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 Rank: Captain, retired
 Serial number: S179-276SP
 Full Name: Spock (lineal Vulcan name unpronounceable)
 Year of birth: 2230
 Place of birth: Shi'Kahr, Vulcan
 Parents: Ambassador Sarek and his wife Amanda Grayson
 Education: Starfleet Academy, 2249-53
 Marital status: Once married
 Last whereabouts: Romulus

 Starfleet Career Summary

 2252 -- As cadet, assigned under Capt. Christopher Pike, U.S.S. Enterprise

 2253 -- Commissioned as ensign, still aboard Enterprise under Pike

 2265 -- As lieutenant commander, named first officer and science officer under
 Capt. James T. Kirk aboard Enterprise; promoted to commander soon after

 2269 -- Retired from Starfleet

 2271 -- Reactivated commission during V'Ger crisis under Kirk on refit
 Enterprise

 2277 -- Promoted to captain, assigned to Starfleet Academy faculty and cadet
 training with Enterprise

 2285 -- Relinquish cadet-filled U.S.S. Enterprise to Kirk for rescue of Project
 Genesis team

 2286 -- Though uncharged, stands with Kirk and shipmates for theft of
 Enterprise charges

 2287 -- Accompanies Kirk aboard NCC-1701-A Enterprise for Nimbus III
 mission

 2293 -- Envoy to UFP-Klingon peace accords, spurred by explosion of Klingon
 moon Praxis

 Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, was a human schoolteacher from Earth and
 his father, Sarek, was a respected diplomat. For most of his life, Spock was
 torn between his emotional human side and the stern discipline of his Vulcan
 half until his experience with the V'Ger machine-entity in 2271 and his later
 death and rebirth in 2286 broadened his perspective. As of 2267 he had earned
 the Vulcanian Scientific Legion of Honor, had been twice decorated by Starfleet
 Command and held an A7 computer expert classification.

 As a child, Spock had a pet sehlat, which is a cuddly Vulcan bear-like animal
 with claws and fangs. His older half-brother, Sybok, who was ostracized from
 Vulcan because he rejected the way of pure logic, was killed in 2292 after
 battling an alien entity at the galaxy's center that claimed to be 'God.'

 At age seven, Spock was telepathically bonded with a young Vulcan girl named
 T'Pring. The telepathic touch would draw the two together when the time was
 right after both came of age: once every 7 years all Vulcan males experiences
 pon farr, a powerful Vulcan mating drive which demands that they mate or die.
 In 2267, however, T'Pring chose Stonn, a Vulcan, over Spock, and the Vulcan
 returned to the U.S.S. Enterprise unwed. He did eventually marry in a
 ceremony attended by Lt. Jean-Luc Picard.

 Because the young Vulcan chose to join Starfleet, he and Sarek opened an
 18-year rift over Sarek's hope his son would attend the Vulcan Science
 Academy. Spock was the first Vulcan to enlist in the Federation Starfleet,
 serving aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike as a
 lieutenant, and later for James T. Kirk.

 After the conclusion of the U.S.S. Enterprise's first five-year mission, Spock
 retired from Starfleet and returned to Vulcan to pursue the emotion-purging of
 the kohlinar discipline from the Vulcan Masters. Although he completed the
 training, Spock failed to achieve kohlinar because his emotions were stirred by
 the V'Ger entity in 2271. He then reentered Starfleet and was eventually
 promoted to U.S.S. Enterprise captain when that ship was assigned as a
 training vessel at Starfleet Academy.

 Spock sacrificed himself in 2285 to repair plasma conduits that allowed the
 U.S.S. Enterprise and its crew to escape from the detonation of the Genesis
 Device by Khan Noonien Singh; his radiation-wracked body was consigned to
 space but landed on the newly formed Genesis Planet and began regeneration.
 Prior to his death, Spock had mind-melded with McCoy to transfer his katra,
 apparently intending for his longtime friend and sparring partner to return it to
 Vulcan and perhaps be fully regenerated in the fal-tor-pan or refusion process,
 conducted for the first time in generations.

 In later years, Spock's work became more diplomatic than scientific, initially
 remaining a part of Starfleet. In 2293, he served as Federation special envoy to
 the Klingon government, paving the way for the Khitomer peace accords with
 Chancellor Azetbur, and disappointed in that his protTgT, Lt. Valeris.

 In the coming decades as a civilian, in 2368, Spock secretly traveled to
 Romulus on a personal mission to further the cause of Romulan/Vulcan
 reunification - a mission which shook up the Federation so that Captain
 Jean-Luc Picard was sent undercover to determine his motives. On the same
 trip he was saddened to hear of the death of his father, Sarek, but Picard's
 presence allowed Spock a final last solace thanks to an earlier Picard-Sarek
 mind meld. Spock remained to work with the Romulan underground and in
 2369, helped arrange the defection of Romulan vice-proconsul M'Ret to the
 Federation to pioneer an escape route for dissidents.

 Spock carried a life-long interest in art, music, literature and poetry from many
 worlds, especially Terran, and played both tri-dimensional chess as well as the
 Vulcan lute or harp and a keyboard harpsichord.