Star Trek episode "Amok Time"

"Amok Time"

Season 2, episode 1.

The Spock mating ceremony installment.

It's that Ponfar we see again in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

You know, for a Vulcan who is known to be stoic in his demeanor, there are quite a few episodes that show his full range of emotions.

This one has Spock racing to Vulcan in order to mate with his betrothed. Bones says, "He'll die, Jim," if you don't get him to Vulcan...to mate! It's amazing that the medical corps in Starfleet would not have 100% medical data on a race, one of whom is "the best first officer in the fleet."

Spock does say it is for no offworlder to know about, but it's still funny--what if it happened during a real mission, or too far from Vulcan?

Spock's betrothed, T'Pring, is also mentioned again later in that really good novel I read this year, The Lost Years by J.M. Dillard.

Kirk must fight Spock with weapons that look like sharpened shovels with weights at the end. Bones gets to say "He's dead" over Kirk's body, amazingly having a neuroparalyzer, to simulate death, just on his person when he is supposed to be going to a wedding.

The one cool element is how T'Pring plays Spock--she is one cold and calculating Vulcan bitch, that's for sure.