Pyat is a big fat nerd.

[pyat]

So, I really hope that the new Trek film restores Vulcans to their place as detached, competent, and analytical philosophers. Because, as I've noted before, ever since around 2000, all the good Vulcans seem to have been replaced by some kind of right-wing caricature of French people. Which is to say: meddling, ineffective, humorlessness, arrogant Socialist eggheads. From space.

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[pxtl.livejournal.com]

Personally, I loved that episode. The fleshed out the superhuman vulcans in a way that didn't give them some kryptonite-esque weakness.

Whenever writers tackle the problem of a superhuman race like the elves or the vulcans or the Kryptonians or anything, they're always tempted to give them an achilles heel.

With the Vulcans, they didn't. They didn't make Vulcans are stronger, faster, smarter, and better thinkers than humans, and don't have humans' emotional weaknesses.

Is it any wonder they'd be a little arrogant?

And Sisko found out the one drawback of this - it isn't very much fun.

uh

[pxtl.livejournal.com]

I think I had a brain-O in there - nix "they didn't make".