From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: Amok Time: my review   
      
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    Graeme  wrote:   
      
   > On Jan 5, 2:35apm, Led4Aces  wrote:   
   > > Hard to argue. Not my personal favorite, but the performances and the   
   > > establishment of Vulcan lore make it one of the most important eps.   
   > > 10/10   
   >    
   > It's a tricky episode in terms of what came later, though.  We're   
   > supposed to believe that Vulcans serve in Starfleet, but nobody knows   
   > that they may periodically require an emergency leave to go home,   
   > because they're too embarrassed to say so.   
      
   Is it canon as of Amok Time that there are any other Vulcans in    
   Starfleet?  The Intrepid gets around this by being ALL Vulcan of course.   
   >    
   > In the original conception, this kind of made sense.  They seem to   
   > have thought of a Vulcan in Starfleet as being something rare, perhaps   
   > unique.  Mendez's Talos IV log, several times points out the   
   > (irrelevant to Talos IV) fact that Pike's Science Officer was half   
   > Vulcan, as if to say "Look!  A Three Headed Monkey!"  If Spock is the   
   > only Vulcan in Starfleet, it's believable that he himself might have   
   > hushed this up.   
      
   Yeah.  Also, Court Martial, 'haven't seen you since the Vulcanian    
   expedition' said to me that Vulcans came late to the game.  And don't    
   forget Harry Mudd's reaction to Spock.   
   >    
   > But then later, they postulate that Vulcan is actually one of the   
   > founding members of the Federation, and even in the same season of   
   > TOS, we had the Intrepid, a starship manned entirely by Vulcans.  At   
   > that point, the idea that the need for these emergency leaves would   
   > not be understood, by the top brass at least, if not by the rank and   
   > file, just isn't believable.  Not Sturgeon's fault, though, all this   
   > was changed after he wrote Amok Time.   
      
   Yep.   
      
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