Aside from the film's predilection for hiding mothers once their "use" has expired
Not to mention Nero's wife, who doesn't even get to be a mother before she dies . . .
(I also walked out thinking about the future of Romulan-Vulcan relations in this timeline. I'm not sure I was supposed to do that, either.)
And yes, I wanted much, much more about identities from this film, alas.
I suppose that's what fanfic is for. But I'd rather get it from the source material.
(Why can't Kirk have said at the end that his mother is proud of him? I assume she was absent during his childhood because she was in space.)
Yes, which I almost consider a plot hole—since she's on board the Kelvin in the first place and later offplanet for most of her son's life, I assume she's in Starfleet, so why is Kirk so messed up over his father? George Kirk may have died heroically, but his wife evidently wasn't the kind to sit at home for the rest of her life and polish her husband's memory. Even if she's, I don't know, an engineer or an advocate rather than a starship's second officer, her career should inform some of her son's ambiguity about Starfleet. Instead it's all his father's ghost and Captain Pike (and I liked Pike). She doesn't even send a card for his graduation? Can we get a deleted scene here?
"Cultural importance of maintaining one's own history" was meant to apply both to Vulcan and to what little I know of (some) Jewish practice today. felt that diaspora is the more obvious superficial similarity, in a way, but that it doesn't hold as much importance: other human cultures have undergone significant diasporas, too, yet I find it difficult to draw relationships between those cultures and Vulcan.
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Not to mention Nero's wife, who doesn't even get to be a mother before she dies . . .
(I also walked out thinking about the future of Romulan-Vulcan relations in this timeline. I'm not sure I was supposed to do that, either.)
And yes, I wanted much, much more about identities from this film, alas.
I suppose that's what fanfic is for. But I'd rather get it from the source material.
(Why can't Kirk have said at the end that his mother is proud of him? I assume she was absent during his childhood because she was in space.)
Yes, which I almost consider a plot hole—since she's on board the Kelvin in the first place and later offplanet for most of her son's life, I assume she's in Starfleet, so why is Kirk so messed up over his father? George Kirk may have died heroically, but his wife evidently wasn't the kind to sit at home for the rest of her life and polish her husband's memory. Even if she's, I don't know, an engineer or an advocate rather than a starship's second officer, her career should inform some of her son's ambiguity about Starfleet. Instead it's all his father's ghost and Captain Pike (and I liked Pike). She doesn't even send a card for his graduation? Can we get a deleted scene here?
"Cultural importance of maintaining one's own history" was meant to apply both to Vulcan and to what little I know of (some) Jewish practice today. felt that diaspora is the more obvious superficial similarity, in a way, but that it doesn't hold as much importance: other human cultures have undergone significant diasporas, too, yet I find it difficult to draw relationships between those cultures and Vulcan.
Gotcha! That makes sense. Thanks.