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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Oh, their interaction was hilarous! But I still think Tuvok was a bad Vulcan, a true Vulcan wouldn't show annoyance. As that is an emotion. Curiosity, yes, humor, yes, but not annoyance. Spock would have been mystified why Neelix would act the way he did, but not be annoyed.
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Why assume all Vulcans were cut from the same cloth? According to Trek lit lore, not all Vulcans are so purely unemotional as Spock and many others tried to suggest--though Spock himself showed annoyance with McCoy more than once. The Vulcan officials from
Enterprise showed plenty of annoyance with humans in general. In the TOS episode
Amok Time, Stonn (T'Pring's Chosen One) showed clear jealousy... and if avarice was an emotion, T'Pring had that in spades. Tuvok wasn't a "bad Vulcan," he simply wasn't as disciplined against displaying his emotions as some.
Trek's biggest flaw was to suggest that, with few exceptions, every member of an alien race thought and acted like all the others. Are all humans like that? It's a very narrow and prejudicial way of looking at outsiders...
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What was the question?