{"id":102891,"date":"2016-05-02T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/02\/prettyarbitrary-fuck-uhura-i-like-to-imagine\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:08:44","slug":"prettyarbitrary-fuck-uhura-i-like-to-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/02\/prettyarbitrary-fuck-uhura-i-like-to-imagine\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

prettyarbitrary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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fuck-uhura<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I like to imagine new father Sarek being completely baffled by Spock\u2019s human emotions as a toddler (before he was old enough to really repress anything). <\/p>\n

Like he lightly scolds him one day for something and little Spock\u2019s lip just trembles before he bursts into tears and Sarek just immediately backs away, horrified, like, \u201cAmanda I require immediate assistance. I have made a\u00a0grievous error and am an unsatisfactory parent.. Amanda, please cease your laughter, I am unsure of what to do.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is hilarious. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

But if I may, the whole Vulcan logic thing is actually so much more interesting than this!<\/p>\n

It starts with the idea that Vulcans are actually natively so PASSIONATE that it\u2019s really easy for them to get way wound up and violent. \u00a0In fact, the history of Vulcan is so saturated with war and violence that even Earth history is pretty darn impressed.<\/p>\n

So way back when, this Vulcan dude named Surak came around and said,\u00a0\u201cWe have to get control of this or we\u2019re going to exterminate ourselves.\u201d And he taught Vulcans how to 1: use logic to temper their emotions and 2: respect the hell out of all life and honor the unique experiences, perspectives and contributions of every individual lifeform such that the idea of killing without extreme need becomes anathema.<\/p>\n

So the whole Vulcan logic thing is a learned, cultural behavior. \u00a0Not all of them do it really well, either. \u00a0Some of them miss the point and try to suppress their emotions\u2013which is counterproductive. \u00a0What you\u2019re suppressing, you aren\u2019t really learning to deal with. \u00a0Some of them use logic as a blind, a lot like you\u2019ll get Nice Guys trying to\u00a0\u2018play by the rules\u2019 in order to get laid. \u00a0But by and large, Surak\u2019s way has been so ingrained in Vulcan culture and education that they\u2019ve gotten pretty good at intervening and educating people who wander into these blind alleys. \u00a0The real idea is to learn how to intervene in your own thought processes and apply a rigorous intellectual process of logic to your emotional reactions. In doing so, you nip off reactions that are unfair, unreasonable or poorly thought out, and you gain a deeper, more thought-out and advantageous result to the ones you keep. \u00a0You can have all the emotional reactions you want, basically; you just don\u2019t do anything about them till you\u2019ve thought them through. \u00a0(But Vulcans are by and large really really smart, so they tend to do this very quickly.)<\/p>\n

The fact that Vulcans are infamous as pointy-eared ice queens who show no emotion is more of a cultural inclination toward extreme privacy. \u00a0Although there also seems to be a cultural inclination toward snarky bastardness that probably means they think it\u2019s hilarious that it drives other species up the wall. \u00a0They\u2019re the kind of benign trolls who\u2019d refer to that as a\u00a0\u201cteaching moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it does mean that Vulcan rugrats are probably expected to be wild little hellions till their parents take them in hand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

prettyarbitrary: fuck-uhura: I like to imagine new father Sarek being completely baffled by Spock\u2019s human emotions as a toddler (before he was old enough to really repress anything). Like he lightly scolds him one day for something and little Spock\u2019s lip just trembles before he bursts into tears and Sarek just immediately backs away, horrified, … <\/p>\n

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