{"id":1066,"date":"2003-06-29T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-29T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2003-06-29T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-29T21:11:00","slug":"allyns-crackpot-theory-the-clone-of-spock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Allyn&#039;s Crackpot Theory: The Clone of Spock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now for one of Allyn&#8217;s crackpot theories&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Spock<i>did<\/i> stay dead after <b>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The post-Genesis Spock is really a clone of the original Spock, with most of the original Spock&#8217;s memories.  Their brain structures are completely different; the post-Genesis Spock had his brain wired based not on the life his memories know but on the life he led on the Genesis Planet.  That right there is a fundamental difference that means the post-Genesis Spock will think and act differently than the pre-Genesis Spock.  It&#8217;s a problem of nature <i>and<\/i> nurture.<\/p>\n<p>The post-Genesis Spock is still a Vulcan, even if his memories of Vulcan are merely intellectual and not experiential.  I think it&#8217;s because of this that the Spock we see in <b>Star Trek IV<\/b> and <b>V<\/b> is <i>so<\/i> stiff and formal; he has the intellectual knowledge of the pre-Genesis Spock, but none of the emotional growth and development, and that takes him a good decade to reach.  I tend to think that, had Spock <i>not<\/i> died, he wouldn&#8217;t have left Starfleet after <i>Vulcan&#8217;s Forge<\/i>.  The Spock of <b>Star Trek II<\/b> was comfortable with his place in the universe, while the very different Spock of <i>Vulcan&#8217;s Forge<\/i> was not, and Starfleet was not the place for him.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, it&#8217;s just a crackpot theory.  I have a lot of those. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now for one of Allyn&#8217;s crackpot theories&#8230;. Spockdid stay dead after Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The post-Genesis Spock is really a clone of the original Spock, with most of the original Spock&#8217;s memories. Their brain structures are completely different; the post-Genesis Spock had his brain wired based not on the life his<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1066\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Allyn&#039;s Crackpot Theory: The Clone of Spock!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[847,685,4089],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-crackpot-theory","tag-spock","tag-star-trek","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}