Re: Vulcan names
Sorik of Vulcan 
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:27:52 PDT


>Did Spock ever say he had to change his name when he entered Starfleet?  
=
>His
>father certainly assumed Spock would either go to the Vulcan Science
>Academy or
>follow his own footsteps in the Diplomatic Corps, so he would have had 
no
>reason to have given his son a militant, non-standard name when he was 
bo=
>rn.=20
>In fact, just the opposite, to show his bi-racial son was culturally as
>"orthodox" a Vulcan as everyone else.  Not that Sarek wasn't angered by
>Spock's
>defiance and choice of profession, but he didn't order his son to 
change =
>his
>name; he just didn't speak to him for many years.

O,K.  Then the way I'd explain the difference beteen Spock's name and 
Vorik's is that Spock was the very first Vulcan in Starfleet.  His 
father did not encourage the admission to the fleet.  For instance, if 
Sarek was liberal (in the sense of military) then he could have named 
Spock differently at birth, but since he is not, and did not, we can see 
another pattern in this wierd kind of naming.  Vorik, on the other hand, 
may have had parents who looked up to what Spock did, and decided to 
show in their son how liberal they were.  After all, we know that 
"Vulcan is not of a piece", according to Sarek in Spock's World.  So it 
stands that any liberalism to Surak's philosophy will be shown in one 
way or another.  I just suggest that it may be shown in names sometimes.  
Others like the admiral and high-ranking officials probably grew up in 
Spock's generation, not Vorik's, showing a possible explination of their 
still having S and T' names.

Maybe.
>
>Not even Sarek's other son Sybok changed his orthodox name when he 
reject=
>ed
>Surak's philosophy and was subsequently exiled from Vulcan.  In fact, 
I'v=
>e
>always been puzzled by this, since religious and philosophical 
innovators
>often
>change their names for ideological - and propaganda - reasons.
>
>We have to look elsewhere for an explanation for Tuvok's, Taurik's, 
Xon's=
> and
>Vorick's names.  The simplest explanations - barring a direct answer 
from
>Tuvok, probably in reply to an intrusive question from Neelix or Paris 
- =
>are
>simply ethnic/regional customs, or even the parents' personal 
preference.=
> =20
>
>
Like I said before.  The names are different because of a different 
national background.  But Tuvok is not necessarily "Black", so that 
doesn't really work well.

-Sorik



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