Fundamentalist Trekkies....

[Autumnlicious]

Minimizing my protests at the outside-of-normal-star-trek-canon-expectations developments as "minor" reeks of apologetics.

Also, you're moving the goal posts.

I pointed out that Vulcans depicted in the series only lost composure due to unusual circumstances.

And you fire back with "Long ago..."

That is irrelevant -- we are speaking to the portrayal of Vulcans on the actual television shows and movies. Their backstory is used as an explanation for their stone-faced exterior.

Still doesn't justify half-human Spock acting like a Terran and almost beating Kirk to death.

Dress the pig up however you want, it's still lipstick on a pig.

Bad writing is bad writing.

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Another thing too -- why does Spock lose emotional composure and someone like Sisko didn't?

By all means, Sisko comes into contact with the man who murdered his wife and crew during Wolf-359 and "recovered" from Borg infestation. You can clearly see him steeled, cold and angry at Picard, the man responsible for it all.

Now, true, that is months later in the time line.

But you really want me to believe that Spock, with all his years of emotional suppression, will go ape-shit at the slightest provocation just after witnessing his mothers death while a full blooded terran coming face-to-face with his wife's murderer can control himself?

I feel a little amiss at this incredible humanizing of Spock to the point he is no longer Spock.

Hell, the great feud between Shatner and Nimoy started because Spock was an instant hit with the ladies due to his "ungettable" nature. His entire character definition revolved around his distaste for letting his human side get to him. It was a running joke on TOS, where Kirk would try to point out his human qualities, much to Spock's distaste.

Zachary Quinto is an excellent actor, but I don't see the growth between him and Nimoy during TOS.

I cannot see the transition between beating Kirk to a pulp on the bridge and the Spock in TOS. Not at all.

And that is the hardest thing you've asked me and other Star Trek fans who grew up with this stuff to swallow.

Star Trek 2009 is a pretender to the throne of Trek. And an imposter will never be welcomed to I and others.