Originally posted by xfool:
eh wat is vulcans?
dictionary says its the god of fire and metalworking
That... u gotta search "Star Trek Terms" in Google.
Show me the meanings....VulcansHumanoid race native to planet Vulcan, of which Mr. Spock is a member. Vulcans were once a passionate , violent people whose civilization was torn by terrible wars. The ancient philosopher Surak, revered as the father of Vulcan civilization, led his people some 2,000 years ago to reject their emotions in favor of a philosophy that embraced pure logic.
Vulcan society is now based entirely on logic and any trappings of emotion are considered to be in extremely poor taste. One group did not accept Surak's teachings and instead left Vulcan to found the warrior Romulan Star Empire. In the distant past, Vulcans killed to win their mates. Even in the present, Vulcans revert to their ancient mating rituals, apparently the price these people must pay for totally suppressing their natural emotions.
When Vulcan children are about seven, their children select a future mate, and the two children are joined in a ceremony that links them telepathically. When the children come of age, they are compelled to join together for the marriage rituals. The time of mating, Pon farr, is when stoically logical Vulcans pay for their rigid control by experiencing a period of total emotional abandon. In adults, Pon farr comes once every seven years. Because planet Vulcan has a higher gravity than Earth and its atmosphere is thinner, Vulcans in an Earth-normal environment demonstrate greater physical strength and more acute hearing than humans.
The intensity of the Vulcan sun caused the Vulcans to evolve a secondary eyelid to protect the retina. A Vulcan's heart is where the human liver is. When injured, Vulcans concentrate their strength, blood and antibodies onto the injured organs in a type of self-induced hypnosis. Certain elements of Vulcan prehistory suggest that the Vulcan race may have originated with colonists from another planet, possibly humanoids from Sargon's planet 500,000 years ago. Vulcans have telepathic ability, as practiced in the Vulcan mind-meld.
