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 Pike's bending of the Prime Directive this time was... a pretty big bend. "An asteroid influencing the culture can't count as its natural evolution". Come on, that's bullshit. That's... literally nature! Can they go around beaming people from deserts to oases without anyone calling foul?
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+(First watched 2023-07-13) People having part of themselves suppressed, or even split into multiple aspects, is something with plenty of precedent in Star Trek and science fiction in general. At first I was a bit disappointed in how it was handled with Spock, since repeatedly over the years (including in this episode) we've heard that Vulcans have strong emotions. So wouldn't a more human Spock have ''weaker'' emotions but with his full Vulcan upbringing still in place to help him suppress them? But I felt it was sufficiently handwaved away by saying that the fully human emotions were ''different'' than what he was used to and thus hard to come to terms with. In time perhaps he could have suppressed them.
+Though I'll still say the science of having the weird aliens make a human Spock is probably pretty borked. All of us are combinations of our parents and their parents and so on. It's not like Spock literally had Vulcan parts and human parts taped together. And if somehow they could remove the Vulcan parts, wouldn't he end up some sort of incomplete inbred clone of his mother?
+T'Pring's parents were a pretty humorous addition. And after coming up occasionally in [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]], it was funny to have the Vulcan nasal suppressants come back into play.
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