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Finally, in VOY: 'Counterpoint' Vulcans are confirmed to be generally telepathic, which would seem like a prerequisite for mind melds. If Vulcans were generally not telepathic (or just not trained to communicate telepathically), he would have mentioned that as the simple reason for him to prefer using his voice. Although it doesn't become clear at first glance, it supports the notion that all Vulcans are telepaths. In VOY: 'Random Thoughts', Tuvok tells the telepathic Mari security chief that he is used to communicate verbally, and he adds that there are few telepaths in Starfleet. Spock and Saavik communicate telepathically in 'Star Trek II'. He uses telepathy in TOS: 'A Taste of Armageddon', 'By Any Other Name' and 'The Omega Glory'. It becomes obvious that he wouldn't have noticed the death of a human crew in the same fashion. Spock senses the loss of the USS Intrepid in TOS: 'The Immunity Syndrome', a ship manned with Vulcans. For either of them there is plenty of evidence in Vulcan culture. In order to stay fair, we may have to distinguish between (directed) mind melds and (random) telepathy, although both phenomena must be closely related. Bashir mentions 'synaptic pattern displacement' as a technique to transfer a consciousness to another brain, but he has never heard of a non-Vulcan performing it.

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Although this particular ceremony is said to be the absolute exception, Sarek makes it very clear to Kirk in the beginning of the movie that a Vulcan is supposed to transfer his katra to another person prior to the moment of death: 'It is the Vulcan way when the body's end is near.' Also, Dr. 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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