So my recent revisit to the Star Trek fandom has reminded me of my love for Amanda Grayson (Spock's mother) and so since you have given me the oppurtunity:
Amanda is amazing. She loves her husband and her son so much and you can see it tearing her apart that they don't like each other very much. (Poor Sarek. Why don't you just admit that you love your son? It will make things easier in the long run.) in 'The Journey to Babel', when she and Spock were arguing, she completely broke down, but she was strong enough to deal with the strain that both of them being in surgery brought her, and she was so relieved when they were both okay, and it was adorable the way she got so annoyed at logic, because at the beginning of the episode it seemed she had given up a lot of her humanity to marry Sarek (because she loves him, and no matter what Sarek might say he loves her too.)
In the 'The Voyage Home', at the beginning we see Amanda again, struggling to deal with Spock after he's died and then got better without his memories in tact, and the way she's able to remind him of what was important to him before, when no one else could, really spoke of the bond they share as mother and son, and brings out the human in Spock better than anything else.
Throughout the series and movies, any negative comment about Amanda prompted an emotional response from an otherwise unemotional man ("Spock, you're a good scientist, but you couldn't sell fake patents to your own mother." "I fail to see why I would wish to sell falsified patents to my mother." *accompanying glare*); when his mother was insulted in the latest movie, he actually went so far as to nearly killing the man who did it.
Amanda's strength of character was matched only by her kindness, and the love she felt for both husband and son. And while the female cast of Star Trek was great, and most of them were quite beautiful, none compared even a little to Amanda, simply because she radiated an inner beauty that not even Uhura could match.
And that is why I love her. Because she is amazing.
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So my recent revisit to the Star Trek fandom has reminded me of my love for Amanda Grayson (Spock's mother) and so since you have given me the oppurtunity:
Amanda is amazing. She loves her husband and her son so much and you can see it tearing her apart that they don't like each other very much. (Poor Sarek. Why don't you just admit that you love your son? It will make things easier in the long run.) in 'The Journey to Babel', when she and Spock were arguing, she completely broke down, but she was strong enough to deal with the strain that both of them being in surgery brought her, and she was so relieved when they were both okay, and it was adorable the way she got so annoyed at logic, because at the beginning of the episode it seemed she had given up a lot of her humanity to marry Sarek (because she loves him, and no matter what Sarek might say he loves her too.)
In the 'The Voyage Home', at the beginning we see Amanda again, struggling to deal with Spock after he's died and then got better without his memories in tact, and the way she's able to remind him of what was important to him before, when no one else could, really spoke of the bond they share as mother and son, and brings out the human in Spock better than anything else.
Throughout the series and movies, any negative comment about Amanda prompted an emotional response from an otherwise unemotional man ("Spock, you're a good scientist, but you couldn't sell fake patents to your own mother." "I fail to see why I would wish to sell falsified patents to my mother." *accompanying glare*); when his mother was insulted in the latest movie, he actually went so far as to nearly killing the man who did it.
Amanda's strength of character was matched only by her kindness, and the love she felt for both husband and son. And while the female cast of Star Trek was great, and most of them were quite beautiful, none compared even a little to Amanda, simply because she radiated an inner beauty that not even Uhura could match.
And that is why I love her. Because she is amazing.