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STAR TREK PLANET VULCAN PROPER NAMES

Spook, Spuck, Spack, Speek, Spouk, Spaak, Spilk, Spiak, Spunk, Spank, Spink...

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Shaun Usher
Jan 11, 2021
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In May of 1966, four months before Star Trek premiered on NBC, the show’s producers exchanged a chain of memos in which they discussed, with tongue firmly in cheek, a system by which to name Spock’s fellow Vulcans.

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