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Why is Spock more emotional because he’s half-human? Vulcans are by nature far more emotional. That’s why they’re obsessed with being logical, in order to control those emotions. Spock should be better at controlling his emotions than full-blooded Vulcans.
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I think it’s supposed to be that Vulcans are both by nature capable of more intense emotion and more intense rational control than humans. So you can think of it this way. A Vulcan can provide strong-emotion genes and strong-rationality genes, while a human can provide less-strong-emotion genes and less-strong-rationality genes. On this reading, then, Spock got either the strong-emotion gene from his dad and less-strong-rationality one from his mom, or perhaps simply both his mother’s genes. In the latter case, Spock is really like a human trying to be Vulcan-logical, while in the former case, he’s like a Vulcan with a rationality deficit.
[QUOTE=BwanaBob]
adding to that; true, the transporters were unsafe for human transport, but why not beam down a shitload of bricks and other materials so they could at least build a hut? So what if they duplicated, you can’t pile up duplicate bricks?
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yeah, they could have, then you’d have a pile of evil bricks Mr. Smartypants.
[QUOTE=Peter Morris]
In the 5th movie when Kirk is locked in the brig he sits on a seat. If you look closely, it has a sign saying “do not flush while in spacedock” or something similar, i.e. he’s sitting on a toilet.
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Really? I guess it’s played as kind of a joke? Because it would be strange to think that fecal matter flushed on the Enterprise immediately goes out to space. I’d think there’d be more of a sort of “sewage” system in place.
[QUOTE=control-z]
Well I guess it just seems odd that a Sci-Fi show portraying the future wouldn’t address toilet technology at all. Geez, I sound like George Costanza.
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Nor did they deal with how people throw-up, how they deal with zits, or any of a number of other mundane factors of life that would both annoy and gross us out. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Peter Morris]
In the 5th movie when Kirk is locked in the brig he sits on a seat. If you look closely, it has a sign saying “do not flush while in spacedock” or something similar, i.e. he’s sitting on a toilet.
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However, if you study that scene even more closely, you will eventually realize that there actually was no 5th movie.
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]
Nor did they deal with how people throw-up, how they deal with zits, or any of a number of other mundane factors of life that would both annoy and gross us out. :rolleyes:
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Well, if nothing else, Enterprise touched on this. Although DS9 had earlier made a groundbreaking bathroom reference (in the ep where Sisko and Jake fly a “solar sailship” from Bajor to Cardassia), Enterprise addressed the notion of waste recycling and air sickness.
Even zits, arguably, that time Tucker had a lifeform growing in his wrist and it bulged grossly.
My contribution: On Star Trek: Enterprise, there was this bit in between the opening credits of the first episode and the closing credits of the last episode…
Oh, c’mon. They’re so high tech that they beam the shit out of you. Bathrooms are unsanitary and laughably low tech.
Although the one thing I always thought was missing from the “Q gets turned into a Human” episode was a scene of him peeing his pants, because he didn’t know better and was unfamiliar with trained muscle control - ie, he’d never been potty trained.
Q: “I seem to have sprung a leak. What am I doing? Riker?!? Data? What’s going on here! Why am I leaking fluids? And what’s that smell?”
Crew: <snicker>
Riker (Snark): I’m surprised at you, Q. Human children learn to control their bladders at a very young age.
Q: That explains it. I was never a Human child. Can someone clean this up?
[QUOTE=Frylock]
Really? I guess it’s played as kind of a joke? Because it would be strange to think that fecal matter flushed on the Enterprise immediately goes out to space. I’d think there’d be more of a sort of “sewage” system in place.
Or-----maybe they transport it out.
-FrL-
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Actually I believe waste of all sorts went back to central holding tanks for use as raw material for the replicators. I don’t know if that was mentioned on any show or if I saw it somewhere else though.
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
My contribution: On Star Trek: Enterprise, there was this bit in between the opening credits of the first episode and the closing credits of the last episode…
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I’m somewhat disturbed by the implication that you enjoyed the opening credits of Enterprise.
I should have said “opening title.” The song was shite.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Actually I believe waste of all sorts went back to central holding tanks for use as raw material for the replicators.
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I guess that explains the cornbread.
[QUOTE=whiterabbit]
I admit to liking the montage concept for Enterprises’s opening credits. Now if it had only been a silent montage…
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I liked the original acoustic version of the theme. The overamped synthed-out replacement (which I believed coincided with the show’s name changing from Enterprise to Star Trek: Enterprise) was a severely horrible move.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Actually I believe waste of all sorts went back to central holding tanks for use as raw material for the replicators. I don’t know if that was mentioned on any show or if I saw it somewhere else though.
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That’s mentioned in the TNG Tech Manual.
Which was thoroughly contradicted at various points in the series (the 3-nacell Enterprise shown in the final episode is, according to the Tech Manual, impossible. But I’m willing to go with the Tech Manual on this, since the last season of TNG sucked, including the finale), so it should be taken with a grain of salt, but that’s pretty much the obvious thing to do.
