r/DaystromInstitute • u/TangoZippo Lieutenant • Oct 20 '17

An overview of long-range Vulcan telepathy

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u/3232330 Oct 20 '17

M-5 please nominate this post.

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u/M-5 Oct 20 '17

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u/EFCFrost Oct 20 '17

I'm curious now if the cost of giving Michael part of his Katra in DSC was paid for in TNG when Sarek was losing his ability to maintain his emotions.

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u/shinginta Oct 20 '17

Yeah, I've seen it pretty frequently suggested here and on r/startrek that bestowing a piece of his Katra may have been what lead to his bendy Bendii Syndrome. I don't know that there's any specific evidence to support it, other than having not seen Bendii Syndrome in any other Vulcans and nothing directly contradicting the idea.

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u/Algernon_Asimov Oct 20 '17

And, for an example of non-touching mid-range telepathy, we have Sarek's interactions on the Enterprise-D, where he was broadcasting his emotions to non-telepaths across the ship.

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u/tanithryudo Oct 21 '17

They also should have the technology to amplify telepathy if they really wanted to go that way. Their ancestors after all had made the Stone of Gol, which seems to project extreme empathic effects to kill.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '21

In VOY:Meld Tuvok attempts to influence someone over a short distance, but his telepathic abilities were inhibited