Wait, Does Burnham Know About Sybok In Star Trek: Discovery?
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 7 — 'The Serene Squall"
Does Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) know about Sybok on Star Trek: Discovery? The older Vulcan half-brother of Spock (Ethan Peck), Sybok was shockingly reintroduced in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 7, «The Serene Squall.» Sybok was revealed to be one of the Vulcan prisoners at Ankeshtan K'Til Vulcan rehabilitation center, a facility overseen by T'Pring (Gia Sandhu), Spock's fiancée. But the reemergence of Sybok brings up the question of what Michael Burnham knows about the eldest son of Sarek (James Frain).
Sybok (Lawrence Luckinbill) was created by William Shatner as the villain of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, which Shatner directed from his own original story. Originally named Zar, Shatner conceived Sybok as a Vulcan holy man who he based on the televangelists of the 1980s like Jim and Tammy Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert. Sybok was a madman who believed God was speaking to him and he hijacked the USS Enterprise-A to find God on a mythical planet called Sha-Ka-Ree beyond the Great Barrier at the center of the universe. At first, Shatner wanted Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Sybok to be old friends at Vulcan seminary but producer Harve Bennett decided Sybok should be Spock's heretofore unknown older half-brother. As Spock told Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek V, Sybok was the eldest son of Sarek (Mark Lenard) and a Vulcan priestess who was born out of wedlock. Sybok came to live with Sarek for a time and he and Spock were «raised as brothers» before Sybok left to pursue his destiny, which involved embracing emotion instead of logic.
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