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.
#Mindmeld mind meld series#
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. If any templates or racial adjustments then increase this number, they may be applied after the adjustment to 18.īack to Main Page → 3.The Vulcan Mind Meld is a telepathic link used by Vulcans. This prevents padding of other abilities.
However, the character must still "waste" their top rolled ability score (or if using a point buy system, must point buy a score higher or matching the highest they bought on the others) in strength. This score is then automatically upgraded to the wonderful score of 18. *A character taking this feat must put there best score into Charisma. Special: The taking of this feat opens up the option of taking any honing feats with the Mind Meld prerequisite.
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