In the age of Wikipedia, this is clearly no longer true.
During pon farr (mating cycle), the brain is thrown into a neurochemical imbalance and loss of logic and emotional control. The individual may stop eating and sleeping. As the condition progresses, the Vulcan undergoes the plak tow, or blood fever, and becomes unable to speak or think clearly - thoughts of mating overwhelm them.(Link. Also see Kolinahr)
(When is a battle-axe more than a battle-axe?)
Very happy to find other who are clearly avoiding Holi. Suddenly Vulcan weaponry looks very attractive.
ReplyDeleteIt's a little-known fact that human beings also undergo pon farr. In contemporary English, it is known as 'teenage'.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's a pretty impractical battle-axe, even for Star Trek. It looks more like some sort of battle-lamp-stand.
When it's attached to a blood-fevered Vulcan?
ReplyDelete(I have to agree with Nath. Even a b.f Vulcan would find it hard to use it effectively, one feels)
But Wiki knows all, it's true. I was talking to my boss about something, and I said Lemme just ask Wiki, and since we both have a head-boss called Vicki, much confusion ensued :D.
Wait...so Vulcans have emotional quotients?? Also, is that a pic of Mistah Spock during his Pon Farr, because if so, it would imply that Spock was into some kind of Weapon/Rough Sex, which makes him way cooler than he already was.
ReplyDeleteThat's a battle-axe? Are you sure? Looks like some form of Vulcan baseball to me. Spock's two strikes down and waiting for the pitch.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia has some issues.
ReplyDeleteHere are some bad things about wikipedia most people do not know about:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=11109
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/02/community_and_h.php
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowritescomments
http://www.cow.net/transcript.txt
http://catallarchy.net/blog/archives/2006/12/20/the-stupidity-of-crowds/
http://www.computers.net/2007/01/encyclopedia_br.html
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/16353073.htm
http://nonbovine-ruminations.blogspot.com/2006/10/sigh-wikipedia-needs-better-admins.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-October/054956.html
http://www.techybytes.com/is-technology-slowing-down-freedom-of-speech/
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/03/wikipedia_blocks_sch.html
http://pilotguy.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/where-have-all-the-admins-gone/
http://thechrisd.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!90D096458FBAE74E!242.entry
http://stabani.com/archives/2006/247
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html
http://nonbovine-ruminations.blogspot.com/2006/10/group-is-its-own-worst-enemy.html
http://www.calphysics.org/WikiOpEd.html
http://parkerpeters.livejournal.com/
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-February/063709.html
a list of sites and stories critical of wikipedia: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=4
essjay: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000329.html http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000331.html http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/03/03/essjays-third-transgression/ http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/03/01/wikipedia-firmly-supports-your-right-to-identity-fraud/ http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/03/03/jimmy-wales-latest-response-on-the-essjay-situation/ http://blog.xodp.org/2007/03/closure-still-lacking-in-essjay.html http://nonbovine-ruminations.blogspot.com/2007/03/essjay-quits.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-March/064382.html http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=221122&cid=17923294 http://slashdot.org/articles/07/03/01/1313251.shtml http://slashdot.org/articles/07/03/03/233224.shtml http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/03/head_wikipedian.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy
blocking qatar: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/01/wikipedia-bans-qatar/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6224677.stm and covering it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:82.148.97.69&diff=prev&oldid=97950634 They have also blocked AOL users, other regions like Thailand, and who knows how many companies, universities, and K12 school districts.
blocking thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:No_open_proxies#Are_you_trying_to_ban_Thailand.3F http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=214452&cid=17422662
blocking all t-mobile hotspots: (RFC 1918) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:208.54.95.129 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:208.54.95.129 http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta%3ABabel&diff=506814&oldid=506301
blocking AOL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Block_of_AOL_ranges_per_m:Meta:No_open_proxies
blocking the U.S. Congress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/United_States_Congress http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:143.231.249.141
Only 2 people who made it to the arbcom board are not anonymous: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-December/059361.html
more bad admin behavior: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-December/058270.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-January/060296.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-January/060302.html