Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.13 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!friedman From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Question about Vulcan Custom - (nf) Message-ID: <24900041@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 15:50:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.24900041 Posted: Sun Jun 10 15:50:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jun-84 06:30:21 EDT References: <837@houxz.UUCP> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:houxz:-83700:uiucdcs:24900041:000:517 Nf-From: uiucdcs!friedman Jun 10 14:50:00 1984 #R:houxz:-83700:uiucdcs:24900041:000:517 uiucdcs!friedman Jun 10 14:50:00 1984 I, for one, am not at all willing to concede the notion that Vulcan is a matriachal society. Some people derived this idea from "Amok Time", and it's popular to assume it to be true, but I don't think this is a necessary conclusion from that episode or from anything else in the TV episodes. I don't think it squares well with Sarek's activities, either in "Journey to Babel" or in ST III. Nor does it seem "logical" (equality of the sexes does). I think we should just forget the idea that Vulcan is matriarchal.