#vulcan thoughts

[sporkandpringles]

trying to guess what the vulcans are thinking part 2/?

[sporkandpringles]

guessing what the Vulcans are Thinking part 3/?

[vulcanmulti]

I could love Jason Todd in a way more beautiful and lesbian way than any of you could

[wellntruly]

Nominally about “Star Trek: Enterprise” - but mostly thought experiments about Vulcans, whom I love

WELL, almost everything about Enterprise aggravated me incredibly. Sure I only watched two episodes, and actually I’m getting the feeling they were recommended with the idea that there would be enough Vulcanry going on to distract me — which was a good plan, but doomed to fail, because the Vulcans just set off how much I wanted to elbow everyone else on this ship in the sternum. My notes are mostly broad-spectrum fuming, tangents about October Sky, or this:

  - that’s because “drama” is not an emotion, it’s a #lifestyle, you idiot cowboy

Anyway let’s just grab the Vulcan Facts I learned and leave the rest of this irritating sexist mess behind, yeah? Ok great all agreed. SO, I learned there are VULCAN MONASTERIES hidden in the hills of plant planets with VULCAN MONKS all ROBED and MEDITATING and PROBABLY DOING COOL STUFF WITH FLAMES simply with their MINDS. Honestly, Things I Love About Vulcans Part 1: Mysticism. They are the bowl-cut poster children for Rationalism, but they’re also so religious! I don’t know why this should delight me so much, but it does. Maybe something in how logic does not negate the idea of holiness. Or maybe it’s something in the conscious choice of their spiritualism. Vulcans have chosen to order their minds, and they have also chosen that some things are to be treated with special sacred care. They are just a very deliberate people, in all that they do, and I love that.

Another discovery: humans smell strong and bad to Vulcans, so presumedly Vulcans smell mild and good. This predatory Andorian was of the opinion that Vulcans “smell of dust,” which I have translated to mean they smell like petrichor, since that cool-rain-on-baked-earth smell is technically a combination of dust and plant oils, and also make so much emotional sense to me that I’ll actually be surprised if I’m the first one to have come up with this headcanon. Also, inspired by the on point “human spaceships = dog frathouse” idea, I’ve decided humans smell sort of like dogs to the Vulcans (who are canonically more cat people, if Spock is any indication). I like this because dogs have a strong smell, unpleasant if you’re unfamiliar with it, but something you can absolutely get used to, as T’Pol claims.

While we’re here in physiology, is there wide-spread agreement on whether Vulcans run hot or cold? Because it’s definitely going to be one or the other, I’m not new, but I can’t recall if I ever got canon medical info on this from Dr. McCoy. My instinct is that Vulcans would be cooler than humans, given that I do remember most other measures being lower — heart rate, blood pressure, metabolism, etc. [Fact Update: only the last two, pulse is actually wildly high] It seems logical (heheh) that their temperature would follow a similar pattern. And again, cool-headed Vulcans being cool to the touch fits symbolically. I really like it facing the other direction too, because it feels right that to Vulcans, humans would be these over-warm, fever-bright things blazing through their short lives.

I also had a question about speech cadence, whether there’s a Vulcan accent rooted entirely in delivery, but I think now that Tim Russ was just doing a light Spock impression in Voyager. Which I am so fine with, I love what you did with the place Nimoy.