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I guess there are more varieties to Vulcan touch telepathy than just the mind meld. The varieties used for childhood bonding or deathbed katra-dumping or for sex would not count as "mind melds", not in the sense of communication or interrogation that Spock or Tuvok used them.
T'Pol would probably balk at the mere suggestion of a connection between the proposed mind meld and any of the above three variants. As in, "you suggest we PLAY CHILDREN?" or "you suggest we PLAY DEAD?" or "you suggest we PLAY PON FARR?"...
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I was not refering to katra giving but in TMP she asked for Spocks thoughts which would be a mind meld.
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Sarek said the same thing to Kirk in ST3 ("KIRK! I MUST have your thoughts. Will you allow me to join your mind?") Was that not a meld, or perhaps Sarek dabbles in psychiatry in his off-hours?
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Bear in mind, of course, that TOS and the movies are more than a century after ENT. Now, it seems kind of strange that mild-melds would go from being used for three specific occasions to being relatively common practice in just that time. However, I believe that's what people are trying to say happened.
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I'm not sure if being inspected by High Masters of Kolinahr should count as a "common occurrence". And being frisked by an emotionally fraught Vulcan father might be a rare situation, too.
But there's no question that mind melds are a common occurrence in the 24th century, where Tuvok uses them with abandon for both tactical gain and therapy. Perhaps they have also become somewhat "secularized" in that era. Tuvok reveals in "Innocence" that the excistence of the katra is not universally accepted by Vulcans. Perhaps a sacred rite dealing with katra transfer becomes less sacred and more pragmatically utilizable if you don't believe in a katra...
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Well, Spock himself seems to have a hard-on for melding with alien intelligences--the horta, Eminians, Nomad. The best line comes from A.C. Crispin's "Time For Yesterday"--
"Damn it, Spock! This is the second time you've pulled this stunt! First V'GeEr, now the Guardian!I swear, if you ever sneak off to try mind-melding with an alien intelligence again, I'm going to boot you out the nearest airlock without a suit! We'll see if keelhauling is possible in space! Understand?"
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