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scans_dailySTAR TREK YEAR FIVE #20 is the start of a time travel story. And it seems to use part of an idea almost used in "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
A mysterious signal leads the Enterprise to Vulcan. A landing party, including a Tholian nicknamed "Bright Eyes," arrive at a tower sending out strange temporal signals. Bright Eyes says the tower shouldn't be there, and suddenly Spock is zapped.
Spock is still on Vulcan, but sees two Vulcans fighting, and then...
An important time in his planet's history. Isn't that always the way? Surak's followers put Spock and a group of rebels together. Spock is unfamiliar with this part of Vulcan history, and wonders "What had to be forgiven to stabilize Vulcan society?" The convoy is attacked, and Spock escapes with the "rebels."
The Romulan progenitors leaving Vulcan has been vague in Star Trek history. Episodes of "Enterprise" and some novels say it happened at the same time Surak's philosophy was becoming the norm. But we don't know the details.
In the "present."
The Enterprise is suddenly attacked by ships that look to be a mix of Vulcan and Romulan technology. And now we see the idea almost used for TNG. The Vulcans never went through the Age of Awakening and are now violent conquerors. (Details below.)
The energy from the tower is why the Enterprise is still there and unaffected by changes in the timeline. Or plot armor.
In the "past."
Members of society might be resistant to the idea of suppressing their emotions for the greater good. Who knew?
Spock is concerned seeing what Surak and his followers are doing to "dissidents."
An attempt by the rebels to steal the Stone of Gol (from the TNG 2-parter, Gambit) results in Zhat dying from the weapon.
Don't meet your heroes or you might nerve pinch them.
Some details for the original unused TNG story: Trent Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Stillwell came up with a story involving a team of Vulcans investigating the Guardian of Forever. In the past, the founder of modern Vulcan logic, Surak, is killed, causing massive changes to the timeline. The Romulans and Vulcans joined forces to attack the Federation, Worf is no longer a crewmember on the Enterprise, and Tasha Yar remains alive. Sarek and the Vulcans by the Guardian are the only people not affected by the timeline change and, in the end, Sarek returns to the past to take Surak's place, restoring the timeline.
In this case, Spock nerve-pinching Surak changes the timeline, and there's a "time tower" on Vulcan no one has used before now. Or have they?
Here is a link to Memory Alpha's entry on "The Time of Awakening."
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Time_of_Awakening
A mysterious signal leads the Enterprise to Vulcan. A landing party, including a Tholian nicknamed "Bright Eyes," arrive at a tower sending out strange temporal signals. Bright Eyes says the tower shouldn't be there, and suddenly Spock is zapped.
Spock is still on Vulcan, but sees two Vulcans fighting, and then...
An important time in his planet's history. Isn't that always the way? Surak's followers put Spock and a group of rebels together. Spock is unfamiliar with this part of Vulcan history, and wonders "What had to be forgiven to stabilize Vulcan society?" The convoy is attacked, and Spock escapes with the "rebels."
The Romulan progenitors leaving Vulcan has been vague in Star Trek history. Episodes of "Enterprise" and some novels say it happened at the same time Surak's philosophy was becoming the norm. But we don't know the details.
In the "present."
The Enterprise is suddenly attacked by ships that look to be a mix of Vulcan and Romulan technology. And now we see the idea almost used for TNG. The Vulcans never went through the Age of Awakening and are now violent conquerors. (Details below.)
The energy from the tower is why the Enterprise is still there and unaffected by changes in the timeline. Or plot armor.
In the "past."
Members of society might be resistant to the idea of suppressing their emotions for the greater good. Who knew?
Spock is concerned seeing what Surak and his followers are doing to "dissidents."
An attempt by the rebels to steal the Stone of Gol (from the TNG 2-parter, Gambit) results in Zhat dying from the weapon.
Don't meet your heroes or you might nerve pinch them.
Some details for the original unused TNG story: Trent Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Stillwell came up with a story involving a team of Vulcans investigating the Guardian of Forever. In the past, the founder of modern Vulcan logic, Surak, is killed, causing massive changes to the timeline. The Romulans and Vulcans joined forces to attack the Federation, Worf is no longer a crewmember on the Enterprise, and Tasha Yar remains alive. Sarek and the Vulcans by the Guardian are the only people not affected by the timeline change and, in the end, Sarek returns to the past to take Surak's place, restoring the timeline.
In this case, Spock nerve-pinching Surak changes the timeline, and there's a "time tower" on Vulcan no one has used before now. Or have they?
Here is a link to Memory Alpha's entry on "The Time of Awakening."
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Time_of_Awakening
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Date: 2021-05-23 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-05-23 10:27 pm (UTC)I'mma stick with the depiction of Sarek we got in Enterprise, who was a pretty cool guy given the circumstances of being stuck in Archer's brain, thank you very much.
The notion of "famous fictional historical person turning out to have feet of clay" was kind of interesting when it started, but after several... decades, the flavour's getting a little repetitive.
But maybe I'm being too judgmental. Maybe Picard Reference and her followers are right, and Surak is wrong. Maybe Vulcan would be better off if everyone on it had absolutely no ability to control themselves whatsoever. They were only nuking the planet into oblivion when Surak came along.
And the Romulans sure showed us nothing would go wrong with letting Vulcans do whatever they feel like.
I mean, maybe it'll turn out Picard Reference and that lot are actually the wrong 'uns after all, since the Surak we saw in Enterprise was for controlling, not repressing outright. It was kind of a Big Thing in that arc that the Vulcans had missed the whole point of what he was saying. Y'know, in one of Trek's subtle metaphors.
oh and they were being subverted by romulans but mainly the first thing.