Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species.

ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah Vulcans canonically have a brain structure that makes emotional suppression possible.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, but it helps. They weren’t evolved to suppress emotions.

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      • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        On what are you basing this? Because it’s not the Voyager episode.

        EMH: There’s a definite neurochemical imbalance in the mesiofrontal cortex.

        JANEWAY: Which means what?

        EMH: That’s where the Vulcan psycho-suppression systems are located.

        Vulcans have biological psych-suppression systems.

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      • Kirk@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Actually there is an episode of VOY that proves they did evolve a special brian region to supress emotions

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