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Star Trek TOS 2x10: Journey to Babel (Patreon)

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2026-08-29 16:00:11
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michael mccafferty

I love this episode. We get more screen time with a favorite guest actor, and I think he does a fantastic job as Spock's father. This episode has world building, family drama, insight into a favorite character, intrigue, and action. (Also a couple of really abrupt jump cuts.) Jane Wyatt, the actress who played Spock's mother, was a well known film and TV star in the 1950s, until she voiced opposition to Senator Joe McCarthy's anti-communist investigations and for a while she was blacklisted in Hollywood.

BrakYeller

Yep, we've seen Spock's dad (actor Mark Lenard) before. He was the commander of the Romulan warbird; good spotting! Sarek's grudging respect for and stubbornness toward his son, as well as his casually sardonic retorts and devotion to his human wife, all portrayed with typical Vulcan resolve and subtlety, won him a lot of praise among fans of the show. In fact, when Leonard Nimoy was in a salary dispute with the studio between the first and second seasons, Mark Lenard had been on the short-list to replace Nimoy as a new Vulcan character if a salary agreement couldn't be reached! Oooooo, Orion spies. We've seen an Orion exotic dancer (the green one in Captain Pike's 'fantasy' vision from "The Menagerie")... maybe we'll get to see what Orions actually look like when they're not undercover? And we get our first look at an Orion ship, though that's due mainly to the CGI in the remastered version of the episode; in the original version, the Orion ship being so fast that it couldn't be seen was a way to save budget by not doing exterior effects shots of the ship, or showing it clearly on the viewscreen. We also get to see the Andorians and Tellarites for the first time. In the Star Trek franchise, Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites are the four species that found the Federation. It was a rocky start that's chronicled... elsewhere. Maybe you'll get to it eventually. Worth noting that this episode is written by Dorothy C. Fontana (credited here as D.C. Fontana, to get around the biases in 1960s Hollywood that nobody would enjoy sci-fi written by a woman). Fontana began as one of Gene Roddenberry's secretaries when he started writing for TV, and when Trek rolled around she became a member of the writing staff, ending up writing several of the series' best episodes. She's largely credited (along with several of Leonard Nimoy's on-set improvisations) with creating a lot of Vulcan culture and backstory, so much so that she became the sort-of keeper of Vulcan lore among the franchise's showrunners. (She also wrote the script for the one episode of TNG you've seen, the series premiere "Encounter at Farpoint.") Last but not least, if you want to see what Mr. Spock's "teddy bear" pet Sehlat looks like, there's one in the Animated Series episode "Yesteryear." The Animated Series can be very uneven, but if you have to watch just one, "Yesteryear" is the best episode to watch.

Michael Gehrman

Great reaction, Kat! Imagine some people saying it wasn't important for you to know who Spock, McCoy, Kirk or Scotty were. I strongly suggest Wolf in the fold and Specter of the Gun.

BrakYeller

After posting this, I was looking at some of DC Fontana's bios online, and learned that she was married to special effects artist Dennis Skotak, whose effects work you've seen in the movies Aliens and Terminator 2. Apparently, good sci-fi runs in their family. :D

Robert Raszkowski

Hmm... it seems that Sarek is always "surrounded" by some kind of "trouble". Poor Spock. Mark Lenard is great in that role but You are correct KAT - he was a portraying a Romulan captain before this episode. On to the next... KAT-Ship flies by.