Comments on: Two Star Trek Comic Previews http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/03/two-star-trek-comic-previews/ Daily Star Trek news Thu, 23 May 2013 08:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kang the Unbalanced http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/03/two-star-trek-comic-previews/comment-page-1/#comment-3361 Kang the Unbalanced Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:42:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=15937#comment-3361 I don't know... it's tricky, and hard to pull off. It's easier to say "screw logic, respond emotionally" than to try and logically justify revenge. Especially when it's so clearly one madman (or mad crew), from the future and having no ties to the existing Romulan empire committing the act, and they are dead. How can exacting vengeance on a civilization for the acts of a few who are already dead be logical? I realize I just unintentionally drew a parallel to the entire Afghan war here. OK, the idea could have some potential, if explored well. Have these Vulcans found a way to justify their actions logically? Are they just, well, lying and acting emotionally after all? An intruiging, and logical, possibility is that they are not replicating the Narada to destroy Romulus, but to simply kill Nero's ancestors. That would be far more logical. (And, in an older Trek time-travel paradigm, would repair the timeline causing Vulcan to pop back into existence, along with a very confused future-Spock.) But, those preview pages don't reassure me. Those Vulcans don't act very logically. Maybe the blurb from the publisher is just wrong? I don’t know… it’s tricky, and hard to pull off. It’s easier to say “screw logic, respond emotionally” than to try and logically justify revenge. Especially when it’s so clearly one madman (or mad crew), from the future and having no ties to the existing Romulan empire committing the act, and they are dead. How can exacting vengeance on a civilization for the acts of a few who are already dead be logical?
I realize I just unintentionally drew a parallel to the entire Afghan war here. OK, the idea could have some potential, if explored well. Have these Vulcans found a way to justify their actions logically? Are they just, well, lying and acting emotionally after all?
An intruiging, and logical, possibility is that they are not replicating the Narada to destroy Romulus, but to simply kill Nero’s ancestors. That would be far more logical. (And, in an older Trek time-travel paradigm, would repair the timeline causing Vulcan to pop back into existence, along with a very confused future-Spock.)
But, those preview pages don’t reassure me. Those Vulcans don’t act very logically.
Maybe the blurb from the publisher is just wrong?

]]> By: Funny98 http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/03/two-star-trek-comic-previews/comment-page-1/#comment-3349 Funny98 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:16:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=15937#comment-3349 Vulcan’s may not technically believe in revenge but with their planets destruction not every single Vulcan is going to go with the logic of forgiveness. Blowing up planets is just too big of a crime and destruction even for Vulcan’s who despite their denials are more emotional than humans as Troi once said in Next Generation. Revenge at times is a logical thing to do. Vulcan’s may not technically believe in revenge but with their planets destruction not every single Vulcan is going to go with the logic of forgiveness. Blowing up planets is just too big of a crime and destruction even for Vulcan’s who despite their denials are more emotional than humans as Troi once said in Next Generation.

Revenge at times is a logical thing to do.

]]> By: Kang the Unbalanced http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/03/two-star-trek-comic-previews/comment-page-1/#comment-3265 Kang the Unbalanced Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:53:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=15937#comment-3265 1) "...some Vulcans believe that the logical response can be summed up in one word: revenge!" No they do not. Vulcans have stated time and again (most recently Sarek in JJTrek) that revenge is not logical-- revenge is a purely emotional reaction. A better approach would have been: "...some Vulcans abandon logic for an earlier, more primal Vulcan tradition: revenge!" 2) But this means dick-all anyway, because going by those preview pages, the writer hasn't got a fucking clue what Vulcans would do or say or think. 1) “…some Vulcans believe that the logical response can be summed up in one word: revenge!”

No they do not. Vulcans have stated time and again (most recently Sarek in JJTrek) that revenge is not logical– revenge is a purely emotional reaction. A better approach would have been:

“…some Vulcans abandon logic for an earlier, more primal Vulcan tradition: revenge!”

2) But this means dick-all anyway, because going by those preview pages, the writer hasn’t got a fucking clue what Vulcans would do or say or think.

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