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From: mnw@trw-unix.UUCP (Michael N. Washington)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Spock
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 15:37:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 20 15:37:31 1984
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The fact that Spock used only logic during his command on "Galileo Seven",
does not show lack of intelligence as P. Rowley of U. Toronto indicates.
It does show a lack of intuition that of course Vulcans would not have.
A point that the writers could have explored is, since Spock was among
Humans so much, some of our emotional responses would have influenced
some of his decisions whenever pure logic did not work. But, Vulcans were
not known for their use of such knowledge because it was deemed emotional 
which could not be tolerated. Also, at the end of this episode, Spock did
do a desperate act by ejecting and igniting the fuel so that the Enterprise
could find them if she was still in the area. This did finally show an
emotional response to a situation. Logically, he should have saved the
fuel in case the Enterprise was not in the area and they had to land on the
planet again.

One other point, Vulcans did not completely escape from emotions. Case in
point, when Vulcans had to marry, they did not always act logically. I do
not remember the episode title, but Spock's metabolic rate had changed
radically and McCoy informed the Captain that Spock would die if he did not
get to Vulcan within seven days. if you remember the episode, you know what
happened.

Michael N. Washington
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