Spock’s service record, from Geoffrey Mandel’s USS Enterprise Officer’s Manual (1980). Check out that first name.
Xtmprszntwlfd’s Brain
Xtmprszntwlfd’s helmet
Xtmpirk
Okay so I found the origin of Spock’s last name. DOROTHY FONTANA herself!! From Spockanalia #2(1968):
Awesomeness
Reblogging again to celebrate S'chn T'gai becoming canon in SNW.
I do love seeing what people thought the Vulcan language was like before it actually appeared, some of the theories are so wild!
Also I’ve seen this post before but I hadn’t truly paid attention to the last sentence of Dorothy Fontana’s thing until now and I’m screaming. “The phonetic rendering according to pronunciation has nothing to do with the written language” in languages that don’t use the Latin alphabet. You know. Because our letters aren’t arbitrary and also English pronunciation makes perfect sense all the time. /s
