Thinking about that big, empty house where the Sarek family lived in Discovery. It always bugged me how it was presented and I think I’ve figured it out - Vulcans wouldn’t have a house like that.
If we suppose that Vulcans have very few furniture and decorations, then why would they build a house like that? Why would they build these big rooms that they have no use for?
In Enterprise when T'Pol goes home they present a very different idea of a Vulcan home. It’s not big yet still comfortable. The furniture is simple and practical. The bedrooms are small and has limited light, which makes sense for this particular house as it’s in the desert.
There’s still decorations. Not a lot, but since you don’t see these vast, empty rooms only a few items are enough to change the vibe from “Empty dining hall” to “A home”. It seems inspired by Japanese architecture and decor.
The Discovery version is very much a human house made to feel Vulcan, if your idea of Vulcans is that they just… don’t have any furniture. I find Enterprise’s version simply more believable in relation to how Vulcan architecture and interior design would develop.
Look at Spock’s Enterprise quarters in TOS. It’s actually pretty packed with items that he obviously value and that represents his interests. Vulcans do actually have their hundreds of candles and tea pots and pyramids.
What I’m saying is that the narrow view of Vulcan culture is that they just shun possessions or place no value on items. They clearly do. But they wouldn’t build those big, showy houses with vast rooms to fill with stuff. I think it’s much more likely that Vulcan architecture would be the kind of modest, low key thing we see in Enterprise. It would focus on practicality and rituals, since the essence of practicality is their ritualistic approach to life.
I think it was a missed opportunity to show a house which was built with actual Vulcans in mind.
Thinking about that big, empty house where the Sarek family lived in Discovery. It always bugged me how it was presented and I think I’ve figured it out - Vulcans wouldn’t have a house like that.
If we suppose that Vulcans have very few furniture and decorations, then why would they build a house like that? Why would they build these big rooms that they have no use for?
In Enterprise when T'Pol goes home they present a very different idea of a Vulcan home. It’s not big yet still comfortable. The furniture is simple and practical. The bedrooms are small and has limited light, which makes sense for this particular house as it’s in the desert.
There’s still decorations. Not a lot, but since you don’t see these vast, empty rooms only a few items are enough to change the vibe from “Empty dining hall” to “A home”. It seems inspired by Japanese architecture and decor.
The Discovery version is very much a human house made to feel Vulcan, if your idea of Vulcans is that they just… don’t have any furniture. I find Enterprise’s version simply more believable in relation to how Vulcan architecture and interior design would develop.
Look at Spock’s Enterprise quarters in TOS. It’s actually pretty packed with items that he obviously value and that represents his interests. Vulcans do actually have their hundreds of candles and tea pots and pyramids.
What I’m saying is that the narrow view of Vulcan culture is that they just shun possessions or place no value on items. They clearly do. But they wouldn’t build those big, showy houses with vast rooms to fill with stuff. I think it’s much more likely that Vulcan architecture would be the kind of modest, low key thing we see in Enterprise. It would focus on practicality and rituals, since the essence of practicality is their ritualistic approach to life.
I think it was a missed opportunity to show a house which was built with actual Vulcans in mind.
being a fan of multiple sci-fi things that have been around for like half a century or more is funny bc yes, there are continuity errors both mild and quite large between two things aired 40 years or even 4 years apart.
Shockingly enough the story working matters more than whatever inane bit of technical nonsense or specific date and current writers are Not gonna fuck up an entire story that’s a big allegory for some real world issue over a technical detail that really, actually, doesn’t, actually matter.
the stories are actually The most important part and the whole ‘they’re so stupid they don’t know that this contradicts Actual canon’ thing is so absurd bc it precludes to possibility that they knew it full well and elected to ignore it because a story matters more than the number of jeffries tubes on a specific model of starfleet ship.
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