Word: vulcan
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Schwabe had been searching for the hypothetical planet Vulcan, supposedly the closest one to the sun, hoping to spot it in silhouette as it moved across the solar disk. In the process, he observed and kept meticulous records of sunspots over a 17-year period. Finally, in 1843, he recognized and announced the eleven-year cyclic nature of the spots and wrote, "I may compare myself to Saul, who went to seek his father's ass and found a Kingdom...
Spock is replaced by two characters in the new series, an android named Data and a Klingon called Worf. Neither is as fascinating as the pointyeared Vulcan. Data rattles off facts and makes bad jokes, while Worf struggles with his loyalty to the Federation, just as Spock questioned whether to ally himself with Vulcans or humans...
...disadvantage because I'm a brunet." Cartland admits that "at first I was a little worried because all my heroines are blond." Her fears were soon banished by Bonham Carter's breathless portrayal of Serena, the young beauty who is whisked away by the evil Marquis of Vulcan, played by Marcus Gilbert. Bonham Carter has meatier roles in mind but knows she may have to age a little to get them: "I'm always surprised when I look in a mirror at how callow I look. But I'm not going to stay like this forever...
...Wrath of Khan brought Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) back from the executive junk heap to conquer both an old nemesis and a mid-life crisis. In 1984 The Search for Spock resurrected Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) for a reunion with Kirk that was tender enough to make a Vulcan almost cry. Now comes The Voyage Home -- and a radical, canny shift of moods. This time, if you laugh at Star Trek, you are in good company. The whole starship Enterprise crew is giggling up its polyester sleeves...
...just fine. Dr. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) brazens his way through a little miracle surgery; Chekov (Walter Koenig), the Russian, has to explain his way out of an American nuclear submarine; Scotty (James Doohan) brings postmodern plastics to Marin County. And Spock, wandering around Golden Gate Park in a Vulcan bathrobe and proving his ineptness with the local slang, must be passed off as a casualty of the '60s free-speech movement. "He did a little too much LDS," Kirk explains helpfully...