Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site convex Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!ayers From: ayers@convex.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: On Humans, Vulcans and Sarek Message-ID: <88600002@convex> Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 11:29:00 EST Article-I.D.: convex.88600002 Posted: Thu Mar 6 11:29:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 23:10:30 EST References: <637@riccb.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:riccb.UUCP:637:convex:88600002:000:601 Nf-From: convex.UUCP!ayers Mar 6 10:29:00 1986 >As far as I have ever understood it, there is nothing biological about >the Vulcan brain that makes it so logical, it is simply a way of life >(kind of like Zen, etc.) and the entire population subscribes to it. >(at least as far as we humans are allowed to see! :-)(-: ) This, in fact, is supported by Nimoy's opening scenes in STTMP (Movie #1) where he is finishing up the ordeal/ceremony that was supposed to "purge" his remaining emotions. The fact that an established ceremony existed showed that it wasn't just "half-breeds" that had that problem... blues, II