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ichayalovesyou · 4 years ago

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ok I'm pretty new to star trek (started tos, on s2 e22) but uh... i guess do you know anything about vulcan history? spock mentioned something about the aliens in Return To Tomorrow's story matching up with early vulcan origins but is there anything more to it? also are there, like, diseases and stuff?

There isn’t a ton of info on Vulcan evolution to refute or confirm Spock’s statement, but many headcanon that Vulcans evolved from a feline and/or reptile type species (I think it’s both, weird primate-like cat lizards is a really cool concept!) perhaps Spock is making vague reference to the oldest known Vulcan remains being a pair of male and female adult bodies? Or maybe an ancient Vulcan monomyth? Something universal to almost every Vulcan religion? There are monomyths and trends in ancient human religions (like going to the land of the dead to retrieve a dead loved one, also featured in Return to Tomorrow!) OR the weird thing that humans on a primal level seem to know that life started in the ocean (the world starting out as all ocean or a space-like void is in pretty much every single human faith). Who knows!

As far as diseases I’m sure there are plenty but the biggest ones that seem to be unique to Vulcans (one of which is the result of a natural biological process) are Plok’tow, Pa’nar Syndrome, and Bendii Syndrome. (Single episode spoilers for Enterprise, Voyager and The Next Generation ahead)

Plok’tow aka The Blood Fever-The physical and mental deterioration that can kill a Vulcan that does not find a way to engage in the necessities of Pon Farr. The results aren’t really exactly specified aside from appetite and sleep loss, actual fever, and emotional outbursts. It’s also transmissible to other species under certain circumstances. It happened on Voyager, Vulcan accidentally telepathically bonded with a half-Klingon B’Eleanna in a Plok’tow outburst, she attacked her human boyfriend Paris and they all got Pon Farr, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it but I think it was curable for the non-Vulcan victims, and Vorik (the Vulcan) survived somehow.

Pa’nar Syndrome-Basically the Mind Meld equivalent of not having proper safe sex education. T’Pol (from Enterprise episode Kir’Shara) contracted it for a man named Tolaris. It causes endocrine and immune damage, as well as neuroelectric. During T’Pol’s time, Vulcans did not practice the Mind Meld because it was considered unnatural. The whole episode is a not so low-key HIV awareness thing. It can be cured with a proper mind meld by a Vulcan medical professional.

Bendii Syndrome-A rare neurological disease that operates similarly to Alzheimer’s that can affects 200+ year old Vulcans. It damages the metathalamus and causes loss of emotional control (starting with anger) and can unfortunately be projected (but not contracted by) others due to Vulcans’ telepathic nature. Sarek, Spock’s father, develops this condition in the TNG episode, The Guiding Light. I have a theory that this is what happens to Vulcans who never learned how to properly control their emotions, and instead gave off the appearance of control by actively suppressing their feelings. That is both mentally and physically damaging in Humans, even if Vulcans are more resilient than we are, it would still get to them eventually.

There are also diseases that can effect multiple species, like the rapid aging radiation from TOS: The Deadly Years, Borg Conversion (debatably not a disease but I digress), or The Phage from Voyager.

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spockandstars · 4 years ago

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HOMOPHOBIA TW

“The Homosexuals” is an episode of CBS Reports that was aired on March 7th, 1967. I’m currently using it as a source for a research paper, but once I noticed it was filmed at the same time as Star Trek I took a step back to reexamine the significance of many scenes in the series. (For reference, “Amok Time'' was aired on September 15th, 1967.) I wanted to discuss the documentary here because I feel that it provides important context for the environment in which the show was made. It demonstrates the horrifying extent of anti-gay discrimination in the late sixties, and makes the parallels between Spock’s character development and the gay experience even more clear.

I created a compilation of moments from both “The Homosexuals” and Star Trek, hopefully to illustrate exactly why Spock’s story has resonated with so many gay people. Please be warned that the report is very painful to watch due to the way it treats the subject of homosexuality, so proceed with caution if that upsets you.

I couldn’t get the captions to work, so I included a transcript below!

SPOCK: I'd hoped I would be spared this, but the ancient drives are too strong. Eventually, they catch up with us, and we are driven by forces we cannot control to return home and take a wife... Or die.

NARRATOR: This man is different from many we have seen ‘till now. For he, along with tens of thousands of his brothers, is married.

INTERVIEWER: Why did you get married in the first place? MAN: I think it was this uh… really this being frightened into heterosexuality. I was terribly frightened of the homosexual feelings, the guilt associated with having feelings of attraction for other males.

SPOCK: Jim, when I feel friendship for you, I am ashamed.

NARRATOR: The next day, the paper ran an editorial entitled “Crush the Monster,” crush homosexuality. The yearlong investigation that followed shook Boise to its foundation. When it was over, fifteen months later, one homosexual was in a state penitentiary with a life sentence...

MCCOY: Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out.

MAN: I can’t continue to keep this thing undercover.

MCCOY: Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.

PSYCHIATRIST: The fact that somebody is homosexual, a true, obligatory homosexual, automatically rules out the possibility that he will remain happy for long… Homosexuality is in fact a mental illness, which has reached epidemiological proportions.

KIRK: I’ve got it, the disease… love. You’re better off without it and I’m better off without mine.

MAN: I know that inside now I am sick. I am not sick just sexually, I am sick in a lot of ways.

KIRK: Spock… (that funky music that goes off when Spock is having a sexuality crisis plays)

REPORTER: Most Americans are repelled by the mere notion of homosexuality. The CBS News survey shows that two out of three Americans look upon homosexuals with disgust, discomfort, or fear. One out of ten says hatred.

SPOCK: An earth woman living on a planet where love, emotion, it’s bad taste.

I respected my father, our customs. I was ashamed of my earth blood!

NARRATOR: The homosexual, forced to live between two worlds, strikes back at an antagonistic society.

SPOCK: Understand, Jim? I’ve spent a whole lifetime, learning to hide my feelings.

REPORTER: The homosexual, bitterly aware of his rejection, responds by going underground. They frequent their own clubs and bars and coffee houses where they can escape the disapproving eye of the society that they call straight.

SPOCK: (singing) He loves in the breathless excitement of night, then leaves with your treasure in cold morning light.

CROWD: (laughing, jeering) Careful Mr. Spock, too much love is dangerous. Remember, Cupid’s arrow kills Vulcan.

NARRATOR: The dilemma of the homosexual. Told by the medical profession he is sick. By the law, he is a criminal. Shunned by employers, rejected by heterosexual society. Incapable of a fulfilling relationship with a woman, or for that matter, a man.

CHAPEL: I love you. SPOCK: I’m sorry… I am sorry.

MAN: I personally don’t believe in a love relationship with another man. I think this is a part of the gay folklore, something they try to obtain but never obtain it.

MCCOY: Because you’ll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules, the desperate chances. The glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you’ll never know, simply because the word “love” isn’t written into your book.

NARRATOR: At the center of his life, he remains anonymous. A displaced person. An outsider.

#tw: homophobia #i hope this shows why people relate so hard to him #gay subtext #s'chn t'gai spock #spirk #k/s #kirk/spock #star trek tos #the premise #star trek #gay history #star trek: the original series #homophobia tw #serious post #best of me 🥰#k/s is canon tag

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