Amanda Grayson
Amanda was born on Earth around the turn of the 23rd century. (TOS: "This Side of Paradise"; TAS: "Yesteryear") Captain Spock once implied that she was a descendant of Human author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) Her family had a genetic predisposition to dyslexia. (DIS: "Light and Shadows")
According to StarTrek.com, Amanda Grayson was born in 2210. [1]
During the late 2220s, Amanda met Sarek, the Vulcan Ambassador to Earth. The two later married, and she returned to Vulcan with Sarek. (TOS: "Amok Time") In later years, in describing his parents' relationship, Spock stated that his mother "considered herself a very fortunate Earth woman." (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver")
According to the Star Trek Compendium (1st ed., p. 127), an early draft of the script for TOS: "Journey to Babel" suggested that Sarek and Amanda had been married for "thirty-eight (Vulcan?) years"; in Earth years, this would suggest 2230.
The two were in the city of ShiKahr where Amanda gave birth to her only son, Spock, in 2230. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; TOS: "Journey to Babel"; TAS: "Yesteryear"; Star Trek Beyond) A few years later, Amanda and Sarek adopted Michael Burnham after her parents' death. (DIS: "Lethe", "Brother")
Sarek wanted Spock raised in the Vulcan way, with displays of emotion discouraged, and Amanda had to learn to hide her emotions. Amanda later admitted that she gave Burnham all of the emotional love and support she had not been permitted to give Spock. (DIS: "Point of Light") While under the influence of polywater intoxication, Spock regretted that he "could never tell her that he loved her." (TOS: "The Naked Time")
Amanda had learned that Spock inherited her family's genetic predisposition to dyslexia and developed L'tak Terai as a result. Amanda helped Spock overcome his learning disability since the Vulcan Learning Center's methods were ineffective. Spock once spoke of Amanda's fondness for reading the works of Lewis Carroll. She often read stories, such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, to both Spock and Burnham during their youth (TAS: "Once Upon a Planet"; DIS: "Context Is for Kings") as it was one method to help Spock. (DIS: "Light and Shadows")
After the logic extremists bombed the Vulcan Learning Center, Burnham tried to run away to Earth. Sarek and Amanda were about to alert the Vulcan High Command to begin a search effort, when a being that Spock called "the Red Angel" appeared to him and pinpointed Burnham's location, and Sarek found her before the outskirts of ShiKahr. Amanda and Sarek had thought that Spock had used logic to help locate Burnham and wrote off the "angel" as a figment of his imagination. (DIS: "Point of Light")
2249
In 2249, Amanda told Burnham to retain her Human side and gave her a copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a mother's gift. She later expressed shock at Michael's rejection from the Vulcan Expeditionary Group, citing her academic record as proof of her worthiness to join it. (DIS: "Lethe") Burnham continued to carry the copy with her after her conviction and imprisonment, including aboard the USS Discovery. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")
2257
In 2257, after the Federation-Klingon War ended, Amanda came to visit Michael twice. Amanda asked her, "Isik for your thoughts?" to which Michael responded by questioning what an isik was. Amanda admitted she had no idea, and that it was just something her mother had said to her. Michael then thanked Amanda for not giving up on her, explaining that she never understood Amanda's desire for her to retain her Humanity until now, and Amanda told her it's what mothers do. Amanda later sat in the audience at the celebration ceremony for the victory of the war and Michael's promotion to science officer. (DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?")
Amanda visited Starbase 5 to meet Spock but no one there would let her see him, tell her where he was or what his condition was, or even give her his personal effects, despite her being his mother and the wife of a prominent Federation diplomat. So she did the "next logical thing" – stealing his medical report. Then, using Sarek's cruiser, she met with the Discovery. Burnham asked Amanda about the red bursts, which Amanda had learned about from Sarek, and noted that people were anxious to discover what they were. Burnham revealed that Spock had a connection to them, but that she had no new angles to work on in order to unravel the mystery. Then, Amanda told her about the stolen report and asked her help to open it.
Captain Christopher Pike at first refused to do it, but, after communication with Diego Vela, telling them that his case was classified and that Spock had killed three doctors before escaping, Pike agreed to open the file. In that file, Amanda feared that her son had gone mad; she also recognized some of Spock's drawings of what he had called the "Red Angel", and Burnham revealed that he had seen it recently. Burnham confessed that she was the cause of the rift with Spock, but promised Amanda that she would not give up and would find him. Amanda tersely replied that she would be the one to find him, and stormed away. (DIS: "Point of Light")
2258
In 2258, Grayson visited her son aboard the Enterprise where Spock informed her of Burnham's disappearance and that only a select people knew her and the Discovery's true fate and how no one was allowed to speak of them ever again under penalty of treason. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")
2267
While James T. Kirk taunted Spock in an effort to shake the hold the Omicron spores' influence had on him, he called Spock's mother an encyclopedia. Spock replied that she was actually a teacher. (TOS: "This Side of Paradise")
2268
It was not uncommon for Spock to mention his mother's origins. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident") While discussing how to stop the Mudd androids by aiming illogical behavior at Norman, Harry Mudd told Spock that for all his prowess as a science officer, he "couldn't sell fake patents to your mother". Spock, not realizing that Mudd was speaking metaphorically (i.e. the Vulcan would be hard-pressed to successfully deceive someone close to him, let alone an android), took the phrase literally, expressing that he was at a loss to understand why he would ever wish to do such a thing. (TOS: "I, Mudd")
During the Babel Conference of 2268, Amanda accompanied her husband, Sarek, aboard the USS Enterprise, and helped him and Spock to reconcile some of their differences. Spock wondered why his father would marry an emotional woman. Sarek replied that, at the time, it had seemed the logical thing to do, a comment Amanda found quite charming. (TOS: "Journey to Babel")
During this journey, Captain Kirk was unsure how to properly refer to her, calling her "Mrs. Sarek". Amanda said that her married name was usually unpronounceable by Humans, although she could do it "after a fashion, and with many years of practice." She said to simply call her "Amanda". (TOS: "Journey to Babel") In Vulcan society, she was referred to as "the Lady Amanda". (TAS: "Yesteryear")
2286
In 2286, Amanda helped her son to re-educate himself after his death and rebirth on the Genesis Planet and fal-tor-pan rejoining. In particular, she tried to help Spock rediscover his Human side. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
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