Season 3 First Look
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I look forward to watching this episode with more context because I was not really a fan of that clip.
To give a (hopefully) decent reason why, I am not a fan of making spock the butt of the joke that this series has a tendency of doing, at least in season 2.
To give a (hopefully) decent reason why, I am not a fan of making spock the butt of the joke that this series has a tendency of doing, at least in season 2.
My guess is that the clip is from the cold open of the episode. It seems that there is some reactor that is about to blow. So it likely requires super intelligence to solve the reactor meltdown. And perhaps the location is heavily guarded so super strength is required to overcome the defenses. Hence why having the away team be Vulcans with super strength and super intelligence is needed. And I think the revelation that the away team don't change back into human will be the main plot of the episode, ie how to change the away team back plus the comedy of them being Vulcan for most of the episode.
Yeah. There is a big difference between race and culture that this episode seems to ignore. Even if the serum changed them into Vulcans, it just changed their physical appearance, not their culture. Vulcans are not logical and suppress their emotions because of their genes, but because of their philosophy. So changing their genes to make them look Vulcan would not instantly make them act like Vulcans. The Vulcan make up on the characters is really over the top IMO. Plus, they really go overboard with the stereotype of the Vulcan being super logical, with the characters saying "this is logical" every 5 seconds. And yes, it is bad how they make fun of Spock for being half-Vulcan and they act like they are full Vulcan despite the fact that they only look Vulcan because a magic serum, they were not born Vulcan. The clip is bad.
I dig the teaser here, looks like it will be a fun episode.
I'm going to give this ep 5 out of 5 if it turns out at the end that they were just acting like that to troll Spock.
I don't think I'll be giving this ep 5 out of 5.
I don't think I'll be giving this ep 5 out of 5.
I wonder if this serum somehow contains a part of Spock's psyche, hence the reason why the other crew become so logical and hard on Spock. At least that could explain the sudden transformation in personality, if we want to assume the writers didn't confuse biology with cultural factors.
That would actually make a lot of sense. I can't think of why they'd keep mentioning 'half-Vulcan' unless there something like that influencing them. (Or they were just trolling him. Or it's all just a dream).
This was my thought. One can't forget that the source of this serum is a non-corporeal, super advanced civilization. Who knows what else the serum does beyond turning them Vulcan at the genetic level.
SNW be like that with genetics and behavior. Unfortunately. (Magic hairstyles too! 
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While watching the trailer for Section 31 and seeing the news about the "Office Trek" show, I was thinking, "At least there's still SNW." I'm in a mood, and this clip has not improved it.
)While watching the trailer for Section 31 and seeing the news about the "Office Trek" show, I was thinking, "At least there's still SNW." I'm in a mood, and this clip has not improved it.
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You can easily headcanon that into place, something similar would've been the case when the same technology was used in "Charades." As the clip briefly mentions, Vulcans are, all things being equal, more likely than humans to fly off the handle, so you'd have expected human!Spock to maintain his equilibrium more than he did, unless the transformation affected "nurture" as well as "nature."
At the time, I came up with the idea that being human is experientially different than being half-Vulcan, so all Spock's habits for keeping steady didn't work right any more, so he'd essentially lost his muscle-memory for keeping himself under control, but that definitely can't apply in this case, or else everyone would be acting like Spock in "All Our Yesterdays" rather than instantly joining the hall-of-fame of jerkass Vulcans such as the admissions board in ST09, Sisko's Academy rival, most of the Vulcans in ENT, and Sarek. Maybe that's the real thing Vulcan discipline is suppressing. They talk about violent, passionate emotions, but it's really just a weird compulsion towards being racist.
Well what did Janeway once say, "Logic can be used to justify anything."
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