#vulcan mind meld

[theranilord]

"First use of forcible Vulcan mind-meld to interrogate an unwilling subject." - IMDB on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

.....uh, have you SEEN Mirror Mirror? McCoy wasn't fighting physically, but he was not willing...

[harley-rose25]

another star trek vulcans thoughts

Thinking about how mind melds with vulcans should be far more dangerous than depicted because dieing from a broken heart is, like, a real thing. And I'm pretty sure anger causes heart attacks and aneurysms in men. Basically if your emotions emotion to hard it might kill you, cause your brain or heart will just be like "I wasnt meant for this cruell world!" But also some people react to extreme emotional situations by going numb so like some humans could meld with an emotionally disturbed vulcan (which is all of them actually) and end up with a dissociative disorder.

[sixbucks]

Don’t even try it, Spock!!!

[gean-grey-blog]

Every time I three finger tap to take a screenshot I feel like I'm tryina Vulcan mind meld with my phone

[bojackson54]

How About a (Non) Vulcan Mind Meld?

Something to keep in mind As we begin 2024, I mentioned that we are going to look at testimonies about Jesus: who was he? How did he approach and impact others? What credentials did he have to proclaim himself as the Son of God? Saul of Tarsus wrote not just about how Jesus changed his life, but how that transformation took place. In the old Star Trek episodes, there was a very unique thing…

[purpleenma]

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[hawkesque]

i am normal about the scifi/fantasy concept of knowing someone so well and intimately that your brains can and do overlap. let me out of the cage please i will be normal i promise.

[redkehlchen]

Some 2003 season 2 doodles! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[theranilord]

Rewatching the scene, it's possible Valeris experienced so much pain because she tried to fight Spock. McCoy probably didn't have the same mental shield training...

[spirk-trek]

okay but what if mind melding with humans is this super unique experience, like it's especially vivid and vibrant compared to melding with other vulcans (or other species) because they posses such visual imaginations and can dream and fantasize in a way vulcans have trained themselves not to

[saudrag]

mind meld during a kiss with your t’hy’la anyone?

[bumblingbabooshka]

I think Seven would tentatively confide in B'Elanna about dissociation problems and B'Elanna would be like "Seven, everyone deals with that kind of thing! Don't worry about it too much, okay?" and they'd both be like, quietly relieved that they're not the only one and thus think that it's normal when in reality they should both talk to like, a professional. AND THEY WON'T! Bc they both kind of know in their hearts that it's weird but it's ok, bc they found someone else who understands and won't try to analyze them about it <3 Seven Dissociation: Fragile sense of burgeoning identity. Goes between feeling 'too empty' (you're not supposed to be alone) and 'too crowded' - as if she can feel multiple identities within her. Feels as if the 'original' her has died and she is a completely different person than the pre-borg her, not as if she IS that child just grown up. At times of high stress, she sometimes has memory lapses which freak her out. Not connected much to her body. Is this body hers? Where did she come from? She was born when she was severed from the collective and she was born when she emerged from the maturation chamber and she was born at some distant point in the past beyond memory, to a Human woman she once called mother. At times she listens back to her personal logs and feels as if she's listening to someone else's thoughts and opinions. Sometimes she remembers saying these things but still feels this way. It reminds her of being Borg, where she can remember things she did but can't really...reach it. Can't empathize fully. Who is Seven? Is she that child, the Human? Is she Seven of Nine, the borg? No. No. Who is Seven? B'Elanna Dissociation: Has a very 'insecure'[?] sense of identity. Easily hurt by and conscious of what others think of her though most wouldn't think this is true. Long periods of feeling completely detached from her body and the world, though she's still going about her daily tasks. Looks into the mirror and doesn't really recognize herself or sees herself as revoltingly ugly in ways others don't see or understand. At times self-harms in an attempt to 'return to herself' if she's dissociating too long as it starts to scare her. Often goes back and erases personal logs made while she dissociating. As a child had an internal habit of blaming things on one 'half' of her, heavily demonizing "The Klingon" girl and this has persisted into adulthood. Views herself in a very 'split' way - "My Klingon side protected me from X" etc. Does not have a cohesive whole vision of herself but instead sees herself as essentially "Good Half" and "Evil Half". I can picture her saying it was like she had a twin sister growing up. This began further back than she can remember but solidified totally after her father abandoned her family. At times she feels she is the "good" version of her, berating the "bad" one and at other times she's the "bad" one being berated. Her body is ugly and she is half evil and if only she could get rid of it, disengage from it, escape herself totally....

[dark-ethereal-visions]

I'm a HUGE fan of Brad Dourif. Most people think of Chucky, but he carries every film he's in. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Graveyard Shift, and The Exorcist III just to name a few.

But his greatest role IMO was on Star Trek: Voyager. In "Meld" he plays a psychotic killer loose on board the starship and Tuvok must track him down. Absolutely chilling performances from Brad!

[sesamestreep]

“requiem for methuselah” crazy ass episode for many reasons. Kirk is being fully insane, like I don’t actually think, even controlling for how quickly and easily and readily he seems to fall in love with anybody at the slightest encouragement, that he’d go that bonkers for that android woman he just met while everyone on the ship was this close to dying, but that’s neither here nor there, because in the background you’ve got an equally but much more subtly insane episode for Spock, who extremely uncharacteristically admits to experiencing an emotion (or nearly experiencing, whatever) and that emotion is ENVY of all things. And then spends the rest of the episode warning Kirk away from this new love interest (something that doesn’t usually happen, even when Kirk has very inadvisable love interests) and is, in the end, the person who accurately identifies that Rayna’s competing love for Kirk and Flint is ultimately what overwhelms and destroys her with the most killer line in maybe history???

And then to wrap it up we get an equally uncharacteristic sort of denouement scene (TOS loooves to cut an episode off right after the actual climax, leaving little time for falling action or character reflection, or to stick a sitcom-y button on the end where the gang all smiles and laughs at their misadventures and everything resets to zero, which is not a criticism, it’s just the style of that era of tv, honestly) where Kirk is literally miserable over Rayna’s death (again, kind of unusual for a lot of his love interests, he tends to be able to move on pretty quickly) and Spock goes to see him and he falls asleep right in front of Spock (also odd) and then when Bones comes in to give the final word on Flint, Spock waves him off from waking the Captain (tender) and Bones gives him that awful speech about how it’s sadder that Spock can’t even imagine the love Kirk felt for this random android woman than it is that Kirk lost her in the first place (debatable but also rude) and how his great tragedy is that he can’t love at all like they can and how all he wishes is that Kirk could forget about all of this and move on. AND THEN, to have Bones leave and Spock go over to Kirk and very gently, tenderly, reluctantly touch him and put his hand to his forehead and tell him to forget and HAVE THAT BE THE END OF THE EPISODE??? What am I supposed to do with that??

[the-lavender-clown]

Just finished a Voyager rewatch with my mom and I think one of my favorite things about it that turned into an inside joke between us is how often when something happens and Tuvok is a main part of the episode there's a 80% chance that he's going to recommend a mind meld and if he does there's a 99.9% chance they're gonna do one despite multiple warnings from the Doctor that it’s not a good idea

[scetcher6]

Our minds are one