Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[Stalker0]

How exactly can a serum incorporate someone's personal opinions?

how do inertial dampeners throw out the laws of physics?

It is still Science "Fiction"

 

[Micah Sweet]

how do inertial dampeners throw out the laws of physics?

It is still Science "Fiction"

Can you speculate as to how it might work? I can do that with the inertial dampened.

Not all unbelievable things are equal.

 

[pukunui]

How exactly can a serum incorporate someone's personal opinions?

No idea, but it seems as likely an explanation as any! I'm also not the first to float the idea in this thread ...

Do note that the Kerkovian serum Chapel was using was based on Spock, so a lot of the crew's behavior seems to be a mish-mash of Spock's view of his fellow Vulcans with added their own emotional deals. We have Doug and the Admiral ... "real" Vulcans, and they did not act nearly as poorly.

Someone suggested that this episode and the Vulcans can be a manifestation of Spock's anxiety dreams, and I would concur with that.

 

[James Gasik]

Can you speculate as to how it might work? I can do that with the inertial dampened.

Not all unbelievable things are equal.

How does moving at transwarp speeds turn you into a salamander? Or Barclay devolve into a spider? Let alone that time Barclay was aware while being transported...

Star Trek is just plain weird. You stop to question one thing, and it never ends. You have Miri's World which looks just like Earth and apparently has a divergent history. Or how about The Omega Glory, where we have a post-apocalyptic world that just so happens to have American flags and copies of the U.S. Constitution?

Heck, why is the name of the Vulcan homeworld and species "Vulcan" (let alone the Romulans settling on the planets Romulus and Remus?). Or for the half human Spock to have copper-based blood?

How are Data and Lore considered so "advanced" when their "positronic brains" have a storage capacity of 1000 terabytes and a 60 THz processing speed? That's like, six PS5's linked together, lol.

When did the Bell Riots happen? How do Tribbles...Tribble?

I could go on, lol.

 

[Stalker0]

Can you speculate as to how it might work? I can do that with the inertial dampened.

Not all unbelievable things are equal.

Many creatures (including us) have mental programming that comes from our genetics. Our natural "instincts" are not all taught, some of them are straight up embedded in our code.

Considering we still have a lot to learn about the genetic code, the idea of personality aspects coming from a genetically engineering serum has at least some measure of plausibility.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

How exactly can a serum incorporate someone's personal opinions?

The mind is far heavily influenced by external factors than we would like to admit. As the mornings get darker my opinions get gloomier.

 

[Ryujin]

Can you speculate as to how it might work? I can do that with the inertial dampened.

Not all unbelievable things are equal.

< Waves hands > "Genetic memory."

 

[James Gasik]

< Waves hands > "Genetic memory."

Something something Katra. Vulcans can manipulate their souls (or something similar). They're not just Space Elves, they're essential magical (psionic) beings!

 

[Micah Sweet]

Something something Katra. Vulcans can manipulate their souls (or something similar). They're not just Space Elves, they're essential magical (psionic) beings!

Well, they certainly could have tried a little harder there.

 

[Umbran]

Most of this episode felt like a bad caricature of Vulcans.

It could be that they're behaving like bad caricatures because of Spock's own biases.

They aren't acting like bad caricatures. How can you tell? Pike's hair.

No, I am not kidding.

What they are showing you is the effect of pure logic - unless you are careful, like Spock, it magnifies one's base assumptions and preconceptions, like it magnified Pike's hair. Logic takes you to extremes if you don't pay attention.

If you are paranoid and lean to violent solutions, you get Vulcan La'an. If you are an over-achiever, you get Vulcan Chapel. If at your core you are a people-pleaser with fantastic hair, you get Vulcan Pike.

It demonstrates how much work (and self-honesty) is required to be a balanced Vulcan like Spock is.