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 6, 2:45apm, Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
   > > Is it canon as of Amok Time that there are any other Vulcans in   
   > > Starfleet? aThe Intrepid gets around this by being ALL Vulcan of course.   
   >    
   > I don't think so.  It was so early in the 2nd Season.  I don't   
   > remember any references to any other Vulcans in Starfleet before The   
   > Immunity Syndrome.  Although this episode and Journey to Babel seem to   
   > imply that Vulcan is a Federation member at least, so you'd think   
   > there must be a few.   
      
   Not really.  Sarek, for instance, seems to approve of the Fed, but not    
   Starfleet.  Somewhere there must be hundreds of disappointed parents of    
   the crew of the Intrepid.   
   >    
   >    
   >    
   > > Yeah. aAlso, Court Martial, 'haven't seen you since the Vulcanian   
   > > expedition' said to me that Vulcans came late to the game. aAnd don't   
   > > forget Harry Mudd's reaction to Spock.   
   >    
   > Yeah, an expedition to Vulcan seems to imply that they weren't   
   > Federation members until the Federation sent a mission to establish   
   > relations with them (if even then).  And this would have been recent,   
      
   Yep. That's what we thought at the time.   
      
   > if Kirk remembers it.  Mudd did seem to find it unusual to see a   
   > Vucanian on the Enterprise, but they weren't unknown to him.  He knew   
   > enough about them to recognize one on sight, and to know that they   
   > weren't supposed to have emotions.   
   >    
   > It's odd that Mudd said that Spock was "part" Vulcanian.  Recognizing   
   > him as a Vulcan is one thing, but how on earth did he know that Spock   
   > was a hybrid?  The implication is that a pure Vulcan would have looked   
   > different, but they never explained it.   
      
   He didn't have the bumpy forehead.   
      
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