How do vulcans choose their mates

Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How do Vulcans reproduce themselves given that they are emotionless? Ask Question. Asked 6 years ago. Active 3 years ago. Viewed 3k times. Since Vulcans are emotionless, how do they get into the mood for sex? How do they solve the problem of reproduction when sex is not possible? Improve this question.

Continuation of the species is logical. It would seem that testicular sperm extraction and some form of in-vitro fertilization works completely without any arousal. I can think of one reason for the down vote, Vulcans are far from emotionless. They have to actively repress their emotion. Vulcans aren't emotionless. They regularly suppress emotions. This question is getting downvotes because it is based on a couple of incorrect premises: "you cannot get pregnant without arousal" and "Vulcans are emotionless".

Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. This drove them to violence in the the distant past, and after they almost destroyed themselves through war and aggression, they accepted Surak's philosophy based on logic, stoicism and suppression of emotion, and built their society and culture on that basis.

Some Vulcans refused this and left Vulcan to form a society of their own - and became what we know as Romulans. DevilEyes , Aug 9, KobayashiMaru13 , Aug 9, Ok, I worded it wrong. I meant to say suppressed emotions. I think it has to do with having a high value on something or in this case, someone. ReadyAndWilling , Aug 10, Good grief!

Triumphant, Vulcans don't undergo "pon farr" at age 7!! Nor to the best of my knowledge at 14 either. Bonding at age 7, yes, some fo them. But "pon farr" is very specifically the hormone storm that culminating in compulsive mating drive that if not comsummated will bring death. Vulcans may be sexy, but they're not pervy when it comes to children. Spock underwent his first pon farr in his mid thirties.

Rackon , Aug 11, Joined: Jan 20, Location: America after the rain. Pon farr is a hodge-podge concept and as such tends to defy reasonable explanation. However, as sexuality is vitally important to any society with gender divisions, "Vulcan biology" as Spock shyly put it is vitally important to developing a framework for how the Vulcan societies operate. Beware, longish post, partly in reply to Triumphant, and parly my own diatribe. For the biologically-minded, you might find it interesting, or find some things to argue with.

There is also a great penis joke buried near the bottom. Last edited: Aug 12, Myasishchev , Aug 12, USS Triumphant , Aug 12, DevilEyes , Aug 12, Every seven years, the adult Vulcan undergoes an extreme and erratic physical and psychological imbalance, which can be fatal if the mating ritual is not carried out.

When Spock underwent Pon farr in , the U. Enterprise journeyed to Vulcan, where his betrothed mate chose another champion to fight for her — Captain Kirk. Only after McCoy deceived Spock by injecting Kirk with a substance that simulated death did Spock return to his normal, logical demeanor.

Certain agents have been known to accelerate the Pon farr. For example, T'Pol found herself undergoing the Pon farr prematurely after being exposed to foreign microbes on an away mission in An email will not be created automatically. The email will only be created once you click on the "Send Email" button.