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Sarek was married twice, and had two sons. Prior to his first marriage, he had a relationship with a Vulcan princess which produced Sarek's first son Sybok, a character not developed until the fifth feature film in the late 1980s. Sarek later married Amanda Grayson, a native of the planet Earth, with whom he had Spock.
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"He was a great representative of the Vulcan people and of the Federation."
– Spock, 2368 ("Unification II")
The son of Skon, Sarek was born in 2165 and was willingly tutored by his own father. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; TNG: "Sarek"; TOS: "Journey to Babel") He had a pet sehlat named I-Chaya. (TAS: "Yesteryear")
Sarek's first child, Sybok, was conceived out of wedlock with a Vulcan princess. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; SNW: "The Serene Squall")
Later, Sarek, while serving as ambassador to Earth, wed a Human named Amanda Grayson in the late 2220s. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; TOS: "Journey to Babel"; TAS: "Yesteryear") A later recollection of Sarek's was that he had married her because, "at the time, it seemed the logical thing to do," but in actuality he loved her. (TOS: "Journey to Babel"; Star Trek)
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Three years after their marriage, in 2230, the two were in the city of ShiKahr where Amanda gave birth to Sarek's second son, Spock. (TOS: "Journey to Babel"; TAS: "Yesteryear") Upon first holding him, Sarek remarked that the newborn Spock was "so Human." (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier) Sarek passed his pet sehlat I-Chaya on to Spock, and raised him and Sybok as brothers. (TAS: "Yesteryear"; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
In 2237, when Spock was aged seven, Sarek was involved in arranging for him to wed T'Pring, later in life. (TOS: "Amok Time") Sarek also gave Spock his first lesson in computers. (TOS: "Journey to Babel") However, as a seven-year-old, Spock was occasionally bullied by Vulcan children who claimed that Sarek had brought shame to Vulcan by marrying a Human. (TAS: "Yesteryear")
When meeting with Ambassador Spock on Romulus, Picard learned that Spock and his father had never mind melded, and offered Spock the chance to share what Sarek had shared with him. The meld passed along Sarek's true feelings of love and admiration for his son that he had never allowed himself to convey in life. (TNG: "Unification II")
In 2370, after Julian Bashir told Elim Garak, "Before you can be loyal to another, you must be loyal to yourself," the Cardassian attributed the quote to Sarek, but it was actually Bashir's own. (DS9: "Profit and Loss")
In the mirror universe, Sarek was member of a multi-species rebellion against the Terran Empire in 2257. (DIS: "The Wolf Inside")
In an alternate reality created by Nero's incursion, in 2258 Sarek was rescued by Spock when Vulcan was destroyed, but his wife Amanda Grayson was killed. (Star Trek)
•2165: Born to Skon
•2227: Marries Amanda Grayson
•2230: His second son, Spock, is born
•2237: Arranges for Spock to marry T'Pring
•2240s: Takes Michael Burnham as his ward
•2249: Transports Burnham to Captain Georgiou's care aboard the USS •2250: Becomes estranged from his son Spock
"Isn't it unusual for a Vulcan to retire at your age? After all, You're only 102."102.437 precisely, doctor. Measured in your years. I… had… other concerns."
- McCoy and Sarek, discussing the latter's early retirement (TOS: "Journey to Babel")
"Tellarites do not argue for reasons. They simply argue."
- Sarek, rebuking Gav on his need to know Sarek's vote at the conference (TOS: "Journey to Babel")
"It does not require pride to ask that Spock be given the respect which is his due…not as my son, but as Spock."
- Sarek, to his wife, Amanda, after being accused of having pride in his son, Spock (TOS: "Journey to Babel")
Appearances
•DIS: •"The Vulcan Hello" •"Battle at the Binary Stars" •"Lethe" •"The Wolf Inside" •"The War Without, The War Within" •"Will You Take My Hand?" •"Brother" •"Light and Shadows" •"Perpetual Infinity" (archive footage) •"Such Sweet Sorrow" •"Stormy Weather" (picture only) •TOS: "Journey to Babel" (First appearance) •TAS: "Yesteryear" •Star Trek films: •••••TNG: •"Sarek" •"Unification I"
Apocrypha
The novel Ishmael gives his full name as "S'chn T'gai Sarek". FASA's RPG sourcebook The Federation claims that Sarek was born in Remsusala, Vulcan. In the Thirteenth UK Story Arc, Spock had a cousin named Horek. 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. His mirror universe counterpart appeared in the novel The Sorrows of Empire and was mentioned in Dark Mirror and Spectre, all of which exist in separate continuities.
External links
•Sarek at StarTrek.com •Sarek at Wikipedia •Sarek at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works •Sarek at the Star Trek Online Wiki
Mar 23, 2020 · Sarek had three separate wives, as well as children. Sarek had his first child, Sybok, with his first wife, an unnamed Vulcan princess who died during delivery. Sarek then wed with a human, Amanda Grayson, where they had child number two, Spock.
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Apr 23, 2021 · His father is Sarek, a legendary Vulcan ambassador, while his mother is Amanda Grayson, a human. The reason, for their relationship, at least according to Sarek, is simply logical -- it's good politics. However, time would eventually reveal there was a lot more behind Sarek's answer.
Sep 1, 2024 · Vulcan Ambassador Sarek (Mark Lenard, James Frain) had more than one human wife in Star Trek. Sarek was the father of Spock (Leonard Nimoy, Ethan Peck), Sybok (Lawrence Luckinbill), and the adoptive father of Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green).
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Apr 17, 2014 · There's no "in-canon" description of why Sarek would have married another human (e.g. as opposed to another Vulcan) but we can certainly speculate on some possible reasons; He's damaged goods His arranged marriage (to a Vulcan princess no less) did lead to a child but not a wedding.
Sarek And The Original Crew In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Journey to Babel,” we are introduced to Sarek as a supremely skilled Federation ambassador who had a human wife and was the father of Spock.
