Hm. I feel like I’m not particularly worried about those connotations, though maybe I should be. I’m more worried about connoting “thinks Vulcans have the right idea” and/or “thinks he is as logical as a Vulcan”.
It also occurs to me that having watched essentially no Star Trek, my model of a straw Vulcan is really more of a straw straw Vulcan, and that seems bad.
Currently leaning towards “picking a different title if I come up with one soon-ish”.
I would be very hesitant to invoke a fictional philosophical concept I wasn’t familiar with. You are invoking related concepts and ideas, and your unfamiliarity with the source material could easily cause readers who are familiar with that material to misread your message.
Hm. I feel like I’m not particularly worried about those connotations, though maybe I should be. I’m more worried about connoting “thinks Vulcans have the right idea” and/or “thinks he is as logical as a Vulcan”.
It also occurs to me that having watched essentially no Star Trek, my model of a straw Vulcan is really more of a straw straw Vulcan, and that seems bad.
Currently leaning towards “picking a different title if I come up with one soon-ish”.
I would be very hesitant to invoke a fictional philosophical concept I wasn’t familiar with. You are invoking related concepts and ideas, and your unfamiliarity with the source material could easily cause readers who are familiar with that material to misread your message.
In short, you are setting yourself up for long inferential distance, which I would not recommend.