Star Trek: The Kolinahr Ritual, Explained

Vulcans have a reputation throughout Star Trek as being dedicated to the pursuit of logic, but the Kolinahr Ritual shows just how far they’re willing to go to achieve their goals. Fans first got a glimpse of the Kolinahr Ritual in Star Trek: The Motion Picture when Spock (Leonard Nimoy) tried to rid himself of emotions once and for all. As far as he was concerned, he’d come far enough in his training to be ready for his evolution into a fully logic-based being. Like his Vulcan ancestors before him, Spock’s goal was a total disconnection from the feelings that he believed were holding him back from the Vulcan he was meant to be.