Surak is a fictional character in the backstory of the Star Trek television series and franchises. He is portrayed as the most important philosopher in the pre-history of the planet Vulcan. Living in an Earth-like "modern age" when the Vulcans are technological but violent, Surak founds a movement which reforms the Vulcan way of thinking and lifestyle and leads to the world of logically-reasoning and emotion-mastering Vulcans known from the TV se...
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Surak is a fictional character in the backstory of the Star Trek television series and franchises. He is portrayed as the most important philosopher in the pre-history of the planet Vulcan. Living in an Earth-like "modern age" when the Vulcans are technological but violent, Surak founds a movement which reforms the Vulcan way of thinking and lifestyle and leads to the world of logically-reasoning and emotion-mastering Vulcans known from the TV series. This period in Vulcan pre-history is referred to as the "Time of Awakening".
The "Time of Awakening" is accompanied by violence unmatched in Vulcan history, according to the canonical Star Trek: Enterprise screenplay, "Awakening" (wherein Surak's mind is resurrected 1,800 years after his death to restore to modern Vulcans an uncorrupted version of his original philosophy.) During the "Time of Awakening" a Vulcan schism of those who "sought a return to savage ways" and "marched beneath the raptor's wings" (later the symbol of the Romulan...
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