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Best Served Cold
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Best Served Cold: The revenge planned by T'Pring comes long after the incident that started it, but it's absolutely vicious. Even Spock admires it for its "flawless logic" and efficiency.
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Don't You Dare Pity Me!
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Don't You Dare Pity Me!: T'Pring has this reaction toward McCoy at the book's conclusion. He retorts that he's got no time for pity and that T'Pring needs to pull herself together.
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Took a Level in Kindness: T'Pau, who last appeared as an antagonist, returns as an ally. Sarek is shown to be far more personable than in the show.
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Woman Scorned
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Woman Scorned: T'Pring, pissed at Spock for ruining her gambit during "Amok Time". Lampshaded by Kirk when McCoy tells him T'Pring's name keeps cropping up in the various secession groups.
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Manipulative Bastard
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Manipulative Bastard: the Big Bad, T'Pring, who cunningly stirs up the anti-human attitudes on the planet using nothing more than words and a small inherited estate.
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Alien Sky
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Alien Sky: Sarek finds Earth's tiny, silvery moon a bizarre spectacle that helps him come to terms with the idea that he's really on another planet. The moon — sorry, sister planet — that Sarek is used to seeing in the sky is a volcano-covered beast that takes up a third of the horizon, by the way. Our itty-bitty moon looks somewhat pathetic by comparison in his opinion.
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted with Moira. She is sometimes snarky, but she doesn't hurt anyone, and even helps McCoy uncover useful information about the conspiracy.
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Go and Sin No More
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Go and Sin No More: Kirk and McCoy tell T'Pring to get back out of prison and do some good with that intelligence.
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Motive Rant
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Motive Rant: T'Pring gives a calmer-than-usual version to Spock about how he was responsible for all the misfortunes in her life, so he should have to make a sadistic choice between the things he loves.
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Hollywood Provincialism
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Hollywood Provincialism: An hilariously odd variant. In a description of Vulcan- "Jim tended to think of it as southern California, but with less rain." note For those who have no idea why this is so funny, Capt. James T. Kirk hails from Iowa. Starfleet HQ is in California, but Northern California, not at all the same thing... Southern California averages about 35 rainy days per year near the coast in the winter and spring (less in the inland desert areas), with summer and autumn typically being rain-free or nearly so. From the other descriptions we get, the Vulcan climate seems more on par with Arizona in the summer, or perhaps the Middle East.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Ruin T'Pring's happiness with Stonn by driving her beloved to suicide? She'll force the entire planet to vote to secede from the Federation, which would either send Spock and his family into exile or else trap Spock on Vulcan forever, ending his heroic and legendary trek to the stars. It doesn't help that, much like the Misplaced Retribution trope spells out, T'Pring is more responsible for what happened to Stonn than Spock is.
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Marriage Before Romance
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Marriage Before Romance: T'Thelaih and Mahak... although the people who arranged it not only didn't care about their feelings, they were expecting and even hoping that she would kill him with her Psychic Powers.
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Bridge Bunnies: Subverted with Uhura. When Kirk casually asks her about how one of her doctoral dissertations is shaping up, she launches into a head-spinningly complex discussion of alien syntaxes, translation algorithms, and xenolinguistics that leaves Kirk utterly in the dust, privately ashamed for ever thinking that Uhura's job was some kind of glorified switchboard operator.
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Recurring Character
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Recurring Character: Sarek, Amanda, T'Pau and T'Pring all appear again. The spider scientist K's't'lk from Duane's earlier novel The Wounded Sky makes a cameo during the secession debate. She bites one arrogant Vulcan secessionist's leg to prove a point.
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Fantastic Racism
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Fantastic Racism: Many Vulcans think humans are little more than dangerous, disgusting animals.
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Karma Houdini Warranty
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Karma Houdini Warranty: T'Pring surprisingly won the last conflict with the Enterprise crew, but doesn't know when to quit. Trying to talk Vulcan into secession to hurt Spock over Stonn's death leads to being exposed as a corrupting element to the entire planet and being taken into custody.
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The Conspiracy
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The Conspiracy: A group of Vulcans have been stirring up the planet to secession.
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Empty Promise
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Empty Promise: Kirk wants to tell T'Pau that they're not going to die, but he feels as though the sheer blatant falsehood of it would be insulting.
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Little Green Men: after Amanda marries Sarek, she responds to a tabloid running the headline "I Married a Little Green Man" with the retort, "There is nothing little about my husband."
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Sacrificial Lion
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Surak. He knew his movement for Logical pacifism would lead to his death. But he also knew that his years of living out that path would build a better peaceful Vulcan that would survive him. "Much could be done, with a death..."
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Author Appeal
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Author Appeal: As is standard for Duane's Trek novels, McCoy's sheer awesome is down to the good doctor being the author's all-time favorite.
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Dying Moment of Awesome
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Dying Moment of Awesome: Surak. He knew his movement for Logical pacifism would lead to his death. But he also knew that his years of living out that path would build a better peaceful Vulcan that would survive him. "Much could be done, with a death..." T'Pau, who times her death with the revelation of the bribery scandal to make it seem the news had killed her, knowing it would shame the planet into rejecting the secession vote. Also, she passed her katra - her spirit/memory - into human Amanda Grayson, which meant that if the secession vote succeeded the katra of the Surak bloodline would be forced off Vulcan.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Spock added a "personality" to Moira, but nobody expected her to "wake up."
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: Spock's former betrothed, T'Pring, is trying to drive the planet to secession.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: T'Thelaih, who's been struggling with suicidal thoughts from her introduction, finally kills herself after purposefully using her deadly Psychic Powers for the first time to avenge her husband. Stonn. Convinced somehow that Spock won after the events of "Amok Time", he undergoes a hormonal treatment to induce plak'tow to mate with T'Pring. It goes horribly wrong.
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Understatement
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Understatement: Kirk's comment on his last visit to Vulcan: "Being strangled with an ahn-woon can ruin your whole day."
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Politically Incorrect Villain
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Several, of the Fantastic Racism variety.
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Crystal Dragon Jesus
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Crystal Dragon Jesus: Surak. While the history takes pain to note Surak was a normal Vulcan child growing up into a normal adult, his Heroic BSoD that drives him into the desert shares a lot with the tribulations of Jesus and Buddha.
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Our Phlebotinum Child
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Our Phlebotinum Child: Sarek and Amanda had to rely on Vulcan science to create Spock, owing to the difference in their biologies.
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Psychic Powers
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T'Thelaih, who's been struggling with suicidal thoughts from her introduction, finally kills herself after purposefully using her deadly Psychic Powers for the first time to avenge her husband.
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Villain with Good Publicity
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Villain with Good Publicity: T'Pring, until McCoy uncovers the plot and Sarek has the truth revealed to the media.
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Category Traitor
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Category Traitor: McCoy employs this a good deal, reminding the Vulcans at every turn that their planetary hero, Surak, taught "infinite diversity in infinite combinations."
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"Blind Idiot" Translation: McCoy calls a Vulcan, Selv, out on his poor translation of the human documents he is using to support his prejudiced claims. Also brought up in the other direction. It is revealed that the "logic" Vulcans have always gone on about in the series is a bad translation of the Vulcan concept of "reality-truth", which means seeing the universe as it is, not as you would like it to be.
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Revenge: It seems to be the motivation of the Big Bad, T'Pring. Revenge Myopia: The Big Bad completely ignores several elements that might show Spock innocent.
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Subspace Ansible
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Subspace Ansible: The book tells the history of the planet Vulcan, and points out that since Vulcans are psychic to varying extents and telepathy is assumed to be instantaneous, telepathy was their first subspace FTL communication. The limiting factor is that only a small minority of Vulcans are strong enough telepaths for this to be practical.
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Played with concerning the Big Bad. Modern-day Vulcans do not rampage, but T'Pring's revenge is so epic in scope - trick an entire planet to secede just to piss off her ex-husband Spock - it makes Human-driven roaring rampages pale in comparison. The exact Vulcan concept of revenge is called ashv'cezh, literally, revenge worse than death, and Spock mentally comments that simple death is a mercy compared to that.
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The Needs of the Many
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Holding the Floor: McCoy gives a speech denouncing the calls for Vulcan secession. His speech is met with a standing ovation.
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Moira argues that the "intelligence" of humans or machines is all just atoms. Kirk doesn't seem to mind having a sentient computer onboard, but he knows Starfleet might pull such a computer's plugs, so he orders Moira to keep it secret.
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Continuity Nod: Naraht, the Enterprise's only Horta crew member, to "The Devil in the Dark." Upon learning that Moira has become self aware, Kirk reminds everyone of the last time they had a self-aware computer onboard: M5.
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First Contact
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Sure, Why Not?: Implied with the name Vulcan for the planet and its inhabitants. Spock states that the Vulcans do not reveal their name for the planet, so when humans told them they had named it Vulcan on their star charts, the Vulcans didn't dispute it.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: McCoy gets a huge one when during his research into the groups behind the secession movement, he spots a name that stuns him, and keeps finding it: T'Pring.
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Deadpan Snarker: McCoy, as usual.
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Inside a Computer System
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"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: McCoy insists on calling his hacking "borrowing" rather than "stealing."
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Gut Feeling: Vulcans have a word "nehau" which roughly translates to "vibes." The "nehau" that one picks up from someone is usually accurate.
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Two out of Three Ain't Bad: When a Vulcan asks about Kirk's readiness, for the referendum, the Captain answers, "Ready, willing, and able." McCoy mutters, "At least two out of three ain't bad."
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Wanting Is Better Than Having
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Wanting Is Better Than Having: Discussed by McCoy when talking to T'Pring at the end. He even mentions Spock's comment to the same effect.
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Sadistic Choice: Spock and Sarek are nearly forced into this. If the planet secedes, Spock will be forced to choose between Vulcan and his career with Starfleet and his friends on the Enterprise; Sarek will be forced to choose between living on Vulcan and living with Amanda, who would be expelled as a non-native.
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Evil Gloating: T'Pring rubs it in Spock's face when it looks like Vulcan will actually secede, even saying that she plans to attend the referendum to watch the fun.
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Morality Chain Beyond the Grave: Invoked by McCoy, who asks what Surak, the "Father of All that Vulcan Became", would think about the secession movement and the damage it's causing. In his conclusion, he rams it home by saying that Surak would be disappointed in them if their pride and fear caused the race to self-destruct.
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Half-Breed Discrimination
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Half-Breed Discrimination: Kirk argues that Spock should be given the opportunity to prove himself and not be rejected for his ancestry or possible "bad influence" from his mother.
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Two Lines, No Waiting: in addition to the plot about the possible secession of Vulcan, there is a second plot about Vulcan history, which winds up with the story of Sarek and Amanda's courtship, marriage, and the birth of Spock.
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Side Bet: Apparently, Spock and McCoy had one on the outcome of the vote on secession. Spock won.
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Have You Come to Gloat?: The Big Bad T'Pring asks Spock if he has the desire to mock her for slipping logic. Spock answers, "If that was my thought, there is nothing in it to do me ill credit." But he doesn't.
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Thanatos Gambit: McCoy theorizes that T'Pau pulled this, given that she passed on her katra to Amanda and made it clear to the newspapers that she'd heard about the conspiracy before dying, intentionally giving the media the impression that it shocked her to death.
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Artistic License – Geography: Kirk describes Vulcan as being "like Southern California, but with less rain." Even setting aside the increased gravity, the average temperature and lack of precipitation is more reminiscent of the American Southwest or the Middle East.
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Sequel Episode: The novel is a sequel to "Amok Time."
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Solar Flare Disaster
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Solar Flare Disaster: A massive prehistoric flare transformed Vulcan from a verdant planet with extensive forests into the familiar desert planet of the present. Solar instability continued until the time of the Reformation, and Vulcans constructed massive refuges against sunstorm weather. The secession debate takes place in one of these, repurposed as a grand auditorium for the Vulcan Science Academy.
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The book portrays T'Pring without any of the qualities that might have led to sympathy in her original appearance. After the secession movement has crumbled, T'Pring asks to see Spock and suggest he wants to mock her over her obviously failed plotting skills. He answers that if he did, no one would consider it blameworthy. T'Pring then attacks Spock over his emotional reaction during their last encounter, saying that he only behaved as he did lest someone should think poorly of him, rather than his obvious guilt and devastation over accidentally murdering his best friend.
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Wacky Cravings
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Little Green Men / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Marriage Before Romance / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Morality Chain Beyond the Grave / int_742454cc
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Of the People / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Pulled from Your Day Off / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Sacred Hospitality / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Sequel Episode / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Side Bet / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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SoCalization / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Solar Flare Disaster / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Talk to the Fist / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Thanatos Gambit / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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The Conspiracy / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Two out of Three Ain't Bad / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Understatement / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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Villain with Good Publicity / int_742454cc
 Spock's World
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What the Hell Is That Accent? / int_742454cc