#history of vulcan

[spirk-trek]

"The ahn woon!"

S2E1: Amok Time ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ ·

#the last frame makes me feel... a lot #spirk #star trek #spock #star trek tos #captain kirk #the original series #vulcan #pon farr #amok time #screencaps #my edit #television history #1960s #slash #fandom #william shatner #leonard nimoy

[lionofchaeronea]

Vulcan, Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)

#art #art history #Pompeo Batoni #classical mythology #mythological painting #imaginary portrait #Vulcan #Hephaestus #God Vulcan #Rococo #Italian art #18th century art #oil on canvas

[spongynova]

can you do stonn in 01 rattlesnake if you're still doin the color pallet thing?

What? Are you asking me to draw the OG HIMBO?! Please the way I screamed at my screen in front of this ask from @kaklord. Thank you this was a delight to work on!

So here is more of my sequel to Amok time: T'Pring and Stonn training to kick Spock's ass!

#star trek #star trek fanart #my art #star trek t #star trek tos #stonn #t'pring #himbo #he's very gender #transmasc stonn #butch stonn #idk but I love him #also you can't convince me otherwise #vulcans have tattoos #because a society based on control of their emotion #of course they spend time doing weird painful shit #vulcan bod mod history #is something I need #Surak had tatts everywhere #they just cover them with their clothes #so until you see a naked vulcan you have no idea

[bumblingbabooshka]

T’Pring Evaluates the Mirror, the Reflection.

#T'Pring #T'Pring art #bea art tag #I love T'Pring....I refuse to girlbossify her...she's staring at her reflection thinking of Spock and listening to the ocean outside her #bedroom window. Everything in her home is historical and stately and has a long story attatched to it - that's why it's worth something. the #story. She's thinking about Spock in relation to herself. Is she worth something now? She feels so small. How long will the walls of her #home stand against that ocean? #T'Pring pays attention to footnotes. Minor characters. Figures in the background. She draws others' attention to them - she asks questions #but the most common response is 'who cares?' (in their Vulcan way) 'they aren't important to the story. the history. the legend.' #she thinks of Spock. she thinks of herself standing beside Spock. #Then her thoughts fade and she listens to the ocean once again. #star trek #star trek art

[whencyclopedia]

Vulcan

Vulcan or Volcanus was the Roman god of fire and forge, the equivalent of Hephaestus from Greek mythology. The son of Jupiter and Juno, he was the special patron of blacksmiths and artisans. As the god of the forge and the devastating fire of both the environment and nature (volcanoes), Vulcan was probably among the most dreaded of all the gods.

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#Vulcan #RomanMythology #Hephaistos #HistoryFacts #History

[android-and-ale]

Historian's Perspective on Vulcan Time Zones

This was supposed to be a quick response to something on a Discord. As you can see it turned into 750 words on the history of Earth time measurement, time zones, and my opinion of how and why Vulcans would use time zones. If you're into Vulcan vs Human cultural minutia, enjoy diving down this rabbit hole with me!

Vulcans, with their canon innate sense of time, would in fact still have time zones - but they wouldn’t use them the way we do today.

Here on Earth, time zones were a secondary effect of trains. Before trains, people had a lot of different means of telling time, but they mostly revolved around dawn and dusk. You can still see that today in Jewish and Muslim timekeeping. We’re in the month of Ramadan right now. Fasting is from LOCAL dawn to local dusk, not the time of those events in Mecca. Shabbat starts at local dusk on Friday night. The whole idea of tying human time to precise minutes would be nonsensical for pretty much everyone living before the industrial revolution.

Hours also used to be variable in length, based around good old dawn and dusk. So for the Romans the “first hour” was literally the first hour after dawn. They divided the daylight into 12 hours (because Sumerian math is persistent AF). During summer, one “hour” was about 75 modern minutes long, while during winter, one hour was 45 minutes long. An hour was a division of daylight, not a collection of minutes.

Up until the industrial revolution this was fine. If you needed precise timing for a chemical reaction there were surprisingly accurate measuring devices, but those weren’t applied to everyday life. 

Christian church bells and Muslim Adhan calls to prayer followed the dawn to dusk modified hour system to let people know what time it was. In Christian literature, you find a ton of references to different churches hourly bells tolling for a solid 3-5 minutes back to back. 

It was part of the rhythm of the day. Many church clocks didn’t even have minute hands, because yo didn’t need them. In daily life, you honestly didn’t need to know anything more precise than “half” or maybe “quarter” past a specific hour.

Time zones as we know them were literally invented by train companies. It was the only way to ensure the trains ran on time. You can find tons of contemporary writing about how “two of the clock” could mean damn near anything. If you’re trying to get meat butchered this morning in Chicago to New York city on quickly melting slabs of ice so it’ll arrive in time to be taken to shops and sold before it spoils, you really need your trains to run on a dependable schedule. 

So I say:

1) Vulcans would have time zones because they are the most logical means of scheduling long distance transportation and distribution. 

2) Local time has little to do with time zones. Vulcans in canon have an innate sense of time in a way we humans do not, so really, the point of time zones is just ensuring transportation and distribution networks are efficient.

3) Nimoy infused a lot of Judaism into the lore of Vulcans. As such I think their innate time sense would also be tied to a dawn-to-dusk schedule. (The modern idea of starting a new “day” in the middle of a late night sleep cycle is very weird and totally ahistorical.)  Therefore Local time is still linked to dawn and dusk. It’s also useful to know what time dawn and dusk are for people halfway around the world. That way you can efficiently schedule meetings with them at mutually convenient times. Once more, we come back to time zones. 

If you want a real world example of how No Time Zones fucks you up, look at China. There is officially One Time Zone in all of China, even though geographically it would be cut into 9 if you followed the same lines everyone else uses. That means a normal meeting at 10 am for someone in Bejing is at what we would consider 1 am at the furthest point west. But 1 am is legally “10 am” for them. If you don’t have to deal with Bejing on the regular, then the clock numbers have zero correlation with the way people in those places actually live their lives. 

I suspect what a lot of people really object to is daylight savings time. 

Vulcans who use local dawn and dusk to define their days would find this equally nonsensical. 

Now if you want to get weird with it, you could make all VSA starships use ShiKhar Central Time, regardless of where the crew is from. 

#Vulcans #Time Zones #History of Time #Literally a short history of how people in the west measure time #plus how I think Vulcans would measure time #star trek #vulcan culture #my headcanons

[tragediambulante]

Vénus demandant à Vulcain des armes pour Énée, François Boucher, 1732

#art history #art #french art #greek mythology #ancient greece #18th century #francois boucher #venus #aphrodite #vulcan #hephaestus #aeneas #louvre

[noxequusart]

Cat T'Pau

#star trek the original series #star trek tos #star trek #t'pau #vulcan #Spock #star trek fanart #Cat #Vulcan cat #Vulcan history #Vulcan culture #Amok time

[fine-arts-gallery]

Vulcan in his Forge (1750) by Pompeo Batoni.

#art #art history #arthistory #painting #oil painting #oil paintings #classical paintings #classical art #classic art #fine art #renaissance #baroque #dark academia #light academia #dark aesthetic #academic art #historical painting #vulcan in his forge #pompeo batoni

[spirk-trek]

Arlene Martel as T'Pring, S2E1 of Star Trek, 1967

#star trek #t'pring #so so so gay for her #she's soooo beautiful #star trek tos #the original series #vulcan #amok time #spock #pon farr #tos #captain kirk #spirk #actress #film history #1960s #screencaps #my edit

[lindahall]

Johann von Charpentier – Scientist of the Day

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Charpentier, a German geologist and mining engineer, died July 27, 1805, at the age of 67; he was born in Dresden in 1738.

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#Johann von Charpentier #geology #geological maps #vulcanism #histsci #histSTM #18th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

[fancyshooting]

ocelot's full biography from the mgs4 database:

#mgs #metal gear solid #revolver ocelot #they didn't retcon his 'I fought wars in afghanistan mozambique eritrea and chad' by the time mgsv was released #those were all real conflicts #so I think for any gaps it's implied that he was involved with irl soviet military operations #you can probably use real world history to join the dots #he was in the gru for yeeeaaars #him meeting vulcan raven in siberia was never expanded upon but there's that too #was that the 90s idk but he was still in the gru then #post-ussr: ???? #the 90s is a bigger mystery than the 70s imo #he didn't join foxhound until bb died in 1999..... #was he still in the gru when he was working with eva #I guess he left the gru to join foxhound #ETCETERA we know everything from there #mostly #why did the database tell us his post-ussr file was false then not correct it </3 #LOL I bet I'm missing something really obvious #trying to make sense of retcons might also not be very clever idk #not enjoying my role as official ocelot biographer

[bumblingbabooshka]

Hello! I can’t help but be curious about T’Rahni’hk’s family and home! I also wanted to say that I find your idea of a place with a very cold climate on Vulcan really interesting and would honestly just love to hear what you’ve come up with for such a place! Vulcan is always referenced to as a very hot planet, so I’m sooo fascinated by a cold Vulcan might look like. Also your takes on Vulcan culture are always so cool and inspiring, I love reading all your explanations!!

Here's a post about her immediate family tree and Here's a post about her relationships with her (birth) father and brother! I'm very glad to hear that~!!! I'm actually planning on making a little interactive fiction 'game' where you the player visit T'Rahni'hk's hometown for shore leave (because I wanted to delve into what it might be like to live in a place like that)! I hope to have it done by the end of this month but it'll be available to patrons first~! T'Rahni'hk has a very close-knit family! Everyone except for Sulkel (her stepfather) has lived in or near the village all their lives. It was considered unusual for T'iksanulaar (her mother) to remarry someone from so far away - typically people that aren't from the area aren't keen on moving there! Her family care a lot about her but are typically stoic. T'iksanulaar in particular disapproves of her being in Starfleet and T'Rahni'hk wants to prove to her that she's alright and can manage herself alone. Her mother's disapproval obviously comes from care...she's seen T'Rahni'hk try and fail many times at socializing with others, even people who she grew up alongside so she is ... CONCERNED about how she'll manage being with a bunch of aliens. This only becomes worse after T'Rahni'hk's engagement is broken off and she begins looking visibly less and less put together. And also there's...you know. The Starfleet Danger. Sulkel and T'Rahni'hk have a very conflict-free and peaceful father-daughter relationship even though she calls him "Sulkel" instead of "father" since her biological father (who still has that title to her) is in prison. Sulkel is an 'easy going' person in that he's a more low energy nose-to-the-grindstone sort of person than anyone else in the family. Her grandmother Unnuthnoksing is her mother's mother and a pretty typical old lady...she mostly sleeps and has lived in the house since she was born! She usually gives T'Rahni'hk tips on how to get married or skills for marriage. If she's not sleeping she's usually calling people up to get gossip. Aand I think I outlined her relationship with her father and brother in one of those other posts - so that's everyone! If you have any more questions about T'Rahni'hk (or any other oc) please don't hesitate to ask, I love em~!!

#wish me luck on that project aaaa #Q&A #ohgodwhatwasthat #T'Rahni'hk #longer and more complicated names are common in the region she grew up in - the history of it stems from an old legend #wherein a Vulcan is spared from death because a mystical being is unable to say her name in a single breath #Now it's just tradition since no one believes in mystical beings anymore #But there's still children's games based around the legend #wherein you have to clap/jump/climb/run as fast/far/high etc as you can within the span of one breath (typically while reciting something #so there's no cheating) #vulcan oc

[ichayalovesyou]

EPic Rap Battles of Historeehhh

SURAK

VERSus

KAHLEEEEEEEEESSSS!

BEGIN!

#first off no I’m not sorry #second off HOW HAS THIS NEVER BEEN MADE #they are both incredibly awesome Bagas wells of wisdom that fundamentally shaped their cultures for better and worse #they’re both Star Trek #Klingonese and Vulkansu are both developed conlang for the franchise #it would be AWESOME 🤩 #is someone gonna help me write this or???? #they’ve got fundamentally different belief systems but I don’t doubt they’d respect each other #even though they fundamentally disagree on some key things #it’d be like that western vs eastern philosophy rap battle they did it’d be SICK #star trek #surak #Vulcans #Vulcan #Kahless #Klingon #Klingons #epic rap battles of history #rap battle

[fantasiavii]

I’m not going to lie I don’t like what SNW is doing with Christine and Spock.

Not like it’s written bad or anything it’s just

It takes what was Christine’s unrequited crush in TOS and makes it into a thing that actually happened and then makes all of Christine’s future pining in TOS aimed at a Spock she was actually with and who now ignores her like it never happened!!!! I hate this!!! I hate it so much!!! Feels bad!!!!!!

Not to mention the redundancy of Spock and T’Pring have a “break up” before The Break Up that we all know is coming anyway

And yes I’m being a whiny baby but I really liked how they were showing T’Pring and Spock worked and tried hard to make it work and it made sense that they would try their hardest before calling it off but to have them take a break now only to (assumedly) get back together later and then break up high drama style just uuuuuggggghhhhhh idk idk it feels like they’re trying to squeeze too much in

And in all that entire episode not one mention of Michael

#i’m gonna scream #i know the records about discovery are sealed or whatever but you know who already had prior knowledge?? #SPOCK and AMANDA and PIKE and don’t you THINK #that MAYBE #when they were ALL IN A ROOM TOGETHER #trying to teach HUMAN SPOCK how to be VULCAN #one of them AT ANY POINT would have said MAN. I MISS MY SISTER #Spock Spock should have said it #he should have thought it #i don’t care that disco is apparently unpopular or whatever is happening with the weird shadow-banning of it from trek history but #I LOVE DISCOVERY AND I LOVE MICHAEL AND SPOCK DOES TOO #fuck the fans who haven’t watched disco and don’t have context they can catch the fuck up #okay shadow-banning is the wrong word but do y’all ever feel like no one talks about disco anymore #or is it just me #do i not follow the right people??

[youngpettyqueen]

every day im forced to see posts where people say that Bones is racist towards Spock and they clearly think its a hot take. when will we as a society move on from this. its been years. im tired.

#star trek #begging people to think for 2 seconds about what racism actually is #Vulcans aren't an oppressed minority!! #Humans do not hold any power over Vulcans!! #in fact if you want to look at the history of the Human - Vulcan relationship #Vulcans historically held the power- and actively used it against Humans by slowing down space travel advancements #and withholding critical information #but by the time of TOS this is no longer the case #the Federation has been formed and Humans and Vulcans are on much more equal footing #so no. Bones is not racist against Vulcans and he's not being racist to Spock #the term youre looking for in these posts is xenophobia #because Bones certainly holds prejudices against Vulcans and he makes no secret of this #but its not racism