Mind meld drawing6/7/2023 ![]() Although this particular ceremony is said to be the absolute exception, Sarek makes it very clear to Kirk in the beginning of the movie that a Vulcan is supposed to transfer his katra to another person prior to the moment of death: "It is the Vulcan way when the body's end is near." Also, Dr. When Spock's katra (about equivalent to what we would call mind & soul) is transferred from McCoy's back into his own revived body by the Vulcan high priestess in "Star Trek III". Sarek has previously mind-melded with Kirk in "Star Trek III" and with Picard in TNG: "Sarek". It may be too late to meet Spock again who is on Romulus at the time. Sarek appears to be sorry about this missed opportunity, now that he is about to die. Here, Sarek confesses to Picard that he has never mind-melded with his son Spock. More facts about the history of mind melds are given in TNG: "Unification I". Otherwise, why should Spock and Sarek be esteemed members of the Vulcan society and Sybok not, if their doings were equally regarded as illegal or immoral? The disregard for Sybok is rather supportive of the fact that other, more "logical" forms of mind melds are accepted among Vulcans, than evidence against it. Only the kind of emotionally motivated "pain relief" mind melds performed by Sybok in "Star Trek: The Final Frontier" may be regarded as immoral. We get the impression that Spock and other Vulcans have performed many mind melds before, among their own kind and also with humans. It is the first time Spock carries out a mind meld with a human (namely with van Gelder), but he is confident that it should work. On the other hand, he doesn't seem to see anything unusual in it. When Spock performs the first on-screen mind meld in TOS: "Dagger of the Mind", he explains that it is an "old technique", implying that humans are probably not familiar with it. There is overwhelming evidence that mind melds are both commonplace and socially accepted in the 23rd and at latest in the 24th century. She performed her first mind meld upon Hoshi Sato, with the assistance of Jonathan Archer, who had learned details about mind melds during a period of time when he held the katra of Surak.Spock mind-melds in TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" T'Pol was told that she is genetically incapable of initiating mind melds herself, however following the 2154 overthrow of the Vulcan regime that stigmatized mind-melding she learned otherwise. In 2154, T'Pol, who had been told that Pa'nar was an incurable virus, learned that the condition was in fact caused by an improperly trained melder, and contrary to what the intolerant (and soon to be overthrown) Vulcan High Command had decreed, it was indeed curable by the touch of an experienced mind – provided to T'Pol by T'Pau. This condition was kept in check with medication. She later learned that she had contracted Pa'nar Syndrome from the encounter. She severed her relationship with Tolaris after she asked him to stop the mind meld and he refused, attempting to continue the meld without her consent (essentially a form of mental rape), and causing her to forcefully break the link. Tolaris introduced her to the concept of the mind meld, which at the time was considered a taboo activity among Vulcans. T'Pol, who is described by her superiors as a maverick and a rebel, became fascinated with Tolaris, a member of a group of emotionally free Vulcans encountered during the first year of the Enterprise's mission. If you don't mind spoilers, then the Wikipedia article on T'Pol If you're watching Enterprise for the first time: just keep watching.
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