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I don't know if you missed it or just didn't mention it, but besides "Planets are complicated" and "Not all Vulcans are the same," the message I got from Spock's World was "No emotions? Pull the other one, it has bells on."

Overtly, because of the discussion about translation and how what they should be saying is "control of emotions," and then subtly with T'Pring--because she was angry at Spock, for being successful and a legend despite her rejecting him, and for being such a model of awesome that Stonn ended up killing himself out of jealousy. There's a reason she gets locked up so that she can reestablish her logic--she'd done the Vulcan equivalent of "lost it."

But I think T'Pring's plot is the least important part of the book--it's about Vulcan's history, explaining how it is they Got That Way, and then about Jim, Bones, and Spock (and I like that this is how they get called by the narrator) dealing with Vulcans.