>Surakian Vulcans, maybe? In ST canon they're just "Vulcans"; they
>don't have any real name to qualify them as being any different.
>Vulcans, as a rule, follow the Way of Surak, and claim to be
>unemotional, though there are specific examples of Vulcans who seem to
>be a bit on the arrogant side (such as the Vulcans who played a
>baseball game against the crew of Deep Space Nine). In ST canon, the
>Vulcans who disagreed with the Way of Surak, even though they agreed
>that they had been on the verge of self-destruction, left the planet
>and became the Romulans. So the Vulcans from Vulcan itself have been
>brought up in a culture where they're taught the discipline to
>suppress and (theoretically, anyway) eliminate their emotions. They
>just don't have any model for any other kind of behavior when they're
>growing up. I'm personally under the impression that, despite
>everything they say about logic, canon Vulcans aren't completely
>emotionless; they simply don't allow it to affect their judgment,
>except when logic does not provide a clear answer. Remember, Spock
>has completed the Way of Kolinahr, and he says to the Vulcan ensign in
>Undiscovered Country (I forget her name) that "Logic is
>the beginning of wisdom, not the end." And while I'd have to sit
>through at least part of The Motionless Picture again to
>see the only other canon example of Kolinahr adepts (or whatever
>they're supposed to be called), I'm under the impression that such
>attitudes are not uncommon among mature Vulcans. I don't have any of
>the books from the LUG iteration of the Trek RPG, so I can't say for
>sure, and they're not really canon, anyway.
>

From what I gathered, its not the elimination, nor suppression, that's the goal. Rather, its the conrol of emotions, so that they don't control you. Unfortunatly, everyone (including mainline vulcans) seems to think that means being an emotionless logic driven robot. I seem to recall at least one novel (ok, they're not considered cannon) where a vulcan has admited "Oh, we have them, we just don't show them or act on them" or words to that effect.

Somehow, I have a feeling that IF the BG exist in the UF backhistory, their existance really isnt tied to Jedi history, etc...
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