History Literature / SpocksWorld

* WackyCravings: While pregnant, Amanda found herself wanting to eat only pickles. This annoyed her because of its cliche nature, but Sarek took it in stride.

* FantasticSlur: The Vulcan insult ''tviokh''... which actually means "neighbor" and predates Vulcan contact with aliens by a great deal.

* SlapSlapKiss: parts of Sarek and Amanda's courtship followed this pattern, albeit playfully more than seriously.

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: T'Thelaih and Mahak... although the people who arranged it not only didn't care about their feelings, they were expecting and even hoping that she would kill him with her PsychicPowers.

-->An Andorian spirit dancer using a Ouiji board could do a better job. Though I must say I enjoyed your article on the evolution of blood sacrifice in Earth culture. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny/SpocksWorld That is]] ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny/SpocksWorld not]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny/SpocksWorld what major-league football is for...]]

* HaveYouComeToGloat: The BigBad [[spoiler: T'Pring]] asks Spock if he has the desire to mock the BigBad for slipping logic. Spock answers, "If that was my thought, there is nothing in it to do me ill credit." [[Awesome/SpocksWorld But he doesn't.]]

** The spider scientist K's't'lk from Duane's earlier novel ''[[Creator/DianeDuane The Wounded Sky]]'' makes a cameo during the secession debate. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny She bites one arrogant Vulcan secessionist's leg to prove a point.]]

* TwoOutOfThreeAintBad: When a Vulcan asks about Kirk's readiness, for the referendum, the Captain answers, "Ready, willing, and able." [=McCoy=] mutters, "At least two out of three ain't bad."

** Played with concerning the BigBad. [[TheStoic Modern-day Vulcans]] do not rampage, but [[spoiler:T'Pring]]'s revenge is so epic in scope - trick an entire planet to secede [[spoiler:just to piss off her ex-husband Spock]] - it makes Human-driven roaring rampages pale in comparison.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: T'Thelaih mentally kills everyone in the house where she's being held captive after her husband is killed.
** Played with concerning the BigBad. Modern-day Vulcans do not rampage, but [[spoiler:T'Pring]]'s revenge is so epic in scope - trick an entire planet to secede [[spoiler:just to piss off her ex-husband Spock]] - it makes Human-driven roaring rampages pale in comparison.

* OhCrap: [=McCoy=] gets a huge one when during his research into the groups behind the secession movement, he spots a name that stuns him ...[[spoiler:T'Pring.]]

* NeverMyFault: The BigBad [[spoiler:T'Pring. After the events of "Amok Time", she]] slowly began to brood about how things had not gone according to plan. Stonn grew jealous and artificially induced ''plak tow'' in himself to make their bonding 'real'. When he died, T'Pring decided it was Spock's fault.]]

* NeverMyFault: The BigBad [[spoiler:T'Pring. After the events of "Amok Time", she slowly began to brood about how things had not gone according to plan. Stonn grew jealous and artificially induced ''plak tow'' in himself to make their bonding 'real'. When he died, T'Pring decided it was Spock's fault.]]

* PassThePopcorn: When [=McCoy=], Spock, and Kirk check into the referendum, [=McCoy=] says, "I want popcorn." The Vulcan woman running the entry simply responds, "No eating in the auditorium, sir."

* BusCrash: [[spoiler: Stonn]] died in between this episode and said character's last appearance of a hormonal imbalance invoked to recapture a mate's attention.

* SequelEpisode: [[spoiler: The novel is this to "Amok Time."]]

* Socalization: An hilariously odd variant. In a description of ''[[RefugeInAudacity Vulcan]]''- "Jim tended to think of it as southern California, but with less rain." [[note]]For those who have no idea why this is so funny, Capt. James T. Kirk hails from Iowa. Starfleet HQ is in California, but ''Northern'' California, not at all the same thing... Southern California averages about 35 rainy days per year near the coast in the winter and spring (less in the inland desert areas), with summer and autumn typically being rain-free or nearly so.[[/note]]

* NotSoStoic: The entire Vulcan race. The race's Hat of being driven by logic is thoroughly deconstructed in this novel, not only with the historical chapters but with the present day chapters where [[spoiler:T'Pring's plot and the latent racism of the secessionist movement prove that Vulcans as a whole are just as hypocritical as every other species.]]
** Proves to be a major plot point [[spoiler:when [=McCoy=] uncovers the bribery/kickbacks scheme behind the secessionist movement]]. Because everyone else viewed the Vulcan race as above suspicion, no one else - Spock and Sarek included - noticed... except for the good Doctor...

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Surak. He knew his movement for Logical pacifism would lead to his death. But he also knew [[SacrificialLion that his years of living out that path]] would build a better peaceful Vulcan that would survive him. "Much could be done, with a death..."

* DroppingTheBombshell: [=McCoy=]'s question at the end of Sarek's discourse: "What do[es the government] think of the scheme to sell off formerly Federation-owned property on Vulcan, after the secession, to secret buyers with strong anti-Federation leanings, who have already made substantial payoffs to Vulcan officials to ensure that the property will be sold to them at 'lowest bid' before anyone else hears of it?"

* DrivenToSuicide: T'Thelaih, who's been struggling with suicidal thoughts from her introduction, finally kills herself after purposefully using her deadly PsychicPowers for the first time to avenge her husband.

* RecurringCharacter: Sarek, Amanda, T'Pau and [[spoiler: T'Pring]] all appear again.

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Ruin T'Pring's happiness with Stonn by driving her beloved to suicide? She'll force the ''entire planet to vote to secede from the Federation'', which would either send Spock and his family into exile or else trap Spock on Vulcan forever, ending his heroic and legendary trek to the stars.]]

* MisplacedRetribution: The BigBad [[spoiler:T'Pring]] is doing this to punish Spock for a death in the family...except it's hard to see how he is responsible.

* LittleGreenMen: after Amanda marries Sarek, she responds to a tabloid running the headline "I Married a Little Green Man" with the retort, "There is nothing little about my husband."