On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:42:27 -0400, Josh Hill 
wrote:

>On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:22:05 +0000 (UTC), Methuselah Jones
> wrote:
>
>>Well, I have to say that doesn't particularly bother me. I'm not making 
>>any excuses for anything done in "Enterprise", but it was always 
>>understood that Vulcans were not without emotion -- in fact they are 
>>natively quite intense and passionate -- they simply learned to suppress 
>>their emotions. It makes sense that some would be better at it than 
>>others. And, as Spock discovered when he melded with V'ger, it was a 
>>rather empty solution anyway. 
>>
>>What little I saw of Enterprise, though, was way off. Even those weakest 
>>in the "faith" would behave better than that.
>
>You'd think. There excuse was that they were more primitive 
>Vulcans, yet it seems fairly obvious that the Vulcans didn't learn to
>control their emotions overnight.

Yes, but according to 'canon', the Vulcans had been following the path
of Sarek for centuries before they met the humans.  He was a figure of
legend, not recent past.  It was against that backdrop of stolid
stoicism that Spock was such a contrast too, that provided the drama
of Spock's character!

Charlie
Edmondson Engineering
www.edmondsonengineering.com
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