Thursday, October 4, 2001

October 4, 2001 1234am CDT Seems to me like this new Star Trek show is quite well done, technically. But I just don't buy Jolene Blalock's Vulcan character. Rather than dispassionate, she comes across as ticked off most of the time. It's really too bad, I've always been a fan of Vulcan characters. Spock's predilection toward logic was an inbred one - it was carried in his green blood. T'Pol, on the other hand, seems to have learned to behave like a Vulcan, but she apparently struggles with emotion. Any follower of the original Star Trek, as well as the subsequent films and Star Trek: The Next Generation, can tell you that Vulcans do have emotions, and they do express them. Familial bonds are important to them. They just express their emotions in ways unfamiliar to the humans on the shows - thus creating tension. The presumption among the humans was always that emotions and logic contradicted one another. Vulcans, on the other hand, were naturally inclined toward logical behavior, even in their emotion. Interesting side note: I dressed up as Spock for the Hallowe'en of 1988. That was the last time I ever dressed up as a character from Star Trek, just so you know. 12:57:21 AM    comment []