Known for their pronounced eyebrows and pointed ears, they originate from the fictional planet Vulcan. In the Star Trek universe, they were the first extraterrestrial species to make contact with humans. Leonard Nimoy and Arlene Martel portray male and female Vulcans.
Both the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Amok Time" and the film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock state that pon farr is particular to Vulcan males. This is, therefore, at odds with ENT: "Bounty", in which pon farr is attributed to both sexes.
"Amok Time" introduced two crucial female Vulcan characters, T'Pring (Arlene Martel) and T'Pau (Celia Lovsky), who set the stage for how the women of Vulcan would be portrayed throughout the Star Trek franchise. Vulcan female characters run the gamut of being Star Trek series leads and supporting characters.
Vulcans Don't Have Set Rules When It Comes To Gender
However, those are not hard and fast rules as Lt. Saavik was a female-presenting Vulcan, and a student of Surak presented as male but was named T'Klass. By these rules T'Lir has a more feminine name despite having a male appearance.
Vulcan female names are not restricted in length or by final letter, but they do tend to start with the letters “T'P,” like T'Paal, T'Pan, T'Pau, and T'Pring.
Vulcan families were extremely disciplined and very close knit. Vulcans were noted for their more complex family relationships compared to Humans. Such family units consisted of the Eldest of House with normally a matriarch in charge of the affairs of the House.
The beloved Vulcan's full name is officially S'Chn T'Gai Spock. The name actually comes from a popular fan work-turned novel for The Original Series in Barbara Hambly's Ishmael which was published in 1985.
In fact, Romulans share a common ancestry with Vulcans and are considered an offshoot of the same species. They have pointed ears and arched eyebrows, and possess great strength, intelligence, and longevity. The Romulans diverged from their Vulcan counterparts centuries ago due to ideological differences.
Vulcans are suggested to be x3 times stronger than a human (and consequently a Klingon) but they are a race that, mostly, avoids all forms of physical violence, due to their dark and murky past, favoring intelligence and logic over warfare.
Vulcan made a deal with Jupiter to free his mother in exchange for Venus' hand in marriage. However, the marriage was a loveless one. Venus had an affair with Vulcan's brother, the god of war, Mars.
There are instances of them living over 220 years. Having evolved on a fictional desert planet, Vulcans can survive without water for longer periods than humans. Vulcans can also go without sleep for as long as two weeks.
Admiral Forrest noted that every culture contains contradictory emotions, but Soval noted that humans possess a "confusing abundance." Finally, Forrest gleaned that the true reason that Vulcans are afraid of humans because they remind the Vulcans of themselves thousands of years ago, when they were an emotional, ...
When Spock aged into adolescence, he underwent Pon Farr, the painful Vulcan mating ritual. Understanding what this meant, Saavik has sexual intercourse with the young Spock to alleviate his suffering — and originally, this resulted in Spock getting Saavik pregnant.
Vulcan finger-touching was a ritualistic gesture among Vulcans involving the index and middle fingers. It was used throughout their culture, including in public as a greeting or to signify affection, intimacy, respect, or meditation. It was also used at reunions, at wedding ceremonies, and during the pon farr.
As Spock explained to Kirk in Star Trek: TOS, his union with T'Pring was "less than a marriage but more than a bethrothal." Indeed, Spock was meant to finally undergo the koon-ut-kal-if-fee marriage ritual with T'Pring in "Amok Time" before she invoked her right to have Spock fight to the death for her.
They also had an alliance with the Klingons until a series of incidents including the Khitomer Massacre.. A Romulan attack on the Khitomer Colony that out of 4,000 settlers left only two survivors, one of them being Worf of the Enterprise-D. Klingons passionately hated the Romulans and considered them their nemesis.
In contrast to the Vulcans and their peaceful logic-based culture, the Romulans are shown to be very military-focused, ruling an emotion and war-driven empire.
The origin of the Borg is never made clear, though they are portrayed as having existed for hundreds of thousands of years (as attested by Guinan and the Borg Queen).
There are two possible origins for the Vulcans, neither of which are mutually exclusive. Some four billion years ago, a species of aliens known as the Primogenitors explored space and found no humanoid life. They seeded worlds with technology encouraging the evolution of people with a head, two legs and two arms.
Series creator Bryan Fuller deliberately gave Martin-Green's character a traditionally male name, which he had done with the female leads (George, Jaye and Chuck) in three of his previous series. Martin-Green decided that the character was named after her father.
No canonical children have been mentioned for Spock. Drafts of the scripts for Star Treks III and IV hinted that the rejuvenated Spock impregnated Saavik during his accelerated Pon Farr, but this was not referenced in the script as filmed.
