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There was some hinting of that in "All Our Yesterdays."

If you mean a hint that Spock was telepathically influenced by other Vulcans from the era, yeah, that's one way of handwaving the episode's nonsensical approach to time travel. But aside from my problems with that idea, even if it were true, I have a hard time believing that Vulcans could be unaware of it to the extent of convincing themselves that most of them weren't telepathic. It would've been much harder for the Vulcans of the High Command era to dismiss telepathy as a minority practice if it were a constant part of every Vulcan's everyday existence, as opposed to a more occasional thing.
 
I always like when Star Trek writes other species as genuinely alien in their cognition, rather than just as humans who look slightly different.

The idea of ancient Vulcans having emotional ranges more intense than humans to begin with, but that issue being compounded by unintentionally projecting aggression into others nearby, is really interesting just from a "how the hell do you get out of this societal nightmare" perspective.

I wonder if Vulcan self-control might be partly telepathic, which is why every time a Vulcan offers to show a human "meditation techniques" it invariably fails after about five minutes.
I've wondered that as well, given what The Gambit showed with psionic weapons and such. That their telapathic abilities actually range behind just the mind meld. We see some measure of projection with the Intrepid crew and Spock, as well as Spock suggesting the Yang woman pick up the phaser by eye line. Plus there's when Sarek is losing his mental control and it impacts the crew of the ENTERPRISE D.

Which, honestly, speaks to Spock's struggle even more in ST 2009 because he wasn't separated in distance with the death cries this time.
 
^ This is the first time I've thought of this, but maybe these ancient psionic weapons are why Vulcans eventually considered psionic techniques to be taboo until the mid 22nd century.
The Stone of Gol would be a very good reason to downplay techniques like mind melds. Almost wiping themselves out with weapons like that would probably terrify a lot of Surak's successors.
 
Just saw 'Greyhound'. Star Trek is junk!

Star Trek the Next Generation is more so.

Why?

Because the actors involved, and those that directed them, for the most part didn't have a clue.

Okay, so you have this ship "out there "... what is it doing? Obeying a set of orders. Many, many orders.

It is not tea time. This what makes Star Trek junk. Helmsman? A set of orders regarding the helm position. Navigator? A set of orders regarding navigational requirements. Officer of the deck? A set of orders for that function, and a set of orders for each manned station.

Why?

So each knows exactly what to do. What each is going to be doing during normal watches. And abnormal watches.

Drill, drill, drill!

By the way, the best Destroyer Captains stayed on or near the bridge.
The bridge is not a tea party.

It is a place of work.

Why? Because the ship's survival depends upon this.
 
Just saw 'Greyhound'. Star Trek is junk!

Star Trek the Next Generation is more so.

Why?

Because the actors involved, and those that directed them, for the most part didn't have a clue.

Okay, so you have this ship "out there "... what is it doing? Obeying a set of orders. Many, many orders.

It is not tea time. This what makes Star Trek junk. Helmsman? A set of orders regarding the helm position. Navigator? A set of orders regarding navigational requirements. Officer of the deck? A set of orders for that function, and a set of orders for each manned station.

Why?

So each knows exactly what to do. What each is going to be doing during normal watches. And abnormal watches.

Drill, drill, drill!

By the way, the best Destroyer Captains stayed on or near the bridge.
The bridge is not a tea party.

It is a place of work.

Why? Because the ship's survival depends upon this.

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Just saw 'Greyhound'. Star Trek is junk!

Star Trek the Next Generation is more so.

Why?

Because the actors involved, and those that directed them, for the most part didn't have a clue.

Okay, so you have this ship "out there "... what is it doing? Obeying a set of orders. Many, many orders.

It is not tea time. This what makes Star Trek junk. Helmsman? A set of orders regarding the helm position. Navigator? A set of orders regarding navigational requirements. Officer of the deck? A set of orders for that function, and a set of orders for each manned station.

Why?

So each knows exactly what to do. What each is going to be doing during normal watches. And abnormal watches.

Drill, drill, drill!

By the way, the best Destroyer Captains stayed on or near the bridge.
The bridge is not a tea party.

It is a place of work.

Why? Because the ship's survival depends upon this.
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^ This is the first time I've thought of this, but maybe these ancient psionic weapons are why Vulcans eventually considered psionic techniques to be taboo until the mid 22nd century.

I offered my own conjecture about the reasons for the melding taboo in Star Trek: Enterprise -- Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic. IIRC, it was partly due to Surak's cautions against the abuses of mind-melding for exploitative or harmful purposes being misinterpreted as a rejection of all melding, which was corrected once his original writings in the Kir'Shara were rediscovered.
 
Just saw 'Greyhound'. Star Trek is junk!

Star Trek the Next Generation is more so.

Why?

Because the actors involved, and those that directed them, for the most part didn't have a clue.

Okay, so you have this ship "out there "... what is it doing? Obeying a set of orders. Many, many orders.

It is not tea time. This what makes Star Trek junk. Helmsman? A set of orders regarding the helm position. Navigator? A set of orders regarding navigational requirements. Officer of the deck? A set of orders for that function, and a set of orders for each manned station.

Why?

So each knows exactly what to do. What each is going to be doing during normal watches. And abnormal watches.

Drill, drill, drill!

By the way, the best Destroyer Captains stayed on or near the bridge.
The bridge is not a tea party.

It is a place of work.

Why? Because the ship's survival depends upon this.

Somewhere Tom Hanks is confused…
 
Just saw 'Greyhound'. Star Trek is junk!

Star Trek the Next Generation is more so.

Why?

Because the actors involved, and those that directed them, for the most part didn't have a clue.

Okay, so you have this ship "out there "... what is it doing? Obeying a set of orders. Many, many orders.

It is not tea time. This what makes Star Trek junk. Helmsman? A set of orders regarding the helm position. Navigator? A set of orders regarding navigational requirements. Officer of the deck? A set of orders for that function, and a set of orders for each manned station.

Why?

So each knows exactly what to do. What each is going to be doing during normal watches. And abnormal watches.

Drill, drill, drill!

By the way, the best Destroyer Captains stayed on or near the bridge.
The bridge is not a tea party.

It is a place of work.

Why? Because the ship's survival depends upon this.


Time for your meds and a lie down deary
 
Sometimes I dislike the captain's chair being part of the bridge. There's something throne-like about it that feels wrong.

How so? I'm curious now that you said that.

BTW Vulcans as an added thought, what if they are telepathic all the time but have learnt through their teachings how to suppress the unwanted reading of thoughts of those around them?
 
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