Amanda Grayson
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| Amanda Grayson | |
| Species | Human |
|---|---|
| Home planet | Earth |
| Affiliation | United Federation of Planets |
| Position | Unaffiliated (Civilian) |
| Portrayed by | Jane Wyatt, Winona Ryder |
Lady Amanda Grayson is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. She is the human mother of Mr. Spock.
Very little about the character has been revealed. She appeared in only one episode of Star Trek: The Original Series ("Journey to Babel") and two movies: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and briefly in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; she is slated to appear in the forthcoming Star Trek. Her surname is not mentioned in "Journey to Babel" or in the movies, even though it was given to her in an early draft of the screenplay of "Journey to Babel". She is first mentioned as Amanda Grayson in the animated series episode "Yesteryear", which is not considered official canon. Despite the character's infrequent official appearances, Ms. Grayson is a very popular character and appears in many Star Trek novels and fan fiction stories, and to date her accepted last name has not been contradicted by any film or TV episode. In "Journey to Babel", she states that she has a Vulcan name which she has learned to pronounce after a fashion, but asks to be addressed by her human first name.
In the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Spock says "When you have eliminated the impossible, everything that is left must be the truth", a comment he attributes to one of his ancestors. This is a quote from the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Sign of Four, which implies that Amanda is a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle.
According to the most accepted Star Trek chronology, Amanda Grayson was born in 2202 in Seattle, Washington. She became a teacher. She met Ambassador Sarek, a member of a prominent Vulcan family, in 2223. They married in the same year and she moved to Vulcan with her husband. Although it wasn't mentioned in the series, their marriage is usually considered to be the first marriage between two species. Spock is the first generally known Vulcan-Human hybrid, although decades before his birth, Terra Prime (an Earth splinter group) had briefly created a Vulcan-Human child from the DNA of Charles "Trip" Tucker and T'Pol in an attempt to win support for its cause. Spock is the first such hybrid to live a normal lifespan; Trip and T'Pol's child, Elizabeth, had died shortly after birth because of genetic defects.
In "Journey to Babel" and The Voyage Home, Amanda was played by Jane Wyatt, the actress most generally associated with the role. Another actress, Cynthia Blaise, played Amanda in the flashback scene of The Final Frontier, and Majel Barrett provided the voice of Amanda in the animated series.
At some point between 2286 and 2366 (after the events of Star Trek IV and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Sarek"), Amanda died. Sarek eventually married another human woman, Perrin.
At the very end of Barbara Hambly's Star Trek novel Ishmael — a tie-in to the television series Here Come the Brides — Amanda Grayson is revealed to be a descendant of Brides character Aaron Stempel (who was played by Mark Lenard in the TV series).
Amanda Grayson will be portrayed by Winona Ryder in the upcoming film, Star Trek. In reality, Ryder is just six years older than the actor playing Spock, Zachary Quinto.[1]
[edit] External links
- Amanda Grayson article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- Jane Wyatt at the Internet Movie Database
