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I think it's silly that the star trek future is still so same-with-same when it comes to alien species. I think a Klingon vessel should comm the enterprise and a random Human ensign should go "Oh my god wait are you from the House of Ragh-Tul? No way! That's my cousin's house!" because they recognize the dialect. Like, we're all neighbors in the universe. That Vulcan is your primary school teacher's daughter. You're an Andorian but you have a Betazoid name because your dad thought it sounded pretty. This random alien knows how to make kimchi without ever having seen a Human because the recipe was part of a trade made decades ago. C'mon man, love thy neighbor with your whole heart!

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Has there ever been a human who served on a Vulcan ship/with a Vulcan crew?

That should be its own series tbh.

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even more vulcan fashion concepts with my oc. big fan of gradients. played with some sleeveless designs here, although i like the idea that vulcans usually wear an undershirt for modesty. dont look too closely at the script it’s only chickenscratch meant to look like vulcan high script.

here’s the previous vulcan fashion post

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On the Vulcan term “Kaiidth”

Or, “If I see one more person translate ‘Kaiidth’ with ‘Que sera sera’ I’m going to start screaming”

Let me preface this by saying that I am emotionally invested in this. Kaiidth has pulled me out of some pretty dark places in my life, and whenever I see it equated to “Que sera sera” it makes me want to punch something. Because to me, the two sayings have nothing at all to do with each other. This is also going to be long, so you may want to buckle up tight.

My thesis: when you translate the term Kaiidth using “Que sera sera”, you may be encouraged to think that it’s a defeatist term and that it implies that you should accept whatever happens without having feelings about it. Some people also say it means “you shouldn’t work for your future because whatever is meant to happen will happen”. And while I agree that all this could be applied to our human saying, it is not at all what Kaiidth means, even though at first glance, it may appear so.

Let’s look at the original translation. Kaiidth: what is, is.

In the KirShara page on Kaiidth, the saying is compared to the words of Lao-tzu in the 76th verse of the Tao Te Ching: “An army that cannot yield will be defeated. A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind.”

Kaiidth is a very complex word, you see, but at its basis, Kaiidth is acceptance. The beauty of it is that it can be applied to multiple situations, from the smallest to the biggest. The most used example to explain it is the mistake in artistic creation, as Surak’s discussion of Kaiidth shows:

Artists and composers easily grasp the concept of kaiidth. They use it in their creations without conscious thought. Even the best painters experience accidents. Paint is spilled. Water is splashed. Eager fingers leave stains. Some artists weep, believe their work is ruined. But the true artist fits the paint-drip, watermark, or stain into the picture.

This is kaiidth.

“Well,” you might say, “isn’t that the exact definition of ‘you should accept whatever happens without having feelings about it’?���. But really… you expect Vulcans to talk about emotional control in public? Please.

In this infinite rant, I am going to apply Kaiidth to emotional acceptance, which is something Vulcans are not comfortable talking about out loud but is definitely part of the Kaiidth philosophy.  It is doubly important for Vulcans, I may add, because it is a tool of emotional control, which is something fundamental for a telepathic species with very strong feelings. This acceptance works at multiple levels and it only truly works if you let it meet you where you are.

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remember when i made that post on romulans and vulcans rebelling as teens and everyone was like "and they should be lesbians"??? anyway what should i name them?

original post and some of the replies that inspired this under the cut

@comedic-tragedy36 & @wondlas thank you for reminding me that this is the gay site.

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i wonder if when romulan teens "act out" they cut their V bangs into a regular bowl cut and get real calm and logical. It's really choppy because they cut it themselves.

on the other hand, a vulcan who cuts their bowl cut into V bangs and tries to act more wild. the haircut is super precise and neat.

also these two are best friends.

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I don’t know if I’m off the mark with this, but I feel like,,, Vulcans would enjoy apprenticeships and stuff, following one person around, learning everything from them in a one on one setting, mastering it on your own time, carving out your lil niche,,,

Anyways that thought was inspired by a Human taking their little nibbling from their Vulcan partner’s side of the family with them to work, and their work is making knitted items and trading/selling them in cool night market-like places on moons because this is outer space and I get to make whatever the fuck up I want for my lil au, and they keep sorta jokingly referring to their little nibbling as their “apprentice” but the kid is eating it up, like “Absolutely I Will Dedicate My Life To This Craft”

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This may be a random thought, but I think that Vulcan fashion for female-presenting people may be a little like the 1770 in terms of bodice or undergarment construction. I am thinking something like this, flat and smooth at the front, without separate cups, though probably rather corded than boned.

and for comparison two Vulcan garments from two different points in history

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I think that every Vulcan has dedicated themselves to convincing other species they can’t lie so they can get away with lying through their fucking teeth

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Vulcan healing trance but it’s like when your pets are v asleep and you’re worried they’re dead, so Vulcans keep coming out of trances to Humans panicking and shaking them

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Please stare fleetingly at this Pon Farr health advisory infographic I made. Starfleet Medical logo is made by Kris Trigwell from their site Star Trek Minutiae

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I think it would be a reasonable assumption, with the exception of talking about it to their doctors. Not because it's taboo or anything, they just don't like telling them anything. It takes an interrogation to get them to disclose when they started to have a cough too.

A human, Klingon or whoever goes to a Vulcan doctor, says hello, sits down and explains their symptoms in a few sentences and the doctor just sits there in awe, because they didn’t need to break out the glass of water laced with truth serum.

Ok so my headcannon is that vulcans have no issue talking about sex. Like sex is a perfectly logical thing to them. Pon Farr is only embarrassing to them bc of their loss of control over their emotions not the sex part

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GUYS GUYS OMG GUYS

THIS IS CUTEST THING I CAN TNHIK OF

Little Vulcans!

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After peer review ive decided that Vulcan Autism is just Human Neurotypicalism

“Poor Sosonn… his family just doesn’t know what to do with him :| He keeps making aggressive eye contact, doesn’t understand body mirroring when he plays, choosing to instead disrupt the activities of others; never developed an independent organization system… and most worrying… the poor boy never expressed any desire in a special interest”

“How illogical. How does he expect to find his niche in society that way. Why can he not be like T'puk? She has already made her interest know in trains and will make a fine addition to the public transportation sector one day.”

“He doesn’t even stim.”

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The intrusive thoughts won. I made a thing.

This is how I deal with my religious trauma.

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I think space in Star Trek is just like this. You don’t even have to be on an exploratory mission. I imagine that every freighter on the line has to deal with as well, with the small difference created by the fact that most of the employees there didn't go through a lot of preparation beforehand and don't have any scientific equipment to investigate, so they just, I suppose, have to employ common sense solutions and hope it works?

As in, picture a Vulcan-Andor cargo run carrying candlesticks, or whatever. Capable of warp ~4 if someone puts a cold towel on the engines. Crew of maybe fifteen on a good day. No astrophysicists in sight, and even if there were they would have to take their readings with a tape measure.

If you are the commanding officer in a situation like that, and your pilot comes to you babbling something about a hole in space, cosmic amoeba, and the fact that they really tried to get into the Vulcan Science Academy, but alas, so they really don't know what is happening, then you don't tell them to move in closer to investigate. You do the logical thing, say:

'Very well, Spork, correct course to avoid it with a safe margin.'

And then write a two sentence note to Starfleet to keep better track of their pets, and don't think about it any more.

Do Romulans (or Klingons, or Vulcans, or Cardassians etc.) have the same fucked up space experiences Starfleet has?

What I mean is, is there a personal log of some Romulan Centurion looking like this:

Star date: who knows (timeloop??)

Today the transporter turned my commanding officer into an Akaana boar and he subsequently ruined the transporter equipment. We are attempting to get that back online as soon as possible. There is a space anomaly outside with the face of a warlord who died 438 years ago, and it keeps referencing a prophecy. Something about a golden spear. We are waiting to hear back from the Museum of Ancient History.

A Starfleet vessel has entered the Neutral Zone so I have to go.

Also, the walls are bleeding. I think we might be haunted.

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That would also, probably, influence architecture. I know little about tornados (we scarcely ever get them), but wouldn't it make it likely for Vulcan houses to have heavy foundations and cellars, to hide in if the wind gets too extreme? I suppose it wouldn't be as necessary as in the US, since the houses most likely wouldn't be wooden, but basements would also serve as a great place to sit in when it gets very hot, so it would make sense for them to be a thing.

With the knowledge that Vulcan has regularly high winds & subsequent sandstorms I propose a type of guy: midwestern dads watching tornadoes but for Vulcans. Somebody's uncle Sovar standing outside with his hands on his hips watching a massive cloud roll closer. Unconcerned because this happens, like, every couple of weeks. He's like "this one is large, is it not" yes it is go back inside Sovar