Doesn’t she eventually come around to him? I really think she’s just a moral lesson in character form. Even in trek people aren’t perfect when expressed to new things but have the opportunity to grow. If everyone behaved perfectly at the introduction of every new stimulus then there would be no growth and that is not good storytelling.

Very Larson-esque

Plasticity. Otherwise every one in the human race would be soft lobotomized before 3.