jce (07/01/82)
a minor point: the home planet of Spock and Saavik is Vulca, not Vulcan. Most notes on the net call it Vulcan.
eric (07/02/82)
The home planet IS VUNCAN (with an 'N'). if you don't believe me, watch the old shows, most of all 'Amok Time',and the one with Sarek
Stevenson.WBST@PARC-MAXC@sri-unix (07/07/82)
"the home planet of Spock and Saavik is Vulca, not Vulcan" Eh? Where did you get that information? I've never heard it as anything but "Vulcan" in the TV episodes and movies, and I don't remember seeing it spelled any way but "Vulcan" in paperbacks, tech manuals, fanzines, blueprints, etc. "Vulcan" is presumably the human name for the planet, given because its climate is uncomfortably warm for humans. I don't remember ever hearing or seeing the Vulcan name for the planet. (Maybe it's like Spock's legendary "other name": very difficult for most humans to pronounce.) I do seem to remember that when Star Trek first started, some of the printed material referred to inhabitants of Vulcan as "Vulcanians" or "Vulcanites", but perhaps somebody thought those were also difficult for humans to pronounce, since they've been called "Vulcans" ever since. Bill