the Sarek family is hilarious to me because you have so much drama in one place. there have got to be at least 3 like, holo-documentaries or whatever about them. how could you not?
- you have Sarek, the patriarch: one of the UFP's top diplomats, who knocks up a Vulcan princess then goes “hrm I am ambassador to Earth therefore I should marry a human” and he does, upsetting all sorts of the worst kinds of people on his home planet and causing racist hate groups to try to blow him and his family up multiple times, and seems honestly more put out by his son joining Starfleet than his other son becoming Vulcan Moriarty
- Amanda, the matriarch: an accomplished educator and quite possibly the only well-adjusted member of the family
- Sybok: Amanda's stepson from the aforementioned princess fling, who becomes an antiestablishment criminal mastermind with an edgelord fake name, hooks up with a hot space pirate, finds religion, starts a cult, takes an entire colonial government hostage sparking a diplomatic incident involving three galactic superpowers, and hijacks a Starfleet ship to the galactic core to find the Vulcan Garden of Eden, where he dies fighting god in hand-to-hand combat
- Michael, a traumatized human girl Sarek brings home from a work trip, who joins Starfleet, becomes their first-ever mutineer, goes to prison, saves the Federation from a war most people think is her fault and gets “killed” in a highly classified, very suspicious incident involving an experimental starship and a series of red lights that appeared across the galaxy like a divine omen (oh, and returns 900 years later to solve the dilithium crisis, kill the head of the Emerald Chain and save two entire star systems including her siblings' homeworld)
- and then there's Spock, Sarek & Amanda's one-of-a-kind hybrid baby. Spock, who runs off into the desert by himself at age 7 and almost gets eaten by a venomous jaguar. Spock, who gets accepted into the Vulcan Science Academy, tells them to go fuck themselves when he finds out they're being racist about it, runs off to join Starfleet instead, gets so famous his arranged marriage falls apart resulting in him publicly strangling his own captain to death (though the guy turns out to be alive), steals the Federation flagship — twice, invents time travel, saves Earth a couple times, dies and comes back to life, goes into his dad's line of work and his opening act is to help achieve peace with the freaking Klingons. he disappears for a bit and pops up on Romulus (capital of one of the galaxy's most paranoid authoritarian states) doing extremely dangerous activist work to unify them and his dad's people who have hated each other for over a thousand years — and he isn't around to see it but it eventually works. then he fucks off with the VSA's high-speed prototype ship full of the most dangerous substance known to science and gets sucked into a black hole of his own creation, never to be seen again. and this is just the stuff that's public knowledge!
then you dig into the novels and find out Sarek's ancestor established formal contact with humans by doing the Vulcan equivalent of tongue-kissing the first one he saw, and Amanda told the press her husband had a huge cock
I love them
