Verily, in article <1077p68$1t3f$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

A Masterful Character Study: The episode provides a deeply moving look
into the twilight years of a legendary character. The contrast between
the rigid, stoic Sarek we've known and the vulnerable, emotionally compromised man he has become is both tragic and profoundly
humanizing. It raises complex questions about dignity, aging, and
legacy.

You know, it does that, but it also raises questions about our own
society's insistence that emotions are extremely important and it'll
harm us to ignore them. Previous generations did not believe that, and
most of them were a lot more together than today's hot messes.

The Star Trek writers seem to believe, collectively, that the Vulcans
are wrong. Spock's imperfect emotional control was seem as making more
human, and it was implied that this was better somehow... so humans are
better than Vulcans?

Then, his brother tried to start a whole religion based around emotions.
Whee!

In this one, Sarek is suffering from end-of-life emotional incontinence. Apparently this is a brand-new condition, since the Vulcans appear to
have absolutely zero methods for handling such a person. Instead,
everyone just humors him... which doesn't strike me as very Vulcan.

I guess the idea is that he suppressed so much of his vital, important emotions that it eventually melted his brain. I suspect such a person
would be much *calmer* in real life, since he never fed the emotional
wolf.

You know what I'd really like to see? A Vulcan ship's counselor. Not a name-only Vulcan with lots of emotions, but a normal Vulcan who actually
gives Vulcan advice. "It is not logical to concern yourself with that.
You should ignore it and focus on your work."



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