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thank you Bass El Wakil!! can't wait for the book.

I recall vividly the Kahn set-piece you describe and the subsequent battle. the destruction of Vulcan by black hole…not so much. your description was like hearing it for the first time.

for me part of it may be lack of empathy. I just didn’t care whether or not a planet full of soul-dead pseudo-philosophers lived or died. they were already dead in spirit.

what makes Spock interesting is his mixed-race conflicted soul.

there was a TOS episode in which Kirk had to make Spock angry to rid him of spores and Kirk did so by among other things calling him a traitor from a race of traitors. when I was a child I thought it was just something Kirk made up to make Spock mad. but now I know he was speaking the truth. the Vulcans are a race of traitors. to themselves.