![]() ![]() Slash fans also fondly imagine that the brief Vulcan salute Spock gives just before he dies in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Kirk's pressing his own hand to the glass symbolizes subtext viewers are meant to interpret that the two have a sexual bond. Since Spock also did a mind meld with the injured Horta in "Devil in the Dark", a machine in "The Changeling" and the whales in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, it can be assumed that the wedding bond is a more specific action. Some have misread the mind meld as being identical with the marriage bond of pon farr and refer to Spock's occasional emergency one-sided melds (as in "Mirror, Mirror") as "literal mind rape". Numeous fan critics have identified writers such as Sondra Marshak (especially in The Price of the Phoenix and Della Van Hise (in Killing Time) seeming to use the mind meld as a metaphor for sex. Mind melds later become important in the sequel where Vulcan telepathy and the mechanics of mind melds and bonds are an important plot element.įans may mistake lighter, simpler telepathic contacts for mind melds. In the story Kirk had to mate with Spock (2009) in a fuck or die scenario. In seperis' story You'll Get There in the End (It Just Takes a While), the prequel to her epic War Games, the mind meld from the Star Trek (2009) movie between Kirk and Spock (TOS) triggered pon farr in Kirk because the Kirk and Spock from the TOS universe were bonded and that transferred through the mind meld. A deleted line in "Amok Time" refers to all Vulcans being able to sense their proximity to the home planet no matter where they are, and this connection appears to be what happens in "All Our Yesterdays" when Spock is thrown 5000 years into the past and gradually reverts to a more primitive state, like the Vulcans of that time period. Intrepid are killed in "The Immunity Syndrome", Spock immediately senses their deaths, and was even able to pick up that "they did not know what was killing them, or would have understood it had they known," later telling Kirk they were "astonished" by their defeat. Spock also contacts McCoy's mind very briefly to prepare for his katra life essence to enter McCoy upon his death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Spock does this so briefly that it seems not a mind meld but merely a mind touch. And in "Turnabout Intruder," Kirk (in Janice Lester's body) asks Spock to use telepathy to verify it's really him in there. ![]() In "The Omega Glory" he guided a native woman to go get a communicator and open it so the Enterprise could get a signal and send a rescue party. In "A Taste of Armageddon" and "By Any Other Name", Spock was able to communicate feelings of unease to prison guards in order to make them open the door and come in to have a look, whereupon Kirk and company could bash them and escape. Vulcans can obviously use telepathy outside of mind-melding. Spock pretended to do it in order to make it appear to the Romulans that he had killed Captain Kirk, and it is complete hogwash. The original series also featured the so-called Vulcan Death Grip, which involves placing the hands over the victim's face. The Vulcan Nerve Pinch is delivered to the base of the neck. The default canonical hand position for a mind meld is for the initiator to place their fingers on the sides of the subject's face. Either case usually involves a lot of mugging for the camera on the part of the actors, which often leads to interesting screenshots. They can also be used for mutual communication or to rifle through people's brains forcibly. In practice this is similar to the idea that Vulcans are unemotional or that anyone in the Federation ever obeys the Prime Directive: mentioned only to highlight all of the many, many, many episodes where they do the opposite.ĭepending on the era of Star Trek and/or lack of other interesting plot for the episode, mind melds can cause a variety of maladies and after effects in either party. ![]() Supposedly, Vulcans normally only initiate contact with other Vulcans, usually those they are close to. In canon, exactly how mind melds work varies depending on the needs of the plot. It was invented by Leonard Nimoy for the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Dagger of the Mind", after network censors warned against the use of hypnosis to help an insane man reveal his true story. It required a physical touch as a link and allowed two individuals to temporarily share the same thoughts. The Vulcan Mind Meld is a telepathic link used by Vulcans. ![]()
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