I like the version of the "no emotions" thing that Diane Duane sets up in Spock's World. According to her, the entire idea that Vulcans suppress their emotions results from an error in an early version of the Universal Translator; the word that got translated as "suppression" would have been better expressed as "mastery". Vulcans have emotions, but they consider it very rude to show them in public, so they don't.
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Date: 2015-03-06 04:23 pm (UTC)I like the version of the "no emotions" thing that Diane Duane sets up in Spock's World. According to her, the entire idea that Vulcans suppress their emotions results from an error in an early version of the Universal Translator; the word that got translated as "suppression" would have been better expressed as "mastery". Vulcans have emotions, but they consider it very rude to show them in public, so they don't.