T'Pol a direct insult to Spock?

[Neo]

Read this what do people think ????????????


I was just reading how T'Pol will attempt to explore her emotional side. Didn't think much about it at first, but now I'm wondering if this is an insult to Spock. See, TOS is way before my time, and thanks to the scifi channel I get to enjoy this wonderfull series. Now the first thing I noticed was how "emotional" Spock seemed. Well, before watching the show all I knew of Spock was Star Trek 1-6 and the TNG ep. So in other words I have only seen Spock as a very unemotional Vulcan who is very strict to stay in line with Vulcan ways. I'm not saying his character is bad on TOS, quite the other way around actually. It trully showed how Gene and Nimoy evolved what it is to be Vulcan. Most of the time Spock is without emotion, but sometimes I do notice he acts in a way that he never did in the movies. Anyway, back to my point.
Spock's character went from being more emotional to less. He evolved his character by being more "Vulcan like" as we know it today. Hence, Tuvok and his attitude. Perfectly normal to us that he is an extremely strict and unemotional Vulcan. Thanks to Spock and character development, we know that's just how Vulcans are.

Now let's go to T'Pol. If I'm reading this right she will evolve in a backwards manner. She will go from strict Vulcan to more emotional Vulcan. So she is 65 years old, and being exposed to the ENT crew will make her want to explore her emotional side. Hmm, Spock never did! Spock was exposed to probably the most emotional humans of the all! Bones, Scotty, Kirk! So now T'Pol is going sorta backwards. I'm assuming we will see her go from strict, to emotional, then back to strict again. We can't have an emotional Vulcan at the end of the series now can we?

Maybe posting "insult" was a little harsh. However, Nimoy is reponsible for how we know Vulcans today. Personally I think Berman is doing this just so we can see some intimate moments between T'Pol and a another crew member. It's just an excuse to have some love scene with the hot babe of the show. Much like Kim having a dream about 7, they just HAD to have some kind of heated moment with that fine looking Jeri Ryan didn't they?

I can see it now, Bakula and T'Pol. She claims that she wants to kiss Bakula out of pure scientific curiosity or some crap. I think it woud be far more interesting to see the Klingon show Sato how Klingons really get it on. Time to put sickbay to good use

 

[Dave]

What you said is basically true, but Spock is only half-Vulcan. I think this is the difference, in Star Trek we see aliens like Worf (brought up in a human family) and B'Elanna (half-Klingon) tend to over-compensate and go fully one way or the other. So Worf immerses himself in Klingon religious study, while B'Elanna rejects everything Klingon.

Spock found working with humans difficult, precisely because he was half-human himself, so he went to complete the Kolinahr, to make his life easier. He then realized that neither total logic or knowlege could make him happy, and needed both halves.

Vulcans do have emotions though, (Tuvok has shown emotion) but they control them. If T'Pol intends to let her emotions let rip and run wild, then that does sound strange, but I'll make a judgement when I watch the actual thing.

 

[Neo]

Cheers DAve... I have a feeling that T'Pol is gonna supirise us all

 

[little star]

Originally posted by Neo
Personally I think Berman is doing this just so we can see some intimate moments between T'Pol and a another crew member. It's just an excuse to have some love scene with the hot babe of the show. Much like Kim having a dream about 7, they just HAD to have some kind of heated moment with that fine looking Jeri Ryan didn't they?

I can see it now, Bakula and T'Pol. She claims that she wants to kiss Bakula out of pure scientific curiosity or some crap.

Well, I have read that they are planning to include a lot of sexual situations in the new series because they feel that's the way to go to attract viewers that would not normally be interested in watching a Star Trek series. I guess they feel they have to do this to keep the franchise going??

I also read that the actress who will play T'Pol was chosen because they felt she could be the resident 'hottie'---the 'Jeri Ryan' of ENT. I was a little confused as to why they would choose a 'Vulcan' to be the 'Baywatch in Space' babe. But what you posted explains it a bit---if she'll be exploring a more emotional side.

I hope this doesn't mean the storylines will be all sex, no science, and I hope they don't reduce T'Pol to a Vulcan bimbo.

I mean, VOY had Jeri Ryan walking around in an unnecessarily tight catsuit, but at least for the most part, the character wasn't written to be a bimbo, despite what she wore.

Don't know exactly what they're planning for T'Pol...but I hope the storylines don't degenerate into excuses to show her 'antigrav units' (as Dave called them...LOL) every 2 minutes.

little star :star:

 

[Dave]

Well, she has already been pictured in a mens magazine, and you can see quite a lot of her online, if you don't search too hard, that never happened with Jerri Ryan.

 

[little star]

yes and an Entertainment Tonight segment about the new Vulcan revolved mostly around footage of her surfing with her bum almost fully exposed...

 

[Neo]

Ow great just what we all wanted