Spock Nimoy was still the best

So here we are two-thirds of the way into another three-part Star Trek: Enterprise plot. The story goes that a terrorist bomb blew apart the Earth embassy on Vulcan and the Vulcan High Command is using it as an excuse to get rid of a sect of Surak followers. Surak was the father of modern Vulcan logic and his teachings brought about the time of enlightenment after the Vulcans nearly destroyed themselves. This occurred eighteen hundred years prior to the timeframe (the now timeframe, not the f'd up timeline from the first three seasons) in which Enterprise is set.

Eighteen hundred years.

Let's fast-forward about 200 years or so and take a look at the half-human, Spock. He occaisionally showed minor emotion, being half human, but Nimoy played it very stoic. Spock was a no-nonsense guy and I can remember more than once him telling some crewmember that his feelings hadn't been hurt because he didn't have any. He followed very rational, logical teachings and stuck to them, despite being stuck on a starship full of humans for several years.

Now, let's jump back into Enterprise time. I guess the producers didn't feel Jolene Blaylock (T'Pol) was being emotional enough or they were afraid if she played it as a "straight Vulcan" she would come off as too flat and everyone would hate her. So, what do they do? They make her mind-meld with a Vulcan who is into embracing his emotions. This, in turn, gives her some disease that makes it hard for her to control her emotions. THEN, they make her a drug addict. Plus, she's been through Pon-Far, what, at least TWICE already. I mean, COME ON, the show's only been on three years and Vulcans only go through that every seven. I guess they were trying to increase viewership with the "big breasted hottie gets horny" formula - didn't work.

As for other regular Vulcans, Gary Graham actually does a pretty good job as Ambassador Soval. He occasionally loses his cool - in a mild way - but it is explained away as resulting from being exposed to humans for over 30 years. Okay, I can live with that. Some Vulcans are better at suppressing their emotions than others. He's actually been better in the last couple of episodes.

But now, we're seeing members of the Vulcan high command (the high command) and they're getting VERY emotional. Of course they're going to snipe at each other but it could have been played so much more cold and logical. It would have been GREAT! But NOOOOOOOOO. We can't seem to have Vulcans that act like Vulcans. They have to yell at each other and get all pissy because Enterprise won't break orbit. I mean, I can see how they would lose touch with the teachings from 1800 years ago but logic and the control of emotions is such a cornerstone of their society. It has been 1,800 years since the Vulcans embraced logic. You'd think they'd have it down by now. You'd also think that 200 years wouldn't make that much of a difference if they're this out of touch now. Of course, the magical stone Archer just recovered will remind them all about the teachings of Surak and reunite them in logic.

I just hope their acting gets better.