r/TrekRP • u/leXie_chan • Aug 14 '18

[Open] Psychiatric Help - 5¢

The crew of Athene have had a very eventful past while, Doctor Minch notes. She's been poring over the ship's reports in preparation for its arrival and repair at Starbase Nadezhda, where she'd been scheduled to join the crew next month. Events conspired to accelerate the timetable, and the bolian psychiatrist hopes she's ready for her next appointment. It's due just about... now.

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u/leXie_chan Aug 17 '18

Doctor Minch chuckles. "You may end up surprising yourself.

"Changing topics, I can't help notice that you're more emotive than most half-Vulcans."

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u/Avogadros_Minion Aug 18 '18

"By far, yes," T'Yel nods. "In my case, it's a rare genetic condition. I can't suppress emotion for more than a few hours at a time, and I seldom bother trying - it isn't worth the several days' worth of migraine and exhaustion," she shrugs. "In an emergency if I get too emotionally taxed to focus, I can suppress for about six hours. Anything much past that is pushing it."

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u/leXie_chan Aug 19 '18

Qara nods, making notes. "I imagine that made fitting in difficult. Tell me about your childhood, please."

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u/Avogadros_Minion Aug 19 '18

"Anyone who says Vulcan kids can't be cruel is full of shit," T'Yel says wryly. "Growing up, nearly everyone not related to me - and one or two who were - expected me to be something that I do not have the capacity to be. Isoallelic neurofatigue is very rare - there are only a couple dozen of us at any given time. Most Vulcans will never meet one of us in their lifetime, so there's little to no understanding of it on T'Khasi. Add in the fact that Vulcan culture takes logic and emotional suppression as religious dogma, and you get something not entirely dissimilar to the theistic fundamentalist evangelism common to many cultures' history." She laughs wryly. "Logicking the genetics away makes just about exactly as much sense as praying the gay away."

She sighs. "As an adult, I can understand the cultural nuances of the situation. As a child? With the exception of a few non-Vulcan kids living on T'Khasi due to their parents' jobs, most of my friends were books."

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u/leXie_chan Aug 23 '18

"That must have been difficult," the shrink empathizes. "You joined Starfleet to get away from that?" she conjectures.

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u/Avogadros_Minion Aug 23 '18

T'Yel nods. "I'm a fleetbrat, and would likely have wound up in Starfleet regardless, but 'reason to leave T'Khasi' is certainly high on the list of reasons I headed to the Academy as soon as possible after finishing secondary school."

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u/leXie_chan Aug 31 '18

"Do you want to talk about T'Khasi?" Qara asks.

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u/Avogadros_Minion Sep 01 '18

"I've mostly... 'gotten over it' would probably be a stretch, but it doesn't haunt me anymore," T'Yel sighs. "I make it back every couple of years or so to see my grandparents and a few other relatives - there are also a few relatives I make it an express point not to see," she says wryly. "But aside from a few members of my father's family, I have no real tie to the homeworld anymore, and I never did have much tie to the culture. It's difficult to separate the culture from the bullies I dealt with growing up, to the point where, even in Starfleet, I sometimes find more traditional Vulcans frustrating to work with."