VULCAN: Cultural Index 2.0

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  • @MahsaKaerra
    @MahsaKaerra 4 роки тому +50

    I think it's a neat idea that the Vulcans are actually, at the core of their being, more emotional than any other species in Star Trek.

  • @thesinfultictac5704
    @thesinfultictac5704 4 роки тому +99

    I love the Vulcans for their contradictions it's very nuanced

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 роки тому +11

      *logically illogical just to throw other races off as to what they are actually up to and keep them off balance with their own irrational emotional estimations and inaccurate theories*

    • @UCannotDefeatMyShmeat
      @UCannotDefeatMyShmeat 3 роки тому +3

      It’s almost as amusing as the sometimes self defeating beliefs and practices of the klingons

  • @AllenLinnenJr
    @AllenLinnenJr 4 роки тому +266

    Vulcans = Space High Elves
    Romulans = Space Dark Elves

    • @edsr164
      @edsr164 4 роки тому +5

      Allen Linnen, Jr. loved it

    • @kabobawsome
      @kabobawsome 4 роки тому +6

      What are the Space Wood Elves?

    • @violetbean8928
      @violetbean8928 3 роки тому +7

      if you play The Elder Scrolls games, you will interpret this very differently.

    • @fabricatorgeneralchadius1114
      @fabricatorgeneralchadius1114 3 роки тому +2

      @@kabobawsome the species with that really elasticity skin because that's probably the closest

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum 3 роки тому +5

      Vulcans: LOTR Elves
      Romulans: Hellboy II, Guillermo del Toro Elves

  • @briananderson2219
    @briananderson2219 3 роки тому

    We appreciate you doing better. You thought you could, you verbalized it, and you follow through👍

  • @refulgent_fanta
    @refulgent_fanta 3 роки тому +1

    Vulcans are interesting and it surprised me how it was shown in Enterprise that they were a bit afraid of humans and their potential. It took vulcans over 1000 years to rebuild their civilization after their nuclear wars but humanity managed to do the same in less than a century.
    And I believe contemporary vulcans are still far from the true teachings of Surak. In Enterprise it seemed that Surak didn't completely repress his emotions, he only used his logic and meditation to control them.

  • @Aliocha31
    @Aliocha31 4 роки тому +1

    The Breen!

  • @robertflegal1735
    @robertflegal1735 2 роки тому

    Very informative!!!

  • @Shogun1982
    @Shogun1982 4 роки тому

    "What ye are about to witness comes down from the time of the beginning without change. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is [their] way."🖖🏾

  • @madvulcan8964
    @madvulcan8964 4 роки тому

    Am I really the only Vulcan that can control his emotions without fear or wigging the hell out?

  • @sideshowbobrobert
    @sideshowbobrobert 2 роки тому +1

    while it may be true that Vulcans cannot revel in the 'emotional fulfillment' prevalent among other cultures, it is also true that few from those other cultures can summon the discipline to embrace a purely logic-based lifestyle and all the insights into the universe which are the rewards o' such a pursuit. for my money i'd much rather be a Vulcan (or at the very least wish humans would lean more towards logic and less towards boasting about its profound ignorance...)

  • @leomartin1903
    @leomartin1903 Рік тому +1

    It's a trip that alien races of star Trek lore, ALL behave in a SINGLE planetary ETHNICITY. UNLIKE US humans. With HUNDREDS of dialects and SKIN TONES, BELIEF SYSTEMS, and Values.

    • @covenawhite4855
      @covenawhite4855 Рік тому

      The writers could only focus on a few cultures or the lore would get to complex

  • @adamofblastworks1517
    @adamofblastworks1517 4 роки тому

    Ahhh. The responsible and mature cousins of the Eldar.

  • @Walm89
    @Walm89 4 роки тому

    Do Caitians!

  • @insylem
    @insylem 4 роки тому +1

    Your claim about the vulcans being the first extra terestirals encountered by mankind is incorrect. In the 1800s, man kind encountered a race of enegery stealing aliens and a klingon (TNG: Time's Arrow) Also, in 1947, Mankind encountered the Ferengi (DS9: Little Green Men)

    • @davidtuttle7556
      @davidtuttle7556 4 роки тому

      And a Changeling.

    • @danielpasilis4046
      @danielpasilis4046 4 роки тому +1

      Apollo...and the rest of the Greek Gods?

    • @paulgrattan3885
      @paulgrattan3885 4 роки тому +3

      Technically the first formal face to face contact revealing themselves to the general public for the whole world to know.

    • @khiclark31
      @khiclark31 4 роки тому +1

      Didn't Ginan's race come to Earth during the Renaissance?

    • @insylem
      @insylem 4 роки тому

      @@danielpasilis4046 I had forgotten about that episode. Yes

  • @SaMartok
    @SaMartok 4 роки тому

    The breen pls

  • @nomercyinc6783
    @nomercyinc6783 3 місяці тому

    just a random europe question. why the hell do you guys pronounce so many words wrong like adding syllables to aluminum. theres no mini in aluminum

  • @LosoaII
    @LosoaII 4 роки тому +387

    Ever considered doing an index for humans? I'm always interested in how the other races thinks of them in Star Trek's universe.

    • @PyroJohn19
      @PyroJohn19 4 роки тому +21

      There is a Terran empire vid, pretty that video is the closest there will be for a human cultural index.

    • @Marcus-gh8bh
      @Marcus-gh8bh 3 роки тому +8

      CivilizationEX has a great video on starfleet as as well as video’s on the dominion war and section 31

    • @WoolandFlax
      @WoolandFlax 3 роки тому +6

      I second this!

    • @Gameguru667
      @Gameguru667 3 роки тому +1

      @@PyroJohn19 Terrans reflect humans as they are in the present day irl so it counts for this XD

    • @CaptainGlack
      @CaptainGlack 2 роки тому +7

      Hoomans are a bunch of know-it-all do-gooders.

  • @DrLeroyGreen
    @DrLeroyGreen 4 роки тому +125

    However, if a Vulcan were to fake emotion, they would be
    considered textbook psychopaths.

    • @MPYarnall
      @MPYarnall 4 роки тому +6

      They cannot lie

    • @Gardstyle35
      @Gardstyle35 3 роки тому +18

      @@MPYarnall they can and do lie

    • @maniacalo2901
      @maniacalo2901 3 роки тому +1

      That's actually very true

    • @oneproudbrowncoat
      @oneproudbrowncoat 3 роки тому +2

      Not necessarily. Motivation is a factor.

    • @derianvandalsen
      @derianvandalsen 3 роки тому +10

      They can and will lie because their training enables them to often get away with it

  • @jm823
    @jm823 4 роки тому +53

    Its a good thing that Vulcan suppressed their aggressive tendencies because the 1st contact could have been a invasion force rather then a peace force.

  • @QuarkGamingLLC
    @QuarkGamingLLC 4 роки тому +154

    I have something to say about Vulcan blood.
    Though most animals on earth have red blood, some have blue. The blue color is caused by the iron being replaced with copper.
    The Vulcans, however, have green blood. Some animals on earth also have green blood that has something similar sounding to chlorophyll replacing the iron. Since Vulcan is a hot and sunny-ass planet, it’d make sense for most life on the planet to make use of the extra sun, maybe by having everything performing photosynthesis to a degree.
    That’s just my theory to rectify a scientific inaccuracy. I’m most likely wrong but so was whoever decided the green blood thing.

    • @readhistory2023
      @readhistory2023 4 роки тому +19

      Octopus blood is copper based and it's blue, not green. Recently, a group of 33 scientists worldwide-including molecular immunologist Edward Steele and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe-published a paper suggesting, in all seriousness, that octopuses may indeed are alien.

    • @andrewchapman2039
      @andrewchapman2039 4 роки тому +29

      "sunny-ass planet" is my new favourite classification.

    • @kataseiko
      @kataseiko 4 роки тому +41

      @@readhistory2023 We have "blood" invented at least 5 times on planet earth. There's the haemoglobin (red) blood in all vertebrates that turns darker red when deoxygenated. There's the haemocyanin (blue) blood in octopuses, spiders and molluscs that turns clear when deoxygenated. Then there's Chlorocruorin (green) blood that turns just a different shade of green if deoxygenated and you'll find in many worms and leeches. There's a purple variation (Abin Sur anyone?) called haemorythrin that you'll find in many ocean creatures - worms and brachiopods mainly - and that one also turns clear when deoxygenated. And lastly there's a version that you'll find in many fish - clear, colorless blood that has no color whatsoever because it has no oxygen carrying ingredients. And of all those types, the red one is the most efficient at surface pressures while the blue copper one is about 80% as efficient at surface pressures but it has some benefits over red blood at higher pressure.

    • @vortimerofkent128
      @vortimerofkent128 4 роки тому +1

      @@kataseiko Pretty cool explanation. Thank you for that. :)

    • @wonkothesane8691
      @wonkothesane8691 4 роки тому +1

      I thought human blood obtained its reddish hue due the iron-oxide in hemoglobin, de-oxygenated blood is blue, as it lacks the oxygen present in iron-oxide. Oxides of copper have a greenish hue, thus Vulcan and Romulan blood would possess coloration common to the oxygenating agent.

  • @paulgrattan3885
    @paulgrattan3885 4 роки тому +83

    Vulcans seem very private when it comes to their age. They always seem to want to dodge or deflect the question.

    • @SampoPaalanen
      @SampoPaalanen 4 роки тому +22

      Well when the species you interact the most can barely go past 100 years and tends to be rather emotional when it comes to their age especially getting jealous if someone seems "more well preserved" then them, you'd be private about your age too.
      I mean I don't consider myself to be all that vain when it comes to my age yet I was positively surprised when I found out that people thought that I was only in my mid 20s rather then my true age of late 30s (and as a man I obviously don't normally wear any make up so my age isn't hidden that way).
      Granted I live in modern day Europe and not the Federation but those things tend to be part of the human condition and something we would learn to control better rather get rid of.

    • @brucebanner3566
      @brucebanner3566 4 роки тому +14

      @@SampoPaalanen in the star trek universe, humans usually live from 125-140 years. Not too bad.

    • @JustAnNPC69
      @JustAnNPC69 4 роки тому +4

      Bruce Banner vulcans can lived up to 300

    • @brucebanner3566
      @brucebanner3566 4 роки тому +11

      @@JustAnNPC69 actually it's 220 at the most, in the star trek universe, unless you are referring to a specific Vulcan or storyline. Average lifespan is two hundred years.

    • @virginiaconnor8350
      @virginiaconnor8350 4 роки тому +2

      T'Pol refused to tell Trip her age until he told her she reminded him of an old oil painting. She finally admitted she'd be 66 on her next birthday. To Vulcans, one's she is intimate. I guess so is their birthdays since she didn't tell him when she'd turn 66. She looks young for 66 though so I figure, she'd be about earth 20 yrs. younger.

  • @DissociatedWomenIncorporated
    @DissociatedWomenIncorporated 2 роки тому +18

    “I _hate_ sand. It’s course, and rough, and irritating, and it gets _everywhere.”_
    - Surak of Vulcan

  • @michael1345
    @michael1345 4 роки тому +26

    Vulcans are like cats.Desert creatures. Calm, detached but can instantly turn viscous, violent. Amazingly strong and adaptable but happy in their own company but able to bond with humans.

  • @jodybranson925
    @jodybranson925 4 роки тому +62

    Breen, go with the Breen next.

    • @jcarry5214
      @jcarry5214 4 роки тому +2

      I love the idea but has there been anything new about the breen since DS9?

  • @KingOfMadCows
    @KingOfMadCows 4 роки тому +35

    Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

  • @marshallhuffer4713
    @marshallhuffer4713 4 роки тому +42

    Finding a balance between logic and emotion sounds like something to strive for.

    • @jasonskeans3327
      @jasonskeans3327 4 роки тому +3

      Logic is not the end of knowledge just the beginning

    • @jasonskeans3327
      @jasonskeans3327 4 роки тому +4

      Logic is not the end of knowledge just the beginning: surak i think

    • @travcollier
      @travcollier 3 роки тому

      Yeah... I always thought Romulas got a bad wrap too ;)

    • @housewilma4904
      @housewilma4904 Рік тому

      issue is the vulcans went to far into logic so many vulcans talk and experince life like there robots unwilling to geuinely experince the emotional side of life at all only a few like spock and his family learned to balance the idea of living by logic while not denying emotion.
      while the romulans became extrem in the other direction a middle ground bewteen the species ways of life would be the best and most healthy if not the most centrally stable.

  • @suzumiyaharuhi3438
    @suzumiyaharuhi3438 4 роки тому +22

    Wait a second, isn't nerve pinch basically the mythical Chinese "点穴" technique?

    • @thomastakesatollforthedark2231
      @thomastakesatollforthedark2231 4 роки тому +5

      Oh yes, because aliens who hadn't met with humanity yet until our future would know of an ancient Chinese technique. Because that makes sense

    • @sabin97
      @sabin97 4 роки тому +8

      probably.
      in good fiction they usually base a lot of stuff on real world things they embellish to fit the narrative.

  • @jeffhallam2004
    @jeffhallam2004 4 роки тому +21

    We love your videos! Bless you! Yes I got the joke. Forge....

  • @gallendugall8913
    @gallendugall8913 4 роки тому +24

    The most obvious contradiction is that prior to logic Vulcans were a primitive tribal society. Except the Romulans had STL spacecraft in enough quantity to transport a large segment of the population elsewhere. So they were sophisticated and organized enough to built a fleet of long range STL spacecraft. Something beyond our current capability. So they couldn't have been too badly off. The idea that their planet experienced multiple nuclear wars isn't supported by their biology as a few tens of thousands of years wouldn't have allowed them to adapt. Now on the other hand if modern Vulcans were genetically engineered and wiped out the original Vulcans that would explain a lot and the revisionist history was a cover up of that genocide. A parallel to what happened on Earth in the setting.

    • @sabin97
      @sabin97 4 роки тому +2

      when i see stl i think of the standard template library, but i'm sure that's not what you mean.
      so what do you mean by stl?

    • @spaceclaw1958
      @spaceclaw1958 4 роки тому +3

      @@sabin97 slower than light

    • @Zodroo_Tint
      @Zodroo_Tint 3 роки тому +2

      If we want to logically view the earth than we have to face the dark past earth had.
      Facts:
      - Human culture is USA culture.
      - Human language is USA language.
      - Human knowledge about our past is the USA knowledge about our past.
      - Human society looks and acts like USA society.
      Star Trek lore says:
      - USA developed Warp engine first and other nations were to lazy or cheap to develop theirs. ILLOGICAL!
      - In France French people speak British english. ILLOGICAL
      i will not continue..
      What happened is:
      1. The USA started the Third World War.
      2. Destroyd almost every other nation on Earth.
      3. Occupied every country on earth and Americanized them, changed their language and their culture.
      4. Sometimes the occupation was made by their vassals like in France where the UK made the dirty job.
      5. The USA rewrote the history and reeducated the survivors of the Third World War.
      6. The USA united the Earth and terrorized those people who doesn't wanted to assimilate.
      7. After the Worldwide Reeducation and the genocide of those who were not willing to accept the New World Order finally the mankind united. The rewriten history and the killing of the independent thinkers made sure the mankind in the XXIII. and the XXIV. century became those self righteous know-everything-better better-than-other people we know and love. :)
      Sorry folks. This is the most logical scenario.

    • @Indigo199517
      @Indigo199517 3 роки тому +1

      @@Zodroo_Tint That sounds way too damn hard. People are stubborn and will not bend; you'd have to perpetuate a genocide on a global scale, and it would only work if every other nuclear-capable nation just rolled over. I can't see totalitarian regimes like China capitulating like that. Additionally, it has been made apparent that holding locations like Afghanistan is really fucking hard; it took 20 years to hold it and "adopt" liberal values (not saying it's a good thing tbf).... it took less than 2 weeks for them to snap right back to their previous pre-war state of mind.
      You would literally have to kill every other human on the planet in order to kill every other culture; anything less would take far too long in order to fit in with the Star Trek timeline.

    • @pepe6666
      @pepe6666 2 роки тому

      @@sabin97 3d printer models :)

  • @beckoning-chasm
    @beckoning-chasm 4 роки тому +43

    Well done! There was an article some years back (an "interview" with Spock) in which he described a great deal of Vulcan culture. One thing I remember was that there was a form of recreation in which a Vulcan had to walk out into the desert, being mindful of every step and all the details...he then had to find his way back, using the exact same steps, in the pitch darkness.

    • @MatthewCobalt
      @MatthewCobalt 3 роки тому +3

      Must be an old ritualistic test, in which a Vulcan is responsible of finding their own way while also concentrating on maintaining control over their emotions in isolation.
      Most adult Vulcans could do this, but imagine one who had only started their meditation, lile say, a child or teenager. It must have been like hell to keep your mind strong enough.

  • @samquennell3649
    @samquennell3649 4 роки тому +38

    The Silence, as much as I love the Breen the Silence are much cooler and much more frightening

    • @Qardo
      @Qardo 4 роки тому +6

      Who are you talking about? I am sorry. What was the Breen being put up against in the voting? The Silence? Wait...what are we typing about? I just see the Breen. Wait what is this "The Silence"? ....What are you going on about?

    • @dequavis8640
      @dequavis8640 4 роки тому +1

      @@Qardo the silence are a race from doctor who

    • @t3h51d3w1nd3r
      @t3h51d3w1nd3r 4 роки тому +2

      @@dequavis8640 who? what are we talking about?...........what?

    • @dequavis8640
      @dequavis8640 4 роки тому +2

      t3h51d3w1nd3r I’m not sure, why are there a bunch of lines on me

    • @melwugon3687
      @melwugon3687 4 роки тому +2

      Shibu What doctor are you talking about and what does it have do star trek? What is the name of this mysterious doctor? Doctor who?

  • @MrBigCookieCrumble
    @MrBigCookieCrumble 4 роки тому +27

    _"It's life Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it._
    _It's life Jim, but not as we know, not as we know it, captain."_ - Spöck

    • @smoothmcpimp9429
      @smoothmcpimp9429 4 роки тому +3

      There's Klingons off the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow! There's Klingons off the starboard bow, scrap em off Jim.

    • @martinpearse2003
      @martinpearse2003 4 роки тому +3

      Ha, we come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, we come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill men

    • @MrBigCookieCrumble
      @MrBigCookieCrumble 4 роки тому +1

      I love you two! xD

    • @kellyweingart3692
      @kellyweingart3692 4 роки тому +2

      🎵Star Trekkin’ across the universe🎵

    • @kellyweingart3692
      @kellyweingart3692 4 роки тому +2

      🎵on the starship Enterprise, along with Captain Kirk🎵

  • @keithtorgersen9664
    @keithtorgersen9664 2 роки тому +6

    Despite Vulcans suppressing their emotions they still express strong emotional attachment to valued family and friends. Spock to Kirk, Tuvok to Janeway, etc. And in the Field of Fire episode the Vulcan Lieutenant became psychotic because everyone he cared about was killed.

  • @kayleighbrown459
    @kayleighbrown459 4 роки тому +11

    Weird to think that a time that was once considered so far in the away that a futuristic sci fi show used it as a setting, is now a mere 43 years away.

  • @deadNightwatchman
    @deadNightwatchman 4 роки тому +15

    If you go with the Breen, check out the trial-sequences at the beginning and end of ST IV: There are some aliens in the background who look like early versions of the Breen.
    Maybe they were once some kind of associate members of the Federation (allies, but not fully integrated) and chose to leave at one point?
    (Breexit, anyone?😄)
    Great video about the Vulcans! Thank you for this!
    But let's forget about the "logic-extremists", shall we? There's nothing logical about them.

    • @user-do1kg1py1d
      @user-do1kg1py1d 4 роки тому

      that would some what explain there hatred, but i do remember in serie enterprise in one episode that a race was dying becouse of some kind of virus but that a other species (living on the same planet) was imimuum against it.
      and had some dealings with pre federation starfleet orginisation du to contact with archer etc.
      so yea dont know with episode.. sadly

  • @VestedUTuber
    @VestedUTuber 4 роки тому +15

    I've always been scratching my head on how a Human/Vulcan hybrid even works, due to the extreme differences in biochemistry.

    • @VestedUTuber
      @VestedUTuber 4 роки тому +4

      @Mellm
      Except that genetic engineering was banned by the Federation except to correct birth defects in an already conceived fetus. The biochemical and thus genetic difference between humans and vulcans is so great that conception shouldn't even be possible. The gametes wouldn't be compatible.

    • @gregoryspangler5775
      @gregoryspangler5775 3 роки тому +1

      U KNOW SPOCK IS A HALF BREED. HIS DAD IS VULCAN.& MOM IS HUMAN. HUMANS&OTHERS HUMANOID ALIENS. KILGONS' ROMLUNS... DO HAVE KIDS!!!

    • @VestedUTuber
      @VestedUTuber 3 роки тому +2

      @@gregoryspangler5775
      I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm saying it doesn't make sense for it to work. Klingon + Human makes more sense because their biochemistry is closer, even if it's still kinda nonsensical.

    • @theprehistoricastronaut8612
      @theprehistoricastronaut8612 3 роки тому +4

      @@gregoryspangler5775 DID YOU BREAK YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY TOO?

    • @gregoryspangler5775
      @gregoryspangler5775 3 роки тому

      @@theprehistoricastronaut8612 R UR BRAIN CELLS DRY UP.😂😂😂

  • @aaronj_girv
    @aaronj_girv 4 роки тому +12

    Do Breen, but I would like to see a Cultural Index for Bajorans.

  • @jeskerjames3260
    @jeskerjames3260 Рік тому +4

    I think a good way to understand the relationship a Vulcan has to emotions is basically this: They are in complete control of their emotions, rather than their emotions being in control of them. They have emotion, but they don't allow the emotions to do the thinking. Logic guides the heart, rather than letting the heart run wild.
    Tuvok clearly cares for Janeway and Spock clearly cares for Kirk. But they would never let these emotions override their higher thinking. Their logic keeps their feelings in their proper place.
    Humans, we often times let our emotions guide our actions. But see I think that's why humans and Vulcans work so well together. They're two sides of the same coin. Vulcans are guided by logic, where as humans are more so guided by emotion. When the two work together, they can find the proper balance and end up with better solutions than either race could achieve on their own. It's fortune then that Vulcans were the first species humans made contact with, and this balanced relationship is probably one reason why the federation ended up become such a success.

  • @julianbashir8277
    @julianbashir8277 4 роки тому +6

    How do Human in Trek constantly beat up Vulcans and Klingons?

    • @jasonskeans3327
      @jasonskeans3327 4 роки тому +5

      Plot and adrenaline is a hell of a drug

    • @edsr164
      @edsr164 4 роки тому +1

      Plot armor and protagonism

    • @ShadowHunter120
      @ShadowHunter120 3 роки тому

      Emotions can drive a person harder and trigger chemical responses like cortisol, endorphins, and most importantly, adrenaline.

  • @jetfire1153red
    @jetfire1153red 4 роки тому +2

    Vulcan neuropressure which is performed a bit like having a massage performed on you is said to be nearly as intimate as having sex and believe it or not The two participants i.e. the one performing it and the one it is performed on half the time wind up having sex afterwards. The other half of the time as it is performed the one that is performed on would Wind up falling asleep because it is that relaxing.
    It was mentioned in the andorian index That under the Vulcan High command they're acting more like the Romulan tal shiar that is because Vulcan High command probably were Romulan tal shiar which provides a reasonable explanation for the behaviour.

  • @diosnelfrica7589
    @diosnelfrica7589 4 роки тому +31

    I have to make something clear, We didn’t encountered the Vulcans they encountered us.

    • @Gaspucci
      @Gaspucci 3 роки тому +2

      If I remember correctly, a human scientist was doing an experiment with space travel and his experiments are what alerted the Vulcans that there’s not only more life out there, but they also have space travel.

    • @shmuli9
      @shmuli9 3 роки тому

      @@Gaspucci Pretty much. They made an official "first contact" with Earth when warp drive was discovered...

  • @captianblitz
    @captianblitz 4 роки тому +6

    I don’t want to vote for the Breen, but I can’t remember what the other option was. (What I’m saying is do the Silence)

  • @kellysavage7073
    @kellysavage7073 2 роки тому +2

    I love on Enterprise that one Vulcan told Archer That The Vulcans Feared the the Humans, because Humans have managed to do in just 50 years what took the vulcans 1500 years to accomplish. that is why they kept holding back warp technologies from the Humans for along time, and why Archer hated them for it.

  • @shayneoneill1506
    @shayneoneill1506 4 роки тому +3

    Its worth noting that there where groups of vulcans who did permit themselves to explore emotions without too much drama (well except mind-rape dude), and while they where somewhat oppressed under the old vulcan high command, after the events of ST:ENT its not clear the more liberal Vulcan high command that emerged would have continued the suppression. Certainly mind melds apparently had become permitted, including with other humanoids (which would have unavoidably led to exposure to strong emotion).

  • @golgarisoul
    @golgarisoul 4 роки тому +4

    🖖

  • @sgtrock68
    @sgtrock68 4 роки тому +4

    T'Pol? Mating cycle? Where's my battle axe, Qtip thingy? Hold my beer.

  • @quoniam426
    @quoniam426 4 роки тому +17

    There is an inconsistancy in Vulcan physiology. On a slightly higher gravity planet than Earth, one could think that the heart would better placed higher in the body than where they put it. It would beneficiate more from gravity and less have to fight against it, just like giraffes' hearts are at the base of the neck.
    So having the heart this low makes no sense. You could still consider that a vulcan heart would be on average bigger and stronger than a human heart by comparison, but still. I understand they wanted to include exotic features to make the species more alien, but they are still bipedal mammals with the same basic architecture just slightly stronger and more efficient organs due to more arid environment, so yeah, they could have had the heart at the same place and shape than humans, it wouldn't make any difference on the fact their blood is chemically different anyway and have other features specific to their evolution...
    As for Sarek, we could think that Sarek has a fetish on human females since at Amanda's death he remarries with another human female, Perrin instead of chosing a Vulcan (perhaps also because it would mean that the Vulcan female would either have to be the same age or they that they wouldn't be able to age at the same rythm. Another idea is that him being on Earth has played a role in his choice because close proximity made him prefer human females because they were the only ones near him during his Pon Farr and that possible Vulcan female colleagues would already be married.

    • @carlossantana4086
      @carlossantana4086 3 роки тому +2

      Well they also have 3x denser muscles, perhaps this extra strength helps their heart become an airplane fuel pump.

    • @oneproudbrowncoat
      @oneproudbrowncoat 3 роки тому

      One might also expect greater difficulty of respiration in more humid climates.

    • @Zodroo_Tint
      @Zodroo_Tint 3 роки тому

      You see well. They wanted to add something alien to it and they couldn't for budgetary reasons so they said his heart is where our liver is, "look I told you he is an alien".
      Real aliens in movies the Xenomorph the Predator, the Prawns and there is few more. Star Trek aliens are humans with very little or absolutelly no make up. I understand they had no money in the late 60's and I accept the original Klingon look, no need to explain with some ENT bullshit but we have to keep it real and say these are space opera aliens not real aliens, and Star Trek writers are not scientist but low paid nerds. I think they should have embraced the fact they are cheap and forget about these pseudoscientific bullcraps.
      If they look like us than obviously they look like us inside too. Heart is there for a reason, not because it could be anywhere in the body. Farscape and Babylon 5 did a better job with aliens. Even the Farscape peacekeepers who where human look a like were explained very good.

    • @Zodroo_Tint
      @Zodroo_Tint 3 роки тому

      @@carlossantana4086 First of all, those 3x denser muscles have the same problem what the heart have, Vulcan have a human body so they should have the same limitation than humans have.
      Second: if their heart is not in the right hight than their body is an evolutionary failure. They are inferior as a species. You can't just say things like this liver-heart thing, it is lazy screen writing. One of the biggest flaw and charm of Star Trek. Don't fight against it, they are suck at science, accept it! :)

    • @debsy101games
      @debsy101games 3 роки тому +1

      Evolution has many flaws, such as the spine, eyes, teeth, the nerve to speak being looped the long way round, so it is accurate that Vulcan’s would have at least some evolutionary mistakes too

  • @XX-sp3tt
    @XX-sp3tt 4 роки тому +6

    9:25 Good for the writers ironically, since life is full of contrasts!

  • @Perktube1
    @Perktube1 4 роки тому +3

    Ah, the Breen. Always wearing masks. Perhaps it is a religious practice to always hide their features. Similar to those of the Mandalorians. Which can bring in an even stronger tie. Allow me to theorize. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a lone mando pursues his bounty. Assume he has a copy of his creed on board for his perusal. Also he has various items, say a helmet from a fellow hunter that resembled one that Leah wore on Tatooine. He kicks in hyperdrive, has a malfunction of life support systems. He shoots out of the galaxy in hyperspace, centuries ago, crosses into ours, energy barrier knocks him into normal space, Breen find him, like that other helmet, and make their own.
    They also decipher the mando's creed and adapt some aspects of that too.
    Its a theory. Either that or the ST devs watched SW Episode 6 and got lazy.

  • @reddyredwolf3931
    @reddyredwolf3931 4 роки тому +4

    I think the Romulan Cultural Index needs an update as well. Given the lore we get from Picard.

  • @cathyvickers9063
    @cathyvickers9063 4 роки тому +2

    Admittedly, my knowledge is limited to the original run of Star Trek series & the movies, with ST: Enterprise being the most recent series, & ST: Nemesis being the most recent movie. During my Trek fandom period, I read the official novels set in TV & movie periods for TOS, NextGen, DS9 & Voyager; & I had an extensive library of tie-in books, blueprints & maps published during the same period.
    I always assumed Vulcan had various subcultures, partly regional (as on Earth) & partly philosophical. My takeaway from the various Vulcan personality types met during the franchise, coupled with things Surak told Archer in the episode where they met, was that Surak was teaching his people a philosophy of MODERATION, rather than pure logic & suppression of emotion.
    This means the practitioners of Kolinahr are extremists.
    One thing I really appreciated in ST:Enterprise was the way that Vulcans were not our familiar Vulcans. By that point in the show, it had been established that the Vulcan default methodology was slow & methodical. That was the point of contention between Vulcan & Earth.
    The Vulcans in that show were not used to regular interaction with brash, emotional species. Spock's grandmother T'Pau was a young woman, T'Pol's contemporary. The children alive during the events of Enterprise were the first generation to whom this alliance was normal.
    T'Pol was a Vulcan trailblazer, demonstrating how it was possible that 2 such dissimilar species could live & work together.
    Intrepid likely had an all-Vulcan crew because Vulcan culture was still adapting to the Federation. In the 23rd Century, the Federation was only about a century old. Slow, methodical cultures need time to adapt. This' why we didn't see multiple Vulcans fully integrated into multi-species crews until the late 23rd Century/early 24th Century!

  • @Reddotzebra
    @Reddotzebra 4 роки тому +4

    You should definitely start with the Breen, never turn your back on a Breen!

  • @sonjaenste647
    @sonjaenste647 3 роки тому +3

    I just realized how similar the history and nature of Vulcans are to Klingons. Only the Klingons overembraced their impulses and destructive feelings while the Vulcans totally suppressed them. They're like the two extreme answers to one and the same emotional problem. Plus they're both stronger than humans and have strong ties to rituals and spirituality. They could easily have switched positions, it was just historic events that made one race the explorers and the other the invaders.

    • @rayvenkman2087
      @rayvenkman2087 10 місяців тому

      So, we’d have Kor’s Brain and The Search For Kor.

  • @darthcentat528
    @darthcentat528 4 роки тому +3

    🖖🏻

  • @MandalorV7
    @MandalorV7 4 роки тому +3

    The Vulcans of Star Trek much like the Jedi in Star Wars practice stringent emotional control because they fear what they can become if their emotions are left unchecked. Personally think a Vulcan would make the perfect Jedi or one of the most powerful Sith Lords of all time.

    • @jasonskeans3327
      @jasonskeans3327 4 роки тому +1

      Holy shit

    •  4 роки тому +1

      well, Jedi Spock is quite an old meme :)

  • @ogjk
    @ogjk 4 роки тому +3

    Great video! I'm guessing Vulcans prefer to fly on Delta whilst here on Earth.

  • @Werezilla
    @Werezilla 4 роки тому +12

    I found this video fascinating.

  • @krispiepixie2436
    @krispiepixie2436 4 роки тому +2

    🖖

  • @Thescott16
    @Thescott16 2 роки тому +1

    A lot of people initially see the Vulcans ritualistic adherence to ancient traditions as something that contradicts their pursuit of logic and science... But it really isn't.
    For humanity, our ideas of rituals and traditions are born of times when we as a species thought the Earth had corners, the sun and moon were siblings, and there was a deity to pray to for every conceivable niche of life. This time in many of our cultures stifled the pursuit of sciences and alternate philosophies, or stopped it altogether by branding it as heretical... But it was the _opposite_ for Vulcans.
    The rituals and traditions that Vulcans adhere to are the very things that allow them to overcome their volatile nature in order to focus on their pursuit of logic and science. Without those rituals and traditions being adhered to, and without the discipline being instilled and enforced by such strict adherence, they risk regressing back into the savages they were only a few generations ago (they live over 200 years, generations are much longer for them).
    EDIT: Just some math for added context; If we consider a Human generation to be about 70 years and a Vulcan one is about 200...
    That means there's fewer generations of Vulcans from the time of Kirk to Surak (roughly 20 Vulcan generations) than generations of Humans from the year this video was posted to the Fall of Rome (roughly 22 Human generations)... And that's tilting the comparison for Humans, considering we didn't usually live to 70 until the 1800's (adjusting the length of a Human generation according to the average lifespan would give between 30 and 50 generations, but I'm not going to go THAT far in-depth).

  • @cholakuany5989
    @cholakuany5989 4 роки тому +1

    Humaans, as Quark would say, are really stupid. Why? See Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for an answer. Oh, unless you have a VHS or a CD, I suggest you subscribe to Netflix. This not an advertisement but just a logical advice......

  • @onbedoeldekut1515
    @onbedoeldekut1515 Рік тому +1

    Potentially contentious idea, but couldn't Vulcans get through Ponn Farr without dying by succumbing to their emotions briefly and having an anger wank?

  • @Javier-rm6ql
    @Javier-rm6ql Рік тому +1

    I never understood how the vulcans must always suppress their emotions because they are so self-destructive and romulans are just fine being very paranoid. They have a bigger empire and better tech also.

  • @briananderson2219
    @briananderson2219 3 роки тому +1

    Think of the Phoenicians the Jews and every tribe of Israel particularly the two lost tribes that ended up becoming the scythians

  • @Starbat88
    @Starbat88 4 роки тому +2

    I got the "Forge" joke!

  • @cholakuany5989
    @cholakuany5989 4 роки тому +1

    To see the future Scientifically is to reflect on our own stupidities as humans of yesterdays and today, but today is not yesterday and today is certainly not tomorrow, so let tomorrow decide. Why? Because we are Human Beings !!!

  • @Gardstyle35
    @Gardstyle35 3 роки тому +1

    vulcans are just better than humans in every way,
    smarter,
    get older can get more experience,
    telepathic,
    stronger,
    emotionenless

  • @tigerbread78
    @tigerbread78 3 роки тому +1

    How would the inner eyelid protect the eye when it's open though? That's when the real damage would be done

  • @Amberscion
    @Amberscion 4 роки тому +2

    Does anyone know if the Diane Duane novel _Spock's World_ is considered canon? It's a great read and has a lot of history on Vulcan mutations such as the protective inner eyelid and the rise of some of their 'psychic' powers. It also takes a look at (way) pre-Sarek Vulcan culture, possible in a time frame analogous to our pre-history when we shared the planet with Neanderthals. There is also a current time plot line concerning a movement on Vulcan for succession from the Federation, but I found that to be secondary to all the early history details. I've read it several times and it never fails to entertain.

    •  4 роки тому

      No book is considered canon. However, until a piece of information is not explicitely contradicted in alpha canon, it might be canonically true :)

  • @sinOsiris
    @sinOsiris 3 роки тому +1

    what if human race a root start/ root end
    we may be the weakest but posses greatest innermost potential
    look at the world through out history like a bunch of neutron star even pulsar like
    we need better control of ourselves
    ----

  • @vanhende
    @vanhende 4 роки тому +3

    never liked the volcans, i do love their writing (symbols)

  • @andrewponder3855
    @andrewponder3855 4 роки тому +3

    Who should be in the next video, The Silence or the Breen?
    Me, "Yes."

  • @kerkconner3111
    @kerkconner3111 4 роки тому +1

    Vulcans are three times as strong as humans yet Captain Archer was bustin Vulcan ass in the Forge when he was on their planet. Course Archer threw hands pretty good against Xindi Reptilians and Klingons too so maybe he was just a special dude.

  • @Nopejams
    @Nopejams 2 роки тому +1

    Whats funny is how vulcans in fact use emotions all the time, so they really don’t suppress as they choose to use logic more so than emotion, but still a lot of their decisions and they things they do, the things they wear or how they act aren’t based on logic sometimes but in fact emotional things.

  • @oneproudbrowncoat
    @oneproudbrowncoat 3 роки тому +1

    I'm surprised that Vulcans don't have a higher rate of various infections (respiratory and integumentary) in more humid climates.

  • @StevenHouse1980
    @StevenHouse1980 4 роки тому +5

    As of Star Trek Picard Romulans and Android's can now Mind-Meld.

    • @michaeldriggers7681
      @michaeldriggers7681 4 роки тому +3

      Commodore Oh is half Vulcan. Half Vulcans have always been able to mind meld in Trek canon

  • @professorpigeon6517
    @professorpigeon6517 3 роки тому +1

    I just noticed that humans and Vulcans would’ve met on my birthday night

  • @kellysavage7073
    @kellysavage7073 2 роки тому +1

    from a star trek cannon book the vulcans are known as the T'Khasi and the planet Charon is known as T'Khuts. but the T'Khasians took on the name of Vulcan that the Humans gave them from mythology

  • @bluerisk
    @bluerisk 4 роки тому +1

    IS - Neither Romulus nor Vulcan have ever fallen in the Canon.

  • @UCannotDefeatMyShmeat
    @UCannotDefeatMyShmeat 3 роки тому +2

    I always wondered if the “my mind to your mind” was necessary for the process of a mind meld, or if it just helped the person/people involved to focus and make it easier

  • @chrispancoast9767
    @chrispancoast9767 4 роки тому +1

    if you base the heart position on where Bones pointed it out to be located at the end of one of the TOS shows is actually was near the bottom of the left rib cage, which I believe is about where the stomach is in humans, if memory serves me properly. ua-cam.com/video/GrVqmYzGTuM/v-deo.html

  • @Okkusen
    @Okkusen 4 роки тому +2

    I waited for this !! My favourite races are the Andorians and the Vulcan. Thanks

  • @phoebejohnson1925
    @phoebejohnson1925 3 роки тому +1

    They have soul mates too. Or at least they have a word for a soul mate.

  • @Monkofmagnesia
    @Monkofmagnesia 4 роки тому +1

    If the Kolinahr is as painful as you depict at 7:26, than a Vulcan who was a student of its discipline would not express it, not even physically. I realize you were trying to show the medalian one gets when achieving the Kolinahr, but the image is actually of Spock feeling powerful emotions after being contacted by V'ger and, because he felt emotion, he did ot achieve the Kolinahr

  • @stevenbarden8466
    @stevenbarden8466 Рік тому +1

    I’m tired of fictional beings existing, much less being stronger than Humans.
    We are it,. All else is more fiction.

    • @TRivan-kx2bi
      @TRivan-kx2bi Рік тому +1

      What a lack of imagination! 😆

  • @lunasmokezim1718
    @lunasmokezim1718 4 роки тому +1

    I hate to take this to a weird place, but Vulcan's sound a lot like INFJ's. A huge well of emotions, contained. Occasionally spilling over, typically observed by a select chosen few. In an age where everyone is entirely open with their emotions and thoughts, they are the rare few who must navigate the world differently.

  • @UncleMikeDrop
    @UncleMikeDrop 4 роки тому +1

    So many stagnant civilizations and cultures occupy the Star Trek universe.

  • @SchneeflockeMonsoon
    @SchneeflockeMonsoon 4 роки тому +9

    I’ve always though that the Breen were a conglomeration of races and people, who simply chose to become Breen, and so wore the uniform, which provided them a perfect atmosphere and comfort. The Breen allowed some member species to be revealed early on to throw off the conceptions others had, and so people assumed the suits were refrigeration types and the beings within possessed no blood, which was actually only true for one of them.

    • @variousnumber891
      @variousnumber891 4 роки тому +2

      So, Similar to the Legends Mandalorians, where it was more about the culture than the species of the warrior?

    • @SchneeflockeMonsoon
      @SchneeflockeMonsoon 4 роки тому

      Variousnumber
      Bingo.

    • @paulgrattan3885
      @paulgrattan3885 4 роки тому +2

      We are led to believe that the Breen homeworld is a frozen wasteland but Weyoun states it's actually a normal pleasant planet they just wont tell outsiders why they wear refrigeration suits.

    • @SchneeflockeMonsoon
      @SchneeflockeMonsoon 4 роки тому +1

      Paul Grattan
      True, but Kira said hers wasn’t a refrigerator, so that leads me to believe only one or some of them actually are.

    • @variousnumber891
      @variousnumber891 4 роки тому +2

      @@SchneeflockeMonsoon
      It's probably again like the Mando'ade. Each Suit built to it's wearers needs. So if you need a refrigeration suit, you get one, but if you don't, you'll get one without a refrig unit.

  • @chimera385
    @chimera385 4 роки тому +3

    Breen the apocrypha is so interesting

  • @professorpigeon6517
    @professorpigeon6517 3 роки тому +2

    A Human can go a week without sleep

    • @hdjksa52
      @hdjksa52 2 місяці тому

      Yes humans can go a week without sleep, but if we do, we don't function as well. If I don't get about 5 - 8 hours of sleep every 24-hour period, I will sit down and fall asleep as you are talking to me

  • @hydrogenone6866
    @hydrogenone6866 4 роки тому +3

    Such a Rich culture.

  • @MarvelX42
    @MarvelX42 4 роки тому +1

    Don't you usually give a second option for us to choose from for the next video? Why didn't you do that this time?

  • @Malkiore1
    @Malkiore1 4 роки тому +1

    if this nerve pinch is a bioelectrical attack how did Data learn it?

  • @martene.5624
    @martene.5624 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you!
    That was a very concise, thoughtful approach to this culture. You did very well! Definitely will listen to this again.

  • @shmackydoodRon
    @shmackydoodRon Рік тому

    When humans turn Earth into Vulcan, we’ll basically go down the same path.

  • @KatrinaLeFaye
    @KatrinaLeFaye 4 роки тому +1

    Why are you covered in hash marks?

  • @kyletakemoto9628
    @kyletakemoto9628 4 роки тому +2

    please do the silence! also, what about the aliens fro the TNG episode First Contact?

  • @mastasolo
    @mastasolo 4 роки тому +1

    What about those vulcans who crash landed in that Enterprise episode?

  • @Wbfuhn
    @Wbfuhn 3 роки тому +1

    This does explain why Spock never really showed emotion. I didn't understand it at the time when I did see clips of the first Star Trek. I also didn't know about the physical properties. My guess is that introducing Data nulled the necessary need for a Vulcan, but the same could be argued as to why would they have Worf, a Klingon. It was a way for the series to expand on other races.
    Now I need to watch about Klingons for comparison.

  • @jonmcgee6987
    @jonmcgee6987 4 роки тому +1

    I find myself preferring the history and lore of Vulcans as was written in the novel Spock's World and some additional details in Sarek. Both very good books to read.

  • @Jr-md8fg
    @Jr-md8fg 7 місяців тому

    Why would you use a thumbnail of spock for a video about Vulcan. That's, moronic. Why not use.. a Vulcan instead?