In the fictional Star Trek universe, Volcanic pine is a technique used primarily by Vulcan to create unconsciousness by pinching the pressure points at the base of the victim's neck.
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Origin
Leonard Nimoy, who plays Vulcan science officer Spock, drew up maneuvers in the early days of the original Star Trek series. The manuscript for "The Enemy Within" states that Spock "kayoes" is a duplicate of Captain Kirk, but Nimoy - who opposed the Vietnam War and supported Eugene McCarthy - felt that such brutal acts would be undignified for a Vulcan. Hence he creates an alternative by suggesting that Vulcan has the ability to project telepathic energy from their fingertips similar to "Vulcan Mind Meld", which, if applied to a nerve cluster properly, can make a person unconscious. Allegedly, the episode director did not understand the idea when Nimoy explained it to him, but William Shatner immediately understood and reacted exactly as Nimoy had hoped when they made a motion during filming, explaining that it would be similar to "feeling." electrical charge. "From then on, the pinch is referred to as" FSNP ", for" Famous Spock Nerve Pinch ", in the Star Trek script. Maps Vulcan nerve pinch
Use in franchise
Since Spock, various other characters in Star Trek spin-off have used this technique; However, the fact that some of them have included non-Vulcan characters creates confusion about the above explanation as to how nervous retraction is achieved - possibly among writers and production staff, as in the episode "The Omega Glory" Kirk tells Spock "Honey you can not taught me that "(ie Vulcan Nerve Pinch), and Spock replied," I've tried, Captain. " The first non-Vulcan is Data android, followed by Changeling Odo, Voyager 's holographic Doctor, and man Jean-Luc Picard, Seven of Nine ,, Jonathan Archer (though Archer carries katra of the ancient Vulcan Saints at the time) and Michael Burnham. In the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise T'Pol used it in the fourth episode of the first season ("Strange New World") at Travis Mayweather, to calm him down. Other examples of its use in the series include paralyzing Dr. Phlox before he can lobby Travis Mayweather in the 2nd season episode of "Singularity", and again in the 3rd season episode of "Carpenter Street", on Loomis's kidnapper to stop him from escaping the Apartment.
Some humans, however, can not use nerve pinching. When Dr. McCoy has Spock's katra he can not use pinch nerves despite being a physician with great skill.
Neural needles have been used on Vulcans and vulcanoid Romulans several times, indicating that no race is immune to this technique.
In the movie Star Trek Into Darkness 2013, Spock used pinch on movie villain Khan during their final battle. Although it seems to cause tremendous pain, it does not lead to unconsciousness, suggesting Khan and the same super human creations have limited tolerance to the grip - at least in the alternative universe shown in J.J. Abrams reboots the movie. By contrast, in the original episode of "Space Seed" (and the original series universe), Spock does not use the Vulcan Nerve Pinch on one of Khan's henchmen, with a distinctive result that causes instant unconscious, despite all the indications that he is just as super human. This can be seen as the difference between the universe, or as the distinction between Khan and certain henchmen, as they are each single occurrence.
In the 1986 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, while traveling on a San Francisco city bus, Spock used a Vulcan neck strap to conquer a punk traveler who rudely ignores Kirk's request that he turn off the box boom because of his music causing inconvenience to other travelers. This action got Spock's applause from the relieved passengers on the bus.
Nerve impingement can also be used in non-humanoid creatures. In the episode of "Yesteryear" Animation Series, Spock uses a neural pinch on his/her during a time-traveling adventure to save his younger life. In the 1989 movie Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , Spock used a pinch to subdue a horse during a battle on planet Nimbus III.
In Star Trek: Discovery then Commander Michael Burnham, a human who grew up in Vulcan, used his nerve pinch to conquer Captain Philippa Georgiou during his rebellion in "The Vulcan Hello".
Use outside the
On television
In the first series [1964] The Doctor Who episode of The Warriors of Death from The Aztecs story, Ian Chesterton raised his thumb and boasted "This is all I need [to defeat the enemy]," and began gripping Aztec Ixta fighters between his shoulders and neck, knocking him unconscious.
Physiology
Pinch to the subclavian artery has been compared to pieces of karate, used in other 1960s television series to make the opponent unconscious.
Over the years, the fans and writers of the Star Trek Expanded Universe have made a number of suggestions about how it works.
The Star Trek Creation Book by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry offers a simple explanation: pinching blocks the response of blood and nerves from reaching the brain, which causes unconsciousness. How this can cause unconsciousness for a moment is not explained. (Preventing all blood flow to the brain can cause unconsciousness, but a few seconds later.) In this earliest Star Trek reference book, pinch is called "Spock Pinch."
Another suggestion is that it can be done by applying strong pressure and surgery just above the carotid sinus baroreceptors at the base of the humanoid neck. The goal is to obtain a baroreceptor reflex because the receptor detects a high-pressure state clearly due to externally applied forces and causes bradycardia and/or hypotensive reflexes, leading to a decrease in blood supply to the brain and syncope.
A third allegation is paranormal rather than medical: because of the Vulcan telepathic nature and extraordinary control over their own bodies, they are able to send bursts of nerve energy into other creatures and overload their nervous system, making it unconscious (though pinch does not work on all species; on the Gary 7 man on the move, supported by the fact that Dr. McCoy can not use it on Star Trek III, but has been rendered by the fact that many non-telepathic characters use it later Tracks series, such as Data android.
The canonical mechanism of the neural pinch is finally offered in the "Cathexis" episode of Star Trek: Voyager. There, the Doctor examined a crew member who was found unconscious and observed extreme trauma in the trapezius neck bundle, "as if his nerve fibers had broken out"; and then it was revealed that the person was a victim of a nerve puncture.
Death grip
The Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident" includes a scene where Spock manages the so-called "Vulcan death grip" to Kirk to convince the Romulan audience, apparently unfamiliar with Vulcan technique, that Kirk had been killed. In fact, Spock uses only a very strong nerve prick to put Kirk into a deep unconscious very similar to death. Kirk woke up moments later with head and neck pain, but no lasting injuries. The "death grip" is different from the "pinched nerve" in that the nerve pinch is given to the neck region, and the grip of death is given to Kirk's face; palms directly over the nose and fingers spread throughout the face. This is also different from the handle of "Vulcan mind meld" which is only given on one side of the face. The existence of Vulcan "death grip" is often quickly rejected by fans through popular phrases: "There is no such thing as Vulcan death grip" (first used by Nurse Christine Chapel at "The Enterprise"). (There is a Vulcan fighting technique called tal-shaya that can instantly break the opponent's neck, which is mentioned in "Journey to Babylon," but it is not stated to bear any resemblance to the nerves or mind-meld.)
References
External links
- Vulcan pinched nerves in Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
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