XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.sf.movies, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: bthorn64@suddenlink.net   
      
   On Wed, 20 May 2009 15:40:29 +0200, "Wouter Valentijn"   
    wrote:   
      
      
   >>>>> So, what will the Vulcans do when Pon Farr comes around, and   
   >>>>> there's no   
   >>>>> planet Vulcan to return to?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> For Pon Farr they need a mate, not a planet.   
   >>>   
   >>> Actually, no:   
      
   >>> Eventually, they catch up with us,   
   >>> and we are driven by forces we cannot control ...   
   >>> to return home and take a wife ...   
   >>>   
   >>> Seems like they need to return to their birthplace.   
   >>   
   >> Since on multiple occasions it was shown that they didn't have to, no.   
   >   
   >See: "The Search for Spock" and an episode of "Enterprise". The location was   
   >secondary.   
      
   See also Tuvok on Voyager, who had to get by with a holodeck version   
   of his wife.   
      
   Brian   
      
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