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Mind melds can also allow more than one mind to experience memories and sensations, and sometimes even interact with the memories, as seen in the Star Trek: Voyager episode 'Flashback'. Kirk in the TOS episode 'Requiem for Methuselah'. Mind melds have been used to erase memories, as Spock performed on James T. The salute was one of Spock's signatures, but also famous was the Vulcan Mind Meld in which he merged his consciousness with that of another character. Last week I blogged about Leonard Nimoy, the Vulcan salute, and a Hebrew letter 'Shin' (God).

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In the Original Series episode, “The Changeling,” Spock also mind melded with a straight-up robot named Nomad (sterilize!) and in “A Taste of Armageddon” even long-distance mind-melded through a door.Successful Conversations Involve Mind Melds Later, Spock returns the favor, by mind melding with V’Ger itself, while he’s wearing a space suit and gloves, I might add. But, in the context of Star Trek canon as a whole, check int out: V’Ger, a giant living machine that was 100 percent an A.I. Now, in the context of The Motion Picture, this meant that Spock needed to hang on to his human side a little longer, and figure out what was going on with this giant conciseness calling to him from space. This conciseness calling to you from space… it touches your human blood, Spock. (Sound familiar?) When Spock pauses during the ceremony, the Vulcan High Priestess demands a mind meld and then she says: And that’s because his brain is contacted by a superior A.I. He’s chilling on Vulcan, about to undergo the Kolinahr - a process where he would shed all remnants of emotion. You know that TNG theme music you love so much? The Jerry Goldsmith score? Well, that comes from The Motion Picture, and in that film - get ready - a super intelligent machine contacts Spock’s brain from across the entire galaxy. Wetware is not hardware, so whatever magic brain energy necessary to do the mind meld, shouldn’t work with a robot, right? Well, that would be a reasonable argument, assuming, you’d never seen Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Then again, some might argue that intelligent machines shouldn’t be able to possess the pseudo-telepathy from a Vulcan mind-meld.

(We’re told in Episode 8 that Oh is half-Vulcan, half-Romulan.) So if Vulcan hybrids can do a skill normally reserved to Vulcans, the door is already open to other species figuring it out. Like Commodore Oh in Star Trek: Picard, Spock is only half-Vulcan. So, from its very inception the idea of who can do the Vulcan mind-meld was already loosey-goosey. Notably, Spock is only half-Vulcan since his mom, Amanda Grayson is a human. The Vulcan mind-meld originates in the TOS episode “Dagger of the Mind,” in which Spock probes the tortured mind of a prison inmate in order to get to the bottom of a confounding mystery all about people going crazy from a machine that is supposed to be healing them. But, here’s the thing the rules of who can do the mind-meld and how it’s done have been in flux for awhile. Jurati, the groan from inflexible Star Trek fans was as audible as that funky V’Ger bass line touching Spock’s mind in The Motion Picture.

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When the yellow-eyed android Sutra (Isa Briones) decides to use the Vulcan mind meld to extract information from the mind of Dr. My canon thoughts to your canon thoughts… If you’re confused about this latest twist, it turns out there’s actually several precedents that make this possible. In fact, isn’t the Vulcan mind meld only reserved for aliens who are actually, you know, Vulcans? Everybody assumed androids couldn’t do a mind meld, but what Picard presupposes is… maybe they can? This article contains major STAR TREK: PICARD spoilers.Ĭan Synthetics do everything that organics can do, only better? In Episode 9 of Star Trek: Picard, “Et in Arcadia Ego Part 1,” we see an android bust-out a classic Star Trek superpower, that previously, we only thought flesh-and-blood aliens could manage.

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