skygiants

Haha, no, I definitely got that - the emotional thing is hugely emphasized (especially in the history-stories bit, at least 75% of which if I remember correctly involve Vulcans going BATSHIT INSANE over their emotions.)

In a way, though, the fact that T'Pring's plot is so unimportant to the book is one of the reasons that it annoys me - because you didn't need to have her as the bad guy for the plot to make sense, and there really are plenty of things going on with the emotionality of Vulcans without her (not to mention the fact that it pretty explicitly states that T'Pring did not care about Stonn, which means the only emotion we get from her is inexplicable rage over losing people she didn't care about rather than anything three-dimensional.) So it comes off a bit like gratuitous T'Pring bashing.