Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto)

We know exactly how long Spock went without sleep in Paradise Syndrome.

SPOCK: “Exactly fifty nine point two two three days, Doctor, and that asteroid will be four hours behind us all the way.”

So as you say, the Voyager writers changed – or didn’t bother to actually READ – the amount of time Spock went without sleep in TOS.

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Just FYI for everybody to know in the future if there’s some detail like this you need for your writing, or merely for your curiosity.

When you need any details like this about ST – the easiest way to immediately find an authoritative answer to anything from any of the original ST series episodes or movies, IF you know the approximate name or year of the episode, is to check the actual scripts from:

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek

She transcribed all the scripts from all ST – EXCEPT not the ones only showing on Paramount+. On several of the stories I wrote on AO3, I used her scripts to get exact information – because a LOT of incorrect info is out there on the web.

(Obviously, if you have no idea of the episode the detail comes from, you may need to do a word search through several scripts that you think MIGHT have had a storyline with the answer. Word search makes it REALLY easy and fast to know if it’s there or not.)

Like I used info from 3 of Chakoteya’s “Enterprise” episodes scripts, two movies, and then from Roddenberry’s novel of The Motion Picture in my fic “Yet Can A Vulcan Truly Love?”

The way I found this answer was – I actually remembered Bones chewing out Spock for not sleeping in Paradise Syndrome. I went to Chakoteya’s script, did a search for “sleep” – and it instantly came up. Then when Spock was a little vague on the actual number of weeks, I remembered they traveled back to the planet on impulse power – so then I did a search for “impulse.” And that’s where I instantly found Spock’s quote of the time.

(Trust me though, a LOT of times when I’ve tried to find something, it took HOURS searching through scripts because great as imdb and alpha memory are – often, they just give you clues to where the answers are but don’t actually HAVE the answers. And sometimes those details were actually in ad lib’ed lines, so those are much harder to find. “Official” scripts don’t include ad-lib’ed lines. Chakoteya’s do!)

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