Editing Vulcan (Star Trek) (section)

===Names===
The treatment of Vulcan names has been erratic throughout ''Star Trek''{{'}}s production history. Early on, female Vulcans were typically given names beginning with "T" followed by an [[apostrophe]] then a "p". The earliest reference to Vulcan names following a set pattern dates back to a May 3, 1966 memo from ''TOS'' producer [[Robert H. Justman]] to [[Gene Roddenberry]] (later reprinted in the book ''The Making of Star Trek'') in which Justman recommended that all Vulcan names begin with "SP" and end with "K", and have exactly five letters. (It is clear from the context of the book, however, that the memo was intended as a joke, as the series of memos ends up discussing the pronunciation of such names as "Spook", "Spilk" and "Spork".)<ref>{{cite book |author1=Whitfield, Stephen E. |author2=Gene Roddenberry |title=The Making of Star Trek |location=New York |publisher=Ballantine |year=1968 |page=274 |id= SBN 345-23401-4-150 |others={{USD|1.50}} |isbn=0-345-23401-4}}</ref>

Only non-canonical sources have provided any Vulcans with family names, which are usually spoken of as defying attempts at both human pronunciation, especially with English-language phonemes, and human typesetting, especially with the characters of the modern Latin alphabet used for the English language. Hence, no canonical source has given any family names to any Vulcan characters, and, indeed, every one of the personal names previously mentioned is officially described as being only Latin-alphabetical and English-phonetic approximations of the real ones. In the ''TOS'' episode "[[This Side of Paradise (Star Trek: The Original Series)|This Side of Paradise]]", Spock is asked if he has another name, to which he replies "You couldn't pronounce it."