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Does Spock have a first name?


Not a Trek follower, except for the movies and I was wondering this. They say Mr Spock from time to time and sometimes just Spock. Am I not getting it?

" We're no ordinary people, we're morons. "

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In one episode of the original series, someone asks Spock if he has "another name." He says, "You couldn't pronounce it."

For whatever it's worth, D.C. Fontana, the Trek writer who perhaps contributed most to Spock's backstory, said his family name is "Xtmprsqzntwlfb." No one ever uses it in any of the TV series or films, though.

At any rate, the idea seems to be that "Spock" is his first name.

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Lazy + smart = efficient.

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Thanks

" We're no ordinary people, we're morons. "

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Lazy + smart = efficient.

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In another episode, probably "Journey to Babel," somebody asks Spock's mother Amanda if she could pronounce Spock's other name and she mentioned she could pronounce it "after a fashion, and with a lot of practice," or somesuch.

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In one episode of the original series, someone asks Spock if he has "another name." He says, "You couldn't pronounce it."


Leila Kolomi (Jill Ireland) asks him in "This Side of Paradise".

From IMDb:
Leila Kolomi: You never told me if you had another name, Mr. Spock.

Spock: You couldn't pronounce it.




(W)hat are we without our dreams?
Making sure our fantasies
Do not overpower our realities. ~ RC

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Herbert, Herbert, Herbert!

He hates these cans!

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Herbert, Herbert, Herbert!

Nahhh, Spock's no Herbert. You know he reaches you. He believes in what you seek.

Irving, maybe.

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Lazy + smart = efficient.

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Thanks, that me laugh.

He hates these cans!

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Lazy + smart = efficient.

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Spock is his given name. There's no canon family name, but I've seen "S'chn T'gai" in several different sources.




"Sir, have you ever noticed that while we run our ships, our engineers own them?"--JTK

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Mister?

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