ummthatguy@lemmy.worldM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe greatest trick that Fek'lhr ever pulled was convincing the galaxy Vulcans couldn't lielemmy.worldimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down10
arrow-up1160arrow-down1imageThe greatest trick that Fek'lhr ever pulled was convincing the galaxy Vulcans couldn't lielemmy.worldummthatguy@lemmy.worldM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoI don’t even understand how “Vulcans don’t show emotion” translates into “Vulcans are incapable of lying.” It certainly limits the reasons why they might lie, but you don’t need to show, or even have, emotion to be deceptive.
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoCase in point, some of the times where Data is possessed or coerced into lying.
I don’t even understand how “Vulcans don’t show emotion” translates into “Vulcans are incapable of lying.” It certainly limits the reasons why they might lie, but you don’t need to show, or even have, emotion to be deceptive.
Case in point, some of the times where Data is possessed or coerced into lying.