Star Trek inspired questions!

[Nashy19]

Why is it that Vulcan's are very often illogical and stubborn (rather than logical)? I wonder this because people stereotypically view sceptics and scientists as "too logical", as if being too rational makes somebody irrational and closed minded, I don't know what the writers were like. Vulcan's will reject ideas as impossible, which isn't very clever on it own, they will not consider "impossible" things in the face of new evidence either. They will also label ideas "illogical" when they sound counter-intuitive without asking for any explanation.

What gives us our sense of time?
In blissful relaxed situations time feels slower, in critical stations time also feels slower and when we're having fun time is said to fly by. Data described his less than a second of considering joining the Borg as an eternity for an android, presumably because of all the calculations that occurred in that time, however I don't know if how much we think has anything to do with out sense of time passing.

 

[Prolescum]

Vulcans fall prey to pretentions too.

 

[Andiferous]

Vulcans fall prey to pretentions too.

Interesting.

I think Vulcans are highly emotional but have have developed blocking mechanisms. They seem to have some version of buddhist monk thing going that makes them pacifists and resistant to emotional provocation.

Much different from Data - who is a curious android and doesn't have a care for appearances, and often comes off looking naive and child-like.

 

[Anachronous Rex]

Depends on the era of Trek. Spock seems to have been intended as nothing more then a foil for the impulsive and intuitive Kirk. Tuvok exists to do things 'by the book' and patiently endure the madness around him. Enterprise era Vulcans exist solely to make the humans look good by comparison.

As per the android... I really couldn't say. It could be, ostensibly, either that he perceives reality in slow-motion, or that he perceives reality normally, but his processing speed is such that it usually doesn't take him more then a fraction of a second to weigh a complex decision. Alternatively, the writers may have put this in there as a poor attempt at humor. My money is on the latter.