Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIn 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.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Yeah Vulcans canonically have a brain structure that makes emotional suppression possible.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, but it helps. They weren’t evolved to suppress emotions.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
On what are you basing this? Because it’s not the Voyager episode.
Vulcans have biological psych-suppression systems.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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?
Kirk@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Actually there is an episode of VOY that proves they did evolve a special brian region to supress emotions