Sarek

Sarek was a Vulcan first introduced in the original series Star Trek episode Journey to Babel. He was the father of Spock.

The original Sarek was portrayed by Mark Lenard.

Sarek was born on Vulcan to Skon and T'Rama on June 18, 2165. He came from a distinguished Vulcan family, his Grandfather Solkar had been the Captain who made first contact with Earth a century prior to his birth. Growing up, Sarek was given a traditional Vulcan upbringing, and was tutored by his father in computer science. At the age of 7 he was bonded with T'Rea

Sarek grew up to become a diplomat. In 2222 he experienced Pon Farr and returned to Vulcan to mate. He and T'Rea conceived a child, but T'Rea kept the pregnancy and birth secret of his first son Sybok from him.

After T'Rea left him to become a high priestess, Sarek met and fell in love with the human woman Amanda Grayson. The two would marry and have their son, who they named Spock.

In the 2167s Sarek briefly retired due to his health condition, but returned to the job in order to represent Vulcan at the Babel Conference on the question of admission of Coridan to the Federation. On the journey there Sarek had a heart attack, and Spock saved his life with a blood transfusion. This led to a healing of a rift that had started 18 years earlier when Spock entered Starfleet.

After his son's apparent death in 2285, Sarek went to Earth at the urging of Amanda to see if Spock's katra had survived. Sarek and James T. Kirk discovered the katra was in McCoy. Kirk brought McCoy back to Vulcan where the katra was restored to Spock, restoring him to life. Spock returned to duty in Starfleet three months later, after telling Sarek to tell his mother that he felt fine, and after the two wished each other to live long and prosper.