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Isn't there an episode in the original series where Spock has to like go full monka in ritualistic combat? Pretty sure he drinks something or does a ritual to suppress his mental fortitude against his inner rage
That was the pon farr, basically when even Spock's half-Vulcan mating urge couldn't be repressed anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_Time
If you raise a Vulcan without the mental training, you basically get a Romulan.
Spock in the original series goes into his mating season, which is a time where Vulcan emotions become too uncontrollable to repress. Vulcans are ashamed of this loss of control and try to hide it away.
Spock had to fight Kirk because Spock's arranged marriage wife-to-be was allowed to chose anyone as her champion against Spock when she decided she didn't want to him. Spock was out of control in full ragemode and only regained his senses when he thought he'd killed Kirk.
Vulcan society has, to my eye, always been one that acts like it has everything figured out but its repression has created just as many bizarre rituals as any other culture.
Yea when he has to fight rivals for T'pal's hand in marriage. Don't remember an emotion enhancing (in effect) drink, but he does fight. He also still has logic, as he stops and makes an appeal to end the ceremony before he kills Kirk.
He's lost his control in a few episodes, but the season of love is cannonically the only time it "naturally" happens. (I forget the name they have for it)
Pon Farr.
That's the ticket! Thanks.
Since it's such an intimate affair, I wonder why they didn't call it Pon Closs.