![]() ![]() 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. Spock mind-melds in TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" ![]()
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