Star Trek 5 Times Spock Saved The Day With Logic (& 5 Times He Used Emotion)

Star Trek: 5 Times Spock Saved The Day With Logic (& 5 Times He Used Emotion)

Although Spock chose a Vulcan way of life and largely made decisions by logic, he also relied on his emotions to see him through at times.

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Few figures in pop culture history have been afforded the love and respect that Star Trek’s Mr. Spock has. Deftly originated by the late Leonard Nimoy, the character’s popularity has often been credited to his coldly logical outlook on life, a product of his Vulcan upbringing.

However, Spock was also half-human, and although Vulcan culture forbade the show of emotions, he did feel them. Eventually, he learned to reconcile the dual natures of his heritage. Although he chose a Vulcan way of life and largely made decisions by logic, he occasionally relied on his emotions to see him through some difficult choices.

10 Logic: Found The Crew On Triskelion

In the oft-parodied episode “The Gamesters of Triskelion,” Captain Kirk, Lieutenant Uhura, and Ensign Chekov are captured by a race of powerful entities called the Providers. Whisked halfway across the galaxy from the Enterprise to fight in the Providers’ gladiatorial arena, the command crew were left scratching their heads, trying to figure out where their shipmates had disappeared to.

Using deductive thinking and the scientific method, Spock figured out that detecting and following an ion trail would lead the ship to Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov. With the ship there, Captain Kirk was able to use it as collateral in a wager that eventually freed them from the Providers’ yoke.

9 Emotion: Saved Chekov

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was a significant film for Spock, firstly because the actor portraying him was also directing the film, but mostly due to the fact that the character had just returned from the dead. The delicate balance between his logical and emotional halves needed to be realigned, and immediately from the onset of the film, it looked like things were just not right.

Eventually, Spock began to readjust to his own personality and accept his emotional side. This was first evident when he told Admiral Kirk that they must save the wounded Chekov, not because it was the logical thing to do, but the human one.

8 Logic: Figured Out How To Defeat The Kelvans

The Federation is no stranger to conflict, having routinely rebuffed attempts by alien empires to conquer it. One of the more peculiar attempts was by the Kelvans, a race of intergalactic conquerors from the Andromeda galaxy. Appearing as regular humanoids, the Kelvans were actually immense, multi-tentacled beings who took over the Enterprise effortlessly.

Reducing most of the crew to organic deposits, the Kelvans relied on Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy to aid them pilot the ship. Their defeat was hastened when Spock logically surmised that having taken human form, the Kelvans were subject to human emotions and frailties. This allowed the command crew to exploit those weaknesses and defeat the Kelvans.

7 Emotion: Used Anger To Escape From Spores

Idyllic paradises with hidden dangers seem to be a dime a dozen on Star Trek, as evident in the episode, “This Side of Paradise.” Here, the Eden-like planet Omicron Ceti III hides a dark secret in the form of a flower that releases a mind-altering spore.

Affected by this spore, Spock abandons the discipline of logic and indulges his love for an old acquaintance. The rest of the crew follows suit, save for Captain Kirk, who figures out how to purge the spore from someone’s system: anger. Provoking Spock to anger by insulting him breaks him free of the spore’s influence. This allows Spock to free the rest of the citizens of the planet.

6 Logic: Saved The Command Crew From The Earps And Doc Holiday

Not all alien species on Star Trek are content with joining the Federation, much preferring to be left alone. One such race was the Melkots, who subjected Captain Kirk, Spock, Chekov, Scotty, and Dr. McCoy to a deadly game when Kirk pushed first contact onto them.

Positing them in the roles of the losers of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral, the crew of the Enterprise faced certain death as they believed historical events were unable to be changed. But a combination of Chekov dying prematurely and a canister of knock-out gas being ineffective allowed Spock to surmise they were not reliving history, but a Melkosian illusion. Logically, Spock reasoned nothing in an illusion could harm them, and convinced the others of that through a mind-meld, saving their lives.

5 Emotion: Saving The Galileo Seven

It’s common knowledge that Spock is the second-in-command of the Enterprise, and he’s proven more than adept at helming the starship on more than one occasion. However, his first real command experience came with the Galileo mission, when the shuttlecraft got stranded on a hostile alien world.

After losing several crewmen to the primitive and violent neanderthals that inhabited the planet, Spock and the remaining crew members figured out a way to get airborne with some fuel in reserve. Yet, in defiance of logic, Spock decided to burn up the last bit of those reserves when the shuttle started to get pulled in by the planet’s gravity. This desperate measure was motivated more by emotion than logic and caught the attention of a passing Enterprise, thereby saving the shuttle’s crew.

4 Logic: Normalized Relations With The Klingons

When Praxis detonated at the beginning of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, it left the Klingons in an extremely vulnerable position and the Federation with a chance to destroy a long-time enemy. At least, this was how individuals in the Federation, like Admiral Cartwright, interpreted the events.

Spock saw this as a chance to open a dialogue with the Klingons. Unlike the admiral, Spock logically recognized the Federation was built on living in harmony with other species, not destroying them. He also logically assumed that the Klingons might be more predisposed to dialogue under their current hardships, and that dialogue would be more preferable to them instead of feeling they might have to “die fighting” in a war of extinction with the Federation.

3 Emotion: Reunified Romulus and Vulcan

Similarly, Spock saw an opportunity to mend relations with another long-standing Federation adversary when he journeyed to Romulus. Recognizing a growing pro-Vulcan movement within the Romulan underground revolving around the reunification of Vulcan and Romulus, Spock discreetly tied up all his affairs and ventured to the heart of the enemy stronghold.

The Federation dispatched Captain Picard to investigate, which eventually saw him confront Spock on Romulus. Here, Spock explained that his decision to engage in “cowboy diplomacy” was a personal decision. Captain Picard noted that this was not logical, and Spock did not disagree. That he succeeded was evident by the 32nd century, when Vulcan and Romulus had joined together under the name Ni’Var.

2 Logic: Sacrificing His Life

Arguably the biggest decision in Spock’s life was the one that led to his death, and it was firmly rooted in the principles of logic. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the titular villain trapped the warp-incapable Enterprise in a close-proximity, countdown detonation of the Genesis Device.

Fixing the warp drive would require someone to expose themselves to lethal doses of radiation, which Spock opted to do. Delivering his famous dying line, “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,” Spock explained that the sacrifice of one life was logical to save the ship and its crew.

1 Emotion: Sought Out V’Ger

In the first few moments of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the audience encounters a long-haired Mr. Spock on the planet Vulcan, engaging in the Kolinahr ritual. Designed to purge all emotion, Spock opts out of the ritual just as he was about to complete it.

It is revealed that he had sensed the presence of the film’s antagonist, V’Ger. A being of both logic and emotion, Spock’s decision to rejoin the Enterprise in search of V’Ger, as well as to mind-meld with it, was born of his emotional desire to be at peace with himself. The knowledge he gleaned from that mind-meld gave him special insight into V’Ger that allowed the Enterprise crew to defeat it at the film’s climax.

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