If Vulcans losing their logical, well-ordered minds is a Star Trek trope as old as Trek itself, then the slightly more fun trope is when Vulcans go so bonkers they cause other people to lose their minds. In the 1990 Next Generation episode “Sarek,” Spock’s dad sent waves of telepathic chaos throughout the Enterprise-D. At the time, Sarek’s mental projections and their subsequent impact on the Enterprise crew was a great twist. Now, 33 years later, Star Trek found a new way to use this trope. And in doing so, Vulcans just got even more interesting. Spoilers ahead for Lower Decks Season 4, “Empathalogical Fallacies.”
