Name one. Give us one instance from a show where a Vulcan tried to do something that would take less strength than a gorilla, but more than 3x human, and failed. Cites have been provided where a Vulcan bent a steel bar - you’re calling that a “weird and unusual”. Give us a cite where a Vulcan tries to bend a steel bar, but can’t, as support that bending one was “weird and unusual”.
And yeah, until you came along, no one in this thread brought out their “I’m such a Trekker I’ve got samples of Shatner’s hair in my basement!” credits. So don’t be terribly surprised that you got called on it when you did.
Stereotypes aside, Scotty never struck me as especially short-tempered. Even in the tribble episode, when he clocks a Klingon for saying the Enterprise should be hauled away as garbage, he doesn’t seem to lose his self-control; it was more of a I cannot ignore this slur to my great lady’s honor, orders or not.
(And, of course, that was just his sly way of getting confined to quarters so he could catch up on his engineering journals, rather than going on shore leave to a space station that was crawling with Klingons rather than hookers.
But back to the OP, prior to going all logical on the universe, the Vulcans were supposed to be extremely violent and extremely emotional. This was established back in the original series. They turned to their more peaceful philosophy of logic as an antidote to their savagery that crippled their culture due to all the ongoing warfare. I think it was TNG that established that early Vulcans who didn’t wanna be all logical, took off, got their own planet, and became Romulans.
As for their strength: three times stronger than humans is cannon from both TOS and DS9 and they have faster reflexes as well.
hi all
in response to the Human vs Klingon vs Vulcan,
Humans and Klingons are fairly evenly matched there are quite a few episodes and refs where these two species fight each other with no real clear winner, Humans adapt to the various situiations they find themselves in, someone pointed out that humans are the 98LB weaklings this they are most certainly not, if this were true how have humans fought off the Jem Haddar?
Vulcans are at best 3 - 4 times stronger than Humans but again it varies with conditioning etc by the way Vulcans are carbon based like Humans and Klingons, their blood is copper based, this is why their colouring is like it is from a greenish tinge to a reddish tinge. on the premise of fighting the Jem Haddar are no stronger than either Humans or Klingons but are bred to be more violent and supremely battle ready from almost being born, few Jem Haddars live long lives, i seem to remember one saying 15 years old was ancient.
As for the Multi Species Olympics the final stand would most likely be Swimming the final would be likely to be Klingon Vs Human (i quote from a few sources here, Vulcans in general are not great swimmers though some have learnt to swim) Shooting likely to be Human Vs Vulcan ( Klingons do not have good distance vision) track and field certainly Vulcan (speed over short distance, but the longer distance would certainly be Human or Klingon and quite Possibly Human, we have a much more endurance based body system) fighting is anybodies guess, again certain Vulcan but this could be vs either Klingon or Human.
if anyone wants to try and shoot me down bare in mind i have watched every single episode of every single series of star trek, i have read every single book thats been written, i have every ref manual from the more famous ones to some quite obscure stuff. i think i can safely say i have put the nail in the coffin lol. regards to you all.
PEACE AND LONGLIFE
Who the heck says there weren’t hookers? That’s what the Klingon captain as much as admitted they were there for. Yeah, I know, they were officially “waitresses” <smerk> but does anyone really believe that?
I didn’t say there were NO hookers on the station. I said the station wasn’t CRAWLING with hookers. Or something to that effect. I’d check for the exact wording but I’m not sure how to scroll up.
Kirk didn’t know how to fix it. He can’t do anything by himself except kick ass. All he has to do is diss Spock and keep out of his way. When Spock came out of it, he figured out they could make a dingus that would bring even McCoy out of it.
Of course, Spock lives to piss off McCoy, but I digress.
Someone’s already pointed out that you are talking about This Side of Paradise, right?
