Consider this a reminder for people currently watching Star Trek, old and new.
Logic and controlled emotion aren’t inherent to being a Vulcan. Somehow gaining Vulcan traits, or biologically transforming into a Vulcan, will not make you logical and emotionless. In fact, quite the opposite would happen.
Vulcans used to be warlike, barbaric (as Spock would describe them) and nearly wiped themselves out. It was the teaching of Surak in the philosophy of pure logic, after centuries of war, that made Vulcans what they are today. Vulcans do this by training logic and emotional control throughout their childhood and teenage years. Ultimately culminating in Kolinahr, the final stage to “purge emotion”. But Vulcans still experience emotion, and their state of control is something that requires constant maintenance through meditation and practice.
Vulcans are far more emotional and passionate than even Humans. If a Human so much as houses a portion of a Vulcan’s Katra (the mind/spirit), said Human would struggle immensely to keep their feeling under control.
I’m writing all this because I’m getting the feeling that this very important part about Vulcans is being forgotten (perhaps more-so by the current writers of Star Trek).
It was acknowledged in the episode that aired this week…
In Strange New Worlds, Spock turns fully human for one episode. Somehow he struggles with human emotions, as if his biologically Vulcan side was responsible for keeping them at bay, and not years of discipline and training.
In Prodigy, the main character is a genetic amalgamation of alpha quadrant species. He undergoes a treatment to “unlock his genetic potential”, causing his various genetic elements to occasionally become dominant. When the Vulcan genes become dominant, the character is logical and emotionless.
Yeah, Vulcans canonically have a brain structure that makes emotional suppression possible.
No, but it helps. They weren’t evolved to suppress emotions.
On what are you basing this? Because it’s not the Voyager episode.
Vulcans have biological psych-suppression systems.
Based on all of Star Trek. You can see the links above that Vulcans have been extremely passionate, emotional, and violent before their teachings of logic and emotional suppression.
Or you could just continue ignoring all that.
Did you know Humans also have brain centres that exist for logic and emotional regulation?
The episode I just referenced demonstrates that this is not true.
If you want to be a canon cop, you can’t be selective.
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Speak for yourself.
I asked you for a direct reference, and you provided a vague gesture.
Actually there is an episode of VOY that proves they did evolve a special brian region that enables them to learn how to supress emotions