Without emotional suppression, they're Romulans and prone to doing bad things.
Although they never really depicted Romulans as having anger issues in general, in fact most were quite human. Just that one rapey Vulcan in ENT.
Spock as a mystic in Season 2
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Although they never really depicted Romulans as having anger issues in general, in fact most were quite human. Just that one rapey Vulcan in ENT.
It's all in how you create your spec sheet.
When Mystic Spock appears, I'm having Mystic Pizza.
I guess I'm just struck by the religious nature or symbolism of Spock being visited or communicated with by an angelic being and being given prophetic, apocalyptic visions, and Spock responds to that not like a scientific skeptic would, but like a prophet or missionary, it seems he believes and becomes inspired by this red angel, maybe mystic is the wrong word.
I'm playing some Van Morrison
Why would a telepathic being who can actually point to his religious prophet's direct writings (And who, presumably still has his head living in T'Pau, whom Spock has met). This is a character who will in the course of his life be dead and return to life, dedicate his life to a religious practice, meet actual gods, encounter a sentient gateway older than time, observe first-hand Kirk's ego, etc
Why, in a Trek world where the spirit is nearly as incarnate as the physical realm, would this fashionable skepticism be anything other than a sea anchor to learning?
Even though Vulcans believe in eternal spirits?
I'm failing to see the conflict, when Vulcan spiritual beliefs are well established, as well as time travel.
Secondarily, we have a brief clip in a trailer with little context. Speculation here needs more information.
It's more than believe in, in Trek's world they legit have eternal spirits. Jonathan Archer carries Surak's soul almost 2000 years following his death, and speaks to him.
What you describe above was generally depicted in Ent season 4. We were shown that Vulcan society went through a spiritual/cultural renaissance led by T'Pau and her followers. It was a rediscovery of the teachings of Surak and a re-dedication to the principles of self reflection through meditation.
So a move toward spiritualism by Spock (if that's what we see in S2) would not be a total surprise to me.
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Heh ...
For many of us that spent quite a bit of time around here during ENTERPRISEs' first run...
Who'd a thunk anyone would be using that series to back up a talking point now!!
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Season 2 is set in 2257, not 58
True, but give or take a couple of months. The end of season 1 is set towards the end of 2257. I should have stated that Spock's illness was, according to Memory Alpha, "around this year", it is not a precise date.
That's pretty much it, yeah.
Vulcan emotions are much rawer and more dangerous than human ones. Back in the pre-Surak times, Vulcans were extremely violent - much worse than any era in human history (IIRC, at its worst time, there was no more than 10% of the Vulcan population which was NOT at war). So that's why Vulcans embraced the system of logic and emotional control which Surak proposed - they HAD to, in order for the species to survive.
And it's why Vulcans still have to struggle every day to suppress their emotions. If they let it out, they'd die.
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It that anything like the Boogie Fever? ( I think it's going around.)
And yet, once about every Seven years, Male Vulcans have to "let their hair down", so to speak or Die.
Very peculiar, these Vulcanites are, I tell you!
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