How long do Vulcans live for?

[Kokomo]

What is the "normal" life expectancy of a Vulcan?

 

[Praetor]

I believe Sarek was 200 when he died. I'm not sure if a Vulcan has ever been said to have lived any longer, or if any canon information for the average lifespan exists. Sarek could have died younger than normal for all we know.

 

[Thor Damar]

Do the Romulans and the Remans enjoy the same long life spans? And the prosperity?

 

[Praetor]

I would imagine so.

 

[Starbreaker]

I thought it was 200 or so as well.

 

[The Wormhole]

A 200 year life span was confirmed in dialogue in Enterprise.

 

[The_Beef]

Do the Romulans and the Remans enjoy the same long life spans? And the prosperity?

It would follow that Romulans do as well, provided they don't die violently first. As for the Remans: I thought they weren't actually related to Romulans and Vulcans?

 

[Myasishchev]

^Never stated. It may be preferable to assume they are and somehow got all messed up. Possibly radiation. Possibly a Space Dracula attack.

 

[gorn_to_be_wild]

"Only his body was in death..."
...so when they die,can they all come back like Spock did?

 

[Myasishchev]

The implication is yes. But darned if that was ever followed up.

 

[Kokomo]

A 200 year life span was confirmed in dialogue in Enterprise.

Do you know what episode?

So basically, if old age doesn't kill them - Bendii Syndrome will?

 

[Nardpuncher]

Welcome back Vulcan Guy!

 

[Anwar]

It's possible that Sarek died at 200 due to his Bendii syndrome, not due to old age. I mean he looked the same physically for 80 years between the TOS movies and TNG.

 

[The Wormhole]

A 200 year life span was confirmed in dialogue in Enterprise.

Do you know what episode?

Broken Bow. Archer is expressing his bitterness to T'Pol that his father isn't alive to see the launch, stating "we humans don't have 200 year life spans like Vulcans."

 

[Kemaiku]

The Vulcan Katra does not seem to have a "sell by date" to its existence, so Sarek's anger at Kirk could simply have been that Kirk was not the recipient of the Katra to act as its vessel, returning it to Vulcan soil where they may believe it to be finally at rest.

Or given that Sarek is what could be interpreted as Royalty on Vulcan, Spock's Katra whether hybrid or not would have had a place in a scared family burial place in one of the crystalline containers found in the Enterprise arc set on the planet.

Since theres nowhere for it to go, I don't think it means eternal physical life, unless many Vulcans go around with multiple Katra's in their head.

 

[Blackmm]

In several Trek novels, the lifespan was listed at 250.

 

[Praetor]

According to material cut from TSFS, a dead Vulcan's katra is often transferred temporarily to another person (usually a Vulcan), so that it may then be delivered, through the dead Vulcan's body, into the Hall of Ancient Thought. We would have actually seen the Hall in the movie, but it was cut for budget and time reasons. It is the cylindrical structure on Mount Selaya which our heroes would have had to walk through to get to the freestanding platform where Spock's fal-tor-pan took place.

That's why Sarek expected Kirk to return both the katra and Spock's body to Vulcan, even though he did not know Spock's body had been rejuvenated. According to the novels, Sarek's katra is now in the hall.

I like to think the Remans are Romulan settlers whose natural evolution to adapt to the darker climate was sped up by radiation from the mines. (I'd prefer to avoid another unneccesary hybrid race.)

 

[Kemaiku]

^Thanks for the clarification, I figured it was something like that.

As for the Remans, an article on Memory Beta lists a short story on them that explains it as exposure to a form of bacteria/virus that mutates them quite quickly during their early years on Remus.

 

[Praetor]

^You're welcome, and that version of the Reman origin works for me.

 

[Myasishchev]

I like to think the Remans are Romulan settlers whose natural evolution to adapt to the darker climate was sped up by radiation from the mines. (I'd prefer to avoid another unneccesary hybrid race.)

Precisely!

(I should stop banging the drum on this. I sound like an anti-miscegenationist from the 1950s.)

But the pale skin can be explained as basically lack of sunlight to stimulate melanin production (not a problem on Vulcan, to be sure). The sensitivity to bright light can be explained through a similar mechanism (perhaps arrested development of light-polarizing cells in the eyelid). The Remans, like the Vulcans, do appear to be touch-telepaths with some limited remote capability (I wonder if, when the Scimitar blew up, Spock, chilling on Romulus, got hit with another "voices cried out and were silenced" moment).

Everything else can be plausibly (if not thoroughly and scientifically) explained by some kind of Praxis-lite radiation event.

I dislike the virus explanation since a virus would, unless I'm deeply mistaken, be unlikely to have evolved the means to hook onto and inject its genetic code into the cells of a lifeform that didn't come from the planet it did.