So far only brand-new characters have been cast, but today it was revealed that Spock's father, Sarek, will appear, and he'll be played by Gotham actor James Frain. It's possible he could be a recurring character, but we'll have to wait and see if that's the case.
Even though details are light, Sarek's inclusion is undoubtedly exciting for many Star Trek fans, and could perhaps open the door for other character from The Original Series to appear, albeit also played by different actors. Sarek, whose grandfather was one of the first Vulcan ambassadors to Earth, was also an ambassador, so we can presumably expect him to perform the same job in Star Trek: Discovery.
Star Trek: Discovery will follow the crew of the USS Discovery as they travel across the cosmos, with the season-long storyline revolving around an event that's been mentioned in Star Trek lore before, but never explored. So far its main cast consists of Sonequa Martin-Green as Number One, the main protagonist and lieutenant commander aboard the Discovery; Doug Jones as Saru, a science officer who is part of a new alien species being introduced; and Anthony Rapp as Stamets, a science officer specializing in "astromycology," the study of fungi in space.
Sarek and his second son share the rare blood type of T-Negative. The episode centers around an assassination on board the Enterprise. The technique used in the murder resembled a Vulcan execution method, which led Sarek to be a primary suspect. Sarek highlighted cardiac issues to be his alibi, which is then proven correct as he enters cardiac arrest.
The only known blood donor who could save his life was his son, Spock. Spock had to make a risky decision about taking an untested stimulant to induce blood-cell production. The surgery and transfusion went off without a hitch, leading Sarek and Spock to a closer relationship with one another.
Sarek, child of Skon, child of Solkar. Sarek's father, Skon, is a character we really don't hear too much on. There were talks of highlighting the character, Skon, in Season 5 of Star Trek : Enterprise , but the season was never produced.
This highlights the ties that Sarek's family line has with Earth, and humanity as a whole. It isn't too surprising seeing Sarek taking an interest in humans. What is interesting is the latent love we see to be present in his "romantic" relationships. The famous Federation-Legaran treaty. Captain at the time Jean-Luc Picard made remarks on the impacts of this treaty.
What you might not know is just how long it took for that treaty to come about. Sarek made it a mission to achieve a peaceful mediation between the Legarans and the Federation—and it took him 90 years to do it. Sarek was a champion for peaceful Federation relationships. This is apparent in his efforts towards the Legarans, as well as in his presence in the Khitomer Accords.
Sarek was a key component at Khitomer, and he effectively helped the Federation and Klingon Empire reach a long-term peace. Sarek died in His final shown words were with Captain Picard as he was visiting to learn information about Sarek's second son, Ambassador at the time Spock. He wanted to learn the names of any potential Romulan contacts that Spock might have been meeting with beyond Federation space.
Sarek and Picard share a rather interesting relationship, given their shared mind-meld in The Next Generation episode, "Sarek". In his late life, Sarek's health decayed with disease, which is what forced the aforementioned mind-meld in the time of the Legaran-Federation Treaty. Picard held the Vulcan salute before Sarek was overwhelmed once more by his illness. This is the last instance we see Sarek alive. Sarek told Kirk, in the prime minister's quarters, that many Vulcans were unhappy with the Federation having such a powerful weapon as the Genesis Device; though elected prime minister as a peacemaker, Sarek was barely retaining order.
It was also at this point, rather than on Earth, that Sarek admonished Kirk for not returning Spock's body to Vulcan and inquired as to how Kirk had known Spock had not been in a transcendental state. Sarek finally instructed Kirk to bring him Spock, and advised the admiral to hope that he would still be there when Spock arrived.
He later reminisced, " I was given a wonderful part in the film […] [As director, Leonard Nimoy] really gave me some great opportunities to bring my character to life; I got to play an equal part in giving ideas for Sarek. Star Trek Compendium , 4th ed. They had a few general ideas. I brought a picture in to show them what the hair looked like. The original makeup artists from the TV series are gone; Fred Phillips has retired.
We had to dig up 'Journey to Babel' and run it, just to see what the makeup was like, to look at the angle of the eyebrows. They used to be much bigger; now, they're more delicate […] I like the new look. Aesthetically, it fits the face a little better.
Also, the movie screen is so much bigger than the TV screen that you can be more delicate, things don't need to be emphasized so much. But then they did the makeup test.
Leonard looked as it and said, 'Mark, you look more like my brother than my father! Spock and Sarek at the Federation Council in In the earliest version of the discussion, Sarek basically admitted that, though he would never understand Spock's half-Human nature, he nonetheless accepted him. At one point, Shatner voiced interest in Sarek's motives for marrying Amanda, following the death of Sybok's mother.
Even though Loughery reminded Shatner that this event had been commented on in the series, Loughery did not consider this usable story material for the film, finding it superfluous to the storyline. Despite this, Shatner again briefly mentioned Sarek's relationship with Amanda as a potential element of the movie's backstory.
The group briefly contemplated that Sarek may have fathered Sybok during his marriage to Amanda, bearing the child out of wedlock to another woman, but the team then opted for Sybok having been born before Sarek married Amanda.
Sarek was also considered as having motivated Sybok's departure from Vulcan, out of fear regarding Sybok's influence on Spock. An alternative to this involved both of Sarek's children choosing to leave but Sarek then confronting Spock with an implied threat that, if Spock did decide to depart, he would be completely disowned by his own father. Sarek's initial reappearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation originally came about because Gene Roddenberry — having at first been determined to separate that Star Trek series from the original one — became confident to try a character crossover between the series.
This was due to The Next Generation gaining popularity by its third season. In hindsight, Mark Lenard reminisced, " I was in Gene's office and he said, 'You know, it's about time that Sarek comes back. After all, Vulcans age very slowly. Although Sarek's previous appearances in the third and fourth Star Trek films could have been the last times he was featured in the franchise, Marc Cushman had other notions in , when Gene Roddenberry heard his idea for a plot involving the character.
Cushman pitched Roddenberry a story in which the Vulcan ambassador had to be brought out of retirement for one final mission but was, unbeknown to those around him, in the initial stages of a debilitating neurological illness. Star Trek Magazine Special , pp.
Sarek was present in an initial form of the story for third season installment " Yesterday's Enterprise ", written by Trent Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Recalled Stillwell, " Gene Roddenberry had circulated a memo saying […] that Mark Lenard might be interested in making a guest appearance. This early version of "Yesterday's Enterprise" began with Sarek arriving at the time planet aboard the Enterprise -D.
As a dignitary, he planned to rendezvous with a Vulcan archaeological team that had been using the Guardian of Forever , on the planet, to study ancient Vulcan history at the time of Surak , known as the Time of Awakening. Sarek not only intended to congratulate the archaeologists but also personally escort them back to Vulcan aboard the Enterprise , but before they could leave the planet's surface, the team accidentally altered the timeline so that Surak died before his time.
The Making of Yesterday's Enterprise , pp. In this way, the story would have accounted for Sarek's name being so similar to the name Surak. Stillwell later reflected that Piller rejected the inclusion of Sarek while "telling me he had no interest in doing a story about Spock's father," though this attitude was to ultimately turn out to be "rather ironic. At the start of TNG's third season, Michael Piller, taking on the responsibilities of running the show due to Gene Roddenberry's health failing, actually wanted to return Sarek to the story which had been pitched by Marc Cushman.
In order to make the premise fit more easily into the science-fiction genre, someone suggested that a Vulcan experiencing psychological difficulties, due to some form of disease, might have extreme telepathic impact. Piller noted, " It brings home the idea that even the greatest of men is subject to mental illness. Beagle without any of the changes Jake Jacobs had made to the story though his name remained in the screen credits , introduced Sarek with the description, " Sarek is indeed old, but immensely commanding.
A genuinely regal figure. After the episode "Sarek" was green-lit, the character of Sarek was the subject of a discussion between Marc Cushman and D. Fontana when they met. Cushman apologized for having recently "stolen" the character and transferred it to TNG.
Though Fontana seemed surprised because she had invented Sarek, she was also polite and gracious about the issue. For Michael Piller and others working on The Next Generation , there were parallels between the ailing Sarek of "Sarek" and Gene Roddenberry at the time of the episode's making, which Piller described as "what I remember most about that episode. Not that he was uncommunicative, but it was clear that he was not the same man that he had been. We all respected him so much, and he had been such an important, strong leader of the franchise and everything it stood for.
But here is this great man — and I've only known him for less than a year at this point — here is this great man going into decline, and I immediately felt a very strong connection to the premise of 'Sarek' […] If you go back and look at 'Sarek' closely, what that character is, is Gene Roddenberry.
The makeup for Sarek in the episode of the same name was much as it had been in the previously produced films. Leonard Nimoy had been appreciative of how Mark Lenard played Sarek in the episode of the same name as the character, describing this portrayal as "a beautiful performance. Moore thought the predicament Sarek finds himself in, during the installment which shares the character's name, made for an appealing episode.
For Sarek's makeup in Star Trek VI , Jerry Quist , a makeup artist from TNG, agreed to join the film's makeup team — since the series was on hiatus while the film was in preproduction — and he alone concentrated on the character's prosthetics for the film.
Makeup Supervisor Michael J. Mills recollected, " I just let Jerry take care of that, and he came up with an intermediate look for Sarek — something between what we'd seen in the previous features and what people would be seeing him as on TV. The writing of Sarek's death in "Unification I" was inspired by the fact that, while the episode was being written, the writers were aware that Gene Roddenberry didn't have long to live.
Moore commented that killing Sarek off took courage and, despite liking the character's final scene, he stated, " It wasn't pretty. We again used the basic design and lines of Mark Lenard's face, but this time we aged him and showed him looking gaunt and drained. We used deeper shadows and placed rubber stretching around his eyes to show fatigue.
He explained, after-the-fact, " They only sent me part of the script. The realization that Sarek had apparently died in "Unification I" came as a sudden shock to Mark Lenard. Following the installment's broadcast, Lenard received mail from concerned fans, which he found emotionally moving, but he reckoned he might still reappear.
Was anybody there? Ultimately, the role of Sarek was highly important in Mark Lenard's life. Mere months before he died in , Lenard commented, " I suspect that even though I've died on the screen, I will live and die as Sarek of Vulcan. There's no getting away from it anymore. Despite Sarek making no appearances on Star Trek: Enterprise , the writing staff of that series at one time discussed the possibility of including a young version of the character on the show.
Star Trek Monthly issue , p. Sarek, Amanda, and their newborn son, before the timeline diverged Star Trek deleted scene. Sarek was so integral to the origin story of Star Trek that, in one form, he once again made a movie appearance; his alternate counterpart was featured in the film Star Trek.
As such, a sampling of Lenard's presentment of the character was supplied to Cross by Paramount , to prepare Cross for his own take on the character.
Star Trek Magazine issue , p. In the aforementioned deleted scene from the film, involving Ben Cross portraying the prime-universe Sarek, he arrives home in the aftermath of Spock's birth. The scene in question takes place before Nero 's incursion — dated, on screen, as which later became canon in Star Trek Beyond — thereby making the scene's depiction of Sarek, in fact, "this" character. The movie's script described Sarek, in this scene, as "late 40's," rather than sixty-five which is how old he would be in if he was born in — by comparison, the script for " Journey to Babel ", set thirty-eight years later, also said that he appeared "no more than late forties.
The scene, both as scripted and ultimately edited, showed Sarek as being responsible for naming Spock, taking the name from "one of Vulcan's early society-builders. James Frain described Sarek as "endlessly fascinating, and complex, and ambivalent.
The episode "Sarek" stated that Sarek's first wife was from Earth; clearly, this was intended to be a reference to Amanda and that Sarek was not married to the Vulcan princess spoken about in Star Trek V , which admittedly never explicitly says that Sarek ever married the princess, only that she was Sybok's mother.
Mark Lenard was highly impressed with the actresses who were cast to play Sarek's wives. Shortly after appearing in the episode "Sarek", Lenard stated, " As Sarek, I've been graced with my wives so far.
They've all been good-looking and charming women. The novel Ishmael gives his full name as "S'chn T'gai Sarek". If Horek was Spock's first cousin, this implies that Sarek had a sibling, one of Horek's parents. In the comic story Star Trek: The Next Generation - Perchance to Dream , the crew of the USS Enterprise -D was attacked by a telepathic weapon called the Chova, which forced its victims to experience dreams and hallucinations focused on their personal failures.
However, it was discovered that people with multiple personalities could render the Chova inert since the Chova could only attack one personality at a time. Picard was deliberately infected with the Chova, since his mind meld with Sarek, the probe that gave him the memories of Kamin , and the remnants of his memories as Locutus of Borg still in his mind all gave him the makings of a multiple personality disorder.
The four defeated the Chova, but Locutus then attempted to regain control of Picard's body, nearly 'killing' Kamin and Sarek before Picard gathered the mental strength to stop Locutus. The novel Avenger revealed Sarek's "Bendii condition" to be actually caused by a poison or special pathogen used by members of the Symmetrists, a Vulcan terrorist group, to murder him without causing suspicion. Spock was also poisoned in this way.
In the novel Engines of Destiny , Sarek became the leader of a resistance fighting the Borg in an alternate timeline where the Borg conquered the Alpha Quadrant during the events of Star Trek: First Contact. However, Sarek retained some memories of the original timeline, which allowed him to recognize Kirk and Scotty when they arrived in 'his' timeline; even having never met them, he knew that he could trust the two of them.
In the end, Sarek sacrificed himself to buy time for the temporally-relocated Enterprise -D to return Kirk to the Nexus , as Kirk's presence was required for Picard to survive in order to defeat the Borg's time-traveling experiment. In the Myriad Universes short story A Less Perfect Union , in which Terra Prime was successful and the Federation-like Interstellar Coalition was formed without an isolationist Earth, Sarek was kidnapped by the Romulans before a conference discussing Earth joining the Coalition, and replaced by Keras Mark Lenard's Romulan character from " Balance of Terror " — who, being so similar in appearance that this required no cosmetic alterations of any kind, concluded that the two likely shared a common ancestor from before the Vulcan-Romulan schism.
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