Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Vulcans

As we learnt in Amok Time, most Vulcans enter into a form of arranged marriage via telepathic bond as young children. Spock and T'Pring's minds were "locked together" when they were "but seven years of age," so that years later they would be drawn back to each other by the pon farr for the koon-ut-kal-if-fee (literally: "marriage or challenge"). Others, like T'Pol and Koss, are wed without the onset of the pon farr, and, if you're thousands of light years away from your bonded beloved like Ensign Vorik, you might have to declare the koon-ut-so'lik ("marriage or proposal") to find a new mate.

Most recently in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode Charades, it was canapés and teas, not the birds and the bees, for T'Pring and Spock during the V'Shal ritual. Be aware, this is an engagement dinner with the prospective in-laws that will seriously challenge your composure, especially if you're accidentally human!

The V'Shal dinner was entirely new lore for the Vulcans, created from scratch, as SNW co-showrunner/executive producer Henry Alonso Myers put it, "purely […] out of us thinking what would be a funny thing to watch Spock go through as a person pretending to be a Vulcan".

The props used for the dinner were also the most expensive of the season; the Vulcan kettle was 3D printed and, for pouring convenience for Ethan Peck, contained the exact amount of water required for the cup that sat within the larger vessel, which was itself made of solid brass.

Of course, we know where things are headed for T'Pring/Spock where marriage is concerned — his name is Stonn. Who could blame T'Pring either when, at the moment, her fiancé is off to another Chapel.