

The control of feelings so that they do not control you." Logic offers a serenity humans seldomĮxperience. Here's how Spock's father describes Vulcan emotions in 2009’s Star Trek: Sarek: "Emotions run deep within our race. The last point is key to understanding Spock's psychology. More vulnerable to very intense feelings. Vulcans experience powerful emotions, making Spock.Vulcans are touch telepaths, giving Spock theĪbility to share thoughts through a mind-meld.Since Vulcans evolved in a harsher environment,.Imagine how the biology of an interspecies human would work, we can extrapolateīased on what we've seen in Star Trek and know about science.ĭiverse, making him more adaptive to new environments and less susceptible to genetic diseases (like his father's dementia). So let's start our conceptualization of Spock by exploring his Who we are is the result of our biology, psychology, andĮxperiences. T.,īut an attempt to summarize 47 years of canon and 2 parallel universes into 1Ĭomprehensive conceptualization of a character. This is not only an expansion on my conversation with Dr.

Leonard Nimoy or Zachary Quinto, we eventually decided that Spock's teaches us that the things that make us different, strange, and weird are the same things that make us awesome. After a small detour debating who would win an “Amok Time” fight. T and I spent the rest of the night trying to understand "Why is Spock such an enduring character?" Iĭr. Right-he is the only character who's made an appearance I never thought about Spock like that before, but Dr. "Spock has wielded more influence on the alpha "He's the most important character in the Star Trek Our conversation kept coming back to Spock. Psychiatrist and I'm a psychologist, so of course we did a deep dive into the I recently caught up with a Trekkie friend of mine.
