Re: Vulcan Writing Analysis
Rob Zook 
Sun, 06 Sep 1998 20:43:33 -0500

At 08:45 PM 9/6/98 -0500, Steven Boozer wrote:
>>In ST:TNG some episode has Spock reading from a book of ancient Vulcan 
>>wisdom, and on it are these staff like characters with lots of swirly 
>>additions, like those three I posted on my web page. Not sure if those 
>>are individual letters or hieraglyphic like characters. I have not
>>gotten a copy of that episode yet (not even sure what the name of that
>>episode was), but I found a copy of this style in the ST Omnipedia.
>
>That episode was "Unification, Part II".  You can also see a drawing of
>these elongated, cursive-looking characters in the Okudas' _Star Trek 
>Encyclopedia_ (1st ed., 1994) on page 379 as example 6 for the entry 
>"written languages". 

Cool, Unification. I planned on getting those two episodes anyway, now
I have even more reason :) The Omnipedia program had a much better
dipiction of the "staff writing", so I just sniped a clip from there.


>There were also some Vulcan letters on the Vulcan shuttle transporting 
>Spock to the Enterprise in ST:TMP.  A small drawing of this shuttle with 
>the tiny lettering barely legible appears in the Encyclopedia, page 299 
>("shuttle, Vulcan"). 

Thanks Steven,

I had seen the letters in ST:TMP but could not make them out. The 
Encyclopedia version has at least the largest set legible. That gives us
at least 4 styles, three of which seem fairly unrelated.


Rob Z.