There's also a great scene of Kirk going insane in the little torture room, his crazed laughter signaling the end of an act - it's kind of scary and the audience may think he's permanently damaged going into a commercial break, because we've already seen the loopy Van Gelder. It's a testament to Nimoy's acting ability that he infuses such mystique and focus into a scene which could have been sappy & trite. New Frontier has this perspective, if I remember right one of them starts having a heart attack during it. All mind meld canvas prints ship within 48 hours and include a 30-day money-back guarantee. The actor showed up again in the role of a starship captain in the 2nd season's "Omega Glory." This episode will go down in history (or has already) as the first one with Spock using a Vulcan mind meld (on Van Gelder). The novelization of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country depicted the interaction from an internal perspective when Spock did the mind meld on Valeris. Choose your favorite mind meld canvas prints from 24 available designs. Also on hand is actor Woodward as Van Gelder, the one driven insane by the mind sapping device to say his performance is intense is putting it mildly. He's probably convinced when Adams attempts to avoid the room where the Neural Neutralizer is located - Adams is smooth, but against Kirk he has no chance. Kirk proves to be very adept at studying human behavior, more so than his expert assistant, and almost immediately something doesn't smell right to him. But once down in the underground colony, his detective instincts take over and Adams is now a target. He's the one who defends Adams while debating with McCoy, almost indicating a kind of hero worship for a man who has made great advances in his field. Gregory is a fine actor and does what he can with a seemingly truncated role, but the one to watch again is Shatner as Kirk. Was he just fooling everyone up until now, hiding such extreme sadistic tendencies as he puts on display in this episode? He comes across as someone on a childish power trip by the 4th act, but there seems to be no motive for this supposedly great man to behave this way. Early in the episode, it's established that he's a well-known benefactor in the field of penology and psychiatric medicine, accomplishing more in his lifetime than all of mankind previously in these fields. Adams' sudden shift to mad experimentation. (TOS episode: 'Dagger of the Mind' Last Unicorn RPG module: The Way of Kolinahr: The Vulcans) Typically, physical contact was required for a mind meld. In the Vulcan language, it was known as taroon-ifla. Korby was driven to lunacy by extreme circumstances, no real explanation is given for Dr. See also Mind Meld, a TOS novel The Vulcan mind meld (or mind touch) is a telepathic technique employed exclusively by Vulcans, in which the minds of two individuals become a single entity. Leonard Bones McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Kirk and company.
Unlike that other episode, where the famous Dr. John Vornholt is the author of is the author of two of the New York Times bestselling Star Trek: The Next Generation Dominion War books, the successful two-book Star Trek: The Next Generation series Gemworld, Genesis Wave Book One, and several other Star Trek novels, including Quarantine, Antimatter, Sanctuary, Rogue Saucer and Mind Meld. Kirk (William Shatner) learns that Spocks spirit, or katra, is held in the mind of Dr. Once again, as in "What Are Little Girls Are Made Of?," a starship captain enters the lion's den on his own, with no back-up, except for a female assistant. An escape from such a colony triggers a routine investigation by Kirk based on vague doubts by McCoy about how the famous Dr. McCoy obviously feels we are still far from Utopian with such 'cages' still in existence - but he doesn't offer better solutions. Though supposedly such places are much better run in the 23rd century, Dr.
This episode deals with the future of penal colonies and treatment of unstable criminals.