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I've always held that it was deeply illogical of Spock not to factor his emotions and his brain's built-in reward mechanisms into the equation.

• herokusaki 13y ago
  You could argue that Spock was "logical" in that his reasoning was self-consistent. He was, however, irrational.
  • zem 13y ago
    that's a pretty weak meaning of "logical" though. you can always get internal self-consistency by ignoring parts of a system until what's left is a coherent subset, but that seems like a pretty meaningless operation.
    • beagle3 13y ago
      .... and yet, most people are not self-consistent, so apparently this is not a meaningless operation.
• dragonwriter 13y ago
  The Vulcan discipline of general emotional suppression and logic is, in setting, very much about maximizing utility in the long-term by understanding and mastering impulses that lead to trading long-term maximization for short-term reward; the quasi-religious devotion to logic that is typical of Vulcans is set up deliberately as being an overreaction in that direction, however, and achieving a synthesis which embraces emotion while mastering it is a big part of the long arc of the Spock story.