The book consists of wood serrated front and back covers each with a painted Vulcan IDIC symbol on it. It is bound together with brown leather strips and features aged white paper with hand inked black lettering. The book’s covers were hand cut/carved and painted by Rick Sternback. The pages were hand inked by Michael Okuda.
Used by Leonard Nimoy as Spock in the Star Trek: TNG season five episode #208 “Unification, Part II,” which aired the week of November 11, 1991. This ancient Romulan text recounted the story of the Vulcan separation. It was given to Spock in a café on Romulus in the presence of Captain Picard by his 12-year-old Romulan friend D’Tan. D’Tan supported reunification with Vulcan and noted this book was read at their meetings. The book consists of wood serrated front and back covers each with a painted Vulcan IDIC symbol on it. It is bound together with brown leather strips and features aged white paper with hand inked black lettering. The book’s covers were hand cut/carved and painted by Rick Sternback. The pages were hand inked by Michael Okuda who noted that "Prop master Joe Longo came up to the art department the night before the book was needed for shooting the scene and gave him the blank book. I grabbed a Sharpie and started ‘writing’ the pages as quickly as I could. This was a time-consuming process, so we took a break and went to dinner at El Torito with Guy Vardaman and Denise. Guy and I kept scribbling pages in the book during the meal." Joe then bound the book just before filming. Prop Block Star Trek Auction Lot 17, Saturday, December 14, 2019 - Estate of Joe Longo - Joe Longo.
