Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 weeks agoI asked you for a direct reference, and you provided a vague gesture.
Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 weeks agoI asked you for a direct reference, and you provided a vague gesture.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I provided direct references in OP. You decided to ignore them in favour of one selective moment in Voyager.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
None of the episodes you cited stated that biology plays no role in the Vulcan capacity for emotional suppression.
So we have one episode that says it fits, and zero that say it doesn’t.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On the contrary; none of the episodes in all of Trek, up until your Voyager episode, states that a Vulcan’s logic and emotional suppression comes from biology. They do the opposite; Vulcans are biologically incredibly emotional and passionate. The Voyager episode doesn’t even go into detail what that biology is either.
It’s just a brain centre, like any other brain centre, that regulates emotion (humans have one too), and through training the Vulcans use to it suppress their emotions. Unless you explicitly choose to ignore all canon that comes before it.
Even within Voyager it is clear that a Vulcan achieves logic and emotional control through years of training, and that before logic and emotional control became part of Vulcan culture, Vulcans were passionate and violent. Do you deny this well established canon?
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
I see no reason that both things cannot be true.
Vulcans do go through extensive training to achieve kolinar; they also possess unique genetic traits that make it possible.