Star Trek: 10 Biggest Examples Of Vulcans Being Illogical

7. We Don't Condone Intimate Acts

This storyline was continued the following season, as the episode Stigma looked at the taboo nature of both mind meld's themselves, and the Pa'nar Syndrome which T'Pol had contracted. This came as a part of Viacom's mandate that all of its shows should produce an episode which discusses HIV/Aids, and in one of its more obvious sci-fi metaphor of the modern world episodes, Star Trek looked at, unsurprisingly, the stigma that often surrounds the disease. Even without this though, Vulcans' prejudice of non-conformists, or seemingly of any minority group, is highly obvious. In the 22nd Century the V'tosh ka'tur were rejected from society because their beliefs were different from that of the mainstream, and mind melds were considered unnatural to such an extreme that anyone who had developed Pa'nar syndrome (meld's being the only way of doing so), was exiled from society. When T'Pol is first diagnosed the Vulcan doctors who uncover her illness not only attempt to recall her from her post aboard Enterprise, but also revoke Doctor Phlox's invitation to a medical conference. Although she is eventually allowed to continue in her position, Yuris, a doctor who defends T'Pol by "outing" himself as a melder, is dismissed from the Interspecies Medical Exchange. When you also factor in marriages that are arranged from young childhood, it seems that despite a philosophy of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations, freedom of choice is in limited supply on Vulcan.