title: Crisis on Vulcan (STAR TREK: STAR FLEET ACADEMY)
author:  Brad Strickland 
description: A young Spock accompanied his father, the Vulcan diplomat Sarek, to the planet Marath to help negotiate a peace treaty. With the signed treaty safely in hand, they board the <i>Starship Enterprise</i><sup><font size="-2">TM</font></sup> and head home. Spock is fascinated by the easy acceptance of his Vulcan culture by the bright, adventurous Starfleet crew headed by Captain Robert April and his first officer, Christopher Pike. Spock, half-Vulcan, half-human, is now torn between accepting his position at the Vulcan Science Academy or joining the cadets at Starfleet Academy<sup><font size="-2"></font></sup>.
zlib_text: Archivist’s Note
  
  
  Not since the Vulcan matriarch T’Pau and Captain Jonathan Archer of Earth
  discovered the Kir’Shara has any artifact shaken our “knowledge” of Vulcan
  history as the coronet whose story the Vulcan Science Academy now releases to
  the United Federation of Planets for the first time. Presented to Surak upon
  Mount Seleya and subsequently bestowed upon Karatek, scientist of the former
  Vulcan Space Institute, the records contained in its crystals provide new
  information about the so-called Sundering from Vulcan. It is a story more
  complex, with more ambiguities of courage and honor, than any of the peoples
  involved had previously “known.”
  
  
  Experience has taught me that the lessons an eaglet, or aspiring officer,
  learns in the Imperial War College at Ki Baratan are different from the
  history learned by cadets such as my eldest daughter T’Savia, who, after the
  end of the Dominion War, has returned to Starfleet Academy. These lessons
  differ in content and orientation from the 