Star Trek Reveals Spock Told Picard About Michael Burnham

Star Trek Reveals Spock Told Picard About Michael Burnham

The Autobiography of Mr. Spock memoir reveals that the Vulcan wrote to Jean-Luc Picard all about the secret of Michael Burnham and the USS Discovery.

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Star Trek Reveals Spock Told Picard About Michael Burnham

Star Trek reveals that Spock (Leonard Nimoy) told Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) the secret about his adopted sister, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), and the USS Discovery. The younger version of Spock (Ethan Peck) was a pivotal player in Star Trek: Discovery season 2; reunited with his estranged sister, Spock and Burnham saved the galaxy from a rogue A.I. called Control. But the cost of their victory was Michael and the USS Discovery’s permanent exile to the 32nd century. To maintain this secret, Spock altered Starfleet’s records so that Burnham and her starship were listed as lost in the battle with control.

Spock and Captain Picard officially met in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s two-parter, “Unification.” By the 24th century, Ambassador Spock committed himself to the reunion of the Vulcan and Romulan races, who share a common ancestry but split apart millennia ago. Picard traveled to Romulus to find Spock, and upon reaching an accord, Jean-Luc mind-melded with the Vulcan to share the essence of Spock’s father Sarek (Mark Lenard) that was part of Picard. In J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek 2009, Spock attempted to prevent the Romulan supernova and inadvertently time-traveled into the alternate Kelvin timeline, where he met younger versions of himself and Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine). Ambassador Spock ultimately died in the Kelvin timeline. However, in Star Trek: Discovery season 3, Michael Burnham learned Vulcan and Romulus achieved Spock’s dream of unification and both races shared a homeworld called Ni’Var.

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The Autobiography of Mr. Spock by Una McCormack revealed that prior to his departure to stop the Romulan supernova, the aged Vulcan hero composed his autobiography, which was intended for one specific reader: Jean-Luc Picard. In the years since TNG, Spock and Picard maintained their friendship, and the Ambassador was well-aware that Admiral Picard attempted a rescue mission to save the Romulan people from the supernova that was rescinded by the United Federation of Planets, and that Picard quit Starfleet in protest. This was part of the reason why Spock took it upon himself to attempt to use red matter to defuse the Romulan star from going supernova. But crucially, Spock told Picard all aspects of his life, including his earliest years on Vulcan when a young orphaned girl named Michael Burnham was adopted by his Vulcan father, Sarek (James Frain).

In his autobiography, Spock told Picard all about the events seen in Star Trek: Discovery season 2, which was a retcon of Spock’s early life. The Vulcan detailed his childhood estrangement with Michael, the young Spock seeing the Red Angel, how they reunited aboard the USS Discovery, and how Burnham and the USS Discovery sacrificed themselves to jump 900+ years into the future to save the 23rd century. What’s fascinating about this is Spock maintained the secret of Michael Burnham for over a century. Spock never even told his closest friend, James T. Kirk (William Shatner), that he had a human sister, much less what happened to Michael and the USS Discovery.

The Autobiography of Mr. Spock not only recontextualizes much of Spock’s early life, but it also adds an extra dimension to Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Discovery. By the time of Picard season 1, Jean-Luc had read Spock’s tale and knew about Michael Burnham and the Discovery, although he presumably honored his friend’s wishes and kept this information private, especially since he no longer trusted Starfleet. In Star Trek: Discovery season 3, Michael saw a holo-image of the older Spock meeting Picard in TNG, and fans now know Burham’s brother trusted the Captain of the Enterprise-D with his greatest secret.

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Whether or not The Autobiography of Mr. Spock is officially Star Trek canon is a bit unclear. Most Star Trek novels are not officially part of the continuity of Star Trek’s TV shows and movies, but the tie-in books to the new Star Trek series on Paramount+ involve writers who work on the shows and they are closer to being canonical. In effect, unless Star Trek: Discovery or Star Trek: Picard directly contradicts The Autobiography of Mr. Spock, then it’s safe to believe that the Vulcan did tell Jean-Luc Picard all about his sister, Michael Burnham, and the USS Discovery, who now live in the 32nd century.

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