nimuIn Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Is Biology Destiny? - Reactor
ZonetrooperAdmittedly I haven’t seen this episode, however…
Isn’t “bioessentialist” a little absurd in the context actual different species? Much less individuals who have just actually had their bodies abruptly rewritten into an entirely different species - and all the hormonal and neurological impacts that would imply?
I get wanting to reject bioessentialism in the context of real-world ethnic groups. But we’re also talking about species who - from the start - have been represented as having fundamentally non-human views on the universe… and then we’re surprised those bubble to the fore when people are unexpectedly dealing with a massive hormonal cocktail dumped straight into them?
ZorqueVulcans are naturally a violent emotional race, biologically. That’s why, societally, they have adopted strict logical regimens and control. Otherwise they go wild and crazy. Pon Farr is a time when their emotional controls are essentially broken and their biological natures surface.
If it were just a biological thing, the opposite effect would have likely happened. Unless their entire psyche and history was re-written at the same time.
Yep, I had in fact completely forgotten about that. My bad. Unless whatever did all this species-swapping also implanted cultural behavior into them, this is in fact just really cruddy writing.
I’ve never watched TOS all the way. Best I can recall is the 2009 movie in which the Vulcan kids bullied Spock and the High command “complimenting” Spock for being accepted into the academy despite his biological disadvantage. In the main timeline, I think Disco mentions it.
It’s a logical point that since vulcans don’t have the disadvantages of humanity that they are superior, from a certain point of view. When the faux vulcans said something speciest, Spock commented that it was “technically” logical. This implies even Vulcans understand Logic can be a spectrum of finesse. Infinite diversity in Infinite Combinations is a Vulcan idiom after all.
the episode where picard mind melds with sarek and becomes very emotional also comes to my mind