Strange New Worlds Explains Why Spock Never Married In TOS
Warning: SPOILER for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 1 — «Strange New Worlds»
Spock (Leonard Nimoy) never married T'Pring (Arlene Martel) in Star Trek: The Original Series and the foundations as to why are laid inStar Trek: Strange New Worlds. Set about a year after the end ofStar Trek: Discovery season 2,Strange New Worlds sees Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) rejoin the Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount). To pursue his Starfleet career, Spock leaves behind his betrothed, T'Pring (Gia Sandhu), on Vulcan.
The fact that Spock had an arranged marriage waiting for him on Vulcan was a shock in the Star Trek: TOS season 2 episode, «Amok Time.» In what was the deepest delve into Spock's life and Vulcan culture up to that point, the Enterprise's Vulcan Science Officer underwent pon-farr, which is the uncontrollable Vulcan mating desire that strikes every seven years. Spock needed to return to Vulcan to marry T'Pring, who he had been bethrothed to since childhood. However, T'Pring had other plans and, instead of going through with the wedding, she handpicked Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) as her champion to fight Spock inkal-if-fee — a fight to the death. Spock won the fight and believed he killed Kirk, who merely faked his death thanks to Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Meanwhile, T'Pring's logic for breaking her marriage arrangement with Spock was because she had chosen another mate, Stonn (Lawrence Montaigne), but she needed the kal-if-fee ritual to break her bond with Spock.
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