Spock's Vulcan Brother Sybok Explained
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 7 — «The Serene Squall»
In a shocking bombshell, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 7 reintroduced Sybok into the prequel canon but just who is Spock's (Ethan Peck) Vulcan half-brother? Strange New Worlds has delved into plenty of Vulcan lore by focusing on the romance between Spock and T'Pring (Gia Sandhu), whose purpose is the rehabilitation of Vulcan criminals who have rejected logic. While T'Pring's job ingeniously set up Sybok, it was quite a surprise when Strange New Worlds revealed Spock's brother is one of the prisoners overseen by T'Pring on the third moon of Omicron Lyrae.
Sybok was created by William Shatner as the villain of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. As Star Trek V's director, Shatner conceived the film's story about a Vulcan holy man who hijacks the Starship Enterprise on a quest to find God. Shatner based Sybok, who he originally named Zar, on 1980s televangelists like Jim and Tammy Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert, who made their fortunes conning people into believing they were God's true messenger. Sybok, a role intended for Sean Connery but played by Lawrence Luckinbill in Star Trek V, possessed the ability to telepathically make others face their greatest pain and he converts them into his followers after he heals them. In Shatner's original concept, Sybok was so persuasive that he even turned Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) against Captain James T. Kirk.
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Shatner wanted a powerful connection between Spock and Sybok but his idea that they knew each other in Vulcan seminary was inadequate. It was producer Harve Bennett who decided
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