True, but it's not like that's the only place in all the galaxy they can rendezvous.
Would Tuvok really have avoided visiting a planet over anti-Kolinahr protests
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But the fact remains, kolinahr adepts rarely, if ever, interact with the general public. Why would there be protests against something that cannot possibly affect the public?
Families upset over their loved ones choosing it. Vulcans who think it's a fringe cult. Ex-adepts who have been burned.
I don't find this too unbelievable, in my experience bigots often cannot cite any actual incidents where the group they are bigoted against actually harmed them or even had any negative interactions with them. Their bigotry is often based on stuff they read on the media etc. about instances where the discriminated party supposedly attacked so and so or whatever but rarely a first hand account.
Although I wouldn't claim that anti-kolinahr protesters were bigoted per se as it's against a practice, not the Vulcan race, and they may have a fair point it's an unhealthy practice. So my analogy may not really be appropriate.
Since when does affecting the public ever been needed for protests?
Kohlinar might just be unpopular like other factions in Vulcan history.
Medical personnel who have evidence or case studies suggesting it's harmful. People who aren't against it per se but have different ideas on how it should be done and who should be excluded/included.
So what? Nobody is ever forced to attain kolinahr - it's strictly a personal choice. And it certainly doesn't affect anyone else.
No one is ever forced to drink alcohol or smoke marijuana either, but societal pressures and attempts to fit in can pressure someone into doing so in real life (and there are many documented cases of this). Spock's childhood shows that Vulcans can be very elitist and even in adulthood like with Burnham trying to fit in, that pressure is there, however illogical that should be (Vulcans are hypocrites).
Indeed. Especially since Logic is held at the highest esteem in post Surak Vulcan culture. There is a pressure to be more Vulcan.
Post-Surak Vulcan was losing it's way until the events of Enterprise and a young T'pau gained prominence and returned Vulcan to the ways of Surak.
I'm not disagreeing; simply noting that Vulcan, as with many other peoples, might have some diversity and *gasp* differences of opinions.
A race in Star Trek not being a monolith in line with the Planet of the Hats trope?
Say it ain't so!!!
In regard to Seven's gambit, I don't think it matters whether or not Tuvok would have avoided that planet over protests.
It's what the Changeling-Tuvok believed the real Tuvok would have done that mattered. Seven gambled and won, and the Changeling gave up the ruse withTim Russ giving that perfect, subtle grin.
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