Starfleet could have defeated all of its enemies in weeks
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The funny thing is, it's not as much a formula as it is a substance that McCoy seems to be already carrying in his little black bag!
And Kirk is seldom portrayed as a wizard of natural sciences, yet he immediately recognizes the substance kironide for a "high energy source" that might have the indicated biological applications.
So, the rarity of telekinetic powers in the human realm cannot be due to kironide being a known but extremely rare substance, or else McCoy wouldn't have it in his bag. (Or did he extract it from the local materials when we weren't looking? Or did his injection merely allow our heroes to ingest kironide faster from the surroundings? Spock's dialogue supports this latter idea, while Kirk's doesn't.) But the rarity of telekinesis can't be due to kironide being an unknown approach, or else minds greater than Kirk's would have thought of it already.
Is there any semi-plausible method by which a substance in your bloodstream, possibly in combination with exotic local factors, would result in telekinesis (but apparently not in any other supernatural powers)? Can one only manipulate objects and lifeforms that already contain some kironide of their own, perhaps? I mean, even McCoy's hypospray might quickly have accumulated a thin layer of it, and there could be plenty in the bodies of our heroes after a few hours already. Perhaps kironide-to-kironide interaction allows a person to manipulate an object at a distance by suitably squeezing an inner organ saturated with kironide? That is, it's not "mind" doing the levitating, it's a muscle one doesn't normally clench...
Timo Saloniemi
And Kirk is seldom portrayed as a wizard of natural sciences, yet he immediately recognizes the substance kironide for a "high energy source" that might have the indicated biological applications.
So, the rarity of telekinetic powers in the human realm cannot be due to kironide being a known but extremely rare substance, or else McCoy wouldn't have it in his bag. (Or did he extract it from the local materials when we weren't looking? Or did his injection merely allow our heroes to ingest kironide faster from the surroundings? Spock's dialogue supports this latter idea, while Kirk's doesn't.) But the rarity of telekinesis can't be due to kironide being an unknown approach, or else minds greater than Kirk's would have thought of it already.
Is there any semi-plausible method by which a substance in your bloodstream, possibly in combination with exotic local factors, would result in telekinesis (but apparently not in any other supernatural powers)? Can one only manipulate objects and lifeforms that already contain some kironide of their own, perhaps? I mean, even McCoy's hypospray might quickly have accumulated a thin layer of it, and there could be plenty in the bodies of our heroes after a few hours already. Perhaps kironide-to-kironide interaction allows a person to manipulate an object at a distance by suitably squeezing an inner organ saturated with kironide? That is, it's not "mind" doing the levitating, it's a muscle one doesn't normally clench...
Timo Saloniemi
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Fleet Captain
That stuff was so powerful that Parmen was able to hold the Enterprise in a rigid orbit and his fits almost destroyed the ship.
That would be kind of a useful thing to have you know... ...like if you ever had to go to war with the Klingons or the Dominion or Romulans.
Forget cloaking devices, you have people who can crush starships like beer cans at a considerable distance.
