Do vulcan children have emotions

[SecretlyMrsKirk]

Re: Do Vulcan babies cry

Hmm, what about child birth itself? That can be pretty painful. Does the Vulcan mother successfully suppress the pain, or is it too much and they ended up screaming and crying while giving birth?

I've been wondering about this as well. The deleted scene JJ's reboot in which Spock's birth takes place, the nurse/midwife/whatever asks, "Does why the mother cry?" I guess that means *most* Vulcan parents have the ability to supress the pain. (Go Vulcan mummies!!) Or at least that's how I intrepret that line.

 

[Alrik]

Kolinahr (ko-li-naar), as a word, described both the Vulcan ritual by which all remaining vestigial emotions were demonstrated as purged, and the mental discipline whereby this state was subsequently maintained. Not all Vulcans were required to make this final journey to pure logic. The duration of kolinahr training was quasi-monastic in nature, and could vary from two to six (or more) years.

Spock went through this at the beginning of The Motion Picture.

Clarification, Spock was going through Kolinahr, but left before he completed it. IIRC, he wasn't finding the clarity that he was looking for, so he left to seek out V'Ger. (Forgive me if I'm a little off on the reasoning, its been forever since I've seem TMP, but I'm pretty sure that was why he left.)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If it's normal for Vulcan children to have emotions, then why (during Spock's birth in ST V) did Sarek immediately point out "So human..."?

 

[Alrik]

^

Simple mistake on his part. After the circumcision, he realized it was split after all.

 

[The Wormhole]

Interesting to note that the Vulcan Master is played by Joseph Ruskin, who also played Galt in Gamesters of Triskelion. He never really look like he aged a day.

Joseph Ruskin is one of the few actors to have appeared in every live action Trek series. He may well be the only one to actuall appear in all of them, since Majel Barrett only did voice work in Voyager and Enterprise.

Anyway, Ruskins's other roles in the other Treks:

-In TNG he was actually in one of the movies, he was a Son'a officer in Insurrection.
-He had two roles in DS9, Tumek in The House of Quark and Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places and a Cardassian informant in Improbable Cause.
-In Enterprise he played a Suliban doctor in Broken Bow.

If it's normal for Vulcan children to have emotions, then why (during Spock's birth in ST V) did Sarek immediately point out "So human..."?

I never viewed Spock's birth as seen in TFF as an acurate account of the event, simply the way Spock imagined it, and it was likely coloured by Spock's bias against Sarek. If Sarek really did say "so human" when he saw Spock, it could very well have been a comment or even a compliment. It is simply that Spock doesn't really have the highest opinion of his father that he intrepreted "so human" as the scathing insult that the scene implies it to be when really Sarek could have meant no offense at all.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yes, I doubt that even Vulcans remember what was said seconds after their birth.