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LoglineA shuttle accident leads to Spock’s Vulcan DNA being removed by aliens, making him fully human and completely unprepared to face T’Pring’s family during an important ceremonial dinner.

Written by Kathryn Lyn & Henry Alonso Myers

Directed by Jordan Canning

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So wouldn’t a human Spock (with biologically human nature, but the nurture that Spock carries from his life experience being raised as a Vulcan) actually be super rational and logical?

I reasoned that whatever tools Spock employed failed for one of two reasons:

  1. Vulcan responses to emotion are extreme: surprise isn't just surprise it's abject terror, happiness isn't just happiness but absolute mf hype, disappointment is more like a spiral of depression. Since human response to emotion is much more measured by comparison, he'd need time to recalibrate... time he didn't have.

  2. The procedure that removed his hybrid nature removed whatever moderation was done to him. As a normal human he may not even have a katra anymore, so it's possible that whatever physiological changes that take place after kolinar aren't there because not all of the physiology is there.