Editing Sarek (section)

===''Star Trek: The Next Generation''===
Lenard made two appearances as the character in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. In the first, in an episode [[Sarek (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|named after him]], Sarek suffers from Bendii syndrome, an incurable and terminal neurological degenerative illness that causes him to lose control of his emotions. For example, when Data and a quartet play Brahms' first sextet, second movement, he is moved to tears.<ref>For the clip, see YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=star+trek+data+plays+brahms].</ref> Having established a mind meld with Captain [[Jean-Luc Picard]], Sarek is able to continue with an important diplomatic mission, but his emotions are expressed through Picard, among them his deep love for Amanda, Spock, and his current human wife Perrin, causing Picard to almost go insane. His death from Bendii syndrome occurs in the first part of the ''TNG'' episode "[[Unification (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Unification]]".