In Star Trek Enterprise we get to know a lot about the Vulcans. They are not
purely logical and there was groups that were very conservative and hid behind faulty logic. But this takes it a bit far.
They think they did the burn, but they had the data showing the opposite. But they never bothered checking. Yeah, not very likely.
Lot's of bad writing and useless drama.
Lot's of bad writing and useless drama.