#vulcans

[datasoong47]

The Vulcan children's hospital recently redecorated. I'm not convinced they chose the most logical option

[dykespirk]

okay this is kind of a stupid thought but I was thinking about the internal debates that Vulcan society must have around logic and it occurred to me that Vulcan must have “logical relativists” in the same way that human philosophy has moral relativists…I just know that there’s at least 30 Vulcan philosophers who want to KILL the noble Storek House of T’Nel (or something) because he can’t stop telling everyone that All Behavior is Inherently Logical as it Makes Sense to the Acting Party at the Time. Humans are Illogical Therefore it is Logical That They Act Illogicaly, thus All of Their Actions are Logical. All Thought, Conscious or Unconscious, Proceeds from Biological and Neurochemical Impulses. Therefore, the Sentient Being Behaves Much like a Computer, Following its Compiled Commands. No Behavior, Knowing the Chemical Commands that Preempt Consciousness, Can Be Considered Illogical.

and everyone else is just like “ohhh my fucking GOD Storek, shut UP!”

[aphrostiel]

various star trek: first contact drawings

I loved this movie so much, so far my favorite along with TWoK. also made this in honor of the movie's 30th anniversary this year!

[a-most-beloved-fool]

I think possibly the funniest trait to give Dr. Leonard McCoy, the CMO on the One ship in the 'fleet which has both Vulcan and Terran crewmembers, would be red-green colorblind.

Spock & Kirk both walk into sickbay covered in blood & he squints at them like, "Whose blood is that. Which one of you is dying. Are you BOTH dying?"

[plomeekparty]

I hate how so many of the Trek series often treat Vulcan culture as something to be overcome and deprogrammed.

Our view of Vulcan is often through the highly organised government/institutional lens because it's on a political/military level when encountering starfleet. Of course those institutions will have some hyper-conservative logical dickheads.

Just for once I'd love to encounter some deeply average civilians. I want to see how the average person engages in Vulcan culture when they're not a high ranking politician or scholar.

[yaoiblackmold]

I love that all the Vulcans we see are always like, "We don't have emotions" but then are always incredibly bitchy and mean because well according to them being a captial B Bitch isn't an emotion so they can do that all the time as much as they want. A condescending eyebrow raise is also not an emotion, so they can do that as well.

[whetstonefires]

Okay so, got here from a book on animal behavior but: Vulcan stand-up comedy as a competitive activity.

Because most Vulcans don't actually pretend they don't have emotions, it's all about self-regulation, right? And good comedy usually hinges on manipulating the relationship between our faculties of recognition and surprise in various ways, you can get pretty scientific with it.

So Vulcans go to the comedy act, and the idea is the comedian is trying to make you crack up, and the audience is trying to not even crack a smile, and if you do laugh, you lose. Like all in good fun, but Vulcans are both really competitive and really aware of how dangerous that urge can be to a society, so this could actually be classified as highly orthodox Surakian practice.

So of course the comedian has to actually be funny, or there's no challenge and the game is boring.

Which means the really good Vulcan comedians (most of whom tend to extremely dry delivery of their bits) are going to go around playing to packed houses, which mostly sit staring stonily back at them, with occasional breaks when someone loses it and reacts.

And after a show you'll have Vulcans walking out discussing with great approval how very humorous that was, with varying degrees of muted smugness or chagrin depending on if they won or lost.

I bet there are human comedians whose grandest fantasy is being good enough to do a set in Vulcana Regatta and have people going around bragging about not laughing at them.