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. 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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